Based Camp - Universities & HAMAS Have the Same Largest Donor (& Why No One is Telling You)

00:00:00.000 Hello, Simone! It is wonderful to be here today, and we are going to be doing an episode today

00:00:06.720 which I think really elevates why the disintermediation of the traditional news system

00:00:14.000 to online bloggers, because this is something you see increasingly in terms of how are people

00:00:18.680 getting their information about the world, is actually very important to getting an honest

00:00:23.480 understanding of reality, so long as you're choosing the right people to listen to. And this

00:00:29.720 episode is going to be the type of thing that you would never see on one of the mainstream news

00:00:36.140 stations. And I'm just going to give the top notes right now for people who are like, okay, I get the

00:00:40.880 story, I'm going to click off before we go into too much detail. But it is the fact that Hamas,

00:00:48.140 one of the largest donors to Hamas, like one of the largest funders of Hamas, the people

00:00:52.660 who started this war in Israel, okay? They are also the largest state donor to the most U.S.'s large

00:01:01.800 universities, or to the university system in the U.S. Iran? I know, right? That's what you would

00:01:07.660 think. I don't think you lost in Iran. What? It is Qatar or Qatar, depending on how fucking obsequious 0.99

00:01:15.840 you are, because I always hate when people play little words with, oh, you're not saying Qatar right. 0.97

00:01:20.020 We have American accents, so it's Qatar. As a quick side note, if you were wondering who is

00:01:26.540 the bigger supporter of Hamas, Iran or Qatar, Qatar has given Hamas over $1.8 billion. And Iran gives

00:01:34.740 them something like $100 million to $350 million. That's what they gave them last year a year. So in

00:01:41.240 terms of just financial costs, Qatar is the bigger supporter of Hamas. But Iran plays a big role in

00:01:48.040 giving them lots of military supplies and training. So in terms of integration with their political elite,

00:01:56.540 Iran is a bigger supporter. Yeah. So people are like, wait, I didn't know this. Why didn't I know

00:02:03.440 this? Why didn't I know that they heavily funded Hamas? Why did I not know that they were also the 0.89

00:02:08.040 largest state donor to U.S. university systems? And this matters downstream when you are looking

00:02:14.640 at the university policy that is allowing this rampant anti-Semitism on campuses? Would you like

00:02:20.620 to know more? Because a lot of people, they're like, oh, I'm going to not donate to my university

00:02:24.500 because of this. Like a lot of Jewish families are saying that right now and stuff like that.

00:02:28.320 And what they don't realize, they're like, why are universities still doing this from a financial

00:02:32.760 perspective? Why are they still being so neutral? Why is it when you had, there was this great moment

00:02:37.560 where Gay, the head of one of these universities. Gay. Yeah, the head of Harvard at the time. 0.91

00:02:43.320 Who then subsequently had some plagiarism problems. Yes. So she responded that hateful speech is at odds

00:02:49.840 with Harvard's values and that calling for the genocide of Jews is anti-Semitic. But when pressed

00:02:54.560 on whether it violates the code of Essex, she said it can be depending on the context. So genocide,

00:03:01.000 demanding genocide of an ethnic group, specifically when it's Jews. Of course, 1.00

00:03:05.420 this wouldn't matter with anyone else. At the top universities in the US, why is that?

00:03:10.480 Maybe it violates our code of ethics. I'm not going to make any hard calls on this right now.

00:03:14.640 So why are they having this position? And it makes a lot more sense when you look at where the money is

00:03:18.900 coming from for these institutions, or at least a very large, we'll get into the size of it,

00:03:24.620 how they get the money into the universities and everything like that as the thing goes on. But I just want

00:03:27.880 to get it out there up front. So I'm so confused about Qatar still though, which by the way,

00:03:34.620 American accent, we would rather say something that rhymes with guitar rather than cutter,

00:03:38.940 like someone who's trying to kill themselves. But I'm so confused about Qatar because Qatar is 0.99

00:03:43.120 majority Sunni, whereas Iran is primarily Shia. Are they aligned? Are they partners? Or do they just

00:03:50.120 both really like? I think that you underestimate the level of anti-Semitism in the Muslim world.

00:03:54.940 And this is what I really hate Jews. 1.00

00:03:56.860 They just really hate Jews. Yeah. So this is what I'm, and I need to go back here because it's not 1.00

00:04:02.460 just that they hate Jews. It's also part of the power hierarchy in this world. So there's,

00:04:06.760 I really want to go into the stats here, but I'm also going to provide some like overall framing.

00:04:11.100 Okay. So people who may not know, and I'm like, normal news would not report this. And they're

00:04:17.300 like, why would normal news not report this? And even I feel a little honestly uncomfortable talking

00:04:24.320 about it because I have a lot of Qatari friends. If you are like wealthy and successful, you like in

00:04:31.400 your social groups, you are going to have Qatari friends and Qataris, there's only something like 0.99

00:04:37.440 300,000 Qataris in the world. So it's a very small, the ethnic population of Qatar is incredibly 1.00

00:04:44.860 small. Most of the people there are foreign laborers or basically slaves. And so what that 1.00

00:04:50.400 means is the, if you have Qatari friends, that means you have friends in the Qatari government or

00:04:54.920 that are related to the Qatari government. Right. And so when you're talking about any of the heads

00:04:59.340 of these major news stations or something like that, there are parties where they're going to have

00:05:03.460 to go to later that day. And they are going to look like, it's not even like a conspiracy

00:05:07.420 thing. They're just going to look like really bad if they are putting shade on Qatar. And they may

00:05:12.720 not get deals. They may not get hired by companies because they have so much money. They have their

00:05:17.020 fingers in a bit of everything because of that big natural gas vein that they found in Qatar.

00:05:21.840 A lot of people think it's oil. Oil is not why Qataris are just natural gas. But sorry, I don't want

00:05:25.380 to get into the geopolitics here. But the other thing I want to talk about is we have a lot of friends

00:05:29.240 who are Emirati and Qatari. And I'm not like trying to conflate the two countries, but what I'm pointing

00:05:35.380 out here is these are like the nicest of the Muslim states generally to like the U.S., like in terms

00:05:41.500 of friendly policy. Saudi Arabia, we're also pretty close with, but occasionally we have some friction

00:05:46.060 there. And Saudi Arabia, it's much more like a brutal dictatorship. So like the Americans can 0.99

00:05:50.260 understand. But with Qatar and the UAE, they've done a pretty good job with their image. In fact,

00:05:56.560 speaking of, I am about to go to my reunion at Stanford Business School. And one of the guys I am

00:06:03.120 going to be meeting there is an old friend of mine who I actually really like the person,

00:06:06.860 great person, Khalid Alamari. And he has like over 4 million subscribers on YouTube.

