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“The point to the anti-Israel genocide libel is to test who is so militantly committed to the anti-Israel cause that they will repeat any anti-Israel slur, no matter how manifestly untrue.”
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David Frum quotes
81 things David Frum said, verbatim, from June 19, 2026 to October 1, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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David Frum on The Middle East6
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“The "don't conflate Israel and diaspora Jews" gambit is pure extortion. It invites diaspora Jews to seek safety by condoning -and even validating- terrorist violence against Israel. It's an offer to spurn. Of course we're conflated, proudly so. https:// youtube.com/watch?v=qVymo7 Qrwns&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=1&t=590s …”
on rejecting the framing that separates diaspora Jews from Israel
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“The key to understanding the "genocide" libel flung at Israel is that the flingers have little interest in (and even less knowledge of) the actual historical Holocaust. They regard the actual historical Holocaust - not as the monstrous human catastrophe it was - but as the source of undeserved Jewish power and privilege. Their idea of justice demands that they redistribute such power and privilege to more deserving recipients, by inventing a new imagined Holocaust to replace the one that - in their opinion - the Jews misuse. There's an old joke: "The world will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz." It has come true. My opening monologue on the new David Frum Show.”
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“The key to understanding the "genocide" libel flung at Israel is that the flingers have little interest in (and even less knowledge of) the actual historical Holocaust. They regard the actual historical Holocaust - not as the monstrous human catastrophe it was - but as the”[post continues]
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“Because Fauda offers moral complexity and narrative surprise, unlike anti-Zionist storytelling”
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“Just finished reading @kinsellawarren remarkable book-length investigation of coordinated campaign of anti-Israel defamation since 10/7. Israel was targeted for genocide. When it repelled the genocidaires, it was accused of the very crime it stopped. https:// amazon.com/Hidden-Hand-In formation-Antisemitic-Propaganda/dp/0771021577 …”
David Frum on Foreign policy & the world5
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“The stories of the Armenians / of the Greeks expelled from the Ottoman Empire / of the Jews who lived continuously in Egypt and Iraq for hundreds of years before the Arab conquests of those lands ... this week's history lesson from @simonmontefiore https:// youtube.com/watch?v=kD0jIX XjABM&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=2&t=1524s …”
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“The Netherlands does not trust Trump's America not to steal their gold.”
on speculation Netherlands distrusts leaving gold reserves in Trump's America
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“Frankly ... would YOU leave billions of highly liquid tangible assets anywhere Trump could lay hands on them?”
on why countries might hesitate to leave liquid assets within Trump's reach
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“Trump is the president of American decline and surrender”
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“The Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971- a real one this time- was brought to an end by an Indian army led by a Jewish commanding general.”
David Frum on National security & surveillance2
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“After 9/11/2001, a National Guard officer stationed in DC told me that he ordered his troops to refuse cookies and cake. DC residents were pressing so many treats on his unit that weight gain was becoming a real problem. A very different time from the military presence in DC today. Latest David Frum Show with guest John McConnell, then VP Cheney's chief speechwriter. https:// youtube.com/watch?v=v3ARMS ROrho&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=10&t=77s …”
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“Somebody fired multiple explosive drones at a German civilian airport.”
David Frum on Trade & tariffs5
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“"The notion that tariffs have resurrected U.S. steel jobs and production is a fantasy."”
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“More Trump economic aggression against Canada”
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“The sundering of North American formerly integrated trade by Trump administration economic aggression hurts Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans alike”
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“Why the US-Canada trade deal collapsed: because the US insisted that it retain the right to renege at any time: "[T[he United States maintained that it would retain all power to change tariff policy against Canada at any time, irrespective of the agreement ..."”
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“A million bottles of US wine intended for the Canadian market now slumber in warehouses because of provincial alcohol boycotts. To redirect them to other markets will require costly relabeling. That may explain why Team Trump demands Canada drop French language packaging.”
David Frum on Economy, jobs & inflation13
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“America the untrusted pays a higher interest rate on its 10-year borrowing than Germany, Canada, or ... Greece. My latest in @theatlantic”
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“One plausible explanation: markets have more confidence in independence of the European Central Bank than the Trump-era Federal Reserve”
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“My latest in @TheAtlantic The United States now pays more to borrow - not only than Germany or France - but than Greece or Estonia. Why? Trump.”
