Less than a month ago, we saw the worst attack on Jews since the holocaust. Since then, we ve also seen the worst global spike in anti-Semitism since the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism has gone up since October 7th by several hundred percent compared with the same period last year. But there s something peculiar about all the media reports about the extravagant spike in antisemitism: every single story also carries notes about a supposedly concomitant rise in Islamophobia. What is Islamophobia and what does it have to do with antisemitic attacks on Jews? And why is it so important that the media focus on supposed Islamophobia as a form of Islamophobia, when in fact there is no such thing as Islamophobia at all? And what is the point of CAIR s support for Hamas and support for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas? Is CAIR anti-Semitic? And is it also anti-Judea and anti-Zionist? And why does CAIR support Hamas and oppose American aid to Israel and the Abrahamaccords? And who are the real enemies of the Jewish people by supporting Hamas and supporting the terrorist group? Israel? Is it really anti-Israel? or is it pro-Hamas and pro-Judaism? Or is it anti-Americanism? And does it all a matter of who Israel is to blame? and who is pro-Israel or anti-Jew ? And what does the media have to say about the growing threat to Israel ? and what Israel is really fighting against it? Join us in this episode of the Anti-Israelism and its response to the latest attack on the worst anti- Israel attack on Jewish people in recent history? on the latest episode of and why it s better than any other than Israel s response to that attack on Israel s worst attack in the past century? of course, right here on Anti-Jew on this podcast on the anti-of-the-Holocaust? by . by David Frum by Norma Elazar, ? by Chassidus, by Zushaar, , by . by , , by , and by ? by . . and , , and by . , is by Maan, and so much more! by Dr. in this podcast than .
00:00:00.000Less than a month ago, we saw the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
00:00:03.000Since then, we've also seen the worst global spike in anti-Semitism since the Holocaust.
00:00:08.000According to Reuters, quote, in countries where figures are available from police or civil society groups, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and South Africa, the pattern is clear.
00:00:16.000The number of anti-Semitic incidents has gone up since October 7th by several hundred percent compared with the same period last year.
00:00:23.000Such incidents range from verbal abuse to threats to property attacks to actual assaults.
00:00:27.000Some are happening on our nation's campuses.
00:00:29.000This one happened at Harvard, where the editor of the Harvard Law Review, Ibrahim Baramal, joined in.
00:00:33.000You can see the crowd mobilizing around a Jewish student, pushing the Jewish student around.
00:00:45.000Again, one of these people is the editor of the Harvard Law Review.
00:00:49.000Anti-Semitism also extends into the administrative halls of our universities.
00:00:53.000Georgetown just hired the radical anti-Semite Anissa Johnson as new assistant director of academic affairs.
00:01:10.000This is the kind of person who apparently gets hired at Georgetown.
00:01:13.000Meanwhile, Ilya Shapiro, a law professor, was thrown out of his job for the crime of suggesting that Joe Biden was picking judicial nominees based on race, which he said himself.
00:01:24.000Meanwhile, some Jewish businesses are being boycotted for the crime of being Jewish businesses.
00:01:29.000According to the Washington Post, more than 30 Jewish eateries and markets in Philadelphia are now being hit with a boycott organized by a pro-Hamas group because they are, quote, owned by Zionists.
00:01:38.000Even some shops that aren't even owned by Jews are being boycotted because they serve Israeli food, because according to the Philly-Palestine coalition, such a food is, quote, a means of erasing Palestinian existence, unquote.
00:01:47.000But there's something peculiar about all the media reports about the extravagant spike in anti-Semitism.
00:01:52.000Every single story also carries notes about a supposedly concomitant rise in Islamophobia.
00:02:05.000Precisely nothing, that is, unless you wish to suggest that response to antisemitism is linked with Islamophobia.
00:02:11.000That if you wish to oppose radical Muslim antisemitism, that, in fact, is an aspect of Islamophobia.
00:02:16.000Which, of course, is precisely what antisemites are suggesting these days.
00:02:20.000Take, for example, Corey Saylor of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:02:24.000CARE is the most frequently cited group in America on, quote, rising Islamophobia.
00:02:28.000CARE is also a group that, by the way, was an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of Hamas front charity, the Holy Land Foundation.
