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Anti-Semitism Across The World | Ep. 774


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In this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, host Ben Shapiro talks about what antisemitism looks like in the modern world, and how the far-left and far-right are in common cause with each other on the issue of anti-Semitism. Plus, he explains why the far left and far right are in alliance with one another on this issue, and why they should be worried about it. Ben Shapiro is a regular contributor to the Forward, and host of the Forward Radio podcast. He is also a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard, and has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal, and is one of the most influential Jewish voices in American politics. If you like what you hear here, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and become a supporter of the show by becoming a patron patron! You get 5% off your first month with discount code: PODCAST at checkout, and up to 40% off for the rest of the month! Subscribe to the show and receive 20% off the entire month, plus free shipping on all orders over $99, plus a free shipping discount when you enter the discount code SHIPCRYPTOWARD at checkout! Thanks to our sponsor, Priority Mail! We love stamps! Shout out to: for sponsoring the show! Ben Shapiro - Ben Shapiro - and to: Ben Shapiro: The Anti-Semitism is real! - Ben Shapiro: What's the problem with anti-Jew Problem? Ben's thoughts on anti-of-the-Weekend? , & more? . , and much more! , Ben Shapiro's new book, is out now! . . Ben s thoughts on the anti-Rabbi: The Real Thing? is a new book of the week? and more on the real problem of the Week, and much, much more, coming soon, coming out in the coming week, coming in the next episode of the podcast, coming on the podcast by Ben Shapiro s new podcast, Ben s new book coming out soon! and Ben sis ! ...and much more coming soon I hope you like it, Ben Shapiro will give it out soon, so stay tuned for a review of the new episode of , more soon, soon, Ben


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00:00:10.000 All right, a lot to get to today.
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00:01:45.000 Alrighty, so over the weekend, we got a fulsome display of what antisemitism looks like.
00:01:51.000 So it's been really interesting to watch as various political players manipulate the issue of antisemitism so as to defend certain parties and not to defend certain parties.
00:01:59.000 Here's the deal.
00:02:00.000 As I've been saying for years at this point, there are three types of anti-Semitism.
00:02:04.000 There's right-wing white supremacist anti-Semitism.
00:02:07.000 Those are the people most likely to try and murder you.
00:02:10.000 I know because someone was arrested last week for apparently threatening to murder me.
00:02:13.000 This was a white supremacist.
00:02:14.000 OK, number two.
00:02:16.000 There are people on the left, the far left, anti-Semites, who suggest that Israel and the Jews are behind all world events, and that's why they're so successful.
00:02:25.000 They stand at the top of the hierarchy of power.
00:02:27.000 This tends to merge very well with certain intersectional notions of politics, and that is why you see the far left making common cause with the third type of anti-Semites.
00:02:35.000 This would be radical Islamist anti-Semitism.
00:02:37.000 Unfortunately, a very popular view among Muslims in major countries across the world Polls show this.
00:02:46.000 This is not a rip on Islam as a religion.
00:02:48.000 This is a rip on how many, many Muslims are practicing Islam as a religion.
00:02:52.000 But the fact is that there is a radical Islamist anti-Semitism that is dominant in the Gaza Strip.
00:02:58.000 It is dominant in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank.
00:03:00.000 It is dominant in Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Pakistan and Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran.
00:03:06.000 All these in Turkey, all of these places, all of these places, anti-Semitism is not just something that is is looked upon with some sort of.
00:03:17.000 This is some sort of apathy.
00:03:18.000 It's looked upon as something that is sort of a requisite for point of entry.
00:03:22.000 That is just a reality by poll numbers.
00:03:24.000 OK, so here is the issue.
00:03:26.000 What do we here in the West do about anti-Semitism?
00:03:28.000 So if you are on the left, you've had a tendency to overlook leftist anti-Semitism, to pretend that it doesn't exist.
00:03:34.000 I've seen it from some people on the right who try to minimize the threat of white supremacist anti-Semitism.
00:03:39.000 They look at the white supremacists, they say, this is a small number of people, so why am I worried about it?
00:03:43.000 And the answer is, you're worried about it because anti-Semitism, of any sort, is truly evil.
00:03:47.000 And these anti-Semites are likely to shoot up mosques, they're likely to shoot up shuls, because very often they're not just anti-Semites, they're also people who hate Muslims as Muslims and want to shoot up mosques, which is why you've seen white supremacists doing just that over the past month.
00:04:01.000 Left-wing anti-Semites will overlook the entirety of left-wing anti-Semitism.
00:04:06.000 They will pretend instead that it is anti-Zionism.
00:04:08.000 And this is what you see with Israel.
00:04:09.000 So, over the weekend, over the last four days, what you've seen is Hamas, an actual terrorist group, an evil, evil terrorist group, firing hundreds of rockets into civilian areas in Israel.
00:04:20.000 Hamas is an evil, evil organization.
00:04:23.000 The Hamas charter explicitly calls for the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:04:27.000 And they call for the death of Jews outside of Israel as well.
00:04:30.000 The Hamas Covenant is not a document of peace.
00:04:35.000 It is obviously a document of war and anti-Semitism and evil.
00:04:39.000 Hamas is a State Department-labeled terrorist group because Hamas is an evil, evil group.
00:04:45.000 The Daily Caller has a piece from a couple of years ago by Jamie Weinstein over there talking about things you need to know about Hamas.
00:04:52.000 They quote Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna in their charter saying, quote, Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.
00:05:02.000 Hamas' charter doesn't just stop at Israel.
00:05:04.000 Hamas' charter says, quote, the prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said, the day of judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews, killing the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees.
00:05:14.000 The stones and trees will say, oh, Muslims, oh, Abdullah, there's a Jew behind me.
00:05:18.000 Come and kill him.
00:05:18.000 That is a quote from the Hadiths.
00:05:20.000 The international community might like the peace process, but their charter says initiatives and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic resistance movement.
00:05:31.000 This organization also participates in conspiracy theories about Jews.
00:05:35.000 They say there is no war going on anywhere without Jews having their finger in it.
00:05:40.000 They say the Jews were behind the French Revolution, the Communist Revolution, and most of the revolutions we hear, heard, and hear about here and there.
00:05:46.000 With their money, they formed secret societies.
00:05:48.000 All this is in the Hamas Charter.
00:05:49.000 And it's Hamas that is firing hundreds of rockets into Israel.
00:05:52.000 With their money, they formed secret societies such as the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions, and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests.
00:06:01.000 So radical Islamist anti-Semitism suggests that Jews are the nefarious powers behind everything.
00:06:07.000 And you'll notice also that what they start doing is they start conflating Jews and Zionists.
00:06:10.000 And this is how the left grants cover to radical Islamists, as we will see.
00:06:14.000 The left simply suggests that they're not anti-Jewish, they're just anti-Zionist.
00:06:18.000 So, sure, they want to wipe six million Jews off the planet, again.
00:06:21.000 Sure, they want to destroy the only collective, the biggest and most powerful collective body of Jews on planet Earth, but that's just an anti-Zionist thing, guys.
00:06:28.000 That has nothing to do with wanting to slaughter Jews.
00:06:30.000 They also say in the Hamas charter that the Jews control the media.
00:06:34.000 They say that the only solution is jihad, meaning violent jihad, not internal struggle, guys.
00:06:40.000 Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:06:42.000 They say that they are in favor of death for the sake of Allah.
