I spent two years fighting anti-Semitism from the right. And now the same left that said they were on my side when it came to fighting Anti-Semitism is completely full of bull. I spent legitimately two years taking on the alt-right. I was the number one recipient of alt-Right hate for two years in the United States. Now, the same Left that said I was on their side is on the other side of Anti-Israel. I m livid, and I m going to make you feel it. Ben Shapiro: Democrats greenlight anti-Israel in the most disgusting possible way, the Democratic Party bars Fox News from a primary debate, and the illegal immigration crisis is real. Today on The Ben Shapiro Show: I m Livid, because I am livid this morning, livid. I spent 2 years fighting against the right, and now I'm livid at the left. The Democratic Party has decided to wholesale embrace antisemitism, not a little bit, not some, but a whole lot. They say that anti-Jew is not anti-Semitic, and that's not the same thing. But it is. And that's a convenient excuse. Don't conflate anti-jewish views with anti-Judea and anti-Israeli views. You can criticize any government, but you can't criticize them as a stand-in for Israel. And that is not a good excuse for criticizing the Israeli government. That's not a bad thing, right? And we don't have to be critical of Israel, we have to criticize the Israeli Government, but we don t have to do it as a critic of Israel. We can criticize them for any country, we can criticize Israel as a right-wing government. We don't need to do that. - Ben Shapiro - I m not here to criticize Israel, I m here to criticize Israel. I'm not here because they are a country, I'm here because we have an actual terrorist government in the Middle East, not because they're a country that is anti-right-wing country, right or left-wing, we do it because they have a right to do what we want to do so - I m in factually criticize them. If you don't like Israel, then you're not here for Israel, you're here for us, not for us? -Ben Shapiro - Today's After Show:
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00:00:20.000I spent two years fighting anti-Semitism from the right.
00:00:24.000I spent legitimately two years taking on the alt-right every single day, being threatened with death a lot of times.
00:00:30.000I was the number one recipient of alt-right hate for two years in the United States.
00:00:34.000And now the same left that said that they were on my side when it came to fighting anti-Semitism, it turns out they were completely full of bull.
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00:02:48.000You can criticize them for any reason.
00:02:50.000What you cannot do is criticize Jews as a stand-in for Israel.
00:02:54.000Ilhan Omar is not being criticized today because she was critical of Israel.
00:02:57.000Virtually every member of the Democratic caucus has been because the Democratic Party has moved in a dramatically anti-Israel fashion for a very long time.
00:03:05.000That does not necessarily mean anti-Semitic.
00:03:08.000But, the same people who proclaim that anti-Israel and anti-Semitic are not the same thing, will then say that open anti-Semitism is not anti-Semitism, it's just anti-Israel.
00:03:17.000And that's what is happening right now.
00:03:19.000They say, on the left, don't conflate anti-Israel with anti-Semitic.
00:03:27.000I think that there's not a great excuse for why you would oppose the only democracy in the region and side with, you know, an actual terrorist government in the Gaza Strip and an actual terrorist government in Judea and Samaria.
00:03:38.000I'm not sure what would motivate that.
00:03:39.000But if you want to criticize particular actions of the Israeli government, Have at it, just like we have at it here in the United States when we criticize the actions of the American government.
00:04:04.000Either anti-Israel and anti-Semitic are not the same thing, or anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity are the same thing.
00:04:12.000What you don't get to do is separate the two, and then when someone says Jew-hating garbage, like Ilhan Omar does consistently, you hide that under the rubric of, oh, she's just being anti-Israel.
00:04:23.000She has not said anything about Israel.
00:04:26.000Every comment about which she has been criticized has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with the Jews, writ large.
00:04:33.000She's been criticized for three specific statements.
00:04:35.000Lest we forget, the media is lying about all this today.
00:04:37.000I'm not going to let them lie about this.
00:04:39.000She has said three specific things for which she has been criticized.
00:04:42.000And maybe four if you include her wish to side with the BDS movement.
00:04:46.000The BDS movement doesn't just suggest that Israel is wrong in the Palestinian conflict.
00:04:50.000The leaders of the BDS movement have openly stated they want the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:04:54.000There is no way to talk about the destruction of the state of Israel without talking about the death or expulsion of millions of Jews.
00:05:01.000That's where Israel policy shades over into anti-Semitism.
00:05:05.000If you stand for the destruction of the state of Israel, that is anti-Semitic.
