He is walking a fine line but has made his own views clear publicly in his writings and in other podcasts. This episode was on the topic of anti-Semitism, and veered off topic repeatedly, despite Bob's IMHO best efforts to keep it on track.
He is walking a fine line but has made his own views clear publicly in his writings and in other podcasts. This episode was on the topic of anti-Semitism, and veered off topic repeatedly, despite Bob's IMHO best efforts to keep it on track.
Lake never met a platform he couldn't flood with tripe, and Wright surely knew that going in. The free speech martyr act is predictable, and I'd have very much liked to hear how Lake reconciled it with the fact that the only protest group drawing actual gov't (& police) pushback are the Palestinian support protests that he insists are being given special treatment.
You make a valid point. To explain the fine line that Bob is walking without necessarily justifying it, IMHO Bob hopes to expose Eli Lake's followers to viewpoints they would not be open to if presented in a more confrontational way, and to encourage them to modify their outdated and/or inaccurate beliefs about Zionism and Israel. Our (Bob's and mine) generation grew up in the Cold War US, with no exposure to Palestinian perspectives whatsoever, but great exposure to the Holocaust in the political and cultural landscapes.
He is walking a fine line but has made his own views clear publicly in his writings and in other podcasts. This episode was on the topic of anti-Semitism, and veered off topic repeatedly, despite Bob's IMHO best efforts to keep it on track.
Lake never met a platform he couldn't flood with tripe, and Wright surely knew that going in. The free speech martyr act is predictable, and I'd have very much liked to hear how Lake reconciled it with the fact that the only protest group drawing actual gov't (& police) pushback are the Palestinian support protests that he insists are being given special treatment.
You make a valid point. To explain the fine line that Bob is walking without necessarily justifying it, IMHO Bob hopes to expose Eli Lake's followers to viewpoints they would not be open to if presented in a more confrontational way, and to encourage them to modify their outdated and/or inaccurate beliefs about Zionism and Israel. Our (Bob's and mine) generation grew up in the Cold War US, with no exposure to Palestinian perspectives whatsoever, but great exposure to the Holocaust in the political and cultural landscapes.