{"product_id":"how-to-fight-antisemitism-isbn-9780593136263","title":"How to Fight Anti-Semitism","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • BARI WEISS NAMED TO THE 2025 TIME100 NEXT LIST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe prescient founder of \u003ci\u003eThe Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e and editor-in-chief of CBS News delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in this country—and explains what we can do to defeat it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most Americans, the massacre at Tree of Life, the synagogue where Bari Weiss became a bat mitzvah, came as a shock: eleven people were gunned down in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. But anti-Semitism is the oldest hatred, commonplace across the Middle East and on the rise for years in Europe. So that terrible morning in Pittsburgh, as well as the continued surge of hate crimes against Jews in cities and towns across the country, raise a question Americans cannot avoid: Could it happen here?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo longer the exclusive province of the far right, the far left, and assorted religious bigots, anti-Semitism now finds a home in identity politics as well as the reaction against identity politics, in the renewal of America First isolationism and the rise of one-world socialism, and in the spread of Islamist ideas into unlikely places. A hatred that was, until recently, reliably taboo has migrated toward the mainstream, amplified by social media and a culture of conspiracy that threatens us all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeiss is one of our most provocative writers, and her cri de coeur makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and American values in this uncertain moment. Not just for the sake of America’s Jews, but for the sake of America.“A timely warning against a Judaism that trembles at the knees.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWashington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bari Weiss has written what must be judged a brave book. . . . Weiss has delivered a praiseworthy and concise brief against modern-day anti-Semitism.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Weiss’s book feels like one long, soul-wrenching letter, written in a charmingly accessible style by a proud American reeling from the realization that the haters are on the rise in this land we love.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eJewish Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“An important read . . . Because a battle over normalizing anti-Semitism is already underway, Weiss’s real public service is encouraging mainstream Americans to join the forces of light.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Federalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What Heinrich Graetz required six volumes of Jewish history to encompass, Bari Weiss has achieved with remarkable succinctness. This important book will engender a thousand conversations.”\u003cb\u003e—Cynthia Ozick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Her childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh was the site of last year’s Shabbat morning massacre. This passionate, vividly written, regularly insightful book is her pained, fighting elegy.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A bold summons to confront humanity’s oldest hatred.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Weiss’s refreshingly forthright opinions and remarkably thorough yet concise history lessons make this a must-read for anyone seeking to understand and stop the rise of a pernicious ideology.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “At the core of the text is the author’s concern for the health and safety of American citizens, and she encourages anyone ‘who loves freedom and seeks to protect it’ to join with her in vigorous activism.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This is the most important book you will read this year. Concise, morally certain, it’s a bullet train from the first sentence to the last. There needs to be a copy in every classroom in the country. If you think something dark is rising, you’re right. What can you do? This is what you do.”\u003cb\u003e—Caitlin Flanagan, staff writer, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of \u003ci\u003eTo Hell with All That\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHow to Fight Anti-Semitism\u003c\/i\u003e is urgent, frank, and fearless. There is something here to offend everyone—because there is something here to awaken everyone.”\u003cb\u003e—Rabbi David Wolpe, author of \u003ci\u003eDavid: The Divided Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “While European anti-Semitism has put Jews in mortal danger for too long, the ‘shining city upon a hill’—America—has descended into this same toxic darkness. Bari Weiss’s book is a powerful wake-up call against complacency and should push all freethinkers on both sides of the Atlantic to take a stand against new guises of the oldest form of hate in the world. \u003ci\u003eHow to Fight Anti-Semitism\u003c\/i\u003e? Yes. But it could also be called \u003ci\u003eHow to Save Liberal Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e.’”\u003cb\u003e—Bernard-Henri Lévy, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Empire and the Five Kings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBari Weiss\u003c\/b\u003e is the host of the podcast \u003ci\u003eHonestly\u003c\/i\u003e and the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2025, she was named one of \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine’s 100 most influential rising stars.“There is a shooter at tree of life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first text came through our family chat at 10:22 a.m. It was from my baby sister, Suzy. I typed back immediately: “Is dad.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My mouth turned to cotton as I waited for a response to my incomplete question.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My parents live a mile and a half from the Tree of Life synagogue. Three congregations meet in the building for Shabbat morning services; my dad is sometimes at one of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “We’re home,” my mom wrote. “do t worry.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Casey, my second-youngest sister, had heard more: “Magazine high powered ak 47. Doug is on police radio,” she said of her husband, a local firefighter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Someone sent around a link to the Psalms—“in you our ancestors trusted; they trusted and you saved them”—sacred poems Jews have always recited in times of distress. Several texts suggested that there were hostages, early and hopeful speculation. My mom wrote simply: “I’m sure we will know people there.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Minutes slouched by. I turned on CNN. Nothing yet. I refreshed and refreshed and refreshed Twitter every few seconds. There were posts from some local sources urging people to stay away from the area; warnings that the police had shut down that part of the neighborhood; speculation that the shooter might be on the loose. I thought about the Boston Marathon bombers—how one of the Tsarnaev brothers hid in a boat in someone’s backyard—and told my parents not to leave the house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Soon I started getting WhatsApp messages from close friends in Israel, where Shabbat was ending—a strange reversal from the years of the Second Intifada when I would write them: Are you safe?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I checked the news again. Early reports of a shooting in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. No name yet. No victim count. Refresh Twitter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At some point in those creeping minutes, between Suzy’s first text and the moment I booked a plane ticket back to my hometown to witness what the killer had done, my third-youngest sister, Molly, told us that she had heard something on the police scanner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “He’s screaming all these Jews need to die.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • • • \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eI didn’t yet know that I would come to see that phrase as the one that marked the before and the after. That I would come to see that command—the one that had been uttered in a different tongue by Amalek, the villain who stalked the weakest of the ancient Israelites in the desert on their way to the Promised Land; the one that had been echoed by Amalek’s ilk down through the generations; and the one that was now being shouted in mine—as my alarm bell. Those words would wake me up to the fact that I had spent much of my life on a holiday from history. And history, in a hail of bullets, had made its unequivocal return.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But this realization was to come. The morning of October 27, 2018, in a hotel room in Phoenix, I was pouring sweat and drinking lukewarm room-service coffee, replying to my editor at the Times to say yes, I would write a column immediately about what was going on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This was before I learned that the name of the shooter was Robert Bowers, before I read what he had written on the social media website Gab: “There is no #MAGA as long as there is a kike infestation.” It was before I knew he believed that the Jewish people were responsible for the sin of bringing Muslims to America: “Open you Eyes! It’s the filthy EVIL jews Bringing the Filthy EVIL Muslims into the Country!!” Bowers hated the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish organization founded in the late 1800s to resettle Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe. Today, it does the righteous work of rescuing Jews and non-Jews facing persecution all over the world. His final post before he entered the building was: “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.” Tree of Life had been one of 270 synagogues around the country that had hosted National Refugee Shabbat the previous Saturday. That morning during services, American rabbis had spoken about the most fundamental and recurrent theme in the Bible: Do not oppress a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302514315493,"sku":"NP9780593136263","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593136263.jpg?v=1767729410","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/how-to-fight-antisemitism-isbn-9780593136263","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}