00:05:09.000Anti-Zionism at this point is anti-Semitic, but that is not the same thing as criticizing specific actions of the Israeli government or suggesting a two-state solution.
00:05:32.000But here are the three comments for which Ilhan Omar, the representative from Minnesota, was criticized.
00:05:36.000She was criticized, one, for stating that Israel hypnotizes the world.
00:05:41.000That is not a criticism of the Israeli government.
00:05:44.000That is a suggestion that the nefarious Jews in the Jewish state are using their magical Jew powers to ensure that Israel has support across the world.
00:05:53.000That independent people across the world are not supporting Israel because Israel has certain principles, because it's a liberal democracy, because it's a homeland for a historically persecuted people who have been slaughtered en masse for something like 3,000 years.
00:06:05.000No, it's that Israel and the nefarious Jews hypnotized the world.
00:06:44.000AIPAC is an American lobbying organization funded by Israel supporters, many of whom are Jewish.
00:06:49.000When she says the reason that Americans support Israel is specifically because the Jews are paying them off to do so, it is all about the Benjamins.
00:06:59.000She is suggesting that the Jews are in nefarious fashion paying off various politicians and corruptly causing them to be pro-Israel.
00:07:32.000Her third statement was that supporters of Israel, Jewish, non-Jewish, supporters of Israel have dual loyalty to Israel.
00:07:40.000Now, if she's talking about Jews in that group, that is an anti-Semitic statement.
00:07:44.000The suggestion that the reason that American Jews support Israel is because they are secret nefarious agents of the Jewish state is a canard that has been used against Jews for legitimately thousands of years, going back to a time when there was no Israel.
00:07:57.000Remember, Israel was only established in 1948.
00:07:58.000Anti-Semitism Did not begin with the establishment of the Jewish state.
00:08:03.000I know that those on the left like to conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli activity.
00:08:08.000They like to say that every act of anti-Semitism is really rooted in Israeli policy.
00:08:12.000It turns out anti-Semitism has quite a history before that.
00:08:16.000The Holocaust took place before the state of Israel existed.
00:08:18.000The pogroms in 1929 in Hebron, in Hebron, in Israel, by Arabs against Jews.
00:08:24.000Those took place before there was a state of Israel.
00:08:26.000Pogroms in Eastern Europe were taking place regularly.
00:08:29.000The ghettoization of Jews in Europe, that was taking place regularly.
00:08:32.000The treatment of Jews as second-class citizens in the Muslim world, that was taking place long before there was an Israel.
00:08:38.000And one of the canards that was used was that the Jews were a group of people who were internally loyal but externally disloyal, that they were a cancer in the body politic, that they had dual loyalty, that they weren't truly loyal to the country in which they lived or the principles of the country in which they lived.
00:08:54.000Truly, they were loyal only to each other, this tribal clannish group.
00:08:58.000That was the canard that has been used against Jews really since time immemorial.
00:09:02.000I mean, going all the way back to Pharaoh in Egypt, suggesting that the Jews keep to themselves.
00:09:13.000The Democrats say, well, no, I guess it has to do with Israel.
00:09:16.000Her comments really have to do with Israel.
00:09:17.000And you're trying to shut down debate about Israel when you say that she's being anti-Semitic.
00:09:22.000Again, not any of her comments have to do with Israel.
00:09:26.000You know that Democrats are lying, and they are covering up that lie by proclaiming that they are just trying to open the debate about Israel itself.
00:09:34.000But again, she didn't say anything about Israel.
00:09:37.000And it is amazing to watch as the Democrats are incapable, completely incapable, of stopping the anti-Semitism rising from within their ranks.
00:09:44.000Because for the Democrats, not all hate is equal.
00:10:33.000The New York Times reported this back in October.
00:10:35.000The New York Times spent years ignoring the uptick in anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City, and they admitted, full scale, in the New York Times, the reason we didn't cover this is because it wasn't white supremacists.
00:11:02.000Then it's just, you know, look, is anti-Semitism really such a problem in the United States?
00:11:06.000Like, should we really worry about Ilhan Omar being anti-Semitic?
00:11:08.000Isn't she more of a victim than the Jews who she is accusing of nefarious protocols of the elders of Zion-style conspiracies behind closed doors?
00:11:55.000In a second, I'm going to talk about what the Democrats are supposedly doing here, what the Democrats are supposedly doing, and then we'll get to their actual responses.
