Hate in the Open: Confronting Modern Antisemitism | Robert Spencer & Marc Beckman

Hate in the Open: Confronting Modern Antisemitism | Robert Spencer & Marc Beckman

From Some Future Day by Marc Beckman

June 10, 2025 · 54 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the alarming rise of antisemitism in America and its historical roots, featuring a conversation with Robert Spencer.

Antisemitism isn't just rising in America, it's exploding. And while our institutions hesitate, the attacks are getting louder, deadlier, and more brazen. Just this spring, during Passover, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's home was targeted in an arson attack while he and his family were asleep inside. Soon thereafter, a young Jewish couple was murdered in cold blood in Washington, D.C. Their only crime? Being Jewish. And in Boulder, Colorado, an Egyptian national terrorist launched a brutal assault using Molotov cocktails and a flamethrower on a group of Jewish people who were peacefully assembled to support the Israeli hostages. The attack injured an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, plus 11 other individuals. The question is no longer whether antisemitism exists. The question is: Why is America tolerating it? On today's episode of Some Future Day, I sit down with Robert Spencer, scholar, historian, and author of the new book “Antisemitism: History and Myth.” Together we trace the ancient roots of Jew hatred, explore how Islamic extremism and Western academia are feeding the flames, and confront the role social media and influencers are playing in amplifying the world's…

People in this episode

Host: Marc Beckman

Guest: Robert Spencer

Topics covered

  • antisemitism
  • violence
  • social media
  • Islamic extremism
  • Western academia
  • Jewish community
  • historical roots

Keywords

  • antisemitism
  • violence against Jews
  • social media influence
  • Islamic extremism
  • historical context
  • Jewish safety
  • hate crimes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro

Books & works: Antisemitism: History and Myth

Places: Washington, D.C., Boulder, Colorado

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