00:06:46.000 Hamas, of course, accuses Israel of being Nazi.
00:06:49.000 They say that the Jews make no exception for women or children.
00:06:52.000 And then they say the Zionist Nazi activities against our people will not last for long.
00:06:57.000 So this is what Hamas is.
00:06:58.000 Hamas is an evil terrorist group.
00:06:59.000 So here is a map of what it looked like as the rockets fell across Israel over the weekend.
00:07:04.000 Every one of these, if you can see this, every one of these red dots Every one of these red pinpoints is a rocket falling.
00:07:12.000 Basically, it's all of southern Israel.
00:07:13.000 It's everything from Sderot to Ashtod to Ashkelon, everything to Be'er Sheva, everything across southern Israel and central Israel is within the ambit of these Hamas rockets.
00:07:26.000 And Hamas is deliberately firing them into civilian areas, and they're very excited about firing them into civilian areas.
00:07:31.000 And for those who don't know what rocket fire looks like, here is some footage.
00:07:35.000 of the rockets being fired from Gaza.
00:07:37.000 Hamas is being funded by Iran, so they have new, more sophisticated weaponry.
00:07:41.000 Many of these rockets are unguided, but a few of them are in fact guided.
00:07:45.000 And here is what it looks like when your country, imagine your city here in the United States, is being fired on by hundreds of rockets from just across the border.
00:07:52.000 Here is what that looks like.
00:07:54.000 For those who can't see, you're looking at streams of rockets.
00:07:58.000 Dozens and dozens of rockets flying up into the air directed at civilian areas.
00:08:03.000 This is what this is what Hamas is doing.
00:08:06.000 And they don't care where those land.
00:08:07.000 How do we know we don't care where those land?
00:08:09.000 Because one of these rockets, some of these rockets historically have fallen short and fallen into Palestinian areas.
00:08:15.000 Over the weekend, a Palestinian pregnant mother and a baby The media immediately jumped to blame the Jews because they buy every aspect of Palestinian propaganda, because if you're covering the Palestinians in Gaza Strip, the only way they allow you in is if you use their propaganda.
00:08:31.000 They give false death statistics.
00:08:34.000 They suggest that people who are killed are civilians rather than members of Hamas or members of Islamic Jihad, another evil terrorist group that works with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and that together with Hamas forms a unity government with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
00:08:48.000 So these so they don't care about any of they don't care about their own citizens.
00:08:52.000 If they cared about their own citizens, they wouldn't be spending tens of millions of dollars building terror tunnels in order to fight the Israelis, as opposed to, you know, building up the area that Israel left in 2005.
00:09:01.000 This is part of the background that people also need to know.
00:09:04.000 OK, this part of Israel, OK, Gaza Strip is not controlled by the Israelis.
00:09:10.000 The Gaza Strip was completely pulled out from by the Israelis in 2005.
00:09:14.000 So any talk you hear of people talking about the so-called occupation of the Gaza Strip, there are no Jews in the Gaza Strip.
00:09:21.000 In 2005, Ariel Sharon, then the prime minister of Israel, decided he didn't want to use Israeli forces to maintain a small Jewish community in what was called Gush Katif.
00:09:30.000 And so they forcibly evacuated those Jews.
00:09:33.000 Meaning Jews took other Jews out of the Gaza Strip.
00:09:36.000 They handed over all their resources to the Palestinian Authority.
00:09:39.000 The Palestinian Authority then proceeded to burn down all of those areas.
00:09:43.000 Burn them down.
00:09:44.000 They handed over a bunch of greenhouses that grew vegetables.
00:09:47.000 Seems pretty, pretty innocent, right?
00:09:50.000 They handed all of that over to the Palestinian Authority and the authorities then burned those to the ground.
00:09:54.000 There hasn't been a Jew living in the Gaza Strip for 14 years.
00:09:59.000 And yet this is still considered quote unquote occupation.
00:10:01.000 By the way, in the aftermath of Israel pulling out of the Gaza Strip, supposedly in order to jumpstart a peace process to create a separation that would make Israel safer, the Palestinians immediately elected not the Palestinian authority that Israel had handed over The Gaza Strip, too.
00:10:16.000 They immediately elected Hamas, an open terrorist group.
00:10:18.000 The Palestinian Authority is a terrorist group, too.
00:10:20.000 They've just hidden it better for a while.
00:10:21.000 And they're originally headed by Yasser Arafat.
00:10:23.000 The Fatah Charter still calls for the extermination of the state of Israel.
00:10:26.000 They've never actually publicly agreed that Israel has a right to exist.
00:10:32.000 They've called for a two-state solution, but every time Israel has offered one, they've rejected it.
00:10:36.000 Israel pulled out of this territory, and then this territory has been used as a staging point to fire rockets at civilians in Israel.
00:10:43.000 Not targeting military, targeting civilians.
00:10:47.000 So, all these rockets are being fired at Israel, and Israel has something called the Iron Dome.
00:10:50.000 The Iron Dome system is a system that's been stationed in many of Israel's major cities, and it allows them to shoot down these short-range rockets.
00:10:57.000 Here is what that looks like when it's happening.
00:10:59.000 Here's some footage from the ground.
00:11:00.000 So you can see these puffs of black smoke in the air.
00:11:04.000 Okay, the puffs of black smoke in the air, that would be the Iron Dome knocking down the rockets.
00:11:10.000 Now, it'd be important to mention here that one particular presidential candidate in the Democratic Party voted against even funding Israel's Iron Dome.
00:11:17.000 That'd be Beto O'Rourke.
00:11:18.000 Beto O'Rourke was one of eight congresspeople who voted against giving Israel the ability to shoot down rockets fired at its civilian areas, which shows you where Beto O'Rourke and many members of the Democratic Party are.
00:11:29.000 Now, in a second, I'm going to show you the impact of all of this, because there are four people who are dead in Israel, Three Jews and a Bedouin.
00:11:36.000 And this, I mean, no country, no country would allow this sort of thing.
00:11:42.000 None.
00:11:42.000 And no one would be expected to allow this sort of thing.
00:11:44.000 Imagine if Mexico were firing 700 rockets into San Diego, there would be no more Mexico.
00:11:50.000 There would not be.
00:11:51.000 Okay, the United States would immediately invade and topple the regime in Mexico.
00:11:54.000 That's how this would go.
00:11:55.000 How do we know?
00:11:56.000 Because after Al Qaeda knocked down two of our buildings in New York, we took down two countries.
00:12:02.000 Okay, we went and we knocked out Afghanistan, we took down the Taliban, we invaded them, and we stayed there for near on 20 years.
00:12:08.000 And then, in order to prevent another 9-11, this was the actual mission, we went into Iraq as well.
00:12:13.000 So, the United States doesn't tolerate this kind of crap, which is why we live a safe and secure life here.
00:12:17.000 Israel is expected to tolerate this sort of evil, specifically because the world doesn't care if Jews get killed, so long as those Jews are being killed by certain people.
00:12:27.000 And this is where the anti-Semitism question comes in.
00:12:29.000 If you're only taking seriously one type of anti-Semitism, I don't want to hear crocodile tears about other types of anti-Semitism.
00:12:35.000 If you only care when a Jew gets killed at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life by a white supremacist, but you don't care when a Jew gets punched in Williamsburg by a minority, or you don't care if a Jew is killed by a falling rocket in a civilian area in Israel, spare me your crocodile tears about anti-Semitism.