00:12:02.000Their actual responses are mind-blowing and revelatory and remind you that the Democratic Party does not and has not taken anti-Semitism in its own ranks seriously by any measure whatsoever.
00:12:14.000There are those of us who took it seriously from the right and take it seriously from the left.
00:12:18.000I'm still looking for the people on the left willing to take anti-Semitism in their own ranks seriously enough to call this garbage out for what it is.
00:12:25.000But before we get to that, first, we need to calm down.
00:13:53.000Members involved, as according to the Daily Beast, members involved in crafting the resolution have already been hit with requests from the offices of Democratic lawmakers for specific groups to be included in the resolution.
00:14:02.000So now they're just going to broaden out what was a single issue resolution to include hatred against people of all faiths and all kinds.
00:14:11.000Now, I'm old enough to remember when the Black Lives Matter movement said, Black Lives Matter.
00:14:18.000Now, the left immediately interpreted that to mean That if you said all lives matter, you were seeking to obscure the fact that black lives matter.
00:14:26.000Those exact same people are saying today that if you broaden out an anti-Semitism resolution specifically based on a specific circumstance to include all hatred, that's not watering anything down.
00:14:38.000By the way, I will mention that when it comes to the Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter distinction, the reason people said All Lives Matter is because they rejected the fundamental premise that black people were being unfairly targeted by the police across the country.
00:14:49.000That's what the actual argument was about.
00:14:50.000There is no argument that anti-Semitism exists, and there is no rational argument that Ilhan Omar is a purveyor of anti-Semitism.
00:14:58.000So this isn't even like the Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter debate, because there is no good faith reason to broaden this thing out, except to obscure Ilhan Omar's participation in antisemitism.
00:15:09.000But that's what the Democrats are seeking to do.
00:15:11.000In a second, I'm going to explain more of what they are doing.
00:15:14.000Representative Tulsi Gabbard, who is Hindu, reached out to top Democrats to ask that Hindus be specifically mentioned in the resolution.
00:15:20.000Other members have suggested Catholics, Muslims, and all forms of racism should be added too.
00:15:25.000Pelosi then replied, what's too broad about fighting hatred wherever it exists?
00:15:30.000Well, first of all, you're not fighting hatred where it exists.
00:15:33.000Your representative sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:15:35.000You have said that she is not anti-Semitic and that you did not participate in anti-Semitism, Representative Pelosi.
00:15:41.000Pelosi was specifically asked about this.
00:15:43.000She said she didn't think that Ilhan Omar's comments were intentionally anti-Semitic.
00:15:51.000What, she was walking along the street, she slipped in a puddle, and boom, she started spouting anti-Jew hatred?
00:15:55.000I know it happens to me all the time, just walking down the street, Anvil falls on my head, and suddenly I'm shouting about the KKK being great.
00:16:03.000Ilhan Omar does this stuff every two weeks.
00:16:11.000By Wednesday afternoon, several of the Democrats had taken to blaming the media for covering Omar's remarks, claiming that racist and anti-Semitic actions and language from Republicans were being ignored.
00:16:22.000We have to do better across the board, said Representative Max Rose.
00:16:33.000All right, now, let's be straight about this.
00:16:36.000The attempt to equate Ilhan Omar's comments with, for example, Representative Jim Jordan tweeting out Tom Steyer with a dollar sign in Tom Steyer's name is absurd.
00:16:48.000Also, to say that a particular person gives a lot of money to politics, say George Soros, is not anti-Semitic.
00:16:54.000To say that the Jews writ large are controlling American politics on behalf of Israel, that's anti-Semitic.
00:17:00.000George Soros does give a lot of money to politics.
00:17:03.000It's not anti-semitic to point that out any more than it would be anti-semitic for someone to point out that I speak on politics every day, because I do.
00:17:33.000The real reason The New York Times didn't cover the hate crime uptick in New York City is because the purveyors were largely from minority groups, statistically speaking.
00:17:40.000They weren't going to cover that because for the Democrats, not all hatred is to be condemned.
00:17:44.000Only hatred that affects the intersectional coalition.
00:17:48.000Only hatred that helps them coalesce their various bands of supposedly dispossessed victim groups.
00:17:55.000And Jews aren't to be included in that even though they are the smallest of these victim groups and the most likely to be targeted by hate crimes.
00:18:00.000Because that might divide the democratic base.