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“The United States of America now pays more to borrow for 10 years than Canada or Germany ... more than once-bankrupt Greece or under-the-Russian-gun Estonia. What's going on? Watch or listen to the weekend edition of the David Frum show. https:// youtube.com/watch?v=zaseJW qyG_U&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=1 …”
on US borrowing costs exceeding Canada, Germany, Greece and Estonia
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“As Trump's leads the US to more government control of the economy, Carney opens Canada to private investment in airports and other critical infrastructure.”
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“The Trump administration is pushing hard this week for lax stablecoin regulation. So-called stablecoins are not stable at all. I wrote in @theAtlantic last year how they invite the next US financial crisis.”
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“A stablecoin is, functionally, a bank deposit - but a bank deposit as it existed in the 19th century: uninsured, poorly regulated, and likely to be unavailable when it is most wanted.”
on stablecoins lacking the protections of modern bank deposits
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“"I am the House" - Scott Bessent "The hell you are" - international bond market.”
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“Scott Bessent was a (junior) member of the Soros Management team that shorted the pound during the crisis that forced UK out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. He should know the foolishness of his "I am the house" talk. Norman Lamont probably said similar things in 1991.”
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“with global bond markets in crisis, you might find useful background in my past discussions with Washington's most consistent voice against debt and deficits @MayaMacGuineas ... https:// youtube.com/watch?v=ICc8UZ c2Re8&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=11&t=7s …”
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“Trump's USA must pay 5.25% to borrow money for 30 years. Carney's Canada pays 4.1%. That's quite a statement from global markets about which country commands more trust.”
on US 30 year borrowing costs exceeding Canada's under Carney
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“If you thought it was tough to bankrupt a casino, imagine how challenging it is to sink the world's largest national economy.”
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“Prices are rising at the grocery store because of post-pandemic general inflation worsened by the loose fiscal policies of the Biden and Trump administrations. The solution is not nationalizing grocery stores - or harassing the food industry with false accusations of”
on inflation causes and rejecting proposed policy solutions
David Frum on Housing & rent1
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“Rents are declining in 2026 because of boom in apartment construction in 2024. 600,000 rental units were built, the most since the 1980s. Skill-testing question: who was President in 2024? (Need a hint? OK - not the same guy who was president during COVID lockdowns of 2020.)”
David Frum on Immigration & the border1
As printed
“if liberals won’t enforce borders, fascists will.”
David Frum on Healthcare & public health1
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“Big Pharma and the medical establishment saved lives during COVID. The anti-vaxers and quack remedy touts sacrificed the lives of those fool enough to trust their nonsense. Latest in @TheAtlantic”
on Big Pharma saving lives during COVID versus anti-vaccine claims
David Frum on Education & schools1
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“Bring back high-stakes school testing , with former secretary of education Margaret Spellings”
David Frum on Campaigns & elections8
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“In a now deleted tweet on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Abdul el-Sayed expressed the same the blame-America view voiced also by Hasan Piker. Putting a bag over Piker's big mouth may temporarily quiet the candidate's problem, but won't change it.”
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“That's very like what el-Sayed has said too. The surrogate is not the problem, the candidate is the problem”
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“Should Michigan Jews sacrifice their own safety and their concern for the embattled Jews of Israel for the larger goal of a Senate that can hold President Trump accountable? This week's David Frum Show discusses a cruel dilemma https:// youtube.com/watch?v=crtJe0 n1b5s&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=3&t=2963s …”
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“Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed today expressed regret for his words of sympathy for the gunman who tried to murder 140 Michigan schoolchildren. Does that change anything? Watch this week's David Frum Show. https:// youtube.com/watch?v=crtJe0 n1b5s&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=3 …”
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“The national Democratic party faces a cruel dilemma in Michigan. It's attempting to resolve the dilemma by pretending that the entire problem is the campaign surrogate who explicitly threatened Jews. But the surrogate became a surrogate in the first place because of a larger climate of tolerance - or worse - of anti-Jewish violence among the candidates who used the surrogate.”
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“The problem isn't the candidate's surrogate. The problem is the candidate. Michigan Jews face a cruel dilemma, latest David Frum Show.”