00:06:12.620 And he would always come up to you and be like, Malcolm, what's my name? It's Khalid.

00:06:20.380 Call him Khalid. Okay, whatever. Anyway, that's why it's still funny.

00:06:24.040 He is, and I always mispronounce his name. But he's a big shot now. And he actually did a tour,

00:06:28.400 went around the UAE with him. And so I went to check his channel recently. And I think this just

00:06:32.460 shows what we're talking about when you're in this bubble. So his latest video that has over

00:06:38.200 a quarter million views is surprising delivery drivers with their families. So this is supposed

00:06:47.320 to be like a feel good movie, where it's like surprising, I don't know, troops with their

00:06:53.820 families or something like that. And if you're an Emirati and you watch, this is going to look 1.00

00:06:58.920 just like a feel good movie to you. But if you are an American, and you watch this, you're like,

00:07:04.520 wait a second, why would delivery drivers have not seen their families in a long time?

00:07:09.120 And it almost looks like a slave owner in the South being like, like Mr. Beast, but in like

00:07:14.420 the slave owning South. And he comes in, he goes, ha, this guy thought we sold his family to the

00:07:19.280 to another owner. But I'm gonna trick him. And when he gets home, they'll all be there. And then

00:07:23.760 confetti will fly behind the doors. And the guy like comes home devastated. And he's genuinely

00:07:29.660 having this emotional moment. And he sees his family that he thought was sold off. And

00:07:33.420 the guy's dancing around all Blippi style in front of the door with confetti. I'm such a good person. 0.62

00:07:39.420 Here's the plan. We've told the writers that they're just going to be shooting a commercial

00:07:42.600 for minutes today. But little did they know that they're going to be delivering to someone special.

00:07:47.880 They're families, who we've flown in from outside of the country to give them the biggest,

00:07:54.000 most special surprise.

00:07:55.860 And I don't think that he's a bad person at all, or that he sees the way this comes off from

00:08:00.440 another cultural perspective. And I think within the context, that's a good thing for a person to

00:08:05.420 do in that society. So it's an interesting thing to think about. But what I'm saying is the ethics

00:08:10.060 within these countries and the hierarchy and the game that these countries are playing is very

00:08:13.120 different than the game that we're playing. And so you can say, why is it so important that they

00:08:16.420 make these anti-Semitic plays, even when they're not anti-Semitic? Because we have a lot of friends

00:08:20.520 in these countries. And genuinely, a lot of the elites, like a lot of the elite Qataris aren't 0.70

00:08:24.300 really anti-Semitic, but they lose status in the hierarchy game of that sort of regional

00:08:30.300 geopolitics if they don't make anti-Semitic plays in anti-Semitic statements.

00:08:37.540 I see. Because they're going to have to code switch, right? I feel like once you reach a certain

00:08:40.600 level of eliteness and you're international and as a player, you're going to become,

00:08:45.440 you're going to start coding as that international monoculture of like wealthy people. And they all

00:08:51.900 have a look and a thing and they come across the same in dinner parties. It's the same people. It's

00:08:57.040 the same international global elite. But then locally, they still need to assume certain stances

00:09:02.480 to not be seen as losers, not part of the culture.

00:09:07.480 Yeah. And they also have to deal with like their citizens. If you're talking about Saudi Arabia or

00:09:11.080 something like that, they have to deal with their citizens if they look too pro-Israel. And people

00:09:14.620 are like, come on, the Saudi citizens are not, they were the majority of the attackers on 9-11.

00:09:19.820 Like, why is that the case? Because of the extremist form of Islam, this practice in Saudi 1.00

00:09:25.700 Arabia. But I don't want to go too far on this. I want to actually-

00:09:27.820 Well, I also want to be fair. If you're from a certain culture and that culture is more likely to

00:09:32.340 be biased in favor of Palestinians over Israelis, you're going to hear more things about terrible 0.95

00:09:40.240 things happening to Palestinians and the plight of Palestinians. And you are going to hear about

00:09:44.940 the plight of Israelis. And therefore, you aren't crazy for just due to availability heuristic,

00:09:51.220 probably being a little bit more biased against Israelis, right?

00:09:56.400 Yeah. Yeah. And I think that this is partially why within these regions and within the geopolitics,

00:10:03.040 what I'm trying to explain is why do you not hear the role that countries like Qatar are playing in

00:10:07.880 all of this? And it's because they are our allies. They're like the US's allies. And they are very

00:10:14.480 well entrenched within elite social circles in the United States. And so not even shadow games or

00:10:21.280 anything like that. I just don't want to- I know if our show is more popular right now, I probably

00:10:25.800 wouldn't be saying any of this because I would have to answer to people being like, hey, why are you

00:10:29.400 calling it out? Like, why are you- can't we just pretend like this isn't the case? Hold on, Simone.

00:10:33.760 I will always stay to my integrity, but I'm just saying this is the type of thing you got to answer

00:10:38.400 to people for. But- I don't think you're ever really going to answer to people. I don't think

00:10:42.840 you're genetically capable for being honest. Before we go further, I want to frame, because a lot of

00:10:48.180 people, they know how pro-Israel they are, or at least we're coming off as pretty pro-Israel right

00:10:52.580 now. And they're like, why are you so against the protests? Don't you know that children are dying?

00:10:57.020 So just for some context here, when the Hamas came into power in Gaza, 42% of the population

00:11:04.520 supported them. This was in December 2023. 33% of Germans supported the Nazis when they came into

00:11:11.000 power. Only 7% of Gazans blame Hamas for their current suffering. Even worse, just over 7 out of

00:11:17.360 10 Gazans continue to support Hamas' decision to launch the war against Israel with the 7th of

00:11:22.140 October attack. While nearly 59% of Palestinians believe that Hamas should continue to rule in

00:11:27.140 Gaza. Outrageous! And keep in mind, this is not Israeli data, but data from a survey conducted 1.00

00:11:32.380 in March 2024 by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research itself. For all these reasons,

00:11:38.960 Israel believes that Hamas' proposal is not sincere, and that it is only seeking to gain time

00:11:44.220 to reorganize and rearm, and thus regain some control over the territory.