00:02:34.000Saylor himself refuses to condemn boycotts on Jewish businesses.
00:02:37.000He told the Washington Post, quote, it is 100% on the table to criticize supporters of Israeli apartheid.
00:02:42.000Care itself accuses Israel of, quote, textbook ethnic cleansing and war crime for defending itself, trots out anti-Semite extraordinaire Linda Sarsour, and promotes the Hamas lie that Israel bombed a hospital.
00:02:52.000Of course, it was Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:02:53.000On October 7th, the date of the Hamas massacre, Care National tweeted, quote, we join the American Muslim community in reaffirming our support for the Palestinian people's right to freedom and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation, which sparks the deadly violence that we see again and again, including today.
00:03:08.000On October 7th, before any Israeli response at all, CAIR also called for an end to American aid to Israel and the Abraham Accords.
00:03:15.000The group has not offered a single word condemning Hamas.
00:03:20.000Good thing the Biden administration infamously invited CAIR to participate in its national anti-Semitism strategy back in May.
00:03:26.000CAIR is, by any stretch of the imagination, a giant fomenter of anti-Semitism.
00:03:31.000But that, of course, is the point of focusing on supposed Islamophobia.
00:03:34.000The goal is to treat response to antisemitism as a form of Islamophobia.
00:03:39.000So, for example, Saylor claims it is Islamophobia to publicize the names of students who signed petitions siding with Hamas, while simultaneously claiming it's not antisemitism to boycott Jewish businesses because they're Jewish.
00:03:51.000Columbia University is playing the same game.
00:03:53.000The president of Columbia University sent out a letter yesterday praising the quote persistence and perseverance of students who have signed letters supporting Hamas after their names and faces have been shown publicly.
00:04:02.000Opposing Hamas means Islamophobia apparently.
00:04:05.000The legacy media feel the same way too.
00:04:07.000That's precisely why since October 7th the media have rushed to link anti-semitism and Islamophobia as though the two phenomena are part of a cycle of hatred.
00:04:16.000That's a disgusting wrong take that excuses antisemitism through false charges of Islamophobia.
00:04:21.000But it's an extraordinarily common take on the left these days.
00:04:23.000One variation on the theme comes from Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who has now emerged as one of the nation's leading antisemites.
00:04:29.000She now accuses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of being an extremist group attempting to undermine American democracy and targeting members of color.
00:04:37.000Yes, those wily Jews and their dirty shekels are clearly the problem as antisemitism around the nation spikes.
00:04:43.000They must be stopped, according to AOC.
00:04:45.000The Biden administration itself is falling into the trap of linking anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, a link that has the purposeful goal of demonizing opposition to Hamas.
00:04:53.000Fearful of their own base, the Biden administration announced yesterday a White House national strategy to combat Islamophobia, again, in the middle of the worst spike in anti-Semitism of my lifetime or my parents' lifetime.
00:05:03.000Karine Jean-Pierre explained, quote, But Islamophobia is the real issue.
00:05:05.000in America and those perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a disproportionate
00:05:09.000number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents. In actuality, Sikhs are targeted far
00:05:14.000more often than Muslims, according to the FBI, despite representing just a few hundred thousand
00:05:18.000people in the United States. Jews represent around 60 percent of all victims of federally
00:05:23.000monitored hate crime, despite representing about two percent of the American population.
00:05:26.000But Islamophobia is the real issue. Here was Vice President Kamala Harris announcing the
00:05:31.000new initiative yesterday. As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the humanitarian
00:05:38.000crisis in Gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Semitic
00:05:44.000and Islamophobic incidents across America, including the brutal attack of a Palestinian
00:05:51.000American woman who was Muslim and the killing of her six-year-old son.
00:05:57.000A senseless act of violence that the Department of Justice is investigating as a hate crime.
00:06:04.000For so many people in our nation, the past few days and weeks have brought about all too familiar fears.
00:06:12.000Fears that they will be targeted, profiled, or attacked simply because of who they are, how they worship, or how they look.
00:06:22.000Again, linking these two things is ridiculous.
00:06:25.000The case that she cites, by the way, which is a horrifying crime against a Palestinian-American mom and her child.
00:06:34.000You can't find a Jew in America who won't condemn it.
