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00:02:06.000I've worn a yarmulke since, basically, I'm old enough to remember.
00:02:10.000And there are a lot of folks who ask me why I wore a yarmulke or why I didn't take off the yarmulke as I grew in my career.
00:02:15.000And the answer is because this is who I am and this is what I do.
00:02:17.000It never occurred to me to take off the yarmulke.
00:02:20.000And I've seen, over the course of the last week or so, this increase in anti-Semitic attacks.
00:02:26.000I know a rabbi who, over the weekend, explained That he was at a supermarket and a man walked up to him and to his son wearing a Hamas headband and started cursing him.
00:03:22.000I believe Isaiah, when he says, Isaiah 8.10, I believe that when Isaiah says, plan your plan, speak your words, it will come to nothing, for God is with us.
00:03:37.000I believe that because I believe in biblical values.
00:03:40.000I believe in the first book of Samuel, where Samuel says, And the eternal of Israel, the eternal God of Israel, is no lie.
00:03:50.000And that means the eternity of the Bible and biblical values, those are no lie either.
00:03:56.000I wear a yarmulke because I am proudly a descendant of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Moses and David.
00:04:05.000I am of their ideals and of their values.
00:04:07.000And if you have a problem with it, not only do you have a problem with Jews, you have a problem with the entire Judeo-Christian line of values.
00:04:13.000I wear this yarmulke because I am proud of that identity.
00:04:18.000I'm proud that the state of Israel exists as well.
00:04:22.000I am proud that there is a state of Israel, a state that is a repository for Jewish values.
00:04:27.000I am proud that there are Jews out there carrying guns in defense of Jews, because for thousands of years, that was not the case.
00:04:35.000I am proud, as all civilized Western people should be, that there is a state in the Middle East that stands for the reality, not only of strong Jews, but stands for a democratic truth, stands for a democratic state.
00:04:49.000And you've heard that Israel is some sort of apartheid state.
00:05:55.000And that is because Israel is tolerant and Israel is democratic.
00:05:57.000And I am proud of that as a Westerner.
00:06:00.000I am proud of the fact that Israel is humane.
00:06:03.000In the middle of wars, Israel is attempting to minimize civilian casualties of a population that supported Hamas by poll statistics.
00:06:11.000That Israel is attempting to avoid killing civilians.
00:06:13.000Meanwhile, its enemies are attempting to shield their own weapons with civilians.
00:06:17.000I am proud of the fact that Israel carries out its values in war and in peace.
00:06:23.000And I'm proud of the fact that Israel is in fact in an outlying area of Western democracy.
00:06:31.000Not because it is some sort of colonialist outpost, but because the Jews never left, and because the root of the West remains through that Judeo-Christian line.
00:06:41.000And because I'm proud of all those things, as an American, and as a Jew, I wear this yarmulke.
00:06:47.000And if you have a problem with this, you can f*** right off.
00:06:50.000And I mean that to all the anti-Semites who are out there, all the anti-Semites who want to suggest That Jews everywhere should be living in fear of wearing a yarmulke or speaking their values?
00:07:31.000I get that the vast majority of Americans understand the truth, not only with regard to the Israel-Arab conflict, which of course is a foreign conflict, but also they understand the underlying truth about the nature of Jews living in the United States and the reality of Jewish values.
00:07:50.000And I say all of this to say that if people fail to recognize these basic truths that Judeo-Christian values undergird American values and Western values and liberties that we all enjoy.
00:08:00.000If people fail to recognize the basic decency of one state attempting to minimize civilian casualties while another terrorist group attempts to wipe every Jew it can off the planet.
00:08:10.000That if people fail to recognize this, and if they in fact forward this agenda, and if they cheer that agenda, they are complicit in the anti-Semitic attacks that we have seen over the course of these weekends.
00:08:19.000I'm not saying they're responsible for those attacks unless they openly call for them, because I have a very strict standard when it comes to quote-unquote incitement.
00:08:24.000But you have raised the temperature, you have made it more comfortable.
00:08:43.000I have a lot of friends in New York who are walking around in groups because they are afraid to walk around alone in the city of New York in the United States.
00:08:56.000Jews, historically in the United States, have been the number one target of hate crimes in the United States.
00:09:01.000But that's constantly forgotten because, of course, we now live in a world in which victimization can be linked to your historical dispossession so long as your group is not well-educated and wealthy.
00:09:11.000In the same way that anti-Asian sentiment went completely by the wayside for years because Asian-Americans tend to be well-educated and wealthy, anti-Semitism has gone by the wayside.
00:09:21.000Unless it's a convenient club with which to beat people on the right.
00:09:27.000The reality today is that institutionalized anti-Semitism lives on the American left.
00:09:33.000The truth is that the spate of anti-semitic attacks that we've seen over the course of the last week is not coming from white supremacists.
00:09:40.000Believe me, I've spoken up about them.
00:09:43.000Just a couple of years ago, the FBI arrested a white supremacist attempting to threaten and hurt my family.
00:09:49.000But the threat that we have seen over the last week, people in the streets going around attempting to beat Jews, that is not coming from white supremacists.
00:09:56.000That is coming from A radicalized Islamic population backed by the American left in many ways.
00:10:08.000So let's get into what exactly happened over the weekend.
00:10:12.000So over the course of the last week, several Jews in New York have been beaten up by Palestinian mobs.
00:10:18.000Here is one Jew talking about that experience over the course of the last week.
00:10:24.000I was walking on the way, had my Amica on, my Keepa, and around 48th Street, at the corner of my eye, I see someone chasing me.
00:10:31.000Before I could even react, I was surrounded by a whole group of, you know, individuals who then proceeded to, you know, kick me, punch me, hit me with crutches, beat me with, like, flagpoles.
00:10:42.000I've seen videos in L.A., I've seen videos in London, and you think it can happen anywhere, but, you know, when it actually happens, like, I mean, it's incredible.
00:10:58.000He says, you know, I was just wearing a yarmulke.
00:11:00.000And people identified me as a Zionist and as pro-Israel because I was wearing a yarmulke.
00:11:04.000Okay, number one, there are some Jews who are not, but put that aside.
00:11:09.000The reality is that in the United States of America, if you're wearing a yarmulke or if you're wearing a shirt that says, I stand with Israel, that doesn't mean that there's now an excuse to beat the hell out of you.
00:11:20.000If you were wearing a shirt that says, I support Palestine, you don't have a right in the United States to beat somebody up or be beaten up.
00:11:30.000But there is this feeling out there that has become quite predominant on the radical left that if you support Israel in any way, shape or form, that you deserve to have this done to you.
00:11:43.000According to Fox News, NYPD Hate Crimes Division said Saturday it's investigating two more incidents targeting Jewish people in New York City that appear to be prompted by the recent Israel-Palestinian conflict.
00:12:04.000Two Jewish teenagers were reportedly surrounded by an angry mob with baseball bats around 6 or 7 p.m.
00:12:08.000Saturday on Ocean Parkway and 18th Avenue in Brooklyn.
00:12:11.000The crowd demanded that the teens chant, free Palestine before beating them because nothing says, there's no need for a Jewish state anymore.
00:12:18.000Quite like beating up random Jews in the streets.
00:12:33.000Dev Huyken is the former state assemblyman and founder of the grassroots coalition Americans Against Anti-Semitism.
00:12:38.000He said in a tweet that the teens were saved by a Muslim Uber driver who drove them to safety.
00:12:43.000Another incident in Brooklyn on Saturday involved Orthodox Jews who were reportedly harassed in front of a synagogue on 16th Avenue by a group of males yelling, free Palestine, kill all the Jews.
00:12:52.000I have friends in Los Angeles who over the holiday of Shavuot last week were walking home from synagogue and people drove by shouting free Palestine at them and Allahu Akbar.
00:13:00.000So wonderful things happening all over the United States.
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00:14:26.000Okay, so all of that is happening in New York.
00:14:31.000Also, New York having some of the world's worst criminal law enforcement at this point.
00:14:38.000They have now released a man who beat up a Jew in Midtown Manhattan.
00:14:44.000According to the Post Millennial, a man arrested in connection to the beating of a Jewish man in Midtown Manhattan was released on bail Thursday, telling prosecutors on Sunday he would do it again.
00:14:53.000He was released on bail because this is New York now.
00:14:56.000Waseem Awawdeh, 23, was held on $10,000 bail after being accused of beating Joseph Borgen with crutches, as well as punching, kicking, and pepper spraying the man.
00:15:03.000That was the first person we quoted today.
00:15:06.000Awawdeh, according to a special prosecutor at his Sunday arraignment in Manhattan, reportedly told one of his jailers, if I could do it again, I would do it again.
00:15:14.000By the way, when he was arrested, he was wearing a shirt that just said Free Palestine.
00:15:28.000Prosecutors say the attack on Borgen, who was walking near Broadway and West 49th Street on his way to a pro-Israel demonstration in Midtown, was unprovoked.
00:15:35.000By the way, Broadway and West 49th Street is not a bad area of New York.
00:15:38.000I know they're now all bad areas of New York, but this is, like, right near Times Square.
00:15:41.000Friends of WADA told the New York Post he was the one that was attacked first.
00:15:52.000Iwata is facing charges of assault as a hate crime, gang assault, menacing, aggravated harassment as a hate crime, and criminal possession of a weapon.
00:16:15.000So really solid stuff happening in New York.
00:16:19.000Speaking of which, Luca Robert Davis, a 20-year-old rookie goalie for the New York Red Bulls Major League Soccer team, said on Thursday night in New York City he was accosted by a group of six to eight Palestinian men who accosted him and asked him if he was Jewish as they brandished knives, according to the Daily Wire.
00:16:33.000Lewis wrote that when he said he was not Jewish, one of the men said, good.
00:16:37.000But when Lewis prompted, what if I was Jewish, the man got in his face saying, I'd beat the effing bleep out of you and kill you.
00:16:52.000An armed citizen had to intervene in Miami, according to Breitbart.
00:16:55.000In Fox News, on May 21st, Fox News reported that Eric Organ and his family were walking down the sidewalk in the Ball Harbor neighborhood, which is a heavily Jewish neighborhood of Miami.
00:17:04.000When a group of men allegedly pulled up in a vehicle and started shouting and throwing garbage at them.
00:17:08.000Oregon told CBS 12 that the men in the vehicle also allegedly screamed, free Palestine, die Jew, eff you Jew, I'm going to rape your wife.
00:17:15.000An armed citizen in another vehicle saw it was happening and then intervened.
00:17:19.000This is Florida, so there are actual consequences to this sort of stuff.
00:17:22.000Oregon says the guy in the car behind them saw everything go on.
00:17:25.000I saw him pull a gun and get in between.
00:17:26.000I mean, he was almost there as our guardian angel, just protecting us.
00:17:29.000I think once they saw him, they just took off.
00:17:30.000By the way, it is worthwhile noting, I'm in South Florida.
00:17:34.000These pro-Palestinian crowds, these demonstrators who are running around chanting anti-Semitic slogans, they're going specifically to Jewish areas.
00:17:40.000They're not going to legislative areas and talking to legislators.
00:17:43.000They're going to the most Jewish areas they can find in South Florida in an attempt to intimidate.
00:17:48.000Carrying around pure anti-Semitic hate slogans, in many cases.
00:17:52.000So, if you're running around Jewish areas carrying around anti-Semitic hate slogans, basically you're the Nazis walking through Skokie.
00:17:59.000You've just decided to identify a Jewish area and then try to intimidate everybody that you can.
00:18:18.000What we are seeing on the streets, what we've seen in Europe, is not white supremacists predominantly.
00:18:21.000What we are seeing right now is radical Islamists who are going around attempting to beat, intimidate, and threaten Jews.
00:18:30.000Meanwhile, over in Europe, you're seeing exactly that.
00:18:34.000Over in London, tens of thousands of people showed up to protest basically the existence of the State of Israel, carrying anti-Semitic slogans.
00:18:41.000A man standing on a lion statue in Trafalgar Square yesterday held a Palestinian flag.
00:18:45.000Beneath him, a placard read, Stop doing what Hitler did to you.
00:18:48.000A poster held up by a woman read, Israel, the new Nazi state.
00:18:51.000This is all anti-Semitic bullcrap, obviously.
00:18:54.000You're literally talking about Israel facing down a terrorist group that openly pledged in 1988 in its charter documents to kill every Jew it could find.
00:19:02.000But don't worry, the Jews defending themselves, those are the anti-Semites.
00:19:06.000Those are the Hitlerian genocidal people.
00:19:47.000So what has been the response of the mainstream left increasingly?
00:19:52.000The response of the mainstream left has either been to cower in a corner or to make excuses for this sort of stuff, because there's a basic logic that predominates.
00:19:58.000And that is that if you're a Jew wearing a yarmulke, it must be that as a supporter of Israel, which you probably are, not all are, but virtually all Orthodox Jews support the existence of the state of Israel, not just because they're Jewish, but also because they believe in the common values of the West and the state of Israel.
00:20:13.000As an American, that is what I believe.
00:20:15.000But the idea is that if you support Israel, somehow you deserve what's coming to you.
00:20:47.000So, what has been the response from the left to papoo this stuff and to take sides with Hamas?
00:20:52.000Now again, what's amazing truly about this particular conflict is this is not even about the drawing of borders between, for example, the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli authorities.
00:21:02.000This is not about the Legal case that was happening in Sheikh Jarrah.
00:21:05.000This is about a terrorist group, an American State Department designated terrorist group, firing rockets at civilians in Israel.
00:21:12.000Israel making pinpoint attacks in an attempt to knock out their infrastructure.
00:21:16.000And hundreds of thousands of people marching in the streets to say that Israel shouldn't exist as a response.
00:21:20.000And a bunch of leftists in American life and abroad saying that Israel is the problem here.
00:21:26.000If you believe Israel is the problem in a conflict between an actual genocidal terrorist group and Israel, Let me just say you're an anti-Semite.
00:21:32.000Okay, because there really is no other rationale.
00:21:34.000You're gonna have to explain the rationale as to why you are siding with the genocidal terrorist group that, by the way, is subjecting two million citizens in the Gaza Strip to a perfect form of absolute tyranny, in which gay people are killed and informers are murdered, and it's... It's an incredible thing.
00:21:51.000I've never seen a clearer moral conflict than Hamas, an actual terrorist group being backed by the radical left, And people in order to justify that pooh-poohing Islamist attacks on Jews around the world.
00:23:23.000We saw Bill de Blasio suggest that there was no anti-Semitism in his city, just like two years ago, when Jews were routinely being beaten in the streets of Williamsburg.
00:23:31.000We saw the left act as though there was no anti-Semitism anywhere in the New York, New Jersey area, when there was an actual black Hebrew Israelite terrorist attack on Jews in New Jersey.
00:23:41.000Okay, like, Orthodox Jews can tell you exactly where I came from since they're the ones getting beaten in the streets of Williamsburg.
00:23:47.000It's an amazing, amazing— So the first response is just ignore it.
00:23:50.000The second response is to come out in strong defense of people who have been raising the temperature and telling the same anti-Semitic lies that act as fodder for people who actually commit these sorts of attacks.
00:24:04.000One of the things that has been happening in terms of the upswing in street violence that we are seeing right now is a broader thing happening across American society.
00:24:10.000In the wake of last year's decision by cities across the nation to basically tell the cops not to police, radicals of virtually every front have decided that it's open season.
00:24:22.000After a year of Black Lives Matter protesters devolving into riots, and people committing high levels of street crime, and murder rising by 30% in America's major cities, and beatings going unprosecuted, and criminals being unmolested by the cops, it turns out a lot of people think they can get away with nearly anything.
00:24:41.000When you remove the cops from the situation, chaos ensues.
00:24:44.000And usually the people who pay the price, very often when chaos ensues, when law enforcement don't do their jobs, when people who are bad feel that they can go out and do whatever they want, Jews very often pay the price for that, historically speaking.
00:24:56.000On an ideological level, the radical left has decided that there is a commonality between Black Lives Matter, for example, and and Palestinian terror groups in some cases.
00:25:07.000There's a whole article in the Washington Post.
00:25:09.000Black Lives Matter activists recently took to the streets of Indianapolis to protest for Palestinians.
00:25:13.000In Congress, a lawmaker who cut her teeth as a Black Lives Matter organizer and who has compared her clashes with police to those faced by Palestinians tweeted Friday, a ceasefire ends the bombardment, not the violence.
00:25:24.000During the height of the recent Gaza hostilities, the official Black Lives Matter organization called for, quote-unquote, Palestinian liberation, six years after the group's early leaders took a trip to the Middle East that planted the seeds for the current alliance.
00:25:34.000By the way, when they talk about Palestinian liberation, understand you're talking about control by the Palestinian Authority, a terrorist group, Hamas, a terrorist group, and Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group.
00:25:43.000This was in the Black Lives Matter formative documents.
00:25:46.000It was on their website to free Palestine.
00:25:49.000Because there's a broader theory that I've been talking about on the show It goes all the way from Frantz Fanon and forward.
00:25:53.000And the basic idea is that the systems of power in the West benefit Jews.
00:25:59.000There's an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on the left that crosses streams with mainstream leftist ideology.
00:26:05.000Mainstream leftist ideology is that the institutions of the West create unequal outcomes.
00:26:10.000And because those institutions of the West create unequal outcomes, this means that anybody who is successful under those systems is a beneficiary of the system and cannot be a victim.
00:26:18.000And anybody who is unsuccessful is victimized by the system and cannot be an oppressor.
00:26:23.000And so when you look at that internationally, what you see is that if Israel is very successful, this means that it must have oppressed the Palestinians, even though Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, 16 years ago.
00:26:33.000Even though the vast majority of Palestinians live under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, which is their governing agency.
00:26:40.000They do not live under the day-to-day administrative mercy of the Israelis.
00:26:45.000They live under the day-to-day administrative chaos of the Palestinian Authority, which is the reason why Israeli Arabs have not sought out migration to Palestinian areas.
00:26:54.000They wanna stay in Israel, because Israel actually governs its citizens well, as opposed to its enemies.
00:26:58.000But Black Lives Matter, because again, they buy into this basic international intersectionality theory, whereby we can identify victimized groups and victimizer groups by level of success, This means that there's a commonality between Black Lives Matter and the Palestinian Authority and Hamas and all of the people who support the destruction of the State of Israel.
00:27:18.000Black Lives Matter in the United States, which has grown into a potent political force amid a national reckoning on race, has responded forcefully to the violence in the Mideast to extend its reach into foreign policy, according to the Washington Post, pressing the Democratic Party to adopt a dramatically different approach to the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
00:27:33.000This of course is right. The radical left is pushing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because again, there's this idea that if we tear down systems of power, this means the Jews fall too. There is simple crossover. And how has the mainstream left responded to this delusional nonsense? They've responded by patting it on the head. So AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, wrongly called the quote unquote Israel lobby by its enemies.
00:27:59.000Basically, it's just the same as a pro-Italy PAC in the United States or a pro-Irish PAC in the United States.
00:28:05.000They exist for nearly every country in the United States.
00:28:07.000In any case, AIPAC has been made this big bugaboo by anti-Semites across the United States.
00:28:10.000AIPAC is really quite a moderate organization is the simple fact of it.
00:28:14.000AIPAC, in fact, was so dominated by Democrats at its top level that during the Obama administration, they didn't even push for a vote on the Iran deal.
00:28:22.000It was very controversial inside the halls of AIPAC, in any case.
00:28:24.000AIPAC put out some ads pointing out that Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite.
00:28:30.000They put out ads in which, for example, Omar's face was superimposed onto Hamas rockets, with text that claims when Israel targets Hamas, Representative Omar calls it an act of terrorism.
00:28:41.000That's correct, because what she tweeted was, Israeli airstrikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism.
00:28:47.000They were not killing civilians in targeted fashion, they were attempting to kill Hamas members.
00:28:54.000Of course, the Washington Post defends Ilhan Omar.
00:28:56.000The ad distorted Omar's tweet from last week in which she said that Israeli airstrikes killing civilians in Gaza, not Hamas specifically, were an act of... The missiles were aimed at Hamas members!
00:29:06.000Okay, so I understand the Washington Post is just the press office for anti-Semite Ilhan Omar, but that's pretty incredible stuff.
00:29:12.000Omar's office warned the company similar images of her face with Hamas attacks have directly inspired death threats against her.
00:29:18.000So this is the way that the left is going to play this, is that if you're a radical anti-Semite who de facto supports Hamas, I mean, she literally has attempted to block aid to Israel's Onion Dome, which is a defensive technology preventing rockets from falling in civilian areas.
00:29:31.000But if you do that, then you put an ad out there, then you're the real problem.
00:29:40.000She refused last year to condemn Ilhan Omar after openly anti-Semitic statements.
00:29:46.000Okay, and Nancy Pelosi rushed to her defense.
00:29:50.000Omar's office has called on AIPAC to apologize and her deputy communications director, Isi Bearbrin, called the ads anti-Muslim hate speech.
00:30:01.000AIPAC said this is a fair and accurate statement.
00:30:04.000Okay, the fact that then Ilhan Omar called on Facebook to remove it.
00:30:07.000Okay, so how did the rest of the Democratic Party respond to all this?
00:30:10.000So we've seen this radical uptick in anti-Semitic attacks over the course of the last week, largely by Palestinians and Palestinian supporters.
00:30:17.000So how have mainstream Democrats responded to this?
00:30:19.000They responded to it with the same kind of moral equivalence that they were so quick to decry when President Trump, for example, suggested that there were problems on both sides in Charlottesville.
00:30:30.000Right, what they said, And it's truly incredible.
00:30:34.000They're all tweeting out, en masse, on message, that there's a radical increase in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
00:30:40.000Now, can anyone show me any evidence of increased anti-Islamic attacks over the course of the last week?
00:31:21.000A guy took that guy's rhetoric and shot up a bunch of Congress people, and that was not even a national story for more than a week.
00:31:25.000And now here he is, after having suggested that Israel is essentially an apartheid state.
00:31:30.000Now, again, any statistical data to demonstrate that there's an increase in Islamophobia, Islamophobic attacks, in the United States or abroad?
00:31:35.000member of the squad, the Ringo star of the squad.
00:31:37.000She tweeted out, I strongly condemn the rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia we're seeing across the country.
00:31:44.000Now, again, any statistical data to demonstrate that there's an increase in Islamophobia, Islamophobic attacks in the United States or abroad?
00:31:59.000That if you are pro-Israel, in a conflict between Israel and an actual, honest-to-God, Islamist terrorist group, then this means you're an Islamophobe.
00:32:06.000And so we can count that as Islamophobia.
00:32:08.000On the same level as people who are just attacking Jews in the streets.
00:32:11.000Who, by the way, those Jews, I mean, let's be real about this, those Jews probably support Israel, so probably they're Islamophobic, so kinda they deserve it.
00:32:50.000Okay, the shtick is that we are going to pretend that a rise in anti-Semitic attacks is always increased.
00:32:56.000It's always driven by a rise in Islamophobia.
00:32:58.000That's truly what lies at the root of all of this.
00:33:01.000Okay, so that's what's happening at a Democratic Party institutional level is they've decided to buy into the intersectional logic that means that if you believe that Israel is not wrong in this conflict and has a right and a duty to defend its own citizenry, or let's face it, if you wear a yarmulke, well, you know, if the intersection, I mean, you are kind of white, You are kind of white.
00:34:13.000Meanwhile, they're supporting open anti-Semitic attacks, open anti-Semitism, Congress people who hate Jews, or going silent, being like Chuck Schumer.
00:34:23.000Oh, every so often I'll tweet something out, Chuck Schumer.
00:34:26.000Chuck Schumer, that pathetic hypocrite.
00:34:28.000Chuck Schumer, a man who used to go around the city of New York explaining to people that his last name, Schumer, came from the Hebrew Shomer, which meant that he would be a guardian of Israel.
00:34:43.000Meanwhile, you see the international agenda being pursued by the Biden administration, which, frankly, I'm surprised that they held out as long as they did before telling Israel to stop with regard to knocking out Hamas.
00:34:55.000When we get to the international agenda, the broader international agenda is fomenting Hamas.
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00:38:04.000That's an actual statement, as opposed to all the rest of these pathetic Democrats who are putting out statements about antisemitism and Islamophobia.
00:38:10.000Again, it's a pretty incredible thing.
00:38:12.000From the same people who are very concerned about the phrase, all lives matter.
00:38:17.000When someone says Black Lives Matter and someone else says All Lives Matter, how dare you?
00:38:21.000The same people are like, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
00:38:24.000Now, at least All Lives Matter was rejecting the basic contention that black people were being specifically singled out for harsh treatment by the police with regard to being murdered by the cops.
00:38:35.000But when it comes to anti-Semitism, there is a radical uptick in anti-Semitism and these same Democrats are like, yeah, and also Islamophobia, which is the same way they shied away from Ilhan Omar being a radical anti-Semite last year when they were like, we condemn anti-Semitism and also all these other forms of hatred and everything bad in the universe.
00:38:52.000Anyway, the Biden administration saying the right things on anti-Semitism.
00:38:55.000The Biden administration suggesting Israel had a right and a duty to protect itself last week.
00:38:59.000So they did a lot better on this than I thought they were going to.
00:39:02.000Meanwhile, however, they are indeed pursuing bad policy with regard to the Iranian regime.
00:39:06.000So the Iranian regime is the state, it is the sponsor state of Hamas.
00:39:11.000Hamas admits that they got all of their technology from Iran.
00:39:15.000And Hamas acknowledges that Iran backed them.
00:39:19.000And in fact, Iran cheered the attacks.
00:39:21.000According to the New York Times, Tehran jumped at the chance to portray militants' barrages on Israel as revenge for Israeli attacks on Iran.
00:39:28.000The leadership of Iran engaged in a long shadow war with Israel on land, air, and sea did not try to conceal the pleasure it took in the most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
00:39:35.000Tehran praised the damage being done to its enemy.
00:39:37.000State news media and conservative commentators highlighted Iran's role in providing weaponry and military training to Palestinian militants in Gaza to hammer Israeli communities.
00:39:44.000So Iran is making no bones about the fact that it supports Hamas.
00:39:48.000Meanwhile, Hamas is acknowledging that they openly commit war crimes.
00:39:51.000Here is Hamas' spokesperson on Sky News basically saying, yeah, sure, we commit war crimes.
00:39:56.000Any people under occupation, based on the international law, have all the right to defend themselves by all feasible means they have.
00:40:04.000Not by firing rockets from a civilian population?
00:40:28.000This is Bassem Naim, who's the Hamas spokesperson.
00:40:30.000Remember, this is the government that people are supporting.
00:40:33.000When you say, I support the Palestinians and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, you don't mean the Palestinian people unless you also want to get rid of Hamas.
00:40:39.000But you don't want to get rid of Hamas.
00:41:30.000That's exactly the same as the Israelis targeting military infrastructure.
00:41:35.000In any case, how has the Biden administration responded to the fact that Hamas and Iran-backed terrorist group just committed a vast act of terrorism against America's ally Israel?
00:41:45.000Blinken says we have to cut a deal with Iran.
00:41:47.000Here is Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State.
00:41:50.000Many of these actions are going forward now, and have gone forward over the last few years, under the so-called maximum pressure being exerted by the previous administration, and clearly did not get the result that we all seek, which is to curb all of these activities.
00:42:05.000But the first thing that we need to do is put the nuclear problem back in the box.
00:42:09.000That's why we're committed to trying to see if Iran will come back into compliance with the nuclear agreement, the so-called JCPOA.
00:42:16.000The lie that the Biden administration is talking about here is they say, well, if we get them back in the nuclear box, we'll stop them from the terrorism.
00:42:37.000All these terrorist groups get support from Iran.
00:42:38.000When Iran has more money, they spend the money on terrorism.
00:42:40.000John Kerry admitted as much after cutting the Iran deal in the first place.
00:42:44.000Well, Israel understands that it has to rely on itself in large measure here, which is why there was a giant blast at an Iranian complex housing their drone factory.
00:42:53.000So Israel shot down an Iranian armed drone the other day.
00:42:57.000And mysteriously, a complex that houses a factory that makes Iranian drones has now suffered a major explosion.
00:43:02.000The blast over the weekend injured at least nine workers at the petrochemical factory in Isfahan.
00:43:08.000The Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company, which produces a variety of aircraft and drones for Iranian and pro-Iranian forces, is located in the complex.