00:11:48.640 So if you're like, if you've never had a big freak out about the firebombing of Dresden or

00:11:53.000 something like that, the US doing what needed to be done to take the Nazis out of power,

00:11:57.160 then why are you freaking out about this now? A lot of innocent people died who were in Germany

00:12:04.520 at the time. And people do not hand wringer about this. More people died in the firebombing of Dresden

00:12:10.440 than during the nuclear bombs. And so why is that? And then they're like, yeah, but okay, hold on.

00:12:16.720 So this is in modern times, because then I'm like, okay, if you really cared about this,

00:12:20.620 if this wasn't just like anti-Semitic thing, and I should point out, I don't think that a lot of

00:12:23.880 the individual protesters are anti-Semitic. I think what they don't realize is that the forces

00:12:29.340 that be that put all of this in motion are actually anti-Semitic. And they're like, no,

00:12:33.560 that's not true. And I'm like, then why aren't you out there protesting about Haiti? And they're 0.84

00:12:36.700 like, my university, it doesn't do business with people who directly have to do with Haiti.

00:12:40.880 But also, there's no enemy. That's not true. A huge contributor to what happened in Haiti right 1.00

00:12:47.080 now was the national debt of Haiti. And actually, they were calling for... Okay, bit of history.

00:12:53.500 You can't fight debt. You need an enemy. You literally can, because the debt is owned by

00:12:58.060 American banks. You literally... Okay, so hold on. I'm going to take a little... So what you may not know

00:13:04.760 is the president who was disappeared right before everything started going to hell,

00:13:08.500 the thing he did right before he was disappeared is he demanded that these banks that made all this

00:13:13.420 money off of Haiti's unfair debt, because when Haiti declared independence, the French basically came

00:13:19.000 in, they put guns to them, heads, and said, okay, either you buy yourselves, every human in Haiti, 0.79

00:13:25.460 or we destroy everything. And so they were forced to take on this absolutely insane debt.

00:13:31.080 Oh, dear.

00:13:31.480 And then this debt was bought by CIC, a bank in France. And then the debt was sold

00:13:38.100 to banks like First National Citibank, today called Citibank, and Manufacturers Hanover Trust,

00:13:45.020 now JPMorgan and Chase. And so why was this guy disappeared when he was talking about Haiti?

00:13:51.500 Not getting reparations for like in the US reparations. This is... They actually super,

00:13:55.400 super, super deserve these reparations. And there are specific US institutions around today

00:14:01.160 that are living on the profits of these institutions, Citibank and Chase.

00:14:05.720 Oh, dear.

00:14:06.620 And you think your university isn't doing business with Citibank and Chase?

00:14:11.360 You think? You think? Seriously? You think that half these protesters don't have? They don't care.

00:14:16.500 It's not that they care about unjustices done against Black people or something like that.

00:14:21.400 It's that the powers that are organizing and manipulating all of this actually have an

00:14:26.080 anti-Semitic agenda, which we will get to in a second. What is happening in this region is very

00:14:31.700 much like some small portion of the US got reconquered by Native Americans. And all around 1.00

00:14:38.040 them were a bunch of like racist, redneck, white hicks who every day talked about wanting them all 1.00

00:14:44.180 killed, wanting them all destroyed, blah, blah, blah. One day they go in, they murder a bunch of 1.00

00:14:49.560 these Native Americans for taking their land back. And then the Native American government is like, 0.66

00:14:55.260 well, I just don't have another option right now. There is only one Jewish state. They are surrounded 1.00

00:15:01.900 by Muslim-majority states that these people could go to. People can be like, oh, no, the Jews weren't 0.99

00:15:07.460 always on that land. Didn't they take it from the Canaanites? Well, we know from DNA testing that 0.63

00:15:11.120 Jews, even to their own chagrin, are around 50% Canaanite in their DNA. So no, they merged. It was 0.97

00:15:17.780 two populations that merged in the region a very, very long time ago. And then they're like, well,

00:15:21.980 the Gazans, they've been there for a long time. No, they were recent colonialist invaders. They're 0.87

00:15:28.180 not like the people in Northern Palestine, which that's different. We'll talk about that on another

00:15:33.420 show. But Gazans uniquely have no ancestral claim to this area. They are the descendants of an 0.91

00:15:38.960 imperialist expansionist conquest by a large empire. Specifically, their moving to the region was

00:15:46.420 encouraged under rulers like Nurid and Zengi and Saladin in the 12th century, and then continued

00:15:53.280 during the later Mameluke and Ottoman periods. But I want to go further here because there's a

00:15:59.540 number of really interesting things. The first thing I want to go over is a lot of people also think

00:16:03.460 Hamas was like random spastic attack of Israel because they hated their conditions. And this is not

00:16:13.080 the case. Hamas actually had a plan for what they were going to do as Israel after they beat

00:16:17.620 the Israelis. And there was a great tweet on this I want to read to you that Richard Hanania put out.

00:16:23.440 In late 2021, Hamas held a conference on what they would do after conquering Israel. They discussed

00:16:29.600 water, sewage, currency, and making a directory of property to confiscate. They planned to not let

00:16:35.420 talented Jews leave and make them work for the state. The ceasefire crowd doesn't get it. Israel has an 0.99

00:16:41.500 actual enemy. It's not the enemy you wish they had. It's not people who can be reasoned into living in

00:16:46.640 peace with a Jewish state. Hamas is actually serious about slaughtering the Jews and taking 0.97

00:16:52.260 their land. This article suggests they're quote-unquote crazy for making these plans. I don't 0.98

00:16:57.340 think that's true at all. If Israel fought the war the way the international community wished it would 0.77

00:17:03.020 be destroyed in the long run. It's unfortunate the West does not understand this, but I'm confident

00:17:07.820 Israel will win because it has no other choice. It faces a dark and bitter reality and can't afford 0.99

00:17:13.540 the delusion of the rest of the world. So I want to be clear because this is actually interesting.

