Dr Edie Friedman - Executive Director of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE) discusses anti-semetism, both in the UK and the US.
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No podcast series discussing racism would be complete if it did not touch on anti-Semitism.
This episode's guest is Dr Edie Friedman - Executive Director of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE).
Edie was born in Chicago. A student in the 1960s, she was heavily influenced by the civil rights and peace movements.
She came in to England to study in Leeds and subsequently worked for Oxfam and the Community Relations Council in Ealing, west London.
She founded the Jewish Council for Racial Equality in 1976.
In this episode we discuss her lifetime of activism, anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and the controversial comments about the Holocaust from Whoopi Goldberg.
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