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00:13:59.000 OK, so there is this tendency in the West to act as though this is every day in Israel.
00:14:04.000 In Israel, thanks to these rocket attacks, there were a million people in Israel who are living underground.
00:14:09.000 A million.
00:14:10.000 One million people living underground thanks to these rocket attacks.
00:14:14.000 Everyone had to evacuate their homes.
00:14:16.000 And people have died in this.
00:14:18.000 Here's a picture of the Bedouin who was killed in Israel.
00:14:21.000 Many people were killed in Israel.
00:14:23.000 One of them was a Bedouin.
00:14:25.000 This fellow's name happened to be Zayed al-Hamada.
00:14:27.000 He's a 50-year-old Bedouin because Israel is in fact a diverse country.
00:14:30.000 There are no Jews living in the Palestinian Authority, nor will there be.
00:14:33.000 There are a million and a half non-Jews living in the state of Israel.
00:14:37.000 Maybe two million at this point.
00:14:39.000 Another person killed Pinchas Pijushman, a 21-year-old father of two, who was killed.
00:14:46.000 Moshe Agadi, who's a 58-year-old, was killed when his van was hit by a Hamas rocket.
00:14:53.000 And, by the way, if Israel did not have quick-response systems, then it would have been a lot worse.
00:14:59.000 Here, for example, is a picture of a kindergarten that was hit.
00:15:01.000 A rocket fell right into the middle of a kindergarten.
00:15:03.000 This is a special-needs kindergarten.
00:15:05.000 So Israel specifically targets terrorists, and Hamas specifically targets special-needs kindergartens.
00:15:11.000 But don't worry.
00:15:11.000 Morally equivalent, according to many in the West.
00:15:13.000 Here's a house in Be'er Sheva that was destroyed.
00:15:15.000 You can see a picture, it's a video of the full destruction of the house.
00:15:23.000 I mean, the house was just blown up, right?
00:15:24.000 The rocket fell right on top of it.
00:15:25.000 Thank God the people inside that house were living underground when that happened.
00:15:30.000 And then, of course, there was a burning ambulance because one of these struck an ambulance because terrorists don't care.
00:15:35.000 Terrorists don't care.
00:15:35.000 In a second, I'm going to show you what it's like to move, why all anti-Semitism is basically of a piece, and why it should be treated as a piece.
00:15:43.000 So, as I say, the same anti-Semites who want to kill Jews in Europe Don't care about Jews getting killed in Israel.
00:15:51.000 The same anti-Semites who pretend to care about white supremacist killings at the Tree of Life synagogue will defend Jews being murdered in their beds in Israel.
00:16:00.000 So long as the cause is just, according to some anti-Semites, Jewish blood is cheap.
00:16:05.000 And so this leads to horrific and sad situations like this is this is a video of a Dutch woman This Dutch family moved from Rotterdam to Nahal Az.
00:16:17.000 They moved away from the Netherlands because of the rise of anti-semitism in the Netherlands.
00:16:21.000 Rise in hate crimes, many of those hate crimes committed by radical Muslims.
00:16:25.000 They moved instead to Nahal Az, which is in the south of Israel.
00:16:29.000 Yesterday their house was destroyed by a Palestinian terror rocket.
00:16:32.000 Watch this video and watch all the way to the end.
00:16:34.000 Imagine that this is your life.
00:16:36.000 My house is damaged because of a rocket.
00:16:39.000 And that's basically it.
00:16:41.000 And now we're staying with friends because we can't go in our own house.
00:16:46.000 And after what happened today, you have second thought?
00:16:50.000 No.
00:16:51.000 This is my house.
00:16:51.000 I'm not leaving.
00:16:53.000 So now we're not leaving.
00:16:58.000 That sound is the air raid alarm.
00:17:02.000 That's what you're hearing right there.
00:17:03.000 As the alarm goes off and then she charges into her house and she has to go secure her family and bring them underground.
00:17:08.000 No country, no country should stand for this.
00:17:12.000 Certainly not from an evil terrorist group like Hamas.
00:17:15.000 No country should stand for this.
00:17:17.000 So Israel has responded basically with targeted hits.
00:17:20.000 So Israel responds by killing terrorists.
00:17:22.000 Terrorists try to kill as many Israelis as possible.
00:17:24.000 They don't care whether it's Arab.
00:17:25.000 They don't care whether it's Jew.
00:17:26.000 They don't care whether it's Muslim.
00:17:28.000 They don't care about any of that.
00:17:29.000 The only thing they care about is killing as many Israelis as possible.
00:17:32.000 Because they're a terrorist group and Israel tries to strike as many specific targets as it can.
00:17:37.000 In fact, what you will see is that the left is lying about this, of course.
00:17:40.000 When I say the left, I mean people like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, which we'll get to in a second.
00:17:43.000 They're lying about all of this.
00:17:45.000 They're saying that what touched this off was indiscriminate Israeli treatment of Palestinians.
00:17:48.000 That is a lie.
00:17:50.000 What touched all of this off is that Hamas terrorists were working with quote-unquote protest groups on the Israeli border to shoot Israeli soldiers.
00:17:57.000 Israel retaliated by killing some Hamas terrorists.
00:17:59.000 And within days, they were firing hundreds of rockets into the center of Israel.
00:18:02.000 But here's an example of what Israel did.
00:18:04.000 So Israel knocked out a Hamas financier, a Gazan terrorist, the IDF released a photo of his burned out car.
00:18:13.000 It said, we just targeted Hamad Abdelkoudari, a Gazan terrorist responsible for transferring Iranian funds to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, helping fund their rocket-fired Israelis.
00:18:22.000 Transferring Iranian money to Hamas and the PIJ doesn't make you a businessman, it makes you a terrorist.
00:18:27.000 And so they specifically targeted this particular guy in his car.
00:18:32.000 And they hit him.
00:18:33.000 Now, that's an amazing thing.
00:18:35.000 And the reason that Israel has not been harsher in dealing with Hamas is specifically because Hamas knows, they know for a fact, that if they put all of their weaponry in civilian areas, that Israel is less likely to hit them.
00:18:46.000 Because Israel has a rule called Taharat Haneshech, meaning purity of arms, that says that you are specifically, Israel is more humane than any country's military on planet Earth, with the possible exception of the American military, and maybe even not that, just because the American military doesn't have to deal with this on America's borders.
00:19:03.000 Israel goes out of its way only to kill terrorists.
00:19:07.000 And conversely, terrorists specifically use civilian areas as shields.
00:19:10.000 So, for example, here's a picture of where Hamas has placed one of their rocket launchers.
00:19:15.000 If you can see this picture, what you will see is that the rocket launcher is placed at the top of a mosque in a minaret.
00:19:21.000 And Israel has been hesitant to hit it.
00:19:22.000 Why?
00:19:23.000 Because it's at the top of a mosque.
00:19:25.000 Islamic Jihad uses mosques as command and control centers.
00:19:29.000 The IDF said Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group in Gaza, was using a mosque in al-Shati, a densely populated area, as a command and control center.
00:19:37.000 Terrorists in Gaza use places of worship for military purposes.
00:19:40.000 We targeted the command and control center last night.
00:19:44.000 The Hamas headquarters during the last Gaza war was beneath a hospital because they know that Israel will not hit the hospital because they don't want to kill innocent people.
