PRA Presents

PRA Presents features podcast miniseries that reveal the ideologies, strategies, and fractures of right-wing movements. Each miniseries dives deep into the nuances of a specific right-wing ideology or agenda, and discusses strategies on how to combat rising authoritarianism. Political Research Associates (PRA) is a social justice research and strategy center that researches and exposes right-wing and authoritarian movements. For 40 years, PRA has been raising the alarm about threats to democracy and partnering directly with frontline groups to develop strategy and build movement alignment to fight back. We work to not only understand the threats that we are seeing, but also to understand where our movements can build power so that we can change the outcome.

PRA Presents is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts PRA Presents, a society show with 15 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 6: Building Horizontal Alliances and Fighting Antisemitism as Progressives with Shanice McBean and Rachel Shabi

  Sep 3, 20251h 3mS2

  <p>The final episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism explores how to understand and fight antisemitism as progressives—and as part of a wider struggle for justice. Centrist and right-wing political forces frequently frame antisemitism as integral to social justice movements, suggesting both that there is no place for Jews on the Left, and also that other communities’ liberation struggles pose an active threat to Jewish communities around the world.</p><p>Tackling these false framings heads-on, author and activist Shanice McBean and journalist Rachel Shabi, both offering perspectives from the U.K., explain how charges of antisemitism are so f...

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  Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 5: Anti-Antisemitism and Antiracism with Leo Ferguson and Steven Gardiner

  Sep 3, 202552 minS2

  <p>The penultimate episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism looks at the interwoven, and often tangled, relationship between fighting antisemitism and fighting racism. Antisemitism and anti-Blackness are deeply connected forms of oppression that often work together to reinforce structural inequities under racial capitalism. And yet, the Right has often played these forms of oppression off one another as a means of stymying burgeoning anti-racist alliances, dividing Black and Jewish communities in order to uphold White supremacy. </p><p>Our two guests on this episode, organizer and writer Leo Ferguson and researcher Steven Gardiner, are deeply versed in efforts to c...

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  Episode #4

  Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 4: Antisemitism in the Far-Right Ecosystem with Elad Nehorai and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum

  Sep 3, 202549 minS2

  <p>This episode takes a deep dive into the role of antisemitism in the far-right ecosystem, focusing in particular on the United States and Germany. Whether it’s Elon Musk performing a straight-armed salute during Trump’s inauguration celebrations before going on to champion Germany’s far-right AfD party, or the widespread “great replacement” conspiracy theory that claims Jews are leading an effort to inundate majority-White Christian societies in the West with migrants, antisemitism is frequently at the heart of global far-right movements that are increasingly interconnected.</p><p>Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, a professor of German-Jewish history and antisemitis...

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  Episode #3

  Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 3: Weaponizing Antisemitism to Advance Authoritarianism with Lara Friedman and Yousef Munayyer

  Sep 3, 202558 minS2

  <p>Political commentators and rights advocates Lara Friedman and Yousef Munayyer discuss ongoing efforts to suppress criticism of the Israeli government’s oppression of Palestinians under the guise of fighting antisemitism—efforts which are fueling authoritarianism and pushing shared safety further from grasp.</p><p>Lara and Yousef lay out how the Israeli government and its supporters have championed a contentious definition of antisemitism in order to dismiss criticism of Israel and conflate said criticism with prejudice against Jews. They also explain how the increasingly fraught conversation about antisemitism is doing little to actually make Jews safer—and is being exploit...

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  Episode #2

  Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 2: Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory with Valentina Pisanty and Jelena Subotić

  Sep 3, 202555 minS2

  <p>Guest host Natasha Roth-Rowland talks to scholars Valentina Pisanty and Jelena Subotić about the anatomy and function of conspiracy theories and the role of antisemitism within them. How do conspiracy theories come about? Why do they so often revolve around false narratives regarding Jewish people, power, and control? How are they used to discredit movements for justice? And what role do the politics of Holocaust memory play? By taking a look at the history of antisemitic conspiracy theories and examining their role in our contemporary politics, Jelena and Valentina teach us to recognize them, how to understand them, and h...

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