00:06:36.000However, you can find Care National that will not condemn Hamas.
00:06:40.000So why is the White House playing this game?
00:06:42.000Because they're attempting to buy back the support of radical Muslims across the United States who are enraged that the White House has sided with Israel instead of Hamas.
00:06:49.000The latest polls show that nearly 6 in 10 American Muslims agree that Hamas was justified in attacking Israel as part of their struggle for a Palestinian state.
00:06:56.000The White House is trying to buy off the Hamas fans by jabbering about the supposed victimhood to which those Hamas fans are subjected.
00:07:03.000It continues to drive a false narrative that opposition to Hamas and opposition to Hamas fans is opposition to Muslims more broadly, a proposition that Muslims themselves should reject.
00:07:13.000Although we're still waiting for a lot of people to do so.
00:07:16.000The moderate Muslims have been conspicuously silent.
00:07:19.000If the Biden administration feels the necessity to keep radical Muslims in their electoral coalition by pandering, that says something pretty nasty about their moral stature in fighting anti-Semitism, as they claim they actually want to do.
00:07:29.000In just one second, we'll get to the situation in Britain.
00:07:32.000Which is going to become a lot worse over the course of the next few weeks.
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00:08:40.000Over in Britain, a lot of this is going to come to a head because apparently there is a planned pro-Hamas rally, a million strong march in favor of Hamas and of course against those horrible Jews who are defending themselves in Israel.
00:08:53.000They're going to do it on Remembrance Day.
00:08:56.000According to the UK Express, an MP has now called for the military to be drafted in to keep the peace in London after it emerged that these protesters are organizing their march on Remembrance Day.
00:09:06.000The planned day of the protest, November 11th, will clash directly with this year's Remembrance Day.
00:09:10.000It comes a day before the annual Cenotaph Memorial for Remembrance Sunday.
00:09:14.000Despite the head of the Met, Sir Mark Rowley, telling the London Assembly the protesters, quote, will not be allowed near the official events or to disrupt them, there are serious concerns about how such a large protest can take place while maintaining law and order.
00:09:26.000A Tory MP has told the Express that the Metropolitan Police and Sadiq Khan, who is the mayor of London, must ask for military assistance.
00:09:32.000Crowley MP Henry Smith said, quote, And that, of course, is exactly right.
00:09:34.000of demonstrations where the cenotaph and other national monuments have been grossly disrespected.
00:09:38.000It's completely inappropriate for further protests to be held over Remembrance Weekend.
00:09:42.000He said, I don't have confidence in the mayor of London or the police under him to properly handle the situation
00:10:04.000There are many Muslims who are happy to live in a place like Britain or like the United States and who are happy to engage with Western countries and imbibe from the well of Western values.
00:10:14.000They're just not the people who are marching in favor of Hamas.
00:10:17.000And those people, there are a lot of those people.
00:10:19.000And trying to pretend that that's not happening in the face of images that are extraordinary from places like London or from America's college campuses, that is absolutely foolhardy.
00:10:29.000Now, what's amazing about all of this is that because the media have basically taken the side of Hamas in this conflict, which was the most predictable thing, they swiveled directly from, we can't believe this atrocity that Hamas created to, Israel is committing atrocities every single day.
00:10:41.000It's the Occupation II state solution.
00:10:43.000Like, just parroting every Hamas talking point.
00:10:45.000Because of that, you're starting to see wavering inside the Biden administration.
00:10:49.000And it's only coming from a radical few, by the way.
00:10:52.000It does show the power of the legacy media.
00:10:54.000Now, for all the talk about how the legacy media has been challenged or overthrown, and it's true, they haven't been completely overthrown.
00:10:59.000They still have an enormous amount of weight with members, for example, of the Biden administration.
00:11:04.000All it takes is a radical few people to apparently move the Democratic coalition toward placating Hamas in some way.
00:11:11.000So yesterday, Mr. President, if you care about Jewish people as a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now.
00:12:10.000You can see, this person probably has a rabbinic degree from Yeshiva University, from Ritz.
00:12:15.000This person obviously is knowledgeable in all aspects of halakha.
00:12:19.000I mean, except for every single aspect of halakha.
00:12:22.000But sure, a posake, a gadol hador over here.