00:17:17.920 So he did some. Hamas planned to exterminate the Jews in this attack. They thought-

00:17:24.320 But not the productive Jews. That's a bit of an upgrade on what the Nazis were doing. And the 0.97

00:17:28.200 Nazis weren't trying to monetize. So that's interesting.

00:17:30.760 I also like the realization there that Israel has no value without the Jews. 0.99

00:17:35.040 The land of Israel is a pretty useless land. It's like a desert with a little bit of an 1.00

00:17:39.760 arable farming area, but not really that much as useful. It is useful because of the Jews. 1.00

00:17:45.120 And even Hamas realizes it's like, we'll turn them into slaves. We'll round up, kill all the 1.00

00:17:49.760 ones who are economically productive, and we'll turn the rest into slaves. 1.00

00:17:52.560 Again, a step up from the Nazis at least. They've seen some practical value. 0.97

00:17:58.020 Putting them in internment camps, that was like completely underutilizing knowledge workers,

00:18:04.740 when instead you could do Auschwitz for knowledge workers. Isn't that just wonderful? 0.81

00:18:10.200 No, it is horrifying. What I'm going to do next, before I go into all the shit that's 0.99

00:18:14.980 happening on university campuses right now, where people are like, oh, it's not explicitly 0.95

00:18:18.660 anti-Semitic.

00:18:19.480 I want to go over the Qatar thing, because this is really interesting.

00:18:23.420 Please.

00:18:23.980 So according to a Department of Education report from April 2023, American universities

00:18:29.140 and colleges have received $19 billion from unreported sources, more than half of which

00:18:34.540 has come from authoritarian and anti-democratic Middle Eastern governments. At the time of

00:18:39.460 writing, the state of Qatar contributes more funds to the universities in the United States

00:18:43.540 than any other country in the world in raw donations. And this is by the ISGP report.

00:18:49.940 And here's a quote from the former Qatari prime minister, Hamad bin Jassim from 2022.

00:18:55.300 We would pay them journalists. Some of them have become MPs now. Other have become patriots.

00:19:01.060 We would pay the journalists in many countries. We would pay them every year. Some of them even

00:19:05.580 receive salaries. All the Arab countries were doing this. If not all of them, most of them. 0.99

00:19:10.020 So again, this is just a normal thing for this part of the world to do.

00:19:13.540 Oh, and I'll name the article that I am quoting from here. So this article is

00:19:19.020 Dark Money Nightmare, How Qatar Bought the Ivy League. 1.00

00:19:22.300 Wow. But why? Like to what end is Qatar investing in universities?

00:19:27.320 We're going to get to that. I'm just going to go over the stats first. Okay.

00:19:29.620 Okay.

00:19:30.040 Like the facts. Okay.

00:19:31.700 All right.

00:19:32.400 Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, has enjoyed Qatar as its main sponsor. So they 0.94

00:19:36.660 are the main sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood to the tune of up to $360 million a year.

00:19:41.960 And was until recently the home of Hamas's leadership.

00:19:46.860 In 2012, Ismail Hanayi, head of the terrorist group's political bureau, Masan, I'm not even

00:19:53.260 going to try to pronounce it, and a few other names that I can't pronounce, moved to Qatar

00:19:57.160 for a life of luxury. This month, likely because of Israel's announcement that it will hunt down 0.91

00:20:01.920 and eliminate Hamas leaders in Qatar and Turkey, the Qatar-based Hamas officials reportedly

00:20:06.780 fled to other countries. Qatar has become the home to Shaikh Youssef, the spiritual leader

00:20:12.860 of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was exiled from Egypt until his death in September 2022.

00:20:18.200 According to the Mir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, quote,

00:20:22.340 Qadawi is mainly known as a key figure in shaping the concept of violent jihad and the one who

00:20:27.920 allowed carrying out terror attacks, including suicide bombings, against Israeli citizens, the

00:20:32.780 U.S. forces in Iraq, and some of Arab regimes. Because of that, he was banned from entering

00:20:37.280 Western countries and some Arab countries in 1999. He was banned from entering the USA. In 2009,

00:20:42.820 he was banned from entering Britain. The Saudi state-run JNUD's agency, so keep in mind,

00:20:46.820 Saudis are very biased against Qatar. Qatar embraces multiple terrorists and sectarian groups aimed

00:20:51.400 at disturbing stability in the region, including the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda, and

00:20:56.420 promotes the message and schemes of these groups through their media constantly. This is the kind of

00:21:01.180 influence that U.S. universities and colleges are more than happy to see on their campuses in

00:21:05.760 exchange for billions of dollars of Qatari donations. According to ISGAP, foreign donations

00:21:12.000 from Qatar especially have had a substantial impact on fermenting growing levels of anti-Semitic

00:21:16.320 discourse and campus politics in U.S. universities, as well as growing support for

00:21:21.000 anti-democratic values within these institutions of higher education.

00:21:25.920 Anti-democratic values. Wow. Okay.

00:21:31.060 So hold on. No, it gets worse because they actually have measured amounts of this. So in

00:21:36.160 2023, ISGAP published a report, The Corruption of the American Mind, How Concealing Foreign

00:21:42.620 Funding for Higher Education in the United States Predicts the Erosion of Democratic Values and

00:21:47.000 Anti-Semitic Sentiment on Campus. It found that there was a direct correlation between anti-Semitism

00:21:51.680 and censored speech on campuses and undocumented contributions from foreign governments, notably

00:21:57.480 Qatar. Quote, the institutions receiving such undocumented money had, and then it's bullet 0.64

00:22:03.620 points here, political campaigns to silence academics were more prevalent. Campuses receiving

00:22:08.660 undocumented funds exhibited approximately twice as many campaigns to silence academics as those that

00:22:12.820 did not. Students reported greater exposure to anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric. Higher levels of

00:22:18.400 anti-Semitic incidents were reported on their campuses. This relationship of undocumented money 0.93

00:22:22.720 to campus anti-Semitism was stronger where the undocumented donors were Middle Eastern regimes

00:22:27.900 rather than other regimes. From 2015 to 2020, institutions that accepted money from the Middle

00:22:33.920 Eastern donors had, on average, 300% more anti-Semitic incidents than those institutions that did not.