00:19:52.000 There is no moral equivalence here.
00:19:54.000 None.
00:19:55.000 Anyone who tries to draw a moral equivalence between the Israelis, who are desperately attempting not to kill Palestinian civilians, and the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, and the people who side with them and voted for them, who are eager to fire rockets into the center of civilian areas, and who won't even protect Palestinian civilians, who deliberately put Palestinian civilians in harm's way, who hide behind their own civilians because they don't want to be killed because they're cowards,
00:20:19.000 Anybody who draws that moral equivalence between the Israelis, who have not only handed over without any preconditions the Gaza Strip to the control of the Palestinians, but also have made repeated concessions in terms of territory to the Palestinians over and over and over, who Ehud Elmer in 2008 offered fully 96% of all land in Judea and Samaria in the West Bank, most of which is historic Israel, Offered 96% and the other 4% would be land swaps.
00:20:47.000 So the Palestinians would receive 100% of land as well as connections between Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip, as well as East Jerusalem as the capital of a new Palestinian state.
00:20:58.000 And Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, walked away from the table without a counteroffer.
00:21:03.000 And that was only the second offer in the last several years.
00:21:07.000 Israel has repeatedly made concessions from Oslo to the White River Accords to 2000 when Ehud Barak offered to walk... Ehud Barak offered everything.
00:21:17.000 And even the Clinton administration didn't understand why Yasser Arafat walked away.
00:21:21.000 Okay, that is demonstrative.
00:21:23.000 Anybody who tries to draw moral equivalence between a group that openly... I mean, they're not hiding the ball here, Hamas.
00:21:28.000 They openly state they want to kill as many Jews as possible, that the Koran calls for them to do so, and that they want Israel destroyed root and branch.
00:21:35.000 Anybody who suggests that their genocidal, anti-Jewish, Nazi-esque treatment of Jews is equivalent with Israel's specific, targeted attempts to kill specific terrorists in defense of their own citizenry, Is morally insane.
00:21:49.000 And yet what you have seen is this moral insanity that has conquered the left.
00:21:49.000 Morally insane.
00:21:55.000 A moral insanity.
00:21:56.000 Not one Democratic presidential candidate has spoken about what's happening in Gaza.
00:22:00.000 Not one.
00:22:01.000 Zero.
00:22:02.000 Zero.
00:22:03.000 Not one.
00:22:04.000 I mean, isn't that an unbelievable statement?
00:22:06.000 So you have an American Democratic ally under attack with hundreds of rockets, hundreds of rockets aimed at civilian areas within days, and not one Democratic presidential candidate has spoken out about it.
00:22:17.000 Not a single one.
00:22:19.000 So here is my question.
00:22:22.000 Pro-Israel people, people who just don't like anti-Semitism, I'm not saying you gotta vote Republican.
00:22:28.000 What I'm saying is I don't know how you can vote for this party.
00:22:31.000 I do not know how you can vote for this party.
00:22:32.000 I'm not saying you gotta vote for Donald Trump.
00:22:34.000 Maybe you hate Trump.
00:22:34.000 Fine.
00:22:35.000 But this isn't about that.
00:22:36.000 This is do you have the moral courage to recognize what the Democratic Party is becoming?
00:22:41.000 Not one comment from a single Democratic candidate as a Democratic ally as Israel is put under attack by hundreds of rockets from an openly stated anti-Semitic terror group?
00:22:41.000 What they've become?
00:22:50.000 And then I'm supposed to believe you guys when you are shedding crocodile tears over Chabad of Poway or over the Tree of Life synagogue?
00:22:57.000 I'm supposed to believe the New York Times when the New York Times sheds those crocodile tears at the same time that it refuses to take sides against Hamas?
00:23:06.000 Yeah, you can all go do something unprintable to yourselves.
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00:24:28.000 Okay, so as I say, I've been sort of darkly hinting that the left has supported Hamas through this.
00:24:32.000 As I say, not a single democratic presidential candidate has even commented on this.
00:24:38.000 Can you imagine if England were under attack, the UK were under attack by a terrorist group, by Al-Qaeda, firing 700 rockets into the heart of London?
00:24:47.000 Do you think that any of those democratic presidential candidates would be silent?
00:24:52.000 There's something different about the Jews.
00:24:53.000 There's something different about this conflict.
00:24:56.000 And the attempt to portray an attack on Jewish civilians by a terrorist group that calls for the wiping out of Jews all over the planet as anything but anti-Semitism demonstrates how leftist anti-Semitism makes common cause with radical Islamist anti-Semitism.
00:25:09.000 And again, I don't want to hear your crocodile tears about Jews getting shot in synagogues by white supremacists when you don't give a damn if Jews get shot in synagogues by Muslim terrorists.
00:25:19.000 Don't care.
00:25:20.000 Don't want to hear from you.
00:25:21.000 You have no moral legitimacy.
00:25:22.000 None.
00:25:23.000 If you cannot condemn what is going on right now, if you can't condemn Hamas or Islamic Jihad, then you got nothing.
00:25:29.000 It's amazing.
00:25:30.000 It's amazing to me that people on the left or even in the Muslim community would have any trouble condemning this stuff at all.
00:25:37.000 It's incredible to me.
00:25:39.000 I remember a few years back, I was on Fox News, and they had on somebody, I believe from CAIR, from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial.
00:25:49.000 The Holy Land Foundation was basically a front group for Hamas, raising money for Hamas and Hezbollah, among other terrorist groups, allegedly.
00:25:56.000 And this spokesperson for CAIR was sitting there.
00:25:58.000 I said, why can't you condemn Hamas?
00:25:59.000 Why don't you just condemn Hamas?
00:26:01.000 And the guy said, well, will you condemn the KKK?
00:26:03.000 I said, of course I'll condemn the KKK.
00:26:04.000 They're garbage and they're evil.
00:26:06.000 Why wouldn't I condemn the KKK?
00:26:07.000 This is not difficult.
00:26:09.000 Like, I'm happy to condemn anybody who's evil, but there is a whole group of people who won't.
00:26:14.000 And those people include people like Linda Sarsour, who you will recall introduced Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at a rally, is a well-respected member of the hardcore left, a head of the Women's March, a friend to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, those morally despicable freshman leaders in the House.
00:26:34.000 Linda Sarsour wrote, I am trained in Kingian nonviolence, which is hilarious since she has campaigned with Razmia Oda, a convicted terrorist.
00:26:42.000 She says, I choose nonviolence as a powerful means to change, but I don't have to choose or justify violence to understand where it comes from when oppressed people see no way out.
00:26:51.000 We have to be critical thinkers, advocate, and present solutions.
00:26:54.000 Hey, that would be her making excuses for Hamas terrorists because Linda Sarsour doesn't care about terrorism so long as it is directed at Jews.
00:27:01.000 She does not care about it.
00:27:02.000 She is an anti-Semite.
00:27:03.000 Rashida Tlaib, another anti-Semite.
00:27:06.000 So Rashida Tlaib tweets out, When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free?
00:27:11.000 I was unaware that wanting to be free allows you to fire rockets at civilians on the other side of a border.
00:27:19.000 Didn't realize that.
00:27:21.000 Also, if you want to be free, maybe you should get rid of the Hamas regime that is oppressing its own people and spending tens of millions of dollars on weaponry to fight Israelis across the border when they have complete domestic control inside the Gaza Strip.
00:27:35.000 I will make one other note here.
