{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Honest Take","title":"Pride and Prejudice: How Antisemitism Captured LGBTQ+ Spaces | With Eve Barlow","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4437,"description":"It's Pride Month, and at a queer women's sauna night in Barcelona, two married Jewish women — wearing Stars of David — were surrounded, interrogated, and thrown out to chants of \"Free Palestine.\" Not in Tehran. Not in Gaza. In a room built on the promise that no one gets turned away for who they are.\nJournalist Eve Barlow knows these spaces from the inside. She was deputy editor of NME — the biggest weekly music magazine in the world — broke bands, wrote the cover stories, and built LGBTQ+ coverage from scratch at GQ. She was at the beating heart of progressive culture. Then, around 2019, she said one thing out loud: that the anti-Zionism rising around her was antisemitism wearing a new coat. The world that let her in turned on her. She named her newsletter after what they did to her — Blacklisted.\nIn this conversation, Eve and host Ben Chertoff go past the headlines on:\nThe Barcelona sauna incident — and why the perpetrators were elites (a university sociologist, a lawyer, a teacher), not the ignorantWhere \"Queers for Palestine\" actually comes from — the queer-theory and post-colonial lineage that turned a civil-rights movement into an oppressor/oppressed morality playWhy marginalization became a political identity the movement can't put down — and the eerie parallel to how Jews went from \"oppressed\" to \"oppressor\"The \"as-a-Jew\" anti-Zionists — Matt Bernstein, Zach Polanski — and the market that rewards themThe pinkwashing smear, flipped on its head: Israel's real LGBTQ+ record vs. the rest of the regionReleased hostage Emily Damari, and the particular vulnerability of being openly gay in captivityAnd a closing message to the queer Jewish kid who's been told to choose between their people and their prideEve's argument: Pride began as a celebration of how far people had come in a single generation. Somewhere along the way it inverted — from celebrating victory into a contest over who is most oppressed. The moment a people succeeds, it gets recast as the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/MWvudMeeQbLLprkXao5bQURkY3G_5oMcfe3JeW4xoBg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Nzg1/NjYxZjIyMzBiODU5/OTczZmQzNjUzMmZi/YWIwNC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}