00:22:40.300 And then, quote, speech intolerance manifesting as campaigns to investigate, censor, demote,

00:22:44.420 or terminate speakers and scholars. It was higher at institutions that received undocumented money

00:22:50.080 from foreign regimes. End quote. So here you could see big number differences here, like 300%,

00:22:55.520 like 100% higher. Like, we are talking, like, very significant differences in what's going on

00:23:01.920 within these campuses. This is wild. Okay, I'm trying to think, like, beyond just pure anti-Semitism,

00:23:07.920 because I feel like there has to be more of a motivation than just, God, I hate those Jews, is maybe 1.00

00:23:15.260 so many of these nations are resource-rich, and they're trying to transition to become economies that in

00:23:23.000 a post-oil or natural gas-dependent world are thriving and independent and they're powerful. And Israel may be 0.72

00:23:30.200 one of the few, if not perhaps the only country in the Middle East that has a knowledge worker-based

00:23:38.260 economy that is thriving and influential. Therefore, it poses a threat to any nation, any country in the

00:23:47.020 Middle East that has a tenuous economic position based on an unsustainable asset such as oil or natural

00:23:52.420 gas. Therefore, nations like Iran and Qatar are going to be very nervous about Israel and try to 0.81

00:24:00.740 undermine it, because as long as Israel is powerful there and it has the one source of value generation 0.85

00:24:06.080 that is going to survive a post-oil world, then it's going to be very... I really appreciate your kind

00:24:13.780 heart, but no, that's not what's happening. Okay, so why is this happening? Okay, so these countries

00:24:18.900 generally have authoritarian governments, whether you're talking about Qatar or Saudi Arabia or the

00:24:23.440 UAE, it is monarchies. Sure, yeah. These monarchies have to... You are allowed a functional monarchy in

00:24:32.160 the developed world. How does this happen? How do you broker this with your citizens? One is you give

00:24:37.440 your citizens tons and tons of payouts, which is what these countries do, and two is you need to play

00:24:43.200 to the populism of your citizens. The citizens in these countries are extremist Muslims. Okay, 1.00

00:24:50.920 I'm talking like based extremist Muslims. I mean, in Iran, not so much, right? Iran hates most of 1.00

00:24:58.700 these countries. Simone, stop getting confused here, okay? Iran wants... Okay, so Iran and Qatar are 0.60

00:25:05.040 aligned because they both support the Muslim Brotherhood. It's weird. I don't want to get in 0.96

00:25:08.600 to these major countries. I'm talking about the on-the-ground politics of these countries. Okay,

00:25:14.400 okay, yeah, like the public-facing people, not the average citizen that's... No, no, Iran has a

00:25:19.040 completely different structure than Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. It is a democracy. It is not

00:25:24.740 a monarchy. It has to play to its citizens in a totally different way. Yeah, okay. Yes. So we're

00:25:30.080 talking about the monarchies, all right? Monarchies, yes. Suppose you are hanging out in progressive circles

00:25:37.040 or something like that, right? And this is the way anti-Semitism works. And you say something like

00:25:42.260 today, like you can even imagine this. If you were on like one of these college campuses,

00:25:46.140 you know what? I don't hate the Jews and I actually think that what they're okay and they should be

00:25:50.500 allowed to live in Israel. You would be like attacked or forced out of position. This is the 0.98

00:25:56.600 way anti-Semitism work. It makes everybody who thinks actually the Jews are okay, afraid to say that

00:26:04.060 within certain social circles or they can lose their positions of power. You see this everywhere

00:26:09.940 anti-Semitism begins to creep up. They are not saying, actually, I don't hate the Jews, actually

00:26:14.980 have a lot of Jewish friends, which I know a lot of these people, they do have a lot of Jewish friends

00:26:18.280 and a lot of the people in the highest level positions of power within these governments do not

00:26:22.240 hate the Jews, but they cannot let that be known because it becomes known in the same way you can't 0.99

00:26:28.160 say that on college campuses right now. And people, and just so you know, like when we're using silly 0.98

00:26:33.220 words here, people will be like, no, it's not that I hate Jews. I hate Zionists. See, here's the 0.99

00:26:38.260 problem. 97% of Jews over the age of 40 are Zionists and 80% of Jews under 40 are Zionists.

00:26:44.920 And as they age, they'll probably become Zionists. And I've looked at various statistics. Some show 1.00

00:26:49.020 like 95%. So when you say, I don't hate the Jews, I just hate 97% of Jews. Yeah. You're saying you hate 0.98

00:26:56.220 Jews. Okay. All of the things that are saying, take down whatever they're saying, I hate Jews. Okay. 0.97

00:27:02.220 So let's be clear about that. This is, uh, that's really all there is to it. It's to maintain their

00:27:08.580 power structure. And it's because once antisemitism begins to become a status signal within a community,

00:27:14.980 everyone in the community ends up leaning on it really quickly and it becomes really dangerous

00:27:20.760 to oppose. And so it's the goth echo chamber all over again. It's the goth echo chamber. Yeah.

00:27:25.880 What's your status? It's how antisemitic you are. Yeah. How extreme you are. Yeah. When something is

00:27:30.120 measured, that, that gets a little out of hand, no matter what it is. But I want to talk about

00:27:34.640 how bad it's getting. Cause I think a lot of people don't know. So I'm going to send you a

00:27:37.740 picture here from Columbia's campus right now. Well, Columbia, which has shut down in person

00:27:44.460 classes for the rest of the school year. How pissed would you be given how much you pay to go to

00:27:49.600 Columbia as a student? Oh, I'd be furious, but look at this picture. I sent it to you on WhatsApp.

00:27:53.560 This is from the Columbia campus. So what? Oh no. For people who can't see, it says beware skunk on

00:28:02.260 campus. And it's a skunk with a star of David on it. It's done as like a caricature of Jews. I mean, 0.99

00:28:08.920 this was commonly done during the Nazi period of trying to compare Jews to animals, various types

00:28:14.280 of rodents like skunks were very common during the Nazi period. And I love it. People are like, no,

00:28:19.320 this is because of this one stink bomb incident that some Jews did on campus. And that I'm like, 0.99

00:28:24.480 okay, that may have been how they justified it, but they knew what they were doing. This

00:28:28.580 picture looks like old Nazi propaganda. Beware. Like this is clearly specifically made to be

00:28:37.340 reminiscent of Nazi propaganda. Yeah. It's even, it, even for those who are just listening,

00:28:41.820 has a vintage look to it, a 1950s propaganda vintage styling. So they're going for that.