00:27:37.000 Rashida Tlaib is somebody who has suggested that Jews have dual loyalty when it comes to Israel.
00:27:42.000 What is this, our Palestinian people business?
00:27:45.000 Now, I don't have a problem with her using that phrase.
00:27:47.000 I don't have a problem with that.
00:27:47.000 She's Palestinian.
00:27:48.000 But if you're going to accuse other people of dual loyalty, Lady, you might want to take a look in the mirror if that's the kind of phraseology that you're happy using.
00:27:56.000 She has headlines like this, and framing it in this way just feeds into the continued lack of responsibility on Israel, who unjustly oppress and target Palestinian children and families.
00:28:05.000 Israel unjustly targets Palestinian children and families?
00:28:08.000 This is happening in the middle of a Hamas firestorm directed at kindergartens, directed at ambulances, directed at families and homes.
00:28:18.000 And she is saying, oh yeah, this is Israel's fault.
00:28:20.000 She's a terrorist apologist, Rashida Tlaib.
00:28:22.000 And she's a damned anti-Semite as well.
00:28:26.000 It is incredible that she's able to get away with this, and not only get away with this, that the Democratic Party will continue to ignore it.
00:28:30.000 These are the same idiots and moral reprobates who wouldn't even pass an anti-Semitism resolution naming Ilhan Omar.
00:28:37.000 They had to broaden it out to include all forms of hate.
00:28:39.000 Why?
00:28:39.000 Because they understand that if they condemn anti-Semitism, they are condemning the members of their own party.
00:28:45.000 It's not just Rashida Tlaib, it's Ilhan Omar, who herself, when I say she's a terrorist apologist, I mean she actively wrote a letter to a judge in 2016 asking that ISIS recruits be given a lighter sentence because they were marginalized communities in the United States.
00:29:00.000 I'm talking about a lady who in 2013, in an interview, laughed at the idea that Al Qaeda and Hezbollah were scary and bad.
00:29:09.000 So here's what she tweeted out in the middle of all of this.
00:29:16.000 Hey, the people who were shot by the Israelis were not protesters.
00:29:22.000 They are there, embedded among protesters and firing at Israeli soldiers.
00:29:26.000 Two Israeli soldiers were severely wounded and Israel fired back on people who were shooting at them.
00:29:32.000 How many more rockets must be fired?
00:29:34.000 The only people firing rockets right now are the Hamas jihadists who are trying to murder Jews in their beds.
00:29:40.000 How many little kids must be killed?
00:29:41.000 I don't know, why don't you ask the Fogel family, a family living in Israel who were slaughtered in their beds by terrorists, and those terrorists were then, were then, their families were rewarded by the Palestinian Authority and streets were named after the terrorists who murdered, I kid you not, toddlers in their beds.
00:29:55.000 The Fogel family, look it up.
00:29:57.000 Ilhan Omar tweets, The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable.
00:30:02.000 Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace.
00:30:06.000 I assume by real justice she means firing rockets to civilians.
00:30:09.000 The status quo of occupation?
00:30:10.000 There is no occupation in the Gaza Strip.
00:30:13.000 The only thing that Israel does is prevent transportation from Israel to the Gaza Strip.
00:30:17.000 And the only reason they do that is because Hamas controls the Gaza Strip and has been using those transportation borders as a way to attack Israelis.
00:30:25.000 And this is insanity.
00:30:27.000 And the Democratic Party?
00:30:28.000 Not a word.
00:30:29.000 Nothing.
00:30:30.000 Nothing.
00:30:31.000 What they will do is they will point to the far-left Jews who have no association with Judaism other than to use it as a cover for their own anti-Israel activity and willingness to cover for anti-Semitism.
00:30:44.000 This would include supposed Rabbi Jill Jacobs, who's a rabbi like I'm an NBA player.
00:30:50.000 She's a rabbi like Bernie Sanders is a capitalist.
00:30:52.000 Rabbi Jill Jacobs, who knows less about Judaism than the average dog owned by a Jew.
00:30:59.000 That's not comparing her to a dog.
00:31:00.000 It's comparing her level of knowledge to that of a non-sentient being.
00:31:04.000 Rabbi Jill Jacobs writes, came out of Shabbat to more news of needless loss of life, praying for the families of the Israelis and the Palestinians killed today and for political leadership with the courage to seek political, not military solutions.
00:31:16.000 Oh, yeah.
00:31:17.000 So it's really about Israel's leadership.
00:31:19.000 I see.
00:31:20.000 I see.
00:31:20.000 So making excuses there.
00:31:22.000 Thank you, Jill Jacobs.
00:31:23.000 She's the head of a terrible group called Trua.
00:31:25.000 And then there's another one called If Not Now, which is, again, a radical anti-Israel group.
00:31:30.000 And they make justification for Hamas firing rockets at civilian areas saying we cannot look at this in isolation.
00:31:35.000 This latest flare-up is the result of years of deliberate Israeli political decisions to keep Gaza on the brink of a humanitarian crisis.
00:31:42.000 Is it that?
00:31:42.000 Really?
00:31:43.000 Or is it that Israel has been paying all the bills in Gaza?
00:31:45.000 Who do you think pays for the electricity?
00:31:47.000 Who do you think makes sure the water keeps on flowing?
00:31:50.000 It ain't Hamas!
00:31:51.000 The only reason that Hamas continues to function in the Gaza Strip is because Israel is afraid that if they knock out Hamas there will be no one to pick up the garbage.
00:32:00.000 IfNotNow says, the indifference of Israelis, Americans, Jews, and non-Jews alike to this is appalling.
00:32:05.000 The fact that you're making an excuse for a terrorist group.
00:32:05.000 You know it's appalling?
00:32:07.000 But of course, IfNotNow is doing that.
00:32:09.000 There's a shocker.
00:32:10.000 There's a shocker.
00:32:11.000 You want to know, by the way, about the left's willingness to overlook anti-Semitism based on the identity of the anti-Semites?
00:32:17.000 All you have to know is this video.
00:32:19.000 So there's a video of children.
00:32:23.000 This is not in the Gaza Strip.
00:32:25.000 This is not in Judea and Samaria.
00:32:27.000 This is not in Turkey or Saudi Arabia or Egypt.
00:32:30.000 This is in Philadelphia.
00:32:32.000 There's a tape of kids in Philadelphia and this tape of kids in Philadelphia chanting in Arabic about taking back Al-Aqsa.
00:32:41.000 This would be the Temple Mount, the holiest spot in Judaism.
00:32:46.000 By the way, Israel has given up control of the Temple Mount effectively to the Islamic Waqf, which is why if you're a Jew, you can't go up there and say a pittal of Tehillim.
00:32:57.000 You can't actually go up there and say a psalm.
00:32:59.000 If you say a psalm on the Temple Mount, you could get arrested if you're a Jew.
00:33:02.000 If you're a Muslim, you just go to mosque there.
00:33:03.000 In any case, here are a bunch of Muslim kids in the United States funded by the Muslim American Society.
00:33:09.000 And these kids are chanting, rebels, rebels, rebels, chop off their heads.
00:33:14.000 In Philadelphia, in Philadelphia, in the United States.
00:33:17.000 Glorious steeds call us and lead us on to paths leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:33:32.000 .
00:33:34.000 We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies.
00:33:37.000 We will chop off their heads.
00:33:40.000 We will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque.