00:18:02.000Intersectionality is a dangerous drug.
00:18:04.000Democrats have been taking it and now they've OD'd.
00:18:08.000Representative John Yarmuth said, we've already voted on it.
00:18:10.000He said, whatever we do, it's going to look like we're responding specifically to her and to AIPAC.
00:18:14.000Well, it should look like you're responding specifically to Ilhan Omar.
00:18:46.000Clyburn came to Omar's defense on Wednesday, lamenting that many of the media reports surrounding the recent controversy have omitted mentioning that Omar, who was born in Somalia, had to flee the country to escape violence and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to the United States.
00:19:00.000Her experience, Clyburn argued, is much more empirical and powerful than that of people who are generations removed from the Holocaust, Japanese internment camps during World War II, and the other violence episodes that have marked history.
00:20:36.000This isn't about who has suffered more.
00:20:39.000This is about a person expressing open Jew hatred and James Clyburn making excuses for it because he wants to kiss Ilhan Omar's ass.
00:20:46.000And the asses of all of her friends, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ro Kahana, This is James Clyburn kowtowing.
00:20:56.000And it's also about an unfortunate fact.
00:20:58.000The Congressional Black Caucus has tolerated anti-Semitism for years.
00:21:02.000They've been close with Louis Farrakhan.
00:21:03.000They've been close with a bunch of figure Linda Sarsour.
00:21:06.000They've gone out of their way to cultivate relationships with people who have been ousted from the Overton window of American politics for decades now.
00:21:16.000The CBC coming out in defense of Ilhan Omar is just the latest iteration of this garbage.
00:21:57.000The Democratic Party is becoming the Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party of the UK, which means that America is likely to go the direction of Europe when it comes to anti-Semitism more generally, if this continues.
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00:23:52.000So long as you can say you're a member of a more victimized group or you have had more victimized experiences.
00:23:57.000But that's not the only terrible argument coming from the Democrats today.
00:24:01.000Every major Democratic presidential candidate who has commented on this has come out now in defense of Ilhan Omar in the most dishonest possible way.
00:24:09.000So Bernie Sanders, Now, people will say that Bernie Sanders, because he's a Jew, that he has more legitimacy on this.
00:24:35.000So here is him defending anti-Semitism from Ilhan Omar, quote, Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology, which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world.
00:24:45.000We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing Netanyahu government in Israel.
00:25:31.000So there was something different that happened here, obviously.
00:25:34.000But Bernie Sanders is playing this game.
00:25:36.000They're playing this sick, disgusting game where they say, anti-Israel is not the same as anti-Semitism.
00:25:43.000Here is a person saying a very anti-Semitic thing, and we will pretend it is an anti-Israel thing.
00:25:47.000You ever wonder why so many Jews seem to get very touchy when people start talking about how much they hate Israel and how much they think that Israel is the evildoer in the Middle East?
00:25:57.000I'm not touchy when they criticize my American party.
00:26:00.000The answer is because a lot of Jews look at your commentary on Israel, in which you incessantly criticize Israel, and they say, you might be an anti-Semite.
00:26:51.000She didn't mean to start a debate about the power of AIPAC.
00:26:56.000About whether AIPAC's lobbying power is outsized, which, for the record, it is not.
00:27:01.000AIPAC spends less money on elections than virtually every other group that is connected with the promotion of connections with a foreign country.
00:27:25.000She was saying Jew-hating things, and Bernie Sanders is trying to subsume that under the rubric, oh, she's just anti-Israel, that's all.
00:27:30.000And this has become the talking point for the Democrats.
00:27:33.000So what they want to say is anti-Israel doesn't mean anti-Semitic.
00:27:37.000But if you say something anti-Semitic, we'll let it go because it's probably just anti-Israel.
00:27:41.000Senator Elizabeth Warren does the same thing.
00:27:43.000She says, we have a moral duty to combat hateful ideologies in our own country and around the world.
00:27:47.000And that includes both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
00:27:50.000Again, the fact that they feel the need to link the two, as though the real story here is people being mean to Ilhan Omar, the real story is a West Virginia GOP poster condemned by pretty much everyone, that that is somehow equivalent to a sitting member of Congress consistently, not once, three times in six weeks, saying openly anti-Semitic stuff and not being condemned by her own party, equating the two.
00:28:37.000But notice how she conflates that again.
00:28:40.000Again, for the one millionth time this show, I'm not saying, and no one has said, that all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.