00:12:26.000I know it's a lot of Hebrew for people who are not inside the Orthodox community, but everybody who's in Orthodox town right now is laughing because that's an absurdity piled on top of an absurdity.
00:14:02.000There's a hilarious video going around that I'll play for you in a moment, demonstrating just how little people know about anything when they say that they support Hamas or support, quote unquote, free Palestine from the river to the sea and all this nonsense.
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00:16:28.000And when young people say that they are in favor of Hamas, it's because they literally don't know what they're talking about.
00:16:33.000If you go to any of these rallies, and you find a person who is not a radical Muslim, you just find a left-wing fellow traveler, and you ask them, which river and which sea are you talking about?
00:16:40.000When you say, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free?
00:18:14.000Okay, so that is Mikey Greenblatt, and he's just going up to people.
00:18:16.000People express support for the quote-unquote oppressed without thinking about whether the oppressed are actually oppressed or actually good.
00:18:23.000And that's one of the reasons why you see young people constantly resonating to the wrong side of conflicts.
00:18:29.000They look at any conflict, and because they've been taught to think in a deconstructionist way, because they think of all relationships as relationships of power, and this is what they've been taught in their schools, what they've been taught in their universities, because when they do...
00:18:40.000The first thing they do is they say who's powerful and who has less power.
00:18:43.000And whoever is powerful must be bad, and whoever is powerless must be exploited, oppressed, and therefore good.
00:18:50.000But they don't think about any of that stuff, and so they sign on to these movements until it's too late, obviously.
00:18:55.000Now, the thing about this is that the Democrats should know better, but apparently they don't.
00:19:00.000So now you're hearing rumblings that the Biden administration is going to try to put pressure on Israel for some sort of humanitarian ceasefire or to ship fuel in to the Gaza Strip.
00:19:08.000Let me explain something about this fuel situation.
00:19:10.000Hamas has hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel.
00:19:15.000They're using it to maintain their presence in these tunnels, because when the fuel goes out, all of their generators go out.
00:19:20.000When the generators go out, you can't live underground.
00:19:22.000They would have to come up and actually fight the Israelis, like men, instead of like rats.
00:19:25.000But instead, what they are doing is they're staying down in the tunnels, and they are hiding their civilians on top, so that if Israel has to strike the tunnels, civilians get killed, and then they can go to the compliant press, the complacent press, the pro-Hamas press, and then get those people to mimic their line, that Israel is attempting to kill civilians.
00:19:42.000When Israel is the only party in this conflict attempting to minimize the killing of civilians.
00:20:55.000So when you have people like Joe Biden telling Israel to ship fuel in that is immediately going to be stolen by Hamas to power their tunnels, all you are doing is prolonging this conflict.
00:21:03.000All you are doing is making the situation worse.
00:21:06.000Meanwhile, You have Tony Blinken trying to tell Israel that maybe, maybe, maybe there should be some ceasefires.
00:21:37.000It's all the most left-wing members of the Democratic coalition.
00:21:40.000It's Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois.
00:21:42.000Senator Dick Durbin is the same guy who once compared American soldiers in Iraq to Pol Pot.
00:21:47.000And now this moral genius, he's suggesting that he wants a ceasefire.
00:21:50.000By the way, a ceasefire helps only one party in this conflict, Hamas.
00:21:54.000The reason that they are begging, screaming, pleading for a ceasefire right now is because Israel, tactically speaking, is now surrounding Gaza City.
00:22:00.000A huge percentage of Hamas' leadership is in Gaza City.
00:22:04.000The reason they want a ceasefire right now is to restock, to resupply, to maybe smuggle people out.
00:22:09.000That's the whole reason for the ceasefire.
00:22:11.000By the way, there was a ceasefire in place between Israel and Hamas until October 6th.
00:22:15.000Then on October 7th, that ceasefire was violated by the worst anti-Semitic killings since the Holocaust.
00:22:20.000All these moral dementia patients, like Dick Durbin, calling for a ceasefire on behalf of Hamas.
00:22:46.000An effort should be made to engage in conversation between The Israelis and the Palestinians.
00:22:52.000Let's face it, this has gone on for decades.
