Jesse Brown lost 9% of his supporters after he began spotlighting antisemitism. Here's why he won...

In the aftermath of Oct. 7, Jesse Brown-who has risen to prominence as a media critic and muckraker with his Canadaland (www.canadaland...) podcast and digital media company-once again stirred up controversy online. But it wasn't a big news investigation that sparked outrage; it was a series of posts about antisemitic attacks on Canadian Jewish-aligned institutions, from synagogues and community centres to bookstores owned by Jews.
Brown was shocked at the response he got from his own progressive supporters. As he saw it, he was doing what he'd always done: report in objective terms about the ongoing harassment of an ethnic minority on Canadian soil. But not everyone saw it that way. Every day, by the dozens, his supporters dropped off, boycotting him and pressuring his advertisers to do the same.
Ralph Benmergui invited Brown onto Not That Kind of Rabbi to hear what it's been like going through this public flogging-and also chat about the evolution of news media and where podcasting fits into everything.
Credits

• Host: Ralph Benmergui

• Producer: Michael Fraiman

• Music: Yevhen Onoychenko

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[@WitOn4Wheelz]

Greetings. This agnostic Jew would like to ask a question or two for you please. If Palestinians and Jews and other people who live in the area and speak Semite languages are all considered semites, then how or why is it that somebody who supports Palestinians or who supports that the killing of them come to an end and who criticizes the Jewish authorities for doing that as anti-semites if Palestinians are semites also? How can a person be considered an anti-semite if they support Palestinians who are semites? Either that makes no sense or the definition of the word has to get changed. Thank you and I look forward to your response

[@vladimirputindreadlockrast7725]

A rose by another name situation. Hasn't the language been hijacked enough to justify aberrant behavior? Let's say you choose to call it "anti-Jew" instead of "anti-Semite". We all know the behavior and at whom the behavior is targeted, and you know as well as I know that behavior is targeted specifically at Jewish people.

[@dr-wz4gf]

@@vladimirputindreadlockrast7725 the language? its not even the language of hebrew, so it absolutely has been hijacked

[@vladimirputindreadlockrast7725]

@@dr-wz4gf By "the language," of course we are talking about the language we are using to have this discussion. Other languages have their own variants of "antisemitism," and noodling over what language we're talking about is like you pointing to one tree and proclaiming there is no forest.