00:28:47.000I am saying that if you use anti-Semitism and then cover for it by saying, no, I'm just being anti-Israel, then you are an anti-Semite and an anti-Semite enabler.
00:29:01.000She says, We all have a responsibility to speak out against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:09.000But like some of my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus, I am concerned that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk.
00:30:19.000By the way, the CBC was so defensive of Ilhan Omar that when she tried to escape questions yesterday, they literally formed an offensive line and pushed away journalists.
00:30:31.000Today, all of the major newspapers in the United States are filled with editorials supporting Ilhan Omar and suggesting that the blowback on her is really about conservatives pouncing.
00:30:41.000It's really about the pouncing of the conservatives.
00:30:43.000Now, listen, we know where all of this is going.
00:30:47.000We know where all of this is going in Europe.
00:30:48.000And I'm going to explain where it has gone in Europe in just one second.
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00:32:23.000If we just told her that she was saying mean things, she would stop saying mean things.
00:32:27.000Now, never mind that there was an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune years ago talking about how the Jewish community had met with Ilhan Omar and left, feeling she was anti-Semitic, basically.
00:32:36.000And that people have been trying to quote-unquote educate Ilhan Omar about this stuff for years to no avail, which suggests perhaps she knows precisely what she is doing.
00:32:45.000It started with, oh, you know, it's just ignorant.
00:32:59.000Like, let's pay attention to Trump, because, you know, two years ago, Trump was winking and nodding at the alt-right, and that means we shouldn't cover Omar.
00:33:04.000I mean, that would be—it wouldn't be even handed of us to ignore President Trump at this time.
00:33:08.000Number one, no one ignored Trump at the time.
00:33:50.000This is an image that was posted by labor leadership.
00:33:54.000Okay, this is an ally of Jeremy Corbyn who directed that a labor member posted an anti-Semitic image from a far-right website.
00:34:02.000Okay, so there was a labor member who posted this image.
00:34:05.000If you can't see the image, because you're not subscribing, the image is a picture of the alien from the movie Aliens over the face of the Statue of Liberty.
00:34:31.000And it was posted by a person named Kayla Bibby.
00:34:33.000Kayla Bibby posted an anti-Semitic image with the Star of David on the Statue of Liberty.
00:34:39.000And then she added, the most accurate photo I've seen all year.
00:34:44.000She attended Labor's conference in September as a delegate from the Liverpool, Riverside constituency and was let off with a warning.
00:34:50.000But now, an ally of Jeremy Corbyn directed that a Labor member should not face immediate suspension because this was just anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish.
00:35:01.000You see, open antisemitism is really just anti-Israel stuff.
00:35:34.000And the Dusseldorf High Court found no procedural errors in the trials of three men of Palestinian descent for felony arson against a Wuppertal synagogue.
00:35:44.000So they tried to burn down a synagogue in 2014.
00:35:48.000And the High Court, the High Court said them burning down a synagogue, not in Israel, in Germany.
00:35:55.000Them trying to burn down a synagogue in Germany was an expression not of anti-Jew hatred.
00:36:00.000It was an expression of anti-Israel sentiment.
00:36:04.000is an expression of anti-Israel sentiment.
00:36:22.000Is it really anti-Semitism when you use a bunch of Jew-hating language, but you're also anti-Israel?
00:36:27.000Isn't that really just you hating on Israel when you suggest that the nefarious Jews are behind American politics and their nefarious Jew money is behind American politics?
00:36:36.000That's just you being anti-Israel, right?
00:36:40.000I mean, if you're doing that because you don't like Israel, I mean, we all get it, don't we?
00:36:44.000The arson attack on the Burgish synagogue in Wuppertal took place in the early morning hours of July 29th, 2014, following an end to Ramadan celebration and during the height of anti-Israel protests in Germany and elsewhere over the Gaza war.
00:36:57.000The men were found guilty of arson and given suspended sentences in 2015, with a threat of jail if they got into trouble again.
00:37:03.000The High Court last month rejected the defendant's appeal on procedural grounds.
00:37:08.000In a statement last week, Moshe Kantor, who's the president of the European Jewish Congress, said it was unbelievable that attempts to burn a synagogue have been equated with displeasure with Israeli government policies.
00:37:19.000We have seen in France groups of men, largely of Middle Eastern Muslim descent, descending on shuls, on synagogues, and attacking those synagogues whenever there's an Israeli policy they don't like.