00:22:55.000Whenever the rationale from the beginning has now reached an intolerable level, we need to have a resolution in the Middle East that gives some promise for the future.
00:23:08.000The part where they slaughtered 1,500 Jews and took another 200 prisoners?
00:23:12.000Killed a bunch of foreign people as well?
00:23:14.000Is it like what, our holding American citizens killed a bunch of American citizens?
00:23:17.000Which part of that, which is, how, what was the level at which it reached intolerable for Dick Durbin?
00:23:21.000Was it when there were some ugly pictures on TV because war is ugly and horrific, especially when your enemy is propping up women and children in front of bombs to try to protect their terrorists?
00:23:31.000Again, the insane logic of people who are now suggesting that it is up to Israel to stop killing terrorists because those terrorists have chosen to hide themselves among civilians.
00:23:48.000You're saying the smartest thing you can do is murder civilians on the other side and then run and hide behind civilians on your own side.
00:23:53.000In other words, the more laws of war you violate, the more we can call on the other side to not kill you, which is totally the reverse of the incentive structure you want to set up.
00:24:03.000If the whole point of the rules of war is to get people into uniform on a battlefield away from civilians, then you can't reward them for hiding behind civilians, which is exactly what Dick Durbin wants to do.
00:24:15.000Chris Murphy, of course, is the ridiculous senator from Connecticut.
00:24:19.000He's always been really soft when it comes to Israel.
00:24:23.000He says, as I've said consistently, Israel has a right and an obligation to defend its people from terror attacks like the horrific events of October 7th.
00:24:28.000The Hamas terrorists who planned and executed those attacks must be held accountable, and the ability of Hamas to carry out similar attacks in the future must be eliminated.
00:24:35.000It's time for Israel's friends to recognize the current operational approach is causing an unacceptable level of civilian harm and does not appear likely to achieve the goal of permanently ending the threat from Hamas.
00:24:57.000I mean, let's be fair, he did get his JD from University of Connecticut Law School.
00:25:01.000I mean, that's pretty impressive in terms of his military credentials to talk about what is going to be successful militarily and what is not.
00:25:08.000When he says this is not dedicated toward eliminating Hamas or is unlikely to eliminate, then why is Hamas standing for the ceasefire?
00:25:18.000Presumably, if it were in the best interest of Israel to Pursue a ceasefire, it would be Hamas not wanting a ceasefire and Israel wanting a ceasefire.
00:25:25.000Trying to pretend that he's a friend of Israel while undercutting Israel's military policy is ridiculously stupid.
00:25:33.000He says, as we have learned from America's own counterterrorism campaigns, disproportionately large number of civilian casualties come with a moral cost, but also a strategic cost, as terrorist groups feed off of grievances caused by civilian harm.
00:25:44.000Israel is doing its best to distinguish between civilian and terrorist in the Gaza Strip.
00:25:49.000Hamas is attempting to obscure that, and he is now declaring that Hamas should effectively have him immunity.
00:25:54.000He says, I share Israel's desire to destroy the threat from Hamas.
00:25:57.000He says, I know Israel cares about the impact of this war on innocent Palestinians, even as they track Hamas' hideouts inside and below mosques, apartment buildings, and schools.
00:26:04.000But the way in which the current campaign is being waged suggests they've not struck the right balance between military necessity and proportionality.
00:26:13.000He says he urges Israel to shift to a more deliberate and proportionate counter-terrorism campaign, surgically targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and terrorist infrastructure, while more highly prioritizing the safety of civilians.
00:26:23.000So, I'm just wondering, what exactly does that look like?
00:26:26.000I assume what he means is he wants more Jewish soldiers to die in Gaza, going house to house.
00:26:33.000That he thinks that the Jewish army has an obligation to get many, many, many of its soldiers murdered on the streets of Gaza by terrorists and some quasi-civilian supporters.
00:26:43.000I mean, by the way, the distinction between civilian and non-civilian is very real, but it's very difficult when people blur the line.
00:26:52.000There are many civilians, people who are not formal members of Hamas, who took part in the actual attacks of October 7th.
00:26:58.000But of course, Chris Murphy, it's not about principle here.
00:27:01.000Trying to argue with people like Chris Murphy, it's very difficult because, frankly, Chris Murphy doesn't care about the truth and he doesn't care about the reality.
