In this episode, we talk about the contradictory ideas and ideas at the heart of the modern Jewish movement, and how they relate to the ideas of Chassidus and Yitzchak Herzl, and why they are so important.
00:00:00.000I'm sure Benjamin Netanyahu has a lot of Aryan DNA, and I'm almost positive that he has a lot of Semitic DNA that, if you look on a 23andMe chart, would place him in that area.0.89
00:00:16.260Or is it Israel for Mizrahi Jews only?
00:00:18.920Yeah, you could make that argument according to Tucker's logic, which is the only Jews who have a right are the ones that have just been there forever, and they're the ones that are actually, like, indistinguishable from Palestinians and Arabs.1.00
00:00:34.260But it's basically the Ashkenazi Jews and the Sephardic Jews that are the straw that stirs the drink.1.00
00:00:48.260You can find plenty of Jews like that.
00:00:50.480At the very least, they look very white, and they sort of are white.0.58
00:00:54.440And they want to do stuff like Zionism, which is many things, but in the original or a basic conception by Herzl is, like, part of the nationalist wave of the 19th century leading into the 20th century.
00:01:13.920Every population should have a homeland.
00:01:16.920We Jews, I wish we could assimilate, but we just can't.
00:02:50.860We're just giving over an identity to embrace this Christian, Catholic, Germanic, European identity.
00:02:59.200And that was one, again, this is an unpublished thing.
00:03:03.760But it's a kind of fantasy of Jews of just total assimilation that even Herzl would flirt with.0.97
00:03:12.920And he obviously, you know, in his explicit work went in a totally different direction, the opposite direction.
00:03:20.240But you can almost, like, see that of, you know, like an internet atheist who writes in his journal, like, I just want to, ah, this is too hard.
00:03:29.440I just want to give it up and just be like, Christ, take me.