00:37:31.000Because Jews everywhere are obviously merely foreign agents of the Israeli government.
00:37:38.000That's where the Democratic Party is going.
00:37:40.000That any form of anti-Semitism is apparently going to be justified with, well, you know, they were just... Ilhan Omar was just pissed off at Israel, that's all.
00:38:32.000But can you bring yourself to vote in favor of a party that is willing to let off anti-Semitism this way, in favor of the quote-unquote intersectional ideal?
00:38:42.000I mean, when you've lost Batya Unger-Sargon, I don't know what to tell you.
00:38:46.000Batya Unger-Sargon is the editor of the Jewish Forward, and she is bent over backwards.
00:38:51.000I mean, legitimately bent over backwards to try and make excuses for anti-Semites inside the Democrat ranks, because she's tried to give them the benefit of the doubt.
00:39:00.000But even now, but now even she is saying, you know, there's no way to justify this.
00:39:35.000She says, almost as upsetting as having a member of Congress repeatedly saying things that evoke the most horrific episodes in Jewish history was the response to Omar's words on the progressive left.
00:39:44.000Instead of expressing support for American Jews horrified that a sitting Congresswoman, a person with access to state power, who has a vote on whether the most powerful military in the world goes to war, they started a hashtag on Twitter, I stand with Ilhan.
00:39:59.000She says that every human being should oppose anti-Muslim attacks on her, which of course is true, but her supporters went further.
00:40:04.000They based their defenses around a bizarre self-contradictory combination of denying that her words evoked anti-Semitic stereotypes, while implicitly admitting that her words did invoke those stereotypes, with elaborate deflections and what-about-isms.
00:40:17.000And then she quotes Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:40:22.000And, of course, Batya Ungar-Sargon is correct, but she is as progressive as you get on the left, and even she is saying the Democratic Party has botched this.
00:40:42.000I was really worried about it in 2016, and I was right to be really worried about it in 2016, and I was the number one target of alt-right hate in 2016.
00:40:53.000And the left said, yeah, we have to speak out against this stuff.
00:40:56.000Now the mainstream left is saying, stop speaking out about this stuff, because it might hurt Ilhan Omar, or it might hurt the Democratic Party, or it might hurt the anti-Israel cause.
00:41:05.000So I ask you again, American Jews, I'm not even asking you on the basis of shared ethnicity, because I don't care about shared ethnicity.
00:41:13.000If you care about your cultural Jewishness, if you care about Jews being targeted simply for being Jews, if you care about slurs against Jews becoming widespread and that conflated with anti-Israel sentiment, how can you vote in favor of this party or support this party?
00:41:37.000I'm not going to say you have to vote for Republicans.
00:41:39.000I am going to say that if you continue to vote for this party, I don't know what is going through your head.
00:41:43.000Or, at the very least, I have to question whether you have very much cultural, even cultural connection, with Judaism or with being a Jew.
00:41:54.000Because, let's face it, Jews are now under attack by the mainstream of the Democratic Party who are willfully ignoring anti-Semitism in order to prop up their intersectional coalition.
00:42:03.000This is not a matter of principle for Democrats.
00:42:19.000Okay, speaking of disgusting left behavior, There was an amazing thing that happened yesterday.
00:42:26.000Martha McSally, who's the senator from Arizona, and a former Air Force pilot, she was in a hearing about sexual assault in the military, and she let slip that while she was in the military, she was sexually assaulted by a superior.
00:42:38.000My drive to fight against sexual assault in the ranks is not from the outside looking in.
00:43:48.000The fact that she came out and explained that she was raped?
00:43:50.000You know, that's complicated because she's right-wing.
00:43:52.000and that folds misogyny into much of its politics.
00:43:54.000But feminists do want all women to benefit from our gains.
00:43:56.000In other words, Martha McSally, the fact that she came out and explained that she was raped, you know, that's complicated because she's right wing.
00:44:03.000Because she's conservative, that really complicates things.
00:44:07.000Again, if you are militarizing rape in order to attack conservatives, if you are ignoring anti-Semitism in order to shore up your base, let me suggest that your party has a serious moral problem.
00:44:18.000I don't want to hear anymore about how the left is great at policing itself.
00:44:22.000The left is garbage at policing itself.
00:44:59.000But I guess it's not that unbelievable when political convenience overtakes principle, which it clearly has for the Democratic Party.