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“Before the primary: "We hate you. We want to smash your return system, expel you, and trample everything you hold dear." After the primary: "You owe us allegiance, losers." Why this plan won't work - my latest in @theAtlantic”
on parties demanding loyalty from primary rivals after attacking them
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“A small but maybe revealing moment. During the podcast, co-host @mcmoynihan played a clip from el-Seyed victory speech that condemned "divisiveness and bitterness." I noted that el-Seyed immediately followed those words with the phrase "of the campaign against us." Against HIM.”
David Frum on Corruption & scandal11
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“Post-Trump, the United States will need to learn from Nigeria, Peru, and the Philippines how to track and reclaim corrupt wealth from a fallen autocrat and his crooked family. My story in @TheAtlantic”
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“The second term Trump presidency ranks among the biggest heists in the history of the world.”
on the Trump administration's second term amounting to a massive financial heist
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“Trump and his family gained their present wealthy by a) accepting payments from persons and entities seeking favors from the US government; b) selling tokens rapidly revealed as worthless; and c) moving markets by use of office and trading on advance knowledge of those moves ...”
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“... Trump's multi-billion-dollars gains in 18 months of this presidency are wrongful by almost any standard of wrongfulness. The next Congress and administration should take action to recover these wrongful gains ...”
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“In 18 months in office, Trump and his family have accumulated billions of dollars. Even if/after Trump leaves office, this wrongfully obtained fortune will offer a resource for power-seeking by his heirs. Other democracies have reclaimed plundered wealth from fallen autocrats. Some lessons for Americans from Nigeria, Peru, and the Philippines. My latest in @theAtlantic”
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“In Peru and the Philippines, the children of former autocrats returned to power. In Nigeria, they did not. The more of the fallen autocrat's plundered fortune is returned to the nation from which he stole it, the less dangerous his children are.”
on autocrats' children returning to power depending on recovered stolen wealth
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“The smallest alleged crook in the Trump administration faces the biggest punishment.”
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“The Trump administration destroyed the govt database that details ownership of US companies. Trump hails this act of destruction as reducing burdens on US business. But the burdens remain fully in place, they've just been shifted from dishonest to honest people. Latest:”
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“It's a party-line question whether Trump should have to pay his taxes same as anybody else. Democrats say Yes; Republicans say No.”
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“Republican Party 1866: "No slavery." Republican Party 1986: "No Berlin Wall." Republican Party 2026: "No taxes for Mr. Trump."”
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“Trump lied to cover up incompetence and (likely) corruption. The lawyers who brought the prosecution at Trump's order knew he was lying. The officials who defended the prosecution knew he was lying.”
on lawyers allegedly pursuing a Trump-ordered prosecution they knew was based on lies
David Frum on Courts & the law3
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“I asked AG Holder what he would have done if President Obama asked him to prosecute Federal Reserve governors for not lowering interest rates on command.”
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“Every lawyer involved in this outrage should be disbarred”
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“Trump recoils from discovery like a vampire from holy water. Drives home that the Trump settlements with CBS and ABC were surrenders by favor-seeking corporate owners. Fight and win.”
on Trump settling media lawsuits without facing discovery
David Frum on The presidency & national symbols5
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“I suppose we're all lucky that Trump cares more about musical theater than defending the Union, or else it would be the Lincoln Memorial rather than the Kennedy Center that would now face demolition”
on Trump's fondness for the Kennedy Center over historic memorials like the Lincoln Memorial
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“Trump's Vice President sticking a dozen daggers in Trump's back in a story that might as well have Vance's byline on it is the real news here about state of play for/in the Trump administration.”
on Vance appearing to undercut Trump in a news story
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“The Caesars and Napoleon won some wars before stamping their images on the coinage of their fallen republics.”
on historical rulers who stamped their images on coinage after conquest
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“Trump uncanceled Woodrow Wilson because Trump's team was too lazy to update a borrowed graphic. But Wilson deserves uncancelation on the merits. Me in @TheAtlantic from 2024, the centenary of Wilson's death.”
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“Added feature: the Canadian park pass is not illustrated with an image of the head of government glowering like a mob boss about to order an execution.”
David Frum on Extremism & political violence10
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“New David Frum Show opens with some thoughts about the Belleville Ontario shooting and the Holocaust inversion that incites anti-Jewish violence”
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“Here's the Go Fund Me on behalf of the Canadian Jewish Community for the officer wounded heroically defending the Belleville synagogue”
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“Since 9/11, the US has succeeded at blocking mass-casualty international Islamist terrorism. But US and allies remain highly vulnerable to home-grown Islamist terrorism, like the attack in West Bloomfield, Michigan, in March 2026. Latest David Frum Show.”
