As a fan of The Jew Function, it was an honor to recently appear on the show, which describes itself as “The only podcast brave enough to look for the root cause of antisemitism and a real solution to it according to the laws of nature.”
That’s an accurate description given that the show explores psychology, philosophy, history and more to help listeners understand the nature of antisemitism from a scientific perspective—and to contemplate possible solutions.
Show host Seth Breitman currently teaches at KabU, the educational arm of the universalist kabbalah association Bnei Baruch. Jew: an antidote to antisemitism is his first book. Fellow host Lio Spiegler is a communications expert who has produced several documentaries and developed brands for fortune 500 companies.
We recorded a few weeks ago and the focus then was my firing from The Seattle Times, but the themes we covered—political divisions, nuance literacy and selective outrage on the left—are sadly more relevant now with the war in Israel, perhaps in particular with the appalling display of selective outrage by progressives in the West who, as I recently wrote, find microaggressions offensive but celebrate Hamas’s atrocities.
The discussion also touches on why it is important to distinguish the psychopathologies of people like Adolf Hitler from Vladimir Lenin, and what this can teach us about political extremism and getting through to people who advocate hate.