00:27:13.000Which presumably is why they're constantly blasting out, like truly blasting out, Hamas propagandists.
00:27:20.000So just a couple days ago, I played on this show a video report from the Washington Post that featured some social media influencers from Gaza.
00:27:28.000One of them was a woman named Plestia Alakad.
00:27:31.000Well, it turns out that a lot of these quote unquote social media influencers from Gaza It turns out a huge number of those people are, you know, actual propaganda fronts for Hamas.
00:27:43.000According to the Jerusalem Post, Plestia Al-Akkad has more than a million followers and calls herself an independent journalist, but spread the lie on Instagram and in an interview with British TV that Israel bombed the Al-Akhli hospital and killed more than a thousand people.
00:27:57.000She told Britain's GB News, quote, it's a genocide, literally a genocide and not a massacre.
00:28:02.000In her post, she has not provided any explanation for the commencement of the airstrikes on Gaza, namely the October 7th massacre.
00:28:07.000Another influential figure is Bisan Ouda, who presents herself as a filmmaker hailing from Gaza, Palestine, with a substantial following numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
00:28:15.000Her posts have received endorsements from well-known figures associated with anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories.
00:28:20.000Following the October 7th massacre, she posted a note in Arabic on social media.
00:28:38.000Again, they're still using the Council on American Islamic Relations, which was once labeled an unindicted co-conspirator in a conspiracy to funnel money from a false charity called the Holy Land Foundation to Hamas.
00:28:51.000And they're being quoted by the media as a source on Islamophobia.
00:28:55.000I searched the entire Karen National feed yesterday.
00:29:03.000And yet they are seen as some sort of moderate force?
00:29:06.000The media are perfectly willing to overlook the actual extreme anti-Semitic radicalism of many of the sources they are using in order to rip Israel.
00:30:35.000But when you decide on striking targets that you say are military targets but are also where civilians are, I mean, how many civilian deaths does Israel believe are acceptable in an airstrike if it is a military target?
00:30:49.000So obviously we try to keep any collateral damage to a minimum, as minimum as possible.
00:30:54.000And the advantage of this particular location is that it has been largely, not totally, but largely evacuated because we were telling people there two weeks ago longer that they should evacuate.
00:31:06.000Okay, so again, CNN putting the pressure on, and this is the goal of the media, put the pressure on Israel.
00:31:10.000Why isn't Israel taking care of the civilians better?
00:31:12.000Why isn't Israel doing a better job with civilians?
00:31:15.000There are reports that during that Jabalia strike, that there were women and children who literally marched out by Hamas, literally marched out by Hamas in order to get them killed.
00:31:37.000Because usually I'm in the business of trying to provide what I think are reasonable arguments to generally people I think are reasonable and are able to hear reasonable arguments.
00:31:46.000But we can make reasonable arguments and we can disagree on these things.
00:31:49.000When Hamas says a thing, and then I repeat that they have said the thing, and then people say, I don't care whether Hamas said the thing, doesn't matter, it's Israel's fault.
00:31:57.000Or, sure, Hamas said the thing, but they don't really mean it deep down.
00:32:01.000Or, sure, Hamas said it, and they really mean it, but the real reason is that it's the Jews, after all.
00:32:06.000You're no longer engaged in anything remotely resembling a rational conversation, you're engaged in a propagandistic effort to prop up a genocidal Jew-hating group that openly declares its desire to exterminate Jews.
00:32:17.000And then you expect people to have arguments with that.
00:32:19.000There's no way to have an argument with that position because that's not a rational position.
00:32:24.000And it's not a position that's capable of being breached by rational thought.
00:32:27.000That's the part that's extremely hard.
00:32:29.000But you're seeing it all over the media from supposedly rational people.
00:32:33.000You've got Ezra Klein who's declaring what's going on in Gaza.
00:32:44.000You can't get a single one of the people who are decrying the horrors happening in Gaza to say that Hamas should just surrender.
00:32:50.000It will end literally tomorrow if Hamas surrenders.
00:32:53.000They're holding 242 hostages right now, including dozens of small children, babies, nine-month-olds, and they murdered 1,500 people in their beds.
