Trudy Gold and Dr David Rich
Trudy Gold Interviews Dave Rich, Author of ‘The Left’s Jewish Problem’ and ‘Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism is Built into our World’
Summary
Ollie Anisfeld and Dr. Dave Rich discuss Dr. Rich’s book Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism is Built into our World—and How You Can Change It. Their conversation begins with Dr Rich’s upbringing and what drew him into a career confronting anti-Semitism. They examine different ways anti-Semitism is present in politics, culture, and everyday life. Dr. Rich offers up suggestions for how to instill change.
Trudy Gold
Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.
Dr David Rich
Dr. Dave Rich is Director of Policy at the Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity that protects the Jewish community in the UK from antisemitism and terrorism, and an Associate Research Fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Brubeck, University of London. Dave is the author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Antisemitism and writes about antisemitism and extremism for newspapers and journals including, The New York Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, Ha’aretz, World Affairs Journal, and The Jewish Chronicle. His academic publications include chapters and articles on Islamist extremism, hate crime, conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial and distortion, and antisemitism on university campuses.
Whenever Israel is at war, there are big spikes in anti-Semitism. If the BBC reported Israel differently or reported it less, would there be less anti-Semitism? I don’t think there would be.
Quite often, when Jews in the diaspora want to raise concerns about anti-Semitism, we almost feel like we have to criticize Israel first in order to be heard. We have to say, I’m not the kind of Jew that supports Israel, so you can trust me, you can listen to me. It’s almost like a tax you have to pay in order to then get a hearing. And I object to that and I resist that.