00:33:44.000 We will lead the army of Allah, fulfilling His promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture.
00:33:50.000 These are kids in Philadelphia funded by the Muslim American Society.
00:33:53.000 Muslim American Society said, we'll look into it, but we're embarrassed this got out.
00:33:56.000 Yeah, I'm sure you're embarrassed this got out.
00:33:58.000 So, question.
00:33:59.000 Didn't we have months, literally months, of coverage of the Covington Catholic kids for standing there wearing MAGA hats?
00:34:05.000 Months of coverage.
00:34:07.000 And that was a Catholic school, right?
00:34:08.000 Because Catholics are bad, we have heard from the mainstream media.
00:34:11.000 This is a Muslim school.
00:34:12.000 Have you heard about this anywhere?
00:34:14.000 Was it on CNN?
00:34:16.000 Was it on MSNBC?
00:34:18.000 Did anyone cover it?
00:34:19.000 Were there any questions asked about how the Muslim American Society funded this particular school or what they're doing to prevent this sort of indoctrination?
00:34:27.000 Was there any question about, you know, maybe looking into some of the other schools funded by the Muslim American Society to see what else they are teaching, which textbooks they are using, if they are funded by Wahhabists who are pushing a certain agenda?
00:34:38.000 No, of course, we're not allowed to ask those questions.
00:34:40.000 If we do, that's Islamophobia.
00:34:42.000 We'll just ignore this.
00:34:43.000 We'll pretend it doesn't exist.
00:34:45.000 If you ignore anti-Semitism being preached to eight-year-olds, those kids are maybe six, maybe seven, maybe eight years old, in this video, in the United States, you don't care about that because the only sort of anti-Semitism you care about is the white supremacists?
00:34:58.000 Then you don't care about anti-Semitism.
00:34:59.000 What you really care about is using anti-Semitism as a political tool to attack your political opponents.
00:35:04.000 In which case, I have no interest in your opinions about antisemitism, or frankly about anything else, because this is not just a question of Jew hatred, it's a question of basic morality.
00:35:13.000 If you can't condemn one type of antisemitism because you're too politically invested in the outcome, then you're a bad person.
00:35:20.000 You have a moral shortcoming.
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00:37:42.000 "We are the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast "and radio show in the nation." So as I say, there is a tendency on the part of many on the left to pretend that what is happening in Israel is not actually happening in Israel, that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, that wanting to destroy the that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, that wanting to destroy the state of Israel and kill every civilian inside it, that really, it's not Jew hatred.
00:38:08.000 It's just a political difference, really.
00:38:10.000 It's just a political difference that people are having.
00:38:12.000 And if anti-Semitism comes from the left side of the aisle, it's not anti-Semitism at all.
00:38:17.000 It's just political differences within Netanyahu government.
00:38:20.000 Weird, because I saw the same sort of coverage when it was Ehud Olmert, who's on the left, when it was Ehud Barak, who's on the left.
00:38:28.000 Amazing.
00:38:28.000 Weirdly consistent.
00:38:30.000 But as I say, there are folks on the left who are more than willing to overlook anti-Semitism, so long as that anti-Semitism is coming from radical Islamists, because in the intersectional worldview of the left, Muslims are more victimized than Jews, and Jews are more successful than Muslims, and therefore Jews must have victimized Muslims, and therefore anti-Semitism directed at Jews, by Muslims, by radical Islamists, That sort of anti-Semitism is justified on intersectional grounds.
00:38:54.000 And then you've got people on the left who say, well, you know, if we're anti-Israel and we decide to print something openly anti-Semitic, you're going to have to forgive us.
00:39:02.000 I mean, it's easy to get mixed up.
00:39:03.000 Here's Irene Carmen, who's a CNN contributor.
00:39:06.000 Explaining on CNN's reliable sources that we're all paying too much attention to the New York Times' cartoon.
00:39:12.000 You know that openly anti-Semitic cartoon that they printed a couple of weeks ago that had the face of Benjamin Netanyahu on a dog and a Jewish star collar around his neck leading a blind Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke?
00:39:23.000 A fat, blind Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke?
00:39:24.000 Just why are we paying attention to that sort of stuff?
00:39:26.000 Now, I know, I'm sure Irene Carmon would say exactly the same thing had it been a cartoon about, say, a Muslim leader leading President Trump around the neck.
00:39:36.000 I'm sure it would have been the exact same thing, using every Muslim stereotype in the book.
00:39:39.000 I'm sure that that would have been fine with Areen Karman.
00:39:41.000 Here she is explaining that we're all paying too much attention to the New York Times' anti-Semitic cartoon.
00:39:47.000 I am an Israeli citizen.
00:39:48.000 I was born in Israel.
00:39:49.000 I'm the fourth generation of Zionists in my family.
00:39:52.000 I thought that the cartoon was offensive, but I also thought that the attention paid to it was disproportionate.
00:39:58.000 Beyond folks like us reporting on what happened, which is important, I also saw it kind of being cynically exploited to change the subject from the fact That for example, just over a week ago somebody took up arms and entered a synagogue in California and killed somebody.
00:40:12.000 I know that a lot of people seized on this who already have an agenda because they want to discredit the New York Times.
00:40:18.000 And I think the New York Times responded adequately and we need to see this in proportion.
00:40:22.000 Okay, so notice how what she's doing there is directing away from the New York Times and back toward the white supremacist shooting in the Khabab Poway.
00:40:28.000 Why can't both be true?
00:40:29.000 Why can't anti-Semitism from the New York Times be bad, and also white supremacist anti-Semitism is bad?
00:40:34.000 Why are people having a tough time with this?
00:40:36.000 This is not particularly tough.
00:40:38.000 Now, in a second, I want to show you a couple, I want to play for you a couple of pieces of audio that demonstrate the moral difference between one side and the other in what is happening in Israel and the endemic anti-Semitism that is happening inside the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
00:40:51.000 And yet again, the media pretending, many in the media pretending that there is a moral equivalence.
00:40:55.000 OK, so to ignore the moral components of what is happening in Israel right now is to blind yourself to reality.
00:41:03.000 Dennis Prager, my friend, uses a quick thought experiment to illustrate the difference between the Israelis and the Palestinian leadership.
00:41:11.000 And by the way, many of the Palestinian folks who voted for Hamas, they haven't had a vote in the Gaza Strip since 2006.
00:41:19.000 But when they were allowed to vote, they voted for Hamas.
00:41:21.000 Before that, they voted for the Palestinian Authority.
00:41:24.000 I would hope that the Palestinians would now elect, seek to elect a government that was willing to make some sort of deal so all of this can come to the end.
00:41:30.000 Do you think that the Israelis desperately want all of their kids to be drafted into the army, serve four years under danger of death in military uniform?
00:41:37.000 Do you think that's really what they want to do?
00:41:39.000 Golda Meir said this a long time ago, there will only be peace when the Palestinians love their children more than they hate ours.
00:41:44.000 This is effectively correct.
00:41:47.000 Well, it's pretty amazing.
00:41:49.000 If you want to see the difference between the two sides, so yesterday, Million people hiding in bomb shelters, the vast majority of them Jews, in a Jewish state.
00:41:58.000 Which, by the way, is amazing.
00:42:00.000 Isn't that an amazing statement?
00:42:02.000 It used to be that Jews were grouped into ghettos.