00:33:08.000And so all we're supposed to look at are the casualty numbers that are created by Hamas specifically so you will do this.
00:33:14.000It's just Hamas agitprop out of the mouth of mainstream media reporters.
00:33:19.000Palestinian health officials say that more than 8,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed since October 7th.
00:33:25.000And I want to note here that there is a fog of war.
00:33:27.000It is possible these numbers are wrong.
00:33:29.000It is also, of course, possible that practically by the end of this, these numbers will be much higher.
00:33:34.000But if you take something like the 8,000 numbers right, well, then one way the horror of October 7th was driven home, one way its scale was driven home to Americans, was to put it in terms of 9-11s.
00:33:44.000Adjusting for population, Joe Biden said it was like 15 9-11s.
00:33:49.000If you take that same math, then Gaza's experienced so far around 400 9-11s.
00:33:57.000Again, just strip it of context and just give casualty numbers without noting who's responsible for the thing.
00:34:01.000Again, as I've said, I said this at Oxford.
00:34:18.000If you look at the British and the Americans versus the Germans, lots more Germans died than British and Americans.
00:34:24.000Because that's sort of the point of the war is to win the war.
00:34:27.000You don't tend to win the war by losing more people.
00:34:29.000Like literally the only nation on earth that tends to lose more people and win wars is Russia because they just throw endless masses of bodies at every single war, historically speaking.
00:34:37.000But generally speaking, when you win a war, that does involve a lot of death on the other side.
00:34:43.000And that's even when the other side is not hiding in civilian areas.
00:34:47.000How much worse is it when the other side is deliberately hiding in civilian areas?
00:34:50.000And yet the media strip it all of context.
00:34:54.000Meanwhile, I got the UN, the disgusting Mos Eisley of the UN, saying that all this might be a war crime.
00:35:00.000Then when confronted with the actual realities of war, then they say, oh, well, no, no, no, actually, you know what?
00:35:06.000What's amazing about this, as I'll show you in a second, is that the legacy media just mirror, like the perspectives are indistinguishable from the perspectives of people who stand for Hamas.
00:35:15.000From the perspective of people who create a moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel, and who lie for a living.
00:35:19.000I'll get some more on this in just one second.
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00:37:11.000One of the truly amazing things about our disgusting legacy media is that these supposed objective arbiters of truth and reality, they just mirror the perspectives of the most radical members of the decolonized coalition.
00:37:22.000So I've talked on the show over the past couple of weeks about the philosophy that links, for example, Black Lives Matter with the From the River to the Sea people.
00:37:29.000Like, what do those people have in common?
00:38:08.000Because again, oppressor versus oppressed, colonizer versus colonized, and all the rest of this.
00:38:12.000So yesterday, and as I've said before, the broader philosophy that is worth noting here, the broader philosophy is hatred of the West.
00:38:20.000You'll notice that replete throughout what this Ta-Nehisi Coates person says.
00:38:24.000Not a shock, again, he wrote in his own book, a book celebrated by our legacy media, who are on the same side.
00:38:29.000He wrote in his own book that on 9-11 he sat at the top of his apartment building and watched the towers burn and smoked blunt and felt nothing.
00:38:36.000He literally writes that in his own book because that's how much he hates the country.
00:38:39.000And yet this person is seen as some sort of bizarre moral exemplar.
00:38:42.000Because he writes garbage like between the world and me.
00:39:44.000There is no way in the world that we can leverage the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King.
00:39:50.000There's no way in the world we can leverage the weight, the ancestry of our movement in defense of a war, in defense of indiscriminate bombings or refugee camps.
00:41:06.000Different colored license plates because Palestinian Authority people, people living under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, live under a different government.
00:41:27.000As I saw communities that I can only describe as segregated, and what I felt was a tremendous weight.
00:41:37.000I felt the obvious thing that I think all of us feel that our tax dollars are effectively subsidizing apartheid, subsidizing a segregationist order, a Jim Crow regime.
00:41:49.000He went on to say that Israel is a democracy like America is the world's oldest democracy.
00:43:42.000Meanwhile, Hassan Nasrallah, who is the head of Hezbollah, he was supposed to make his first sort of live in-person appearance in Lebanon in years because he's been hiding in a bunker somewhere while he watches people get killed on the northern border of Israel for a very long time.