00:28:47.560 They want Jewish students to feel afraid on campus. The people who are operating this. And

00:28:54.000 this is, I think a lot of the things is people don't know who's operating this. Do I think that

00:28:58.580 the Qataris are like actively engaged in this sort of stuff? No, I think what's happening is that the

00:29:04.500 student, like the people making decisions about student governments in the universities that are

00:29:08.260 getting a lot of their funding from countries like Qatar know that they can afford to be more

00:29:14.780 anti-demographic democratic and more authoritarian in the way that they roll out policies because

00:29:21.560 their funders will have their backs. They don't need to worry about losing Jewish student money as

00:29:26.160 much or Jewish alumni money as much. And so they make a more authoritarian decisions on the ground. 0.66

00:29:32.060 I think many people who are at these protests are not anti-Semitic.

00:29:35.820 I think people are being genuinely misled. They don't even know what they were chanting from the river to

00:29:39.840 the sea. People were like, oh, we're just saying they need to leave the part of Israel that goes from

00:29:43.840 the river to the sea. I mean, they're thinking let freedom ring. I'm pretty sure that's kind of just

00:29:48.060 Yeah. And somebody was like, and then they showed them on a map where the river they were talking

00:29:51.740 about is. And they were like, oh, oh, they mean they want to kill all the Jews? They mean every one of 0.98

00:30:00.020 them goes into the sea? And they're like, I did not know that's what I was chanting. Because they're being

00:30:04.340 told these things by people in positions of authority in these activist groups that are

00:30:08.380 actually severely anti-Semitic. And so now I want to talk about what's going on college campuses right

00:30:14.360 now. So I'm doing some quotes here. They vandalize university property with slogans such as Zionism 0.76

00:30:20.620 equals genocide, New Intifada, and from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Referring to a

00:30:28.840 geographic area that encompasses the entirety of the state of Israel where half of the world's Jews live.

00:30:34.340 At Harvard, some students opted for chanting the Arabic version, from water to water, Palestine is

00:30:40.100 Arab. On some campuses, the exclamation is escalated into death threats and physical assaults against

00:30:46.520 Jewish students, where a Jewish Tulane University student tried to stop an anti-Israeli protester

00:30:51.380 near campus from burning an Israeli fad. Protesters attacked him and other Jewish students, breaking

00:30:56.280 one student's nose. When I saw on Harvard, there was this horrifying video of them basically hunting

00:31:01.460 down a group of Jewish students and trying to trap them. Oh, the library one? Yeah, you saw that? 1.00

00:31:08.040 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So here's a quote from another article. Two weeks ago at a town hall, a student

00:31:13.520 told me that what would make her feel safe in the law school would be to, quote, get rid of the Zionists, 1.00

00:31:19.840 in quotes. And then later in this article, he said, I was stunned when students across the country,

00:31:24.180 including mine, immediately celebrated the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7.

00:31:30.260 Oh, but you're not at all mentioning the atrocities that are being faced by these

00:31:34.900 pro-Palestinian protesters. Don't forget about that poor young woman whose friends called 911 from

00:31:41.960 their sit-in location because she had a tampon in for too long and they were certain that she would get

00:31:48.000 toxic shock, but she refused to leave the location because she would be arrested if she did. 0.99

00:31:52.460 And then, of course, there's Ilhan Omar's daughter who has been kicked out of Barnard,

00:31:59.520 blocked from her meal plan, and left homeless and destitute. These people really understand

00:32:06.180 the plight. Hold on, hold on. I need to finish, but I do love that you brought that up because

00:32:10.920 these people are LARPing as actual Nazis and they do not have- Well, many of them in actual

00:32:15.480 subsequent meetings where they're complaining about their mistreatment, they even have the audacity

00:32:21.680 to compare their quote-unquote mistreatment with the experience of Palestinians right now.

00:32:28.420 Yeah, they're like, I know what it feels like to be a Palestinian.

00:32:31.340 Yeah, the things we're subject to, yeah. Hold on. Come on, let's continue. And keep in mind here,

00:32:38.060 what we're saying here is the Palestinians have it hard now. The Nazis- No, I feel it. My heart

00:32:41.700 my heart breaks. We were too sure the Germans did not support the Nazi party. They went through hell

00:32:47.240 during that period, but it was righteous what happened. It was the only realistic long-term

00:32:53.220 solution to the problem, which the problem being the systematic genocide of a bunch of people,

00:32:58.340 okay? And this right now, from Israel's perspective, this is what they're doing right now is the only

00:33:03.840 realistic long-term solution to having a genocidal group on their border.

00:33:07.800 They said we're going to attack again and we're not going to stop. And they said they were going

00:33:11.560 to attack again. There was a quote that said, this won't be the last attack. The next one's

00:33:15.060 going to be 20 times worse. From Hamas, like official Hamas. But anyway. 0.94

00:33:20.340 Well, and also what really bothers me and what I think also needs to be emphasized is that

00:33:26.080 Palestine is set up like a human shield and that none of the people who are making these decisions,

00:33:33.040 who are planning these attacks are really being subject to the retaliation from Israel now.

00:33:40.520 They've just put a bunch of helpless, trapped people who do not know better in the line of fire,

00:33:46.240 which is one of the most reprehensible things. And this is the important thing to note. These

00:33:49.680 tunnel systems are intense under the country right now, which four and eight dollars we're paying for.

00:33:55.140 And that is why the war is so bloody with the civilians right now, because it's not a war where the

00:34:00.380 first people you kill are going to be the bad guys. Those are the last people you kill in a war

00:34:03.900 like this. It's a human shield strategy and it's disgusting. Your entire war strategy, after of 0.98

00:34:10.880 committing atrocities against your enemy, is to have your enemy commit atrocities against the most

00:34:16.060 innocent and vulnerable people on your own side. Because they do not care. And the amount of

00:34:22.480 misinformation I see going on, I saw on my Facebook wall, some lady was like, did you know that Israeli 1.00

00:34:27.260 soldiers were playing the sounds of a baby crying to lure out Palestinians and then shooting them?