00:42:04.000 Now, Jews in their own state are being told that they have to go underground to simply preserve their lives.
00:42:10.000 But this is Jews.
00:42:11.000 I mean, frankly, this is reminiscent of many scenes from Jewish history in which Jews were trying to drive hope from some pretty hopeless and terrible circumstances.
00:42:20.000 Jews driven underground in a bomb shelter.
00:42:21.000 A rabbi found a couple that was supposed to be married that day.
00:42:24.000 And so he just performed the wedding under a chuppah inside the bomb shelter.
00:42:30.000 So that's what was happening in Israel.
00:42:40.000 Here is what was happening in the Gaza Strip.
00:42:43.000 So as these rockets were falling, as the rockets were falling, here is what Palestinians, many Palestinians, were doing inside the Gaza Strip.
00:42:52.000 Chanting, shouting, cheering.
00:42:56.000 Very excited.
00:42:59.000 Very excited as the rockets are fired.
00:43:02.000 They're cheering as the rockets are fired into Israel.
00:43:05.000 How many Israelis were out there cheering as Israel was firing rockets at terrorists?
00:43:08.000 None.
00:43:09.000 You can't find any video of it anywhere.
00:43:11.000 Because it doesn't exist.
00:43:11.000 Why?
00:43:12.000 Israelis are upset that they have to be involved in this war.
00:43:16.000 Many Palestinians are overjoyed that Jews are in danger of death in civilian areas.
00:43:20.000 That is just a reality of the situation.
00:43:22.000 As I mentioned, Dennis Prager.
00:43:23.000 So Dennis Prager's thought experiment is this.
00:43:26.000 If the Jews put down all their guns tomorrow, what would happen?
00:43:29.000 We all know the answer.
00:43:30.000 If the Jews put down all their guns, if they disarm tomorrow, there would be no more Israel.
00:43:33.000 The Jews would simply be destroyed.
00:43:35.000 The Palestinians, their allies, would walk right in and kill everyone.
00:43:40.000 How do we know this?
00:43:41.000 Because the Arab countries surrounding Israel tried to do it in 1948.
00:43:44.000 They tried to do it in 1956.
00:43:45.000 They tried to do it in 1967.
00:43:47.000 They tried to do it in 1973.
00:43:48.000 They tried to do it in 1981, 1982 during the Lebanon War.
00:43:51.000 They've tried to do it during the Gaza War.
00:43:53.000 They've tried to... This is not a thought experiment.
00:43:57.000 This is just a reality.
00:43:59.000 And if the Palestinians were to put down their guns tomorrow and make peace, the next day there would be a Palestinian state.
00:44:05.000 The next day.
00:44:07.000 This is not... The fact that people try to draw moral equivalences is simply a sign of moral ignorance at best and moral evil at worst.
00:44:17.000 There's a video that I didn't end up showing.
00:44:19.000 I referenced it on Yom HaShoah.
00:44:20.000 So last week was Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
00:44:25.000 And in order to understand what Israel is, I think you have to understand two videos.
00:44:30.000 So number one, you have to understand the video that we showed and played a little bit earlier on in the program of the woman from the Netherlands who moved with her family from the Netherlands to Israel specifically because Europe is becoming unlivable for Jews.
00:44:43.000 And so Israel has become a safe haven for many Jews who are seeking a safe place to live.
00:44:47.000 The second video you have to see is this one.
00:44:48.000 So this video is from Yom HaShoah.
00:44:50.000 This is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
00:44:52.000 And there's an El Al plane.
00:44:53.000 El Al is the Israeli national airline.
00:44:55.000 And the El Al plane was flying over Germany, over Berlin.
00:44:59.000 The pilot got up and announced to the plane in Hebrew that a year before he'd done this, he said that on Yom HaShoah, he tells the plane his story.
00:45:07.000 His story is that all of his grandparents, all four grandparents, were slaughtered in the concentration camps by the Germans.
00:45:13.000 And he said, and if my grandparents could be alive today to see a plane with a Jewish star flying over Berlin, then the then I can't imagine what they would think.
00:45:25.000 And then he begins to sing.
00:45:26.000 And the song that he is singing is a very famous Hebrew song.
00:45:30.000 The translation is the world is a very narrow bridge.
00:45:33.000 And the important thing is to not be afraid.
00:45:35.000 And here is what the entire plane begins singing.
00:45:37.000 This is what that sounds like.
00:45:39.000 This is the entire plane singing because Am Yisrael Chai, Okay?
00:46:04.000 The Jews are going to live through this.
00:46:06.000 They will.
00:46:06.000 And it doesn't matter if you're an anti-Semite.
00:46:08.000 It doesn't matter if you're going to make excuses for anti-Semites.
00:46:10.000 It doesn't... The Jews will continue to live because the Jews have always continued to live.
00:46:14.000 The question is not about the Jews.
00:46:16.000 The question is about you.
00:46:17.000 And whether you are Jew or not Jew, it doesn't matter.
00:46:20.000 The question is, what sort of Jew hatred are you willing to stand for?
00:46:23.000 What sort of moral evil are you willing to stand for in order to protect your own political hide?
00:46:28.000 And protect your own political side?
00:46:30.000 And I don't care whether you're Jew or whether you're non-Jew in this question.
00:46:32.000 I mean, the fact is that U.S.
00:46:34.000 Jews are significantly more likely than U.S.
00:46:37.000 Christians to say that President Trump, for example, favors the Israelis too much.
00:46:40.000 This has nothing to do with any sort of ethnic attachment here.
00:46:44.000 If you are a moral human being, this is a moral conflict, and if you are willing to overlook anti-Semitism among one group because you are afraid that if you don't, that you will alienate your intersectional base, as the Democrats apparently are, If you're willing to do that, then you deserve whatever moral shellacking you take.
00:47:04.000 It's deeply disturbing.
00:47:06.000 Forget about as a Jew.
00:47:08.000 As an American, as an American, it is deeply disturbing to watch many members of the public on all sides of the political aisle say that certain types of hatred are okay based on the person doing the hating.
00:47:20.000 And I will say that it is far more mainstream on the left than on the right these days.
00:47:24.000 And it's you think that as a conservative, this is not a politically motivated thing.
00:47:30.000 I'm not saying this because I want conservatives to win.
00:47:32.000 I'm saying this because I want decency to win.
00:47:34.000 I want decency to win.
00:47:35.000 And if you can't condemn, if you can't have one Democratic presidential candidate come forward and say a thing about Kamala Harris, the only Democrat I've seen who said a thing is Kyrsten Sinema, the moderate senator from Arizona.
00:47:45.000 She's the only one.
00:47:46.000 Not a single other Democrat has said anything about this.
00:47:49.000 Well then, when Jews get shot in a synagogue, spare me your thoughts.
00:47:55.000 We all know what you think.
00:47:57.000 Because the fact is that anti-Semites all over the world have no problem mumping all Jews together.
00:48:02.000 And if you are willing to grant them cover to do so, based on your own political convenience, you're providing cover for anti-Semites.
00:48:09.000 It's as simple as that.
00:48:10.000 Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.
00:48:13.000 So, things that I like today.
00:48:15.000 So this was pretty hilarious, actually.
00:48:17.000 So, there was a So there was a Democratic senatorial campaign committee tweet they put out there.
00:48:24.000 It was a poll.
00:48:26.000 And the poll was a poll on whether you would like to see more justices like Justice Kavanaugh or more like Justice Ginsburg.
