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Kresta in the Afternoon – February 20, 2024 – Hour 2

Aaron Rothstein explains the academic world’s “covert persecution” of Israel and former Holy See Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon shares stories from her years of work with the Vatican. 

 

Academia’s “Covert Persecution” of Israel

Since the October 7th attack, we’ve seen blatant examples of anti-Israel sentiment all over, especially on college campuses. But there is a softer, more covert form of persecution that is just as prevalent. Aaron Rothstein explains.

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Persecution and Israeli Academia

Aaron Rothstein, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a fellow in bioethics and American democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and he hosts the podcast Searching for Medicine's Soul. He visited Israel in January on an academic solidarity mission.

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What I Saw as the Ambassador to the Vatican

Through her long career as a lawyer and diplomat, Mary Ann Glendon has worked closely with the Vatican under three different popes. She was a Vatican representative to a UN conference on Women under John Paul II, served as US Ambassador to the Vatican while Benedict XVI was pope, and then was named by Pope Francis as a member of the Pontifical Commission of inquiry into the Vatican bank. And the stories only begin there. She joins us.

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What if the Vatican actually goes broke?

Mary Ann Glendon is the author most recently of In the Courts of Three Popes: An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West. She’s Learned Hand Professor of Law emerita at Harvard University and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. In 1995, she led the Vatican delegation to the UN’s World Conference on Women in Beijing, becoming the first woman ever to lead a Vatican delegation. Her other books include Rights Talk; A Nation Under Lawyers; The Transformation of Family Law; A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and The Forum and the Tower.

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