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“It was not Hasan Piker but Abdul el-Sayed himself who suggested that the terror attack on a West Bloomfield, Michigan, synagogue and preschool should be blamed on Israel, not the Hezbollah-affiliated gunman who tried to murder 140 children.”
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“Twenty-five years ago today, John McConnell and I were evacuated from the White House. On this solemn anniversary, we remember the terror attack of 9/11 - and the day that unfolded for the leadership of the US government. https:// youtube.com/watch?v=v3ARMS ROrho&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=2&t=2589s …”
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“How did Democrats create a situation where their hopes of a Senate majority greatly depend on asking Michigan voters to accept and excuse threats of anti-Jewish violence? Latest David Frum Show. https:// youtube.com/watch?v=crtJe0 n1b5s&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=4&t=259s …”
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“This week's David Frum Show: Must Democratic hopes in 2026 depend on voters accepting candidates who justify anti-Jewish violence? https:// youtube.com/watch?v=crtJe0 n1b5s&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=1 …”
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“On March 12, a Hezbollah-connected gunman attempted a massacre of 140 Jewish preschool children in West Bloomfield, Michigan. In August, Michigan Democrats nominated a Senate candidate who condemned the attempted crime, while also expressing empathy for the gunman's motives. Should Michigan Jewish voters - or anyone who cares about the equal safety and dignity of all people in Michigan - support such a candidate for the larger cause of electing a Senate that can hold President Trump accountable? That's the topic of this week's David Frum Show. Listen https:// podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wha t-are-jewish-voters-supposed-to-do/id1305908387?i=1000785941133 … or watch https:// youtube.com/watch?v=crtJe0 n1b5s&list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO&index=1&t=1723s …”
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“In his notorious speech in Des Moines in September 1941, Charles Lindbergh warned American Jews that if they kept objecting to the persecution of Jews overseas, their fellow-Americans would persecute Jews here at home. https:// charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/ speech.asp …”
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“One of the differences between the new antisemitism and the old is that the old antisemites knew enough Bible to know that Jews and Jewishness existed hundreds of years earlier than the oldest plausible date of the redaction of the Odyssey.”
on historical knowledge differences in antisemitic rhetoric
David Frum on Race & civil rights1
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“Stop saying: "Antisemitic hate has no place in our community." Start saying: "Antisemitic hate has tragically gained a large, persistent, and potential deadly place in our community - and we all need to do some deep introspection on how and why it happened."”
on communities acknowledging persistent antisemitic hate authentically
David Frum on Religion & faith8
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“Addressing the Irish Parliament on October 12, 2023, Martin urged Israel to follow a "New Testament approach" to the 10/7 atrocities rather than an "Old Testament approach." His immediate reaction to Hamas's crimes was to denigrate Jewish scriptures. That's telling, I fear.”
on Martin's October 2023 Irish Parliament remarks urging Israel toward a 'New Testament approach'
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“Belleville, Ontario, is a town I know well. I have worshipped at the synagogue that was attacked, an undefended structure built when North American Jews never imagined they might face violence from their neighbors. Such things were nightmares from long ago and across the ocean.”
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“Now the violence that has stalked Jews around the world has reached the Bay of Quinte. And after all - why not? The slogan is "globalize the intifada," and Belleville is located on that same globe.”
on antisemitic violence reaching Belleville and the 'globalize the intifada' slogan
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“1) Anti-Jewish incitement 2) Anti-Jewish violence 3) "This is not who we are" 4) Repeat”
on a recurring cycle of anti-Jewish incitement and violence followed by denial
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“David Frum Show resumes after August break. Guest Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel discusses the hostility to Jews now escalating from within the state's Democratic party.”
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“The David Frum show resumes after our August break. New show posts midnight tonight ET (audio); 11 am tomorrow ET (video). We'll discuss the challenge of rising antisemitism within the Democratic party. Subscribe so you dont miss! https:// youtube.com/playlist?list= PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO …”
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“Communism's "Jewish problem" dates back a long way”
on antisemitism's long history within communist movements
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“Can we fast-forward to the part where they retract the antisemitism too?”
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