00:48:34.000 And here's the problem with Twitter, guys.
00:48:35.000 You do this, and you're going to get trolled.
00:48:37.000 They got trolled so hard.
00:48:38.000 71% said Justice Kavanaugh.
00:48:41.000 And the Senate Democrats had to pull down the tweet, which is, in and of itself, pretty hilarious.
00:48:48.000 Okay, other things that I like today.
00:48:50.000 I have to admit that Bernie Sanders trying to suggest that he can't explain his view of socialism is pretty hilarious.
00:48:56.000 So Bernie Sanders was asked about his view of socialism and he said he can't describe it.
00:49:01.000 He was asked by Jonathan Karl at ABC.
00:49:03.000 He said, I can't describe it.
00:49:04.000 It's too complex for me to describe very quickly.
00:49:06.000 Really?
00:49:06.000 Because I can do free markets in like a sentence.
00:49:08.000 Every human being is in control of their labor.
00:49:10.000 Boom, done.
00:49:11.000 Wow, that was hard.
00:49:12.000 Here's Bernie Sanders not being able to sum up socialism.
00:49:15.000 Trump seems to want to run against you.
00:49:17.000 And certainly he wants to run, and Republicans want to run against socialism.
00:49:21.000 Okay.
00:49:22.000 Is it time for you to disavow that label?
00:49:24.000 The problem is, and on a television interview, it's hard for me to describe in depth what we mean by that.
00:49:31.000 When social security was created, What did the Republicans call it?
00:49:36.000 Called socialism.
00:49:37.000 Anytime you do things for the people and you stand up to the wealthy and powerful, you'll be labeled this, that, and the other thing.
00:49:46.000 Wait, but this isn't labeled you and Brace.
00:49:48.000 Yeah, but all of the issues that we are talking about, these are ideas that in one form or another are in fact supported by the American people.
00:49:54.000 Okay, so this is him again trying to run away from the consequences of his own philosophy.
00:49:59.000 The truth is that Bernie Sanders still has not condemned what is going on, really, in Venezuela.
00:50:04.000 He's been effectively silent about all of that, so it is odd.
00:50:07.000 If you're a socialist and you like Norway, why are you having trouble condemning Venezuela?
00:50:10.000 Why?
00:50:12.000 Seems kind of weird, right?
00:50:14.000 OK, but I think a lot of this is I think a lot of the truth is coming out.
00:50:17.000 Here's a video of protesters at the Venezuelan embassy.
00:50:21.000 They were protesting against people who were upset with Nicolas Maduro, the evil socialist dictator of Venezuela.
00:50:28.000 They protested by blasting a Paul Robeson version of the Soviet national anthem through the speakers.
00:50:32.000 I think it's pretty obvious where a lot of these folks stand.
00:50:34.000 They're inside the embassy and blasting out audio of the Soviet national anthem.
00:50:49.000 Well, at least the masks are coming off.
00:50:51.000 At least the masks are coming off.
00:50:53.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:50:59.000 So thing that I hate, number one, so Cory Booker, who is a desperate political candidate trying to gain attention.
00:51:05.000 He is he's channeling Joe Biden when he says this.
00:51:07.000 There's this tendency on the left to equate paying high taxes with being more patriotic, which really does raise the question.
00:51:14.000 If you want to be more patriotic, you guys, you can just give more money to the government like any time you want.
00:51:17.000 No one's stopping Cory Booker from doing it.
00:51:19.000 Here's Cory Booker saying, don't worry, people won't mind paying higher taxes because they're patriotic.
00:51:23.000 And, I mean, that means that if you were the most patriotic, presumably you'd give all your money to the government.
00:51:27.000 That'd be like the super highest form of patriotism, right?
00:51:29.000 That'd be amazing.
00:51:31.000 Here's Cory Booker doing that routine.
00:51:33.000 What do you say to somebody who says, yeah, I'm not crazy about Trump, but the economy has done so much better, and Republicans keep telling me the Democratic nominee is going to raise my taxes, and he is talking about raising taxes, so that might hurt the economy, that might hurt my bottom line.
00:51:49.000 What's the counter argument to that?
00:51:51.000 Look, I think that we live in a nation with far more patriotism than people are expressing.
00:51:55.000 And what I mean by that is, folks want the best for their country.
00:51:58.000 And they know that if your family doesn't have a great public school for your kid, if your family does not have great access to health care, then we all are suffering as a result of that, and often creating greater costs.
00:52:07.000 Oh, so that's it.
00:52:08.000 So if you're more patriotic, you pay higher taxes.
00:52:10.000 The ultimate form of patriotism is to give all your resources to the government, I would assume.
00:52:13.000 So communism is the highest form of patriotism.
00:52:16.000 Great.
00:52:16.000 Thanks, Cory Booker.
00:52:17.000 Really appreciate it.
00:52:18.000 It's great when you can avoid the consequences of your own policy.
00:52:21.000 Because Tapper asks him an efficiency question, right?
00:52:23.000 He says, a lot of people worried it might sink the economy.
00:52:25.000 And Booker's like, well, if they're patriotic, they shouldn't worry about that.
00:52:29.000 OK, man, if you're patriotic, give all your rights to the government.
00:52:32.000 It seems like a scary way to go.
00:52:34.000 Speaking of scary ways to go, Kamala Harris is now doing this routine.
00:52:38.000 Everybody on the left is doing this routine where they kowtow to the silly idea that the Georgia gubernatorial race was actually won by Stacey Abrams.
00:52:45.000 We've seen Hillary Clinton do this.
00:52:47.000 Now we've seen Kamala Harris do this.
00:52:49.000 Here she is saying that voter fraud is behind every election.
00:52:52.000 It's so funny.
00:52:53.000 The Democrats were correct in 2016, where they said that if Donald Trump didn't accept the results of the election, it would be dangerous for the country.
00:52:58.000 I said that's true.
00:52:59.000 That's true.
00:53:00.000 If we all believe that our elections are rigged, it's going to be very difficult for us to live in a democratic republic.
00:53:06.000 And yet Democrats are doing this every single day on the campaign trail and doing it along racial lines, suggesting that black people are being dispossessed at the polls, which by percentage is not true at all.
00:53:15.000 Black people were wildly overrepresented at the polls in both 2008 and 2012, and they've been evenly represented by percentage of the population at least since 2008.
00:53:24.000 But here's Kamala Harris promoting that lie.
00:53:27.000 Let's say this loud and clear.
00:53:31.000 Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia.
00:53:37.000 A lie.
00:53:39.000 That is a lie.
00:53:41.000 Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida.
00:53:44.000 That is a lie as well.
00:53:45.000 So basically we've never lost an election according to Kamala Harris.
00:53:47.000 Democrats have won every election.
00:53:49.000 And yet we hear about how dangerous it is.
00:53:51.000 Donald Trump's a dangerous man.
00:53:53.000 This is a very, very bad development for the Republic.
00:53:56.000 And Democrats are engaging in it.
00:53:57.000 So spare me your sanctimony about President Trump breaking our systems of government when you're suggesting that every election you lost was unjustly lost.
00:54:04.000 Hillary Clinton won.
00:54:05.000 Andrew Gillum won.
00:54:06.000 Stacey Abrams won.
00:54:07.000 Yeah, I'm sure you care deeply about the institutions of democracy.
00:54:11.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:54:14.000 So we will see you then.
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