00:34:31.740 And then I Google it and it turns out that's what Hamas was doing to Israeli soldiers,

00:34:35.660 not the other way around. And so just the amount of misinformation is insane, but I need to keep

00:34:40.380 going with the quote here, okay? So students for justice in Palestine called the terror attack a

00:34:45.740 quote unquote historic win for the quote unquote Palestinian resistance, end quote.

00:34:50.460 A Columbia professor called the Hamas massacre quote unquote awesome and a quote unquote stunning

00:34:56.300 victory. A Yale professor tweeted, quote, it's been such an extraordinary day, end quote,

00:35:01.160 while calling Israeli a, quote, murderous genocidal settler state, end quote. A Chicago professor posted

00:35:07.340 a note reading, quote, Israelis are pigs, savages, very bad people, irredeemable excrement. May they 1.00

00:35:14.220 rot in hell, end quote. Israelis, he said. This is a Chicago art professor who hasn't been fired. 1.00

00:35:19.460 It's an art professor. A UC Davis professor tweeted, yeah, but he's someone on campus.

00:35:23.060 Yeah, I know. A UC Davis professor tweeted, quote, Zionist journalists have houses with addresses,

00:35:28.020 kids in school, end quote, adding, quote, they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more,

00:35:33.780 end quote. Keep in mind what happened here. This is celebrating the brutal killing of 260 people

00:35:39.060 attending a music festival for peace. That was one of the groups that was brutally murdered,

00:35:44.340 and they're saying, this is awesome, or a victory, an extraordinary day. And this is mainstream within

00:35:51.460 US college campuses. And I think that that's what people are missing, is they think that they're like,

00:35:55.940 I have progressive friends. It's not that bad. The campuses that are, what's happening on the

00:36:01.060 campuses right now is not what you had to deal with before. And the rates of anti-Semitism are getting

00:36:07.360 significantly worse. So there was some, oh, I'll go, I'm not even going to go into the stats on this,

00:36:12.980 because it's boring. But yeah, just, it should be obvious to everyone, the rates of anti-Semitism

00:36:16.240 and anti-Semitic attacks are like at unhistorically high levels. And I guess what I'd say is a lot of

00:36:23.360 progressive Jews, and I'm going to play the little meme I did before, specifically like reformed Jews,

00:36:28.060 I've seen them so cowardly turn their back on what's really happening, or just believe these 0.97

00:36:34.560 echo chambers. And the only solace I have is barely any of them have kids, and their kids aren't really

00:36:39.660 Jewish to begin with anymore. I think that this whole situation is horrifying to me. It's horrifying 1.00

00:36:45.980 that it's gotten to this place, but I think that there are some positives at the end of the tunnel

00:36:51.020 here, right? The first being that if these attacks hadn't happened, I think when they finally did

00:36:57.780 happen, it would have been worse. An attack on the state of Israel by one of these organizations

00:37:02.440 was basically inevitable at this point. And a lot of people in Israel had become complacent about the

00:37:09.380 threat that was posed. And that this attack was able to happen by surprise, I think shows that level

00:37:14.660 of complacency. And there had began to become a lot of infighting in Israel. And to an extent that I

00:37:20.120 think it really begun to threaten the state of Israel, internal consistency. And I think that this

00:37:25.880 has shown a few things that I'm really excited about. Not excited about, but I think it shows a

00:37:32.540 few things that I don't know if it would have been in the best interest for Israel if this attack had

00:37:37.680 never happened. I think that this needed to water out. And I think when we look at the anti-Semitism

00:37:42.380 that's come from, this anti-Semitism was there. This just allowed it to be aired. And I think a lot of

00:37:49.200 people, a lot of Jews who had cozied up with progressives didn't realize how anti-Semitic the

00:37:55.100 progressive party had become and progressive activists had become. And so this hopefully was a

00:38:01.100 wake-up call that no, really, in the United States, we need to begin to fight anti-Semitism again. We need

00:38:06.860 to begin to call it out again. These people need to be shown the light and the public needs to know who

00:38:13.820 they are and what they really stand for. So I think that's one thing I'd say. The other thing I'd say is that

00:38:20.020 we do live in a world now where historically, you can see from this quote, like Qatar had journalists

00:38:25.040 on its payroll all around the world. They had become politicians. Some of them even received

00:38:29.200 basically salaries. And you're also talking about your personal social circles. If you historically,

00:38:34.720 even if you were getting your news from Fox or Breitbart, you're not going to hear this as much.

00:38:39.160 So I want to know, where did you hear this?

00:38:43.580 From a number of the sources that I listed as I was going through.

00:38:46.820 I know, but how do people restructure their media diet in a way that ensures that they hear from

00:38:53.900 these sources or just, I don't know, like I wasn't exposed to this information and I'm not

00:38:58.460 following mainstream media sources.

00:38:59.820 Yeah. So I'd say that for me, there are some people out there that just seem to be good at getting to

00:39:03.940 the truth. I like to think that our audience finds us to be one of those people. And obviously,

00:39:08.800 do your own digging. Whenever we say something, we get things wrong occasionally, but

00:39:13.020 who else? Like Richard Hanania, I read it. He often, fairly true in what he says.

00:39:20.600 That's just about calling the right people.

00:39:24.020 Yeah. Because you can't really do any better than that anymore. And unfortunately, you do get a bit

00:39:30.100 of an echo chamber. Now that I've mentioned this, some other people will probably pick it up. It'll

00:39:33.900 probably get tweeted around a few times. That's the way things work. And yeah. And so then the

00:39:38.400 question here is how do we think about this? I personally don't particularly have animosity

00:39:43.420 towards Qatar. They're just playing their sociopolitical game right now. And-

00:39:48.400 Well, T-I-L. 0.74

00:39:50.200 Yeah. I don't have animosity towards Qatar. I don't have animosity towards Qataris. I don't

00:39:54.760 have automaticity towards most people. Saudis. Even your average cousin citizen, I don't really 1.00

00:40:00.000 have animosity too. I don't think of them as like really particularly lesser than other people,

00:40:05.080 but I can look at the larger geopolitical picture and say, without X, worse things happen.