00:45:04.000Joe Lieberman, he came out and said, former Democratic vice presidential candidate, he said that Democrats will be held accountable if they don't act on Representative Omar's comments.
00:45:18.000Congresswoman Omar's statements clearly do not represent the thinking of most anybody else in office in the Democratic Party.
00:45:29.000But if they start to mumble in response to her specific and clear anti-Semitic statement, then the party itself is going to be held more broadly accountable for having similar feelings, which I know they don't.
00:45:45.000So again, I say this is a moment of testing, moral testing.
00:45:52.000Well, they tested and they came up short.
00:46:13.000It's not that Jeremy Corbynization of the party took place over the last 24 hours.
00:46:17.000It's that this party was moving toward Jeremy Corbyn for years on end, and finally the last vestige of pretend opposition to antisemitism is stripped away so long as ignoring antisemitism is politically convenient for the Democratic Party.
00:46:45.000Shout out to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had the best line of the day yesterday.
00:46:49.000He was asked specifically why he is bringing up for a vote the Green New Deal, but not House Resolution 1, which is the Democratic plan to basically remake voting across the country and would make voter fraud significantly more easy.
00:47:01.000McConnell was asked, why are you bringing up one bill but not the other?
00:48:48.000So Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, he has now put out a statement saying that he will not allow a Fox News primary debate.
00:48:58.000He says, I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters.
00:49:03.000That is why I have made a priority to talk to a broad array of potential media partners, including Fox News.
00:49:08.000Recent reporting in The New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration, and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates.
00:49:19.000Now, listen, if he wants to say Fox News leans right, editorially, that of course is true.
00:49:23.000But if you're saying that Chris Wallace and Bret Baier can't conduct, and Martha McCallum can't conduct, A normal debate?
00:49:29.000That, of course, is absurd on its face.
00:49:32.000It is also rather absurd for Tom Perez to say he wants an objective basis for debate.
00:49:37.000He wants a network that is going to kiss his candidate's rear end.
00:49:41.000And where better to find that in places like CNN?
00:49:45.000As you'll recall, Donna Brazile, who ended up becoming the head of the DNC near the tail end of 2016, she admitted that she used her former position as a CNN commentator to relay questions ahead of debates to Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary.
00:49:58.000She said in October a subsequent release of emails revealed that among the many things I did in my role as a Democratic operative and DNC vice chair prior to assuming the DNC chair position was to share potential town hall topics with the Clinton campaign.
00:50:13.000She said my job was to make our candidates look good and I worked closely with both campaigns to make that happen.
00:50:19.000But don't worry, CNN will get a debate.
00:50:22.000Also, I'm sure that ABC News will get a debate.
00:50:24.000You recall that back in 2012, George Stephanopoulos, an actual former staffer for Bill and Hillary Clinton, in 2012, you'll remember, that he randomly, in the middle of a primary debate, asked Mitt Romney about birth control.
00:50:44.000No one was talking about birth control.
00:50:46.000Didn't stop George Stephanopoulos from going there.
00:50:48.000Governor Romney, do you believe that states have the right to ban contraception, or is that trumped by a constitutional right to privacy?
00:50:57.000George, this is an unusual topic that you're raising.
00:51:00.000States have a right to ban contraception.
00:51:01.000I can't imagine a state banning contraception.
00:51:04.000I can't imagine the circumstances where a state would want to do so, and if I were a governor of a state or a legislator of a state, I would totally and completely oppose any effort to ban contraception.
00:51:16.000We should allow the people to express their own views through amendment and added to the Constitution.
00:51:20.000But this idea that justices... Should that be done in this case?
00:51:24.000This was George Stephanopoulos, objective news anchor.
00:51:27.000I'm sure George Stephanopoulos will get to moderate a debate this year.
00:51:29.000George Stephanopoulos was an actual Clinton staffer who wrote in his memoirs, legitimately about Hillary Clinton, that upon her husband's victory, they looked at each other with tears in their eyes, and she said, I love you, George, and he said, I love you too, Hillary.
00:51:42.000That guy can moderate a debate, but not Bret Baier or Chris Wallace.
00:52:13.000This week I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
00:52:18.000Now normally the prognosis for this is not very encouraging, but I'm going to fight this, and I'm going to keep working, and with the love and support of my family and friends, and with the help of your prayers also, I plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease.