The Ben Shapiro Show - The Anti-Semites Are Laughing | Ep. 733

00:00:00.000 Representative Ilhan Omar laughs it up as a fake anti-Semitism resolution passes the House.

00:00:05.000 The media, of course, try to blame Republicans for anti-Semitism, and we check the mailbag.

00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:09.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:11.000 I've rarely seen a moment as outrageous as this moment in American politics.

00:00:19.000 And I don't mean outrageous as in hilarious or outstanding.

00:00:22.000 I mean outrageous as in we should all be outraged if you have a shred of morality left in your body looking at how the Democrats are acting, looking at how the media are acting.

00:00:30.000 It is truly astonishing.

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00:01:37.000 So we begin today with this ridiculous, stupid, foolhardy, obviously obfuscatory resolution from the House Democrats that was set to condemn, I kid you not, Racism and bigotry against, and this is a direct quote, African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other people of color, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, the LGBTQ community, immigrants and others with verbal attacks, incitement and violence. 0.99

00:02:08.000 So Jews come in, I believe, seventh on that list of peoples who are protected under this resolution. 0.99

00:02:14.000 And the resolution specifically calls out the effect of white supremacy, white supremacist antisemitism, among other things that are targeted by white supremacists, other groups targeted by white supremacists.

00:02:25.000 Let's remember, this resolution that was sponsored in the House yesterday and passed overwhelmingly, was a direct response to Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, who is an open anti-Semite, who has apologized some three times in the last six weeks or quasi-apologized or not apologized for three separate openly anti-Semitic statements.

00:02:43.000 One, she suggested that Israel, the Jews, had hypnotized the world with their Jew powers.

00:02:48.000 Second, that Jewish money lay behind American support for Israel. 0.58

00:02:52.000 And third, that American supporters of Israel were in fact loyal to Israel itself.

00:02:57.000 And so those are all three anti-Semitic statements.

00:03:00.000 Not one of them has to do with Israeli policy.

00:03:02.000 So what do the Democrats do?

00:03:03.000 First, they remove Ilhan Omar's name from an anti-Semitism resolution.

00:03:06.000 Then they say, you know what?

00:03:07.000 We can't condemn anti-Semitism because people might read between the lines and see we're talking about Ilhan Omar.

00:03:12.000 So instead, what we will do is we'll condemn all bad things.

00:03:15.000 And then just to make sure that we obfuscate the rationale for this whole thing, we'll talk about white supremacy.

00:03:21.000 As though that's the issue of the last six weeks.

00:03:23.000 Now, recall, there was a House resolution passed against white supremacy in January.

00:03:28.000 It was voted for unanimously in the House.

00:03:31.000 So this is nothing new.

00:03:32.000 The only thing that is new here is that Democrats are openly pandering on behalf of Ilhan Omar.

00:03:37.000 They decided that it was more important to greenlight anti-Semitism from members of their intersectional base ...than it was for them to condemn antisemitism.

00:03:47.000 It is, in fact, that simple.

00:03:49.000 It is that easy.

00:03:50.000 They pass a seven-page resolution that is filled with all sorts of randomness, specifically in order to avoid talking about Ilhan Omar.

00:04:00.000 That's all this was.

00:04:02.000 So this thing passes overwhelmingly because Democrats are passing something that is quote-unquote unobjectionable.

00:04:08.000 But there are some people on the right who don't vote for it.

00:04:10.000 Why?

00:04:10.000 Because they say openly, we're not voting for this thing because it's an open and obvious attempt to obfuscate the actual issue here, which is the anti-Semitism of a member of the House who is not even being removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:04:23.000 And so how do the media react to that?

00:04:25.000 They say, oh, look, Republicans are pro-antisemitism.

00:04:27.000 I'll explain how all this works. 0.99

00:04:29.000 So let's begin with the various players talking about this idiotic resolution, which is designed to, again, cover for Ilhan Omar's antisemitism. 0.85

00:04:38.000 That is the only reason that this resolution came to the floor. 0.97

00:04:42.000 And it's the only reason it is this broad, condemning all the things.

00:04:45.000 So here's Nancy Pelosi yesterday talking about the resolution right before its passage.

00:04:50.000 I don't think that the congresswoman is perhaps appreciate the full date of how it's heard by other people, although I don't believe it was intended in any antisemitic way.

00:05:06.000 We're working on something that is one resolution addressing these forms of hatred, not mentioning her name, because it's not about her.

00:05:14.000 It's about these forms.

00:05:16.000 So Pelosi says, Pelosi explicitly says it's not about her, except for how this whole thing is about her.

00:05:23.000 This whole thing is about Ilhan Omar.

00:05:25.000 The only reason we're having this discussion is because she keeps saying anti-Semitic stuff because she knows what she is saying and she doesn't care because she's an anti-Semite. 0.99

00:05:33.000 But Pelosi openly acknowledges that this resolution is designed to avoid talking about all of this.

00:05:39.000 Representative Ted Deutch, maybe the only honest Democrat left in the Democratic caucus, he gets up on the floor of the House and he talks about how the resolution really should only address anti-Semitism, but his fellow Democrats are too gutless to do that.

00:05:52.000 This is not political.

00:05:53.000 No one should make it political.

00:05:54.000 The use of anti-semitic language and images can never be tolerated.

00:05:59.000 What's been so difficult for so many people in my community is that people who are fearful when anti-semitic tropes are used are being told that they're wrong.

00:06:08.000 When a colleague invokes classic anti-semitic lies three times, then this body must condemn that anti-semitism.

00:06:17.000 Anti-Semitism is worthy of being taken seriously on its own. 1.00

00:06:21.000 It's worthy of being singularly called out.

00:06:23.000 Words matter.

00:06:26.000 For generations, they have had dangerous consequences for me, for my family, And for my people, this shouldn't be so hard.

00:06:41.000 Okay, that of course is exactly right.

00:06:42.000 That's Representative Ted Deutch, a Democrat from Florida, who is saying exactly the right thing.

00:06:46.000 Now, Deutch and his colleagues have been attacked by people like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for having the audacity to say the truth about Ilhan Omar.

00:06:58.000 They've been attacked.

00:06:59.000 It has been suggested that they are trying to shut down debate.

00:07:03.000 And all the 2020 leading Democratic candidates have come out in favor of Ilhan Omar.

00:07:07.000 Most strongly, of course, Bernie Sanders, which is of most use to members of the left who want to claim that this isn't anti-Semitic.

00:07:13.000 They point to Bernie Sanders.

00:07:14.000 They say, well, if Bernie greenlights it, I mean, Bernie's Jewish. 0.81

00:07:17.000 Bernie Sanders has about as much connection to the Jewish community as a ham sandwich.

00:07:23.000 Meaning he was born Jewish.

00:07:25.000 He is an overt atheist.

00:07:27.000 He's a radically anti-Israel socialist.

00:07:30.000 Like where exactly is his deep connection to Judaism?

00:07:34.000 It doesn't exist.

00:07:35.000 But he is convenient to use because, of course, he is ethnically Jewish, so that allows people to use him as cover. 0.98

00:07:42.000 In any case, Representative Lee Zeldin, who actually is Jewish, he is the Republican member of the House who is Jewish, he said, I'm not going to vote for this garbage resolution because this garbage resolution is specifically designed to cover up for Ilhan Omar being an anti-Semite. 0.96

00:07:56.000 We are here today right now because of anti-semitic rhetoric from one member of this chamber said again and again and again. 0.87

00:08:04.000 If that member was a Republican that member's name would be in this resolution and this resolution would be all about condemning anti-semitism and it would be done so forcefully.

00:08:14.000 I apparently am giving Rep Omar more credit than the speaker is because I don't believe she is naive.

00:08:22.000 I believe that she knows exactly what she's doing.

00:08:24.000 Antisemitism must be condemned unequivocally and emphatically.

00:08:28.000 Support of Israel, support of Jews, standing against antisemitism has been bipartisan in the past, it should be bipartisan today, and it should be bipartisan for every moment in the future.

00:08:39.000 Okay, everything that he says is right.

00:08:41.000 And of course, Representative Zeldin is Jewish.

00:08:44.000 And not only Jewish, he is pro-Israel, he has deep connections with the Jewish community.

00:08:48.000 So he votes against this resolution, as do 22 other Republicans.

00:08:52.000 And those same 23 Republicans who voted against that resolution voted in favor of a resolution back in January to condemn white supremacism.

00:08:59.000 So this is not about them suddenly siding with white supremacy.

00:09:04.000 That's a lie.

00:09:05.000 The reason that Republicans didn't vote, a few Republicans didn't vote for the resolution yesterday, is because they didn't want to grant cover to Ilhan Omar.

00:09:12.000 It is that simple.

00:09:14.000 But that's not how the media played it.

00:09:16.000 That's not how the media played it.

00:09:17.000 The way the media played it, they said that the Republicans didn't vote for this resolution covering for anti-Semitism because the Republicans are the real anti-Semites.

00:09:25.000 So notice the insane gaslighting here.

00:09:28.000 A Democratic representative, a fresh face on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, so fresh, so face, with AOC, with Nancy Pelosi. 0.98

00:09:37.000 That fresh face is a blatant, brutal anti-Semite, a Jew hater. 0.92

00:09:42.000 And the House won't condemn her. 0.98

00:09:43.000 The House Democrats won't condemn her.

00:09:45.000 And then they brought in a basic resolution condemning anti-Semitism into a wishy-washy resolution condemning everything except for, apparently, radical Muslim anti-Semitism.

00:09:56.000 They won't condemn that.

00:09:57.000 The only thing that they will condemn is everything else.

00:10:00.000 Everything else will be condemned, but they will exempt Ilhan Omar. 0.91

00:10:02.000 And then some Republicans say, listen, I'm not going to vote for that ridiculous resolution you're putting forward that is specifically designed to cover for anti-Semites. 0.78

00:10:09.000 I won't vote for that.

00:10:10.000 And the media's take Oh, Republicans won't vote for an anti-hate resolution.

00:10:14.000 Who's hateful now, Republicans?

00:10:17.000 This is so wildly intellectually dishonest.

00:10:20.000 It is such incredible gaslighting, and the media are complicit in it.

00:10:24.000 They're—because all they—honest to God, these people are just stenographers for the radical left.

00:10:30.000 Michael Barbaro of the New York Times, who hosts The Daily, he tweeted out, Is it?

00:10:44.000 I just explained it in less than 15 seconds.

00:10:46.000 It's really not hard to explain. 0.99

00:10:48.000 When you pass a stupid resolution designed to cover for anti-Semites by watering it down until it is anodyne, when people vote against that, they're not voting in favor of anti-Semitism. 0.98

00:10:57.000 They're voting against watering down Resolutions against anti-Semitism in order to cover for Democrats. 0.99

00:11:04.000 But not for Michael Barbaro of the New York Times.

00:11:06.000 Oh look, now who's the anti-Semite Republicans?

00:11:08.000 It's not just Michael Barbaro.

00:11:11.000 Jake Sherman of Politico tweeted this out.

00:11:12.000 I called him on it, and then he tried to back down.

00:11:15.000 He tweeted out, House Democrats have been under pressure for a week on anti-Semitism, but House Republicans have bailed them out.

00:11:22.000 House Republicans have bailed them out on anti-Semitism.

00:11:25.000 Number three House Representative Liz Cheney, Lee Zeldin, and Louie Gohmert vote no.

00:11:29.000 Jeff Duncan present.

00:11:30.000 An embarrassing moment for House GOP.

00:11:33.000 Really?

00:11:34.000 It's an embarrassing moment for Republicans when they refuse to go along with your cover-up for anti-Semitism?

00:11:40.000 Go back to that tweet for a second.

00:11:41.000 The people he mentions there.

00:11:43.000 Lee Zeldin, a Jew.

00:11:44.000 Louie Gohmert, the Representative from Texas, is the most philo-Semitic member of the House I personally know. 0.98

00:11:50.000 That's insane!

00:11:52.000 Representative Liz Cheney herself put out a statement explaining why she voted like this, quote, Today's resolution vote was a sham put forward by Democrats to avoid condemning one of their own and denouncing vile anti-Semitism.

00:12:04.000 While I stand wholeheartedly against discrimination outlined in this resolution, the language before the House today did not address the issue that is front and center.

00:12:11.000 Representative Omar's comments were wrong, and she has proven multiple times she embodies a vile, hate-filled, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel bigotry.

00:12:18.000 She deserves to be rebuked by name and removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee so there is no mistake about the values and priorities that the House stands for.

00:12:26.000 For Democratic leadership to kowtow to their radical members and refuse to offer legislative language that criticizes Representative Omar's statements in the strongest possible manner confirms what we already knew, that their party is controlled by far-left extremists who can't even muster the courage to stand up to blatant anti-Semitism.

00:12:44.000 That's why Liz Cheney voted against the resolution. 1.00

00:12:46.000 But the media say, oh no, she did it because, really secretly, she's the anti-Semite.

00:12:50.000 See, if you don't go along with the cover up, that means that you're the real anti-Semite. 0.61

00:12:55.000 And the media go along with that.

00:12:56.000 Politico, New York Times.

00:12:59.000 And not just them.

00:13:00.000 Not just them.

00:13:01.000 You'll see how they are stenographers for AOC and her radical crew in just a second.

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00:14:10.000 Okay, so.

00:14:11.000 As you see, members of the media taking dictation, taking dictation from AOC.

00:14:17.000 And I'll prove it to you.

00:14:18.000 Here is what AOC had to say about this.

00:14:21.000 Here's what she tweeted out.

00:14:22.000 This would be 20.

00:14:24.000 Quote, Where's the outrage over the 23 GOP members who voted no on a resolution condemning bigotry today?

00:14:31.000 Oh, there's none?

00:14:32.000 Did they get called out, raked over, ambushed in halls and relentlessly asked why not?

00:14:36.000 No?

00:14:37.000 Okay, got it. 1.00

00:14:39.000 This is so insanely dishonest, but look, she's a damn liar, AOC. 1.00

00:14:44.000 She's been a liar since she was running, and now she's even more of a liar. 1.00

00:14:47.000 Everybody knows what happened here. 0.97

00:14:48.000 AOC provided active cover for an open anti-Semite, and now she's saying the people who didn't help her provide that cover are the real anti-Semites.

00:14:56.000 They're the real anti-Semites. 0.96

00:14:58.000 Not you, who have provided cover every step of the way for the Jeremy Corbyn-ization of your party.

00:15:03.000 You, who bragged two weeks ago that you were on the phone with vicious, brutal, pro-terror anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn. 0.97

00:15:09.000 Two freaking weeks ago. 0.94

00:15:10.000 You, who have campaigned with Linda Sarsour. 0.77

00:15:12.000 We're supposed to pretend that you are standing up to anti-Semitism?

00:15:15.000 And the people who stood up to you are the real anti-Semites? 0.99

00:15:19.000 This is sheer, absolute, unmitigated garbage, and the media have been repeating it at every turn because the media are stenographers for Democrats. 0.99

00:15:25.000 End of story. 0.99

00:15:28.000 It's shocking.

00:15:29.000 It really is.

00:15:30.000 And for those who believe...

00:15:32.000 That there was a real, genuine effort to fight antisemitism yesterday by the Democrats.

00:15:38.000 I present to you Ilhan Omar's response to all of this.

00:15:41.000 First of all, Omar actually went out and was hugging people on the House floor yesterday after this resolution passed.

00:15:45.000 Why not?

00:15:46.000 She defeated Nancy Pelosi.

00:15:48.000 But then she released a statement.

00:15:49.000 And here was her statement.

00:15:51.000 Are you getting this?

00:15:52.000 Rashida Tlaib, another anti-Semite, and Andre Carson of Indiana, who is also a Muslim, but I have no evidence he's an anti-Semite.

00:15:59.000 They issued the following statement after the House voted overwhelmingly to condemn all kinds of hate.

00:16:03.000 Quote, today is historic on many fronts.

00:16:05.000 It's the first time we have voted on a resolution condemning anti-Muslim bigotry in our nation's history.

00:16:10.000 Anti-Muslim crimes have increased 99% from 2014 to 2016 and are still on the rise.

00:16:15.000 Are you getting this?

00:16:17.000 Are you getting this?

00:16:18.000 Ilhan Omar said anti-Semitic stuff, And today is celebrating a resolution to condemn Islamophobia.

00:16:25.000 You reading this?

00:16:26.000 Then she gets to anti-semitism.

00:16:28.000 What does she say?

00:16:28.000 say we are tremendously proud to be part of a body that has put forth a condemnation of all forms of bigotry including anti-semitism racism and white supremacy and a time when extremism is on the rise we must explicitly denounce religious intolerance of all kinds and acknowledge the pain felt by all communities our nation is having a difficult conversation and we believe this is great progress so this is the code now difficult conversation is i say something blatantly anti-semitic and then we cover for me That's what that's that.

00:16:55.000 Hey, that's a conversation, guys.

00:16:57.000 That's what Ilhan Omar says.

00:16:59.000 And you can tell that Ilhan Omar is real sorry about all of her anti-Semitism.

00:17:03.000 Yesterday, she retweeted a particular tweet by a guy named Mehdi Hassan.

00:17:07.000 Mehdi Hasan tweeted something out about Meghan McCain.

00:17:09.000 So, we have to reverse course.

00:17:11.000 Meghan McCain was on The View.

00:17:13.000 Meghan McCain does an excellent job on The View of representing decency and conservatism.

00:17:19.000 So yesterday she was talking about anti-Semitism being glossed over by the Democrats.

00:17:23.000 And she got emotional.

00:17:24.000 Here's what it sounded like.

00:17:25.000 The idea that this is politicized, I'm really not, I was very nervous to talk about this on the show because I thought it would become politicized and it really shouldn't be.

00:17:33.000 On both sides it should be called out.

00:17:35.000 And just because I don't technically have Jewish family that are blood related to me, it doesn't mean I don't take this as seriously and it is very dangerous. 0.99

00:17:44.000 Very dangerous!

00:17:45.000 And I think we all collectively as Americans on both sides and what Ilhan Omar is saying is very scary to me and it's very scary to a lot of people and I don't think you have to be Jewish to recognize that.

00:17:54.000 You don't!

00:17:55.000 Of course, she is exactly right.

00:17:57.000 So what did Ilhan Omar do?

00:17:59.000 What's so offensive about what she said?

00:18:00.000 She said Ilhan Omar's comments are anti-Semitic and anti-Semitism is bad.

00:18:03.000 So Mehdi Hassan, he is a columnist for Al Jazeera.

00:18:07.000 He's a columnist for The Intercept, which is a wild, radical left publication that is supremely anti-Israel and is quite friendly with anti-Semitism.

00:18:15.000 He's a host on Al Jazeera English. 0.91

00:18:17.000 He tweeted out, quote, Megan's late father literally sang bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran and insisted on referring to his Vietnamese captors as gooks.

00:18:25.000 He also, lest we forget, gave the world Sarah Palin.

00:18:27.000 So a little less faux outrage over a former refugee turned freshman representative, please.

00:18:33.000 So, this Al Jazeera host's response is not that Ilhan Omar isn't anti-Semitic, it's that Meghan McCain's dad is a bad guy, so Meghan McCain should shut up about anti-Semitism.

00:18:42.000 And who retweeted that?

00:18:44.000 Oh, Ilhan Omar retweeted that, of course, because she is not in the slightest embarrassed or upset by her anti-Semitism.

00:18:50.000 She's quite happy about it.

00:18:51.000 And why shouldn't she be happy about it?

00:18:53.000 The entire Democratic Party just caved and covered for her.

00:18:57.000 Why shouldn't she be overjoyed at the treatment that she has just received?

00:19:00.000 We know who's in the driver's seat now, and it's the anti-Semite. 0.93

00:19:04.000 And by the way, let's not pretend that this has nothing to do with anti-Semitism when it comes to Ilhan Omar's comments.

00:19:12.000 Eli Valli is another radical left cartoonist.

00:19:15.000 Sometimes I believe he's associated with some of the folks at The Intercept.

00:19:19.000 And Eli Valli put out this cartoon.

00:19:21.000 You should subscribe so you can actually see what the cartoon looks like.

00:19:23.000 It is straight from the pages of Der Schirmer.

00:19:25.000 It is a Nazi cartoon.

00:19:26.000 Okay, Eli Valli puts out a cartoon and it shows Meghan McCain Wearing a cross necklace.

00:19:32.000 And in one hand, she has a box of matzo ball soup mix.

00:19:35.000 And he makes her look, of course, hideous and overweight and all of this.

00:19:39.000 And in the other hand, she has a Jewish star marked Jude. 0.83

00:19:44.000 Like, Juden.

00:19:45.000 As in, like, the Nazi yellow star.

00:19:48.000 And then she has on the table in front of her a copy of Yentl.

00:19:53.000 And a book called Jewish Race Explained.

00:19:55.000 And it says, the things she said about the Holy Land. 0.99

00:19:57.000 That refugee girl wants to exterminate us Jews. 1.00

00:20:01.000 I mean this is straight up, it is straight up Jew hatred. 1.00

00:20:07.000 And the attempt to suggest that Meghan McCain doesn't know what she's talking about because she's not Jewish and therefore she shouldn't care about anti-semitism? 0.69

00:20:14.000 Like, the radical left is fine with anti-semitism.

00:20:16.000 They're not just fine with it, they are enthusiastic about anti-semitism.

00:20:20.000 They are supremely enthusiastic about anti-semitism, in fact.

00:20:24.000 And it's obvious that they are.

00:20:26.000 They've been tolerating Linda Sarsour in their midst, celebrating Linda Sarsour.

00:20:30.000 Yesterday, Linda Sarsour was asked if Israel has a right to exist.

00:20:33.000 Now, there's a lot of anti-Israel criticism, criticism of Israel policy, that is not anti-Semitic.

00:20:37.000 Saying that Israel has no right to exist, that's actually anti-Semitic.

00:20:41.000 A lot of anti-Israel commentary, not anti-Semitic.

00:20:43.000 Israel has no right to exist, anti-Semitic. 0.94

00:20:45.000 That means the wiping out of some six million Jews in the Middle East and supplanting it with a radical Islamic dictatorship. 0.97

00:20:52.000 That is what people like Linda Sarsour would like. 1.00

00:20:54.000 So Linda Sarsour was asked specifically about this and I'll show you her response and the response of her bodyguards in just a minute.

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00:22:04.000 Alrighty, so... Linda Sarsour is good proof of just where the Democratic Party now stands, what they are willing to stand for.

00:22:10.000 So, here was Linda Sarsour yesterday, being asked whether the state of Israel has a right to exist.

00:22:15.000 And then, wait till you hear what her bodyguards have to say to people asking her the question.

00:22:19.000 Linda, do you believe the state of Israel has a right to exist?

00:22:22.000 We'll answer questions later after the press conference.

00:22:24.000 I'll be happy to answer that.

00:22:27.000 Are you going to take questions, Linda?

00:22:31.000 Do you believe the nation of Israel has a right to exist? 0.74

00:22:34.000 Do you believe the nation of Israel has a right to exist? 0.74

00:22:36.000 Why are you blocking me, sir?

00:22:38.000 Why are you blocking me when these guys are jumping in front of me?

00:22:42.000 Linda Sarasota, does the nation of Israel have a right to exist? 0.82

00:22:47.000 How much do you get paid?

00:22:48.000 Do you work for Israel?

00:22:49.000 That's just a reporter asking Linda Sarsour if she believes the state of Israel should exist.

00:22:53.000 Linda Sarsour is very close with Ilhan Omar and AOC and the rest of the Democratic leadership.

00:22:55.000 What do you care?

00:22:56.000 Do you work for Israel?

00:22:57.000 How much do you get paid?

00:22:58.000 How much do you get paid?

00:22:59.000 Do you work for Israel?

00:23:00.000 That's just a reporter asking Linda Sarsour if she believes the state of Israel should exist.

00:23:04.000 Linda Sarsour is very close with Ilhan Omar and AOC and the rest of the Democratic leadership.

00:23:09.000 She campaigned for Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:23:11.000 Don't tell me the Democratic Party isn't comfortable with anti-Semitism.

00:23:15.000 They are embracing it with both arms.

00:23:18.000 Not one arm, both arms.

00:23:21.000 It's absolutely incredible.

00:23:23.000 By the way, and the media, again, are playing stenographer for the Democrats.

00:23:27.000 To this point, David Duke came out yesterday and he said that Ilhan Omar is deeply important.

00:23:32.000 He tweeted out a photo of Ilhan Omar, a Somali woman of Muslim descent, with a love emoji Saying, by defiance to the Zionist-occupied government, Ilhan Omar is now the most important member of the U.S.

00:23:45.000 Congress.

00:23:46.000 So David Duke tweets out.

00:23:47.000 Now, I'm old enough to remember when President Trump's failure to condemn David Duke in the 2016 election led to a million headlines.

00:23:55.000 How many headlines have there been about David Duke embracing Ilhan Omar?

00:23:58.000 Or Andrew Anglin, the head of the Daily Stormer, the neo-Nazi newspaper, embracing Ilhan Omar?

00:24:03.000 How many headlines have there been about that?

00:24:04.000 How much has CNN covered that?

00:24:06.000 And I don't want to hear that David Duke is now irrelevant.

00:24:08.000 If he's irrelevant now, he was irrelevant two years ago.

00:24:10.000 So you're going to have to explain to me why he's not relevant as soon as Democrats get embraced by David Duke.

00:24:15.000 And Richard Spencer, by the way, loves Ilhan Omar.

00:24:18.000 There's no hiding of the ball here.

00:24:19.000 Everybody knows what is going on, but the media are lying about it.

00:24:23.000 And they're facilitating the lie.

00:24:25.000 And it's absolutely horrifying.

00:24:26.000 Now, what exactly is going to be the outcome of all of this?

00:24:29.000 Well, it's pretty obvious that the Democratic Party has been taken over by the radicals.

00:24:34.000 And as I've been saying for the past several days, the Democratic Party may not be fully anti-Semitic, but they are happy to embrace anti-Semitism if it means that they get to make common cause with the radical socialist base. 0.51

00:24:45.000 That's what's going on here.

00:24:46.000 That's why Bernie Sanders was first out of the gate defending Ilhan Omar.

00:24:51.000 That's the real story.

00:24:51.000 So President Trump comes out today and he is talking about this resolution and he says that he thought it was disgraceful and then he characterizes the Democratic Party.

00:24:58.000 I thought yesterday's vote by the House was disgraceful.

00:25:04.000 Because it's become, the Democrats have become an anti-Israel party.

00:25:08.000 They've become an anti-Jewish party.

00:25:11.000 And I thought that vote was a disgrace.

00:25:14.000 And so does everybody else, if you get an honest answer.

00:25:17.000 If you get an honest answer from politicians, they thought it was a disgrace.

00:25:22.000 The Democrats have become an anti-Israel party.

00:25:26.000 They've become an anti-Jewish party.

00:25:28.000 And that's too bad.

00:25:29.000 Okay, there is no question that what he is saying is correct.

00:25:32.000 I mean, that is just correct.

00:25:34.000 Now, you can rip on Trump all you want, but forget about who's saying it.

00:25:38.000 Has the Democratic Party become anti-Israel?

00:25:39.000 There's no question they have.

00:25:41.000 They became anti-Israel under the auspices of Barack Obama, who was a radically anti-Israel president, a man who helped lie to the American people, helped lie, promulgated a massive lie to the American people in order to push forward an Iran deal that endangers the state of Israel.

00:25:54.000 A man who allowed anti-Israel resolutions to go forward at the UN Security Council.

00:25:58.000 A man who attempted to block Defense Department aid to Israel in the middle of the Gaza War in 2014.

00:26:03.000 Barack Obama was radically anti-Israel.

00:26:05.000 His administration was radically anti-Israel.

00:26:09.000 There's just... There's no other way to put that.

00:26:11.000 And as far as them being an anti-Jewish party, they just proved it yesterday.

00:26:15.000 I mean, they proved it on the floor of the House.

00:26:17.000 So everybody's gonna say, oh, well, Trump and Charlottesville and David Duke and all this.

00:26:21.000 Fine.

00:26:22.000 Say all that's true.

00:26:23.000 Say that President Trump said some really bad stuff a couple of years ago that he made common cause with anti-Semites, or at least was silent toward them, or winked and nodded at them in 2015, 2016, and into 2017.

00:26:34.000 Say all those things.

00:26:35.000 The Democratic Party, the approval of Israel inside the Democratic Party is at all-time lows.

00:26:41.000 It is well below 50%.

00:26:41.000 In the Republican Party, it is up near 80%.

00:26:45.000 And when it comes to the anti-Jewish nature of the parties, there is no question which party has full-scale embraced an anti-Jewish perspective.

00:26:54.000 And that is the Democratic Party.

00:26:56.000 President Trump got shellacked by the vast majority of elected Republicans after Charlottesville.

00:27:02.000 He got killed during the primaries by people like me.

00:27:05.000 I'm waiting to hear Democrats come forth and condemn Ilhan Omar.

00:27:09.000 They couldn't even do it in a vote.

00:27:11.000 The entire party infrastructure was just taken over by the anti-Semites.

00:27:14.000 So forget whatever you think about Trump.

00:27:17.000 Because that's not the question today.

00:27:19.000 The question is what's happening with the Democratic Party.

00:27:21.000 We can condemn anti-Semitism wherever it comes from.

00:27:23.000 Unless you're a Democrat, then you only condemn anti-Semitism if it's white supremacists.

00:27:27.000 We saw that from Paul Krugman yesterday, who said he's only scared of right-wing anti-Semitism.

00:27:33.000 You know, ask the Jews in the Middle East.

00:27:34.000 Ask the Jews in Europe. 0.99

00:27:35.000 Ask the Jews who are being beaten on the streets of Brooklyn, not by white supremacists, but by members of the intersectional coalition.

00:27:42.000 Ask them which type of antisemitism is dangerous.

00:27:46.000 The answer is all, but it is the left that is openly embracing antisemitism and allowing it to guise itself as just mere anti-Israel talk.

00:27:53.000 It's sheer nonsense.

00:27:54.000 Now, this all has consequences.

00:27:56.000 By the way, Ilhan Omar completely unrepentant today.

00:27:58.000 She... 1.00

00:27:59.000 She was profiled by Politico.

00:28:02.000 She said, I am certainly not looking to be comfortable.

00:28:04.000 I don't want everyone necessarily to feel comfortable around me.

00:28:07.000 I think really the most exciting things happen when people are extremely uncomfortable.

00:28:11.000 Yes, making the Jews uncomfortable every day, Ilhan Omar. 0.70

00:28:13.000 And then you have Anna Palmer, a reporter for Politico, saying, I've heard this from more than one freshman Democrat when asked about Omar's comments.

00:28:20.000 They use the word uncomfortable often.

00:28:22.000 Need for those types of conversations.

00:28:25.000 So Democrats are now saying, anti-Semitism, let's have a conversation.

00:28:29.000 Let's have a conversation.

00:28:31.000 And then Politico has another story out today about how Bernie Sanders raced to support Ilhan Omar, knowing that a lot of people on the left would be very happy with an ethnic Jews defending Ilhan Omar.

00:28:43.000 Matt Continetti, the editor of the Washington Free Beacon, has a really good piece out today.

00:28:48.000 He says, if anti-Semitism is the price of a socialist America, so be it.

00:28:53.000 Obviously, that is true.

00:28:55.000 Obviously, that is true.

00:28:56.000 Now, we'll get to what this means for the future of the Democratic Party in just one second.

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00:30:27.000 So what are the consequences for Nancy Pelosi having handed over control of her party to AOC and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and the anti-Semites and enablers who are the fresh faces of the Democratic Congress?

00:30:44.000 So fresh.

00:30:45.000 So face.

00:30:46.000 Politico has a piece today.

00:30:47.000 Here's what they say.

00:30:49.000 They have gathered in defiance of the freezing temperatures on a late February night, scores of them twirling Somali flags in one hand and American flags in the other, crowding the arrivals terminal and waiting to welcome one of their own.

00:30:58.000 The vast Somali community in the Twin Cities is like one sprawling extended family, explains Ali Aden, a 39-year-old engineer who came to the U.S.

00:31:06.000 two decades ago as we survey the scene.

00:31:08.000 When a prominent member of the family arrives, it's customary to greet them this way.

00:31:11.000 Is it Congresswoman Omar they're waiting for, I ask, referencing the freshman Democrat whose district we're standing in?

00:31:17.000 Ilhan, he smiles broadly, no.

00:31:18.000 No, if it were Ilhan, the whole city would be here.

00:31:22.000 Instead, it was just to meet some obscure Somali dignitary.

00:31:26.000 But Omar is a rock star in her district.

00:31:30.000 In her district.

00:31:31.000 Also, she's on Rolling Stone, so I guess Democrats are trying to make this anti-Semite an actual rock star. 1.00

00:31:36.000 Omar was destined to stand out. 1.00

00:31:38.000 After Congress changed its 181-year-old rule prohibiting headwear to accommodate her, she became the first person to wear a hijab on the House floor.

00:31:45.000 But it wasn't her wardrobe, or her religion, or her gripping biography as Congresswoman who came of age in a refugee camp that distinguished Omar in her early days on Capitol Hill.

00:31:53.000 Rather, it was her usage of social media and the uproar that ensued. 0.95

00:31:58.000 And then talks about her anti-semitic comments.

00:32:01.000 And then she talks about what exactly her perspective is.

00:32:08.000 And her perspective is that they need to make Jews uncomfortable and they also need to move in an incredibly socialist direction.

00:32:15.000 Omar says, I'm certainly not looking to be comfortable.

00:32:17.000 I don't want to make everyone necessarily feel comfortable around me.

00:32:20.000 I think the most exciting things happen when people are extremely uncomfortable.

00:32:25.000 And then she says, this is the best part of it, she starts ripping on Barack Obama.

00:32:29.000 Right?

00:32:30.000 She says that Barack Obama was a problem.

00:32:31.000 She says the hope and change offered by Barack Obama was a mirage.

00:32:35.000 Recalling the caging of kids at the US-Mexico border and the droning of countries around the world on Obama's watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.

00:32:47.000 We can't only be upset with Trump.

00:32:48.000 His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies.

00:32:52.000 They just were more polished than he was, Omar says.

00:32:55.000 And that's not what we should be looking for anymore.

00:32:56.000 We don't want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished.

00:32:59.000 We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.

00:33:05.000 So she is ripping on Barack Obama and she wants a socialist takeover of the Democratic Congress. 1.00

00:33:11.000 She says, I don't believe that tiptoeing is the way to win the hearts and minds of the people.

00:33:15.000 I get saddened by some of my freshman colleagues who can't understand that within their districts, the idea of Medicare for All is extremely popular.

00:33:21.000 The Green New Deal is a very popular idea in their districts.

00:33:23.000 Making sure that we have a final fix to our broken immigration system is very popular in their districts.

00:33:28.000 What they pay attention to is the rhetoric that says, this is a red to blue district.

00:33:31.000 You have to be careful.

00:33:32.000 You can't talk about these policies.

00:33:33.000 Well, in reality, these people are like everyone else.

00:33:36.000 They struggle with the cost of health care.

00:33:37.000 They struggle with our broken infrastructure.

00:33:39.000 They struggle with having an economy that brings them into the 21st century.

00:33:42.000 And we have to be willing to have those conversations.

00:33:46.000 Facing another round of denunciations, Omar refused to back down.

00:33:49.000 This is all Politico kissing her rear. 0.94

00:33:51.000 What ensued was a week of unmitigated chaos within House Democratic ranks.

00:33:55.000 Senior Democrats pushed for a vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism.

00:33:58.000 Younger Democrats rallied behind Omar and objected to her being singled out.

00:34:02.000 And the party's leadership, desperate to defuse the situation, finally settled on a catch-all version of the resolution condemning all forms of hate speech, including against Native Americans and Pacific Islanders.

00:34:11.000 It was a clear-cut victory for Omar and her allies on the left.

00:34:15.000 In a preview of her defiance, just hours before the videotaped comments thrust the congresswoman back into the national limelight, Omar told me that Washington should get used to her troublemaking.

00:34:24.000 As much as other people are uncomfortable, I'm excited about the change in tone that has taken place.

00:34:28.000 That is extremely positive, she says, and my ability, I think, to agitate our foreign policy discussions in a way that many of my colleagues who have been anti-intervention, anti-war have been unable to do in the past.

00:34:39.000 I'm okay with taking the blows if it means it will ignite conversations that no one was willing to have before.

00:34:43.000 Ah, you see, she's just igniting conversations. 1.00

00:34:46.000 That's all that's happening.

00:34:47.000 It's not that she's a radical anti-Semite who is open about her anti-Semitism.

00:34:51.000 She's igniting conversations. 1.00

00:34:53.000 Well, Nancy Pelosi gets to own this crap now. 1.00

00:34:55.000 Nancy, you own this. 1.00

00:34:57.000 You decided to surrender your party to these people.

00:34:59.000 You bought the ticket, now you take the ride.

00:35:01.000 You wanted a Bernie Sanders-led party?

00:35:02.000 You got it, lady.

00:35:04.000 You made this happen.

00:35:05.000 You decided to surrender your party to the intersectional socialist mix.

00:35:10.000 And Bernie Sanders decided to surrender his socialism to the intersectional contingent in the hopes that they would support him in the presidential race.

00:35:18.000 Bernie Sanders, there is no question, is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination at this point.

00:35:22.000 Why?

00:35:22.000 Because he is willing to pander to the intersectional base while being overtly socialist.

00:35:27.000 There's a reason that Bernie Sanders came out, he knows better, and decided to openly embrace the anti-semitic members of his own contingent.

00:35:33.000 And to pretend that their anti-semitism was just anti-Israel rhetoric.

00:35:38.000 Make no mistake, the Democratic left knows exactly what it's doing.

00:35:41.000 And now it's gonna get it good and hard.

00:35:43.000 They voted for us, they're gonna get it good and hard.

00:35:45.000 Because if you think the American people stand with the Democratic Party in their willingness to embrace anti-semitism this way, you got another thing coming.

00:35:53.000 If you think the American people are interested in embracing socialism, And radical antisemitism.

00:35:59.000 And that's going to be your platform?

00:36:01.000 You got another thing coming, guys.

00:36:03.000 And you may think you can get away with it because Trump is unpopular.

00:36:06.000 But here's the important thing to remember.

00:36:09.000 President Trump is going to run against someone.

00:36:11.000 It's not just going to be a referendum on Trump.

00:36:12.000 It's going to be a referendum on how radical Democrats decide to be.

00:36:16.000 The American people do not agree with this stuff.

00:36:18.000 I still have enough confidence in the American people to believe that they hate antisemitism and that they are appalled by what they saw yesterday from the Democrats.

00:36:26.000 And that they are appalled by Ilhan Omar's statements and that they are appalled by the radical socialism that is being pressed forward with the support of an intersectional coalition rooted in a hatred of America's hierarchical system.

00:36:40.000 That's the contention of intersectionality.

00:36:42.000 America has a hierarchical system and we need a band together to wreck it.

00:36:46.000 Most Americans don't believe that.

00:36:47.000 Most Americans are not willing to be separated into groups this way and then targeted by group if you don't fall inside the intersectional coalition.

00:36:56.000 What a sad moment for the country, seriously.

00:36:58.000 I'm not somebody who puts a lot of faith in the Democratic Party to do the right thing, as you know.

00:37:02.000 But it's a sad moment for the country.

00:37:03.000 I didn't think it would come to this.

00:37:04.000 I really didn't.

00:37:05.000 Not this quickly, anyway.

00:37:07.000 There were early indicators the Democratic Party was going to move in an anti-Semitic direction.

00:37:11.000 I mean, obviously they've been tolerating Louis Farrakhan for years.

00:37:14.000 Barack Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.

00:37:17.000 But the full-scale embrace, that was something I was not expecting, and I don't think many people were.

00:37:22.000 All right, time for some questions in the mailbag, so let's see.

00:37:26.000 Steven says, Hey Ben, my question is something I'm supposed to do for school.

00:37:29.000 I'm supposed to ask multiple people the definition of what rhetoric is to help form my own.

00:37:33.000 Can you tell me how you would define rhetoric?

00:37:34.000 Thanks, huge fan.

00:37:36.000 Well, I mean, rhetoric, I think, is argumentative style.

00:37:40.000 It is the choice of whether to use emotion or logic in a particular argument, how you reach out to people.

00:37:46.000 That's how I would define rhetoric.

00:37:48.000 And it can be good, it can be bad.

00:37:51.000 But I think the way you express arguments is very clearly linked to how convincing those arguments are.

00:37:57.000 Christian says, Hi, Ben.

00:37:58.000 I'm an 18 year old with ADD.

00:37:59.000 I want to read books, but whenever I try to read, my mind will linger and I don't comprehend what I am reading and or will get very bored very fast.

00:38:06.000 Do you have any advice for getting in the habit of reading and focusing while reading?

00:38:10.000 Well, you know, I will tell you that for me, listening to audiobooks sometimes helps me concentrate more.

00:38:16.000 I don't know if you may be more of an Or a learner, meaning A-U-R-A-L, like a person who learns via listening.

00:38:23.000 If you listen to this podcast, for example, it's basically a firehose of information.

00:38:27.000 You may get the same thing from audio listening to books, or if you really want to slow down and comprehend what you are reading, I would suggest a couple of things.

00:38:35.000 One is you can read some of the parts out loud.

00:38:37.000 Two is something that I've started to do.

00:38:38.000 I never used to underline in my books because I don't like defacing books.

00:38:41.000 I sort of treat books with reverence.

00:38:43.000 But one of the things I've started to do, also because I can do it on Sabbath, is I get those little tabs that allow you to sort of tab a certain page, a little sticky.

00:38:50.000 And I use them when I'm reading, and that helps me focus in because just the mere action of having to focus in on what I want to tab allows me to concentrate a little bit better.

00:38:58.000 Daniel says, do you think the increase in radical left-wing activity in the Democratic Party is going to create an increase in radical right-wing activity as a counter-reaction from the Republicans?

00:39:08.000 Well, I do think that there is always the fact that people in response to bad coalitions tend to form bad coalitions.

00:39:17.000 And I think it's one of the reasons that President Trump went and nodded at the alt-right in 2016, and so many people were willing to go along with that.

00:39:23.000 I think it was because he was suggesting that the end of the world was nigh, so you make common cause with the people who are willing to make common cause with you, no matter how vile.

00:39:31.000 So that would not be surprising to me.

00:39:33.000 In fact, I think that we've already seen that.

00:39:35.000 I think the Democrats, because they are polarized by President Trump, have decided they're going to go as far left as they can and embrace the most radical segments of their own base.

00:39:43.000 As we segment ourselves off societally, and as we see the other side increasingly as the enemy, this thing turns into a spiral of hatred that's going to get worse, I think.

00:39:59.000 Well, I'm in favor of keeping the Electoral College because I do think that states matter.

00:40:04.000 The entire bargain of the Electoral College was that the popular vote was not sufficient.

00:40:08.000 You don't want the entire presidency simply being decided by people who live in New York City and Los Angeles.

00:40:13.000 You'd prefer that people in Montana have a say.

00:40:16.000 And I know there are a lot of people who say, well, you know, that's really bad.

00:40:18.000 The Senate is the same thing.

00:40:20.000 We've seen this call from Democrats now.

00:40:21.000 The Senate is a terrible place because it's non-representative.

00:40:24.000 The original bargain of the United States is a federalist system, not a full-on Not a full-on democracy, not an American democracy, a federalist system where states and the federal government split authority and the states have a share in deciding how federal authority is allocated.

00:40:40.000 That's the argument in favor of the Electoral College.

00:40:43.000 Listen, to get me to run for president, I think, would be a heavy lift.

00:40:46.000 for president just to get that debate with her. 1.00

00:40:48.000 Shapiro 2024.

00:40:49.000 If AOC ran for president in 20...

00:40:52.000 Listen, to get me to run for president, I think would be a heavy lift.

00:40:55.000 It seems like a terrible job and campaigning all the time seems quite awful.

00:40:58.000 But honestly, if I felt it was the best way to help the country, I would do it.

00:41:02.000 Thanks, Philip.

00:41:02.000 Well, I think, first of all, one of the great things about a convention of states is that it reawakens and reinvigorates people's interest in the Constitution.

00:41:07.000 "by the federal government, "what could be added to protect the Constitution "from the branches running over it roughshod?" Thanks, Philip.

00:41:13.000 Well, I think first of all, one of the great things about a convention of states is that it reawakens and reinvigorates people's interest in the Constitution.

00:41:18.000 In the end, the Constitution is a set of parchment barriers.

00:41:21.000 If the American people are not willing to stand up, if the American people are not willing to stand up to violations of the Constitution, then they are going to allow the Constitution to be undercut.

00:41:34.000 Obviously, as far as amendments, I would like to see, I've said before, I would like to see an amendment that forces all congressional pieces of legislation to be shorter than 10 pages in plain language.

00:41:45.000 I would like to see them be on single topics, no more omnibus packages.

00:41:49.000 I would like to see the abolition of departments of government from the executive branch because the executive branch simply has too much power.

00:41:56.000 Administrative government should end.

00:41:57.000 That's where I would start.

00:41:58.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:41:59.000 says, hey, Ben, where do you see the Democratic Party going with respect to their increased radicalism?

00:42:02.000 And if they lose in 2020, do you think they'll triple down on their radical views?

00:42:05.000 Love the show.

00:42:06.000 Thanks.

00:42:06.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:42:07.000 I mean, once you go radical, you rarely go back.

00:42:09.000 There's rarely a turn back to moderation after you go completely radical.

00:42:13.000 Now, if they get shellacked, if they get destroyed, then you might see sort of a Jimmy Carter response to George McGovern from 1972 to 1976.

00:42:19.000 The Democrats saying, listen, we've gone too far.

00:42:22.000 We've lost the American people. 0.95

00:42:24.000 But given that the American electorate is already so closely divided, I don't think that's going to happen.

00:42:28.000 I think they're going to move increasingly in a radical direction.

00:42:30.000 Nathan says, Hey, Ben, I'm a new subscriber.

00:42:33.000 I've been a big fan of your show for almost two years.

00:42:35.000 How many books would you say you own?

00:42:36.000 Do we get to see a tour of your library?

00:42:38.000 Also, what are some of your favorite books that you own?

00:42:41.000 Well, I have, last count, 5,000 books?

00:42:45.000 Something like that?

00:42:46.000 Basically, every place in my house is covered with books.

00:42:49.000 In fact, I've been reading Marie Kondo, and I'm thinking about going and giving away some of the books that I'm not going to reread, and that makes me sad, because I love books so much.

00:42:57.000 Some of my favorite books?

00:42:58.000 Well, I have some signed copies of books.

00:43:00.000 I have a signed copy of Charles Krauthammer's book, I have a signed copy of the Tom Wolfe book.

00:43:06.000 I have some, you know, Churchill books, obviously.

00:43:10.000 I have an old set of his history of World War II.

00:43:14.000 And then just in terms of books that I love, the Federalist Papers I refer to often, obviously.

00:43:18.000 Alexis de Tocqueville I refer to quite often.

00:43:21.000 I have the full papers of Abraham Lincoln, refer to that a lot.

00:43:26.000 And then, of course, I have my Jewish books, my Sepharim.

00:43:28.000 So that would be the Tanakh, the Torah, and the Prophets and the Writings.

00:43:32.000 I refer to that a lot.

00:43:34.000 I have a lot of books and I love all of them, honestly.

00:43:36.000 I feel more comfortable surrounded by books.

00:43:38.000 When I was in law school and I was lonely, I went out to bookstores.

00:43:40.000 Well, yeah, I mean, I do.

00:43:41.000 I think that you've seen this in Europe.

00:43:42.000 and honestly, it made me feel emotionally better to be surrounded by great thinkers and be able to essentially converse with them across the centuries.

00:43:50.000 David says, "Do you think an increasingly anti-Semitic platform from the Democratic Party may lead to an increase of American Jewish immigration to Israel in the near future?" Well, yeah, I mean, I do. 1.00

00:43:59.000 I think that you've seen this in Europe.

00:44:00.000 I think that what you've seen in Europe is as anti-Semitism has increased, people are leaving.

00:44:04.000 France is seeing a year-over-year decrease in the Jewish population because so many families are leaving and moving to Israel.

00:44:10.000 If it turns out that America moves in the same direction, why exactly would American Jews stay in danger and not move somewhere else? 0.51

00:44:18.000 If it turns out they have nowhere else to go.

00:44:21.000 So yeah, I do think that you'll see more Jews making Aliyah.

00:44:23.000 Alright, let's see.

00:44:26.000 Chris says, Dear Ben, I've always had the personal goal of attending an Ivy League school.

00:44:29.000 Based on your experiences at both Harvard and UCLA, is there a major difference between the two with regard to opportunity?

00:44:35.000 I feel as if the only surefire way to have significant influence in academia, politics, etc.

00:44:39.000 is to attend one of these schools.

00:44:40.000 Thank you.

00:44:40.000 Well, there's no question that credentialing matters an awful lot to folks because we're not allowed to take IQ tests publicly and we're not allowed to grade people on the basis of those sorts of tests.

00:44:52.000 And so what people tend to do is they use degree as a stand-in for intelligence.

00:44:56.000 So if someone graduated from Harvard, then we sort of assume they're smarter than somebody who graduated from the local junior college, for example, which sometimes is true and sometimes is not actually.

00:45:06.000 And in terms of practical knowledge, very often is not.

00:45:09.000 With that said, you know, I believe that going to Harvard is a significant advantage.

00:45:15.000 It does create social networks that allow you to take advantage of people that you know.

00:45:20.000 There's a great book by What is his name?

00:45:24.000 J.D.

00:45:24.000 Vance.

00:45:25.000 Hillbilly Elegy, where he talks about moving from sort of Appalachia to Yale Law School and how that changed his life.

00:45:30.000 There's no question social networks matter.

00:45:33.000 And Jesse says, Hey Ben, what are your thoughts on the massive Bryce Harper-Manny Machado contracts?

00:45:37.000 I know the White Sox were at least in on Machado during the offseason.

00:45:40.000 Well, I mean, my thought is that they got what they felt they could get in the market.

00:45:44.000 I wouldn't have signed a contract for that much with these guys, particularly not Machado.

00:45:48.000 I mean, at least Bryce Harper has a track record of production, and he doesn't have as much of an attitude problem.

00:45:54.000 Machado wouldn't even run out ground balls with the Dodgers.

00:45:56.000 So that, to me, is a massive red flag.

00:45:59.000 Clinton says, Dear future President Shapiro, As of today, I am now a year-long subscriber partly because I wanted to pose this question to you.

00:46:05.000 In light of recent events involving anti-Semitism and fresh faces, can you help clarify as to why there are so many people out there who believe Israel is land stolen from Palestinians?

00:46:12.000 Additionally, can you point me to more evidence as to how or why Palestine is linked to terror organizations that push to oppress the Jewish state?

00:46:19.000 Admittedly, I don't know much about the conflicts in Israel or their origins, And I think this is true for everyday Americans, thus making it difficult for them to condemn recent anti-Semitism, especially with the media muddying the waters.

00:46:28.000 Thanks for all you do.

00:46:29.000 A lot of people believe Israel is land stolen from Palestinians because they don't know their history.

00:46:33.000 Israel is the historic Jewish homeland.

00:46:35.000 The only reason anyone cares about it is because the Jews were there first. 1.00

00:46:37.000 There's been continuous Jewish presence in Israel for legitimately three millennia. 1.00

00:46:42.000 And the notion that Israel stole land that Jews have been living on forever Is absolutely asinine and ridiculous. 0.97

00:46:52.000 The British mandate limited Jewish immigration into British Palestine. 0.99

00:46:56.000 They tried to prevent Jews from moving in.

00:46:58.000 Jews were discriminated against and massacred in places like Hebron in 1929, long before there was a Jewish state there.

00:47:05.000 There has never been an independent Palestinian state in that region ever.

00:47:10.000 It was under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire.

00:47:13.000 It was under the auspices of the British Mandate.

00:47:15.000 It was never.

00:47:16.000 There just wasn't.

00:47:17.000 There was not an independent Palestinian state in that region.

00:47:19.000 There are lots of other states.

00:47:20.000 In fact, the term Palestinian used to refer to Jew.

00:47:23.000 It used to refer to Jew because every Palestinian is, if you go back three generations, Syrian or Egyptian or Jordanian.

00:47:30.000 70% of Jordan is ethnically Palestinian.

00:47:34.000 So, there is a Palestinian state already.

00:47:36.000 It exists in Jordan.

00:47:37.000 If you want another two-state solution, one that was rejected by the Palestinians in... and all the Arab nations, by the way, in 1948... 748.

00:47:45.000 If you want a second one, you're gonna have to have a government that actually wants to negotiate and create a peaceful situation.

00:47:51.000 Instead, Palestinians have decided that the only solution is the complete wholesale destruction of the state of Israel.

00:47:56.000 That is part of the Palestinian Authority mandate.

00:47:59.000 It's part of their charter.

00:48:00.000 It's part of the Hamas charter. 0.97

00:48:01.000 The official government stance of Israel's quote-unquote negotiating partners is that Israel ought to be destroyed.

00:48:08.000 That's not a negotiating partner.

00:48:10.000 Israel's been willing to make territorial concessions repeatedly and has done so repeatedly.

00:48:15.000 And it's weird, because the Palestine Liberation Organization, supposedly created to liberate Palestine, was formed in 1964.

00:48:20.000 In 1964, guess who controlled the West Bank and the Gaza Strip?

00:48:25.000 Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip, Jordan controlled the West Bank, the so-called West Bank in Judea and Samaria.

00:48:29.000 So why would you need to liberate Palestine if it was already controlled by Muslim countries? 1.00

00:48:33.000 The answer?

00:48:34.000 What they mean by Palestine Liberation Organization is exactly what Marc Lamont Hill has said. 0.84

00:48:38.000 From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free, no state of Israel destroy the place, kill as many Jews as possible in the process. 1.00

00:48:44.000 Okay.

00:48:46.000 Time, and if you want a good resource on this, there's a really good book by Eli Bard called Myths and Facts that in very simple fashion goes through a lot of the frequently asked questions about the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

00:48:55.000 Alright, time for some things that I like.

00:48:58.000 So, things I like today, there's a great new book out by Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner and the American Enterprise Institute.

00:49:03.000 It's called Alienated America. 0.63

00:49:05.000 Why some places thrive while others collapse.

00:49:07.000 And in it, Timothy Carney talks about why certain areas in the United States seem to be doing well while others seem to be doing very poorly.

00:49:13.000 And he points out that the areas in the United States that have the least social cohesion tend to be the ones that voted heavily for President Trump in, for example, the Republican primaries.

00:49:22.000 The people who feel dispossessed, people who feel that America is not what it used to be, that those people voted for President Trump because President Trump was resonating to their message and they were resonating to his.

00:49:34.000 So what exactly is going on in these areas?

00:49:35.000 Timothy Carney goes through it factor by factor.

00:49:37.000 He talks about the economic effects of trade in certain areas, as opposed to overall.

00:49:42.000 He talks about the economic effects of robotization, of massive industries.

00:49:48.000 But mostly what he talks about is the fact that all of the units of social cohesion that used to exist, family, church, Social institutions have collapsed in a lot of areas of the country, and that if you actually want to revitalize those areas of the country, it doesn't actually start at the factory per se.

00:50:02.000 It's not a matter of economics alone, certainly.

00:50:05.000 It is more a matter of rebuilding these social institutions and rebuilding the social fabric.

00:50:09.000 It's a terrific book, Alienated America.

00:50:10.000 You should go out and purchase it right now.

00:50:12.000 It actually echoes a lot of the same themes that I hit in my new book that is coming out in just about a week and a half here, The Right Side of History.

00:50:20.000 You should go check out my book as well, but Alienated America is a really fantastic book by Timothy Connery.

00:50:25.000 It's an easy read and well written.

00:50:27.000 Go check that out.

00:50:28.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:50:30.000 I have to note, a thing that I really like, a person that I really like.

00:50:33.000 So, my producer, Senya, unfortunately, is moving on, and she is wonderful.

00:50:39.000 She is just terrific.

00:50:40.000 I can't say enough wonderful things about Senya.

00:50:42.000 She is a kind, generous human being.

00:50:44.000 She deals with all of my foibles on a daily basis.

00:50:46.000 But more than that, she is a warm soul, and I am so appreciative of the time that she has spent with us here at The Daily Wire and on The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:50:55.000 She's just a terrific person, and I feel like we've become good friends, and so I just wanted to wish her the best, because this is her last day of work here, so she's liberated.

00:51:03.000 She gets to go and do something fun.

00:51:05.000 But we're definitely gonna miss her, so... Senya is the chief thing human that I like today.

00:51:11.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:51:17.000 Okay, so the thing that I hate today, I talked about a little bit yesterday on my radio show, but Ayaan Presley is another one of the fresh faces of Congress.

00:51:24.000 She is from Massachusetts.

00:51:25.000 She has not gotten anywhere near the attention of the other fresh faces. 1.00

00:51:28.000 Nonetheless, she made an insane, ridiculous, and silly proposal yesterday. 0.99

00:51:31.000 She suggested that we lower the voting age to 16. 0.96

00:51:34.000 Since the days of abolitionists, suffragists, and civil rights activists, young people have been pushing the wheels of progress forward.

00:51:42.000 These youth, our young people, who will inherit the nation we design here by virtue of our policies, or by default of our policies and authority, these very same young people should also have a say in who represents them.

00:51:57.000 For your consideration, amendment number 127, which would lower the minimum voting age in federal elections from 18 to 16 years of age.

00:52:07.000 Okay, yeah, good luck with that.

00:52:08.000 My favorite thing about this is that she went on to explain why 16-year-olds should vote.

00:52:12.000 She says many of them have jobs.

00:52:13.000 Is that going to be a requirement now?

00:52:14.000 You have to have a job to vote?

00:52:16.000 If that's the case, I'm fine with abolishing all limits on age.

00:52:20.000 If you just have a job, have to have a job to vote, man, this is not going to go great for Democrats.

00:52:26.000 Honestly.

00:52:27.000 But that's not really what she means.

00:52:28.000 What she means is that we should continue to expand the voter base to a bunch of people who are dependent on government largesse.

00:52:32.000 When you're 16 years old, you are still in a publicly run high school.

00:52:35.000 And that means that your teachers and your peers are going to steer you how to vote. 0.96

00:52:40.000 All of this is absolutely silly. 0.92

00:52:41.000 16 year olds are less mature than they ever have been at any time in human history. 0.94

00:52:47.000 400 years ago, 16-year-olds were expected to move out of the house and be married already.

00:52:51.000 Really.

00:52:52.000 And even 150 years ago, 16-year-olds were getting ready to move out.

00:52:57.000 They're already apprenticing themselves.

00:52:59.000 They're already getting jobs.

00:53:00.000 They're already getting ready to start a family.

00:53:02.000 The average age of first marriage in the United States, even 50 years ago, was about 20 for both men and women.

00:53:07.000 Now the average age of marriage is about 73 in the United States.

00:53:11.000 If you are 26, you're still on your parent's health insurance program.

00:53:14.000 If anything, we should be raising the voting age.

00:53:16.000 And I'm speaking as someone who was probably qualified to vote when I was 16 since I was already in college.

00:53:20.000 I would gladly, gladly have raised the voting age when I was 25 to prevent other people who are 25 from voting, particularly if they're still living at home and reliant on mommy and daddy's health insurance plan.

00:53:32.000 Alrighty.

00:53:33.000 Well, we will be back here later today with two more hours.

00:53:34.000 We'll be joined by Representative Lee Zeldin of New York.

00:53:37.000 He's one of the Republicans who voted against the supposed faux anti-hate resolution from the Democrats.

00:53:42.000 He'll stop by to explain why.

00:53:44.000 You should stop by too.

00:53:45.000 That's why you should subscribe so you can actually listen to those two hours.

00:53:47.000 If not, we will see you here for the Sunday special, if you're a subscriber, the Saturday special, and then we'll see you here again on Monday.

00:53:53.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - March 08, 2019

The Anti-Semites Are Laughing | Ep. 733

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