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What History Says Comes Next (w/ Deborah Lipstadt) | Shield of the Republic

2026-06-22 News & Politics
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Eliot reviews the week's jackassery and offers his thoughts on Juneteenth and the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He then welcomes Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, distinguished professor at Emory University and prolific author. She explains her background as a historian of the Holocaust, her work documenting Holocaust denial, and her experience being sued by British Holocaust denier David Irving. They discuss her work as Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism from 2022 to 2025, which included efforts to bring Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords and creating the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism. They explore the political and ideological forces behind the current global rise in antisemitism before pivoting to the threat it poses to democracy and the state actors exploiting it to sow division in the United States. David Irving v. Penguin Books Ltd. and Deborah Lipstadt: hdot.org INSS Report on China's online campaign to sow division in America: https://www.inss.org.il/publication/china-usa-influence/ George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-06-02-0135 Letter from the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island to President George Washington: https://www.gwirf.org/files/moses_seixas_letter.pdf Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@studiodsr 2026-06-22

Yes, but let’s not confuse legitimate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

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@quotidianpedant 2026-06-22

People who are against what Israel is doing are not antisemitic or victims of conspiracies, they're moral.

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@realbrittain 2026-06-22

Publicly fund all elections and candidates to the maximum amount, remove all PACs from the process, and that way the rich and foreign nations can no longer buy elections.

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@leolawheeler 2026-06-22

It’s sad that people cant tell the difference between bibi and a whole people. But let’s be clear. They also can’t tell the difference between rump and Americans. I’m mad at bibi. Not the Jewish people. Here or abroad.

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@DouglasSteel-k7z 2026-06-22

As a Veteran I was appalled at Hegseth's decision on vaccines. He obviously never studied the history of WW1. Thousands of soldiers on both sides died from the Spanish Flu. More than on the battlefield!

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@sassulusmagnus 2026-06-22

The secular state of Israel is not the same as the Jewish faith or Jewish people. The Netanyahu administration and a substantial portion of the news media seem to be bent on conflating those three categories. Conflation serves those who wish to obscure the truth.

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@chairmanboab 2026-06-22

As historians I'd like to hear what you have to say about the actions of Israel in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon...but particularly in Gaza and the levels of death and destruction. Thank you.

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@Amy-u5k 2026-06-22

As a jew, l cannot deny the impact that Netanyahu's government has had on the impact of antisemitism throughout the world.

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@MajerBlundor6Actual 2026-06-22

The problem is that today being AGAINST genocide is equated to being antisemitic. 😮

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@sarge505050 2026-06-22

I'm reminded about Robin Williams said. He was asked why Germans don't have a sense of humor. And he said did you think you killed all the funny people?

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