00:43:16.000Iran has not provided information on the cause of the incident, but Israel, of course, has carried out significant strikes internal to Iran.
00:43:23.000Meanwhile, speaking of the supposed non-radicalism of Palestinians on the Temple Mount, remember, according to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and everyone else lying about the situation in Israel, This is all kicked off by Israelis attacking Palestinians on the Temple Mount, which is insane.
00:43:36.000Again, I've been up on the Temple Mount.
00:43:38.000Jews have to be guarded by police forces as they are ushered through the holiest site in Judaism.
00:43:43.000Meanwhile, Arabs have free reign on the Temple Mount because it is effectively run by the Islamic Waqf.
00:43:48.000Al-Aqsa was being used as a staging ground for attacks on Jewish police officers.
00:43:52.000So even after this, there's a vast video emerging, like after the ceasefire, of people attacking police officers on the Temple Mount.
00:43:59.000In fact, videos on social media have shown Believe it or not, that members of the hundreds of Palestinians inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque were cheering.
00:44:12.000They forced out the Jerusalem Grand Mufti.
00:44:14.000The Jerusalem Grand Mufti is a guy named Mohammed Hussein.
00:44:16.000He works for the Palestinian Authority.
00:44:19.000And supporters inside Al-Aqsa forced him to leave while shouting, we are Mohammed Diaf's men.
00:44:25.000Mohammed Diaf is the terror head of Hamas.
00:44:28.000They're chanting this inside a mosque, a very peaceful and religious place.
00:44:32.000I remember the last time inside a synagogue we started chanting for support of terrorism, but apparently this is common practice inside all Aqsa these days.
00:44:39.000So they're chanting about how they are Muhammad Dayef's men.
00:44:52.000Moral equivalence, abduwazu, and also it's about antisemitism and also Islamophobia, Man, there are certain conflicts in ideology where things sort of crystallize.
00:45:03.000And honestly, if you have a tough time with this one, I've got to question your moral bona fides.
00:45:07.000If you have a real tough time questioning the difference between an Israeli government that attempts to minimize civilian casualties and a Hamas government that attempts to maximize them, between an Israeli population that is attempting to coexist with an internal Israeli-Arab population and treat those Israeli-Arabs as full citizens with full rights, And an Arab world that treats Jews not only as second-class citizens, but, I mean, Jews do not exist, effectively speaking, inside the Arab world?
00:45:33.000Inside the Muslim world, more specifically?
00:45:35.000If you are somebody who has a tough time just saying anti-Semitic attacks are bad, regardless of the source of the anti-Semitic attacks, I do have to question your ability to perform basic moral math.
00:45:46.000And the Democratic Party increasingly cannot perform basic moral math.
00:45:49.000Good for Joe Biden for at least doing some of it, but I fear that Joe Biden is not the wave of the Democratic Party future.
00:45:55.000I was there in 2012 when Antonio Villaraigosa, who was heading up the Democratic National Convention, actively overrode a voice vote and allowed the Democratic National Committee platform to include the idea that Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish state.
00:46:11.000I was there when there was a voice vote on it, he lost the voice vote just to overrode them.
00:46:18.000And now you have 200 Democrats who voted in the House not to cut off funding to groups that fund Hamas.
00:46:25.000So yeah, the future of the Democratic Party does look a lot more like the Squad, and like Jamal Bowman, and like AOC, and like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in terms of their anti-Semitic attacks on the Jewish state, and by extension, a certain level of tacit support for anti-Semites in the United States.
00:46:43.000I mean, AOC was meeting with Jeremy Corbyn.
00:46:47.000People talk about they fear for the future of the Republican Party because of Trump and authoritarianism and all this.
00:46:52.000The party that I fear right now is not the Republican Party, and it is not close.
00:46:56.000When it comes to being a Jew in America, the party I fear is the party that has been poo-pooing, playing up.
00:47:02.000And minimizing the impact of anti-Semitism in the United States.
00:47:06.000That is a scary, scary thing as a Jew living in the United States who wears a yarmulke proudly and will continue to do so.
00:47:12.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:47:14.000In the meantime, go check out the Michael Moll's show where he discusses the story of Teen Vogue teaching young girls how to perform witchcraft with their bodily fluids.
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