00:40:12.700 Without Y, worse things happen. And I just don't see any other solution than what Israel is doing 0.99

00:40:17.960 right now, which makes me grateful that at least so far Israel has been staying the path. 1.00

00:40:23.720 Now, Israel could end up going further. They could end up doing something truly horrific, 0.60

00:40:28.980 and then I wouldn't support them anymore. I'm not saying I support Israel no matter what they do. 1.00

00:40:32.640 I say that right now, they seem to be taking the type of measured approach that I think is the

00:40:37.780 only- And people can be like, this approach isn't measured.

00:40:40.240 But to what end? It just doesn't seem-

00:40:41.880 I know the right point of the measuring.

00:40:43.100 As long as there is a Palestine, there is going to be a problem. So I don't really understand- 1.00

00:40:48.160 No, no. Hold on. Gaza and Palestine are two totally different situations.

00:40:51.420 The culture within the two regions are different. The ethnic groups within the two regions are

00:40:55.900 different. The geopolitics of the two regions are different. There is a reason they were attacked

00:41:00.580 from Gaza. So you think that if they basically just completely take Gaza, that's it?

00:41:08.760 I think that the people- This is the problem, right? What Israel wants is these people to 1.00

00:41:14.740 immigrate to other countries. But no other country will take them because the last time they did, 1.00

00:41:19.240 they had a big revolt. And every time they did, even statistically, there was this case where the

00:41:22.720 Danish took some, and even their descendants three generations down are way more into crime and 1.00

00:41:27.660 stuff than other groups. It's a culture that is very different from the other surrounding regions.

00:41:32.460 There's a reason. Like, you have to ask yourself, why aren't any of the Arab countries taking these

00:41:36.300 people? If they care about these refugees, why aren't they taking them? Because they don't care 1.00

00:41:40.240 about the refugees. What they want is to use them to try to turn average, unthinking American activists 0.99

00:41:47.700 against the Jewish state. Where I think that I see, and you look at even the brutality of the two 0.61

00:41:54.660 groups, right? When I look at what Israel is doing right now, yes, obviously the damage that they are 1.00

00:42:00.420 putting out is on a much more large scale, but it is measured. It is civilization defending itself.

00:42:08.580 When I look at the types of things, the horrifying grapes that were filmed, the child killings,

00:42:14.520 and people are like, Israel kills kids too, by accident. The US kills kids too, by accident.

00:42:20.200 Every developed country, when they're at war, when we were fighting the Nazis, you don't think

00:42:23.760 babies died in the bombing of Dresden? Okay? Be realistic, bro. That is just the way war is,

00:42:30.960 and they did not choose to start this war. They were actually, just so people know, leading up to

00:42:35.560 the war, the amount of privileges they had given to the people of Gaza had risen dramatically because

00:42:40.360 they were trying to get this deal done with Saudi Arabia. So they were actually treating them

00:42:43.680 dramatically better than they had been in recent history. They had put in huge aid deals that were

00:42:49.660 going there. The situation is, I think, not the situation that a lot of people are being told.

00:42:54.580 And so, you know, you can only look at the wider world and be like, look, people are playing with

00:42:59.680 the hands they can play with. And I look at Qatar. Could Qatar realistically play a different hand than

00:43:04.740 the hand they're playing? Could Israel realistically play a different hand? I think Qatar could, 0.98

00:43:09.180 but it'd be hard and it'd be very risky. It would be very risky. And so I don't think they would.

00:43:14.560 When you tell them play a different hand, you're asking them individually to risk their lives.

00:43:19.700 And they don't have the same sorts of convictions or honor that I have. A lot of these people are just

00:43:24.820 intergenerational royalty, basically. And they don't come from backgrounds of fighting for freedom or

00:43:31.040 anything like that. They, yeah, I, it's a tough situation and I am sad for a lot of what I'm seeing,

00:43:38.120 but at the end of the day, this is civilization defending itself against people who in their

00:43:43.180 attacks act like the antithesis of civilization. True barbarism is what they want.

00:43:48.780 Yeah. And not just against their enemies, against their own. And that's where I'm like,

00:43:52.680 yeah, shots fired that I cannot ignore.

00:43:55.500 If you want to bring the people of Gaza from Hamas, this is the only way to do it. 1.00

00:43:59.660 And this then brings me, when I look at the people protesting on the behalf of this,

00:44:03.340 when I look at the people at these Columbia protests and stuff like that, I see that our

00:44:07.320 enemy, not only in the pro-natalist movement, do we have the enemy of the anti-natalist who like

00:44:11.680 want all things dead, but then there's this other side of like general progressivism, which is

00:44:15.900 a promotion of barbarism over civilization, a promotion of cruelty, just completely unnecessary

00:44:25.100 cruelty of it's, it's just so obvious to me, like who the good guys are in this.

00:44:31.300 Um, and it's not one of those situations where people are like, there's no good guys here.

00:44:35.660 No, there's good guys. There's good guys here.

00:44:39.080 Oh, Malcolm, you're my good guy. And I love you a lot.

00:44:41.280 It's our boys in blue, the blue, the star, sorry, the Israeli color is blue. Our boys in

00:44:46.960 blue are the good guys. And a lot of them who have families and kids at home are out dying right now

00:44:51.600 to preserve the country. We had a fan reach out to us. He's like, I'm deploying tomorrow.

00:44:55.160 I don't know what to say. I don't know what to put in place for my kids.

00:44:57.500 So to keep that in mind, these people, I just can't even, I can't even like they're dehumanizing

00:45:03.120 these people who are fighting for trying to create something that works. I, it's tough.

00:45:10.240 Anyway, love you. I love you too, Malcolm. All right. I'm glad we're talking again. I miss you.

00:45:17.220 We live in our center, but like, it doesn't change the fact that I know. I absolutely know the feeling.

00:45:22.540 I feel the exact same way. And I am so thrilled for every one of these recording sessions and

00:45:28.000 I'm going to be gone for a bit and that we won't be talking to each other on these is going to kill

00:45:32.300 me. Maybe we can find an excuse to film some while I'm at my reunion. Maybe, but you're supposed to be

00:45:39.360 busy socializing. So trying not to be weird. Okay. Speaking of, I actually have a reunion themed intro to

00:45:48.480 this one. So really, yes.

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