00:43:57.000It was a recorded speech from a sewer somewhere.
00:43:59.000And in his speech, He, of course, called the attacks on Israel heroic.
00:44:02.000So just a reminder, Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed terror group armed with 150,000 rockets minimum pointed into the north of Israel, which is why there are currently 30,000 Israelis who are not living in their homes in northern Israel.
00:44:14.000The big question of the day was going to be whether Hassan Nasrallah led off a new Hezbollah-led war.
00:44:19.000My prediction had always been that that would not happen, because Hezbollah understands that especially with two American aircraft carriers stationed off the coast, if they start a war in Israel's north, they just will not exist.
00:44:28.000It'll be bloody and horrible for Israel, and also Lebanon will be destroyed.
00:44:31.000Because Israel will be stretched, and Israel will have to do whatever it has to do to maintain the safety of its own citizens.
00:44:37.000So Nasrallah is basically mouthing off from what I can tell at this point.
00:44:40.000He's going to continue to try to draw forces north away from the Gaza Strip, but it seems unlikely that he is going to push too hard to go directly into war.
00:44:54.000So that is the situation in terms of Israel and the Palestinians and Hezbollah and all the rest.
00:44:59.000We'll see how it develops over the weekend.
00:45:01.000Meanwhile, In the House of the United States government, there has been a vast disagreement about how to fund Israel.
00:45:09.000So, you have the Biden administration, which is trying to lump together a bunch of things.
00:45:12.000They're trying to lump together Ukraine aid.
00:45:13.000They want $60 billion more dollars in Ukraine aid, some $14 billion in aid to Israel, a few billion dollars for border security, and like $7 billion for Taiwan.
00:45:21.000And they're trying to lump all that together in a $105 billion package.
00:45:24.000Well, Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House, he pushed forward and then passed an Israel-only bill.
00:45:28.000And the Israel only aid bill is just aid to Israel.
00:45:31.000And he does it by taking money away from the IRS.
00:45:35.000Now the Democrats are claiming, of course, that this is a poison pill.
00:45:59.000The battle in Ukraine, I'm fully in favor, by the way, of continuing to provide Ukraine the aid to maintain its own security inside of the post-2014 borders.
00:46:09.000I say post-2014 because right now Ukraine is trying to push into the Donbass and Crimea.
00:46:13.000I'd be fully in favor of them doing that if there's an actual possibility of them winning.
00:46:17.000They've shown over the course of the last year that that probably is not a possibility.
00:46:23.000In fact, Ukrainian ministers are now saying that's extraordinarily unlikely, so the question becomes what the end of that war looks like.
00:46:27.000That doesn't mean that you're in favor of undermining Ukrainian security.
00:46:30.000Ukraine should be funded to the point where it can certainly prevent Russia from doing this again.
00:46:36.000Plus, I'm very much in favor of degrading the Russian military capacity, since they're aggressive on every front they can find, including in the Middle East.
00:46:42.000So drawing Russian resources into battle in Donbass or Crimea is fine with me.
00:46:47.000I don't have a generalized problem with that, but $60 billion is a lot of money.
00:46:51.000So that is a different issue, and it's a slightly more complex issue, than the issue of funding Israel and attempting to exterminate an actual terror group, Hamas.
00:47:02.000Okay, so separating off the two causes makes a lot of sense, but both sides are now accusing each other of putting poison pills in their bills to wrong-foot the other.
00:47:09.000The poison pill for the Republicans is apparently that they're trying to defund the IRS in order to do this.
00:47:57.000And here's the Israel aid, just pass it.
00:48:00.000No poison pills, nothing, like a clean Israel aid bill.
00:48:02.000That'd be very hard for Democrats to reject.
00:48:04.000I assume that's the next step that Johnson is going to take if in fact the Senate and President Biden decide to veto.
00:48:09.000Biden has threatened to veto this particular proposal.
00:48:12.000It'll be interesting to see whether he does veto that particular proposal in favor of, we need to cram down aid for Ukraine in the middle of all this.
00:48:18.000Okay, in other non-Middle East related news, apparently Sam Bankman Freed, you remember him, he was the FTX founder who basically bilked people of billions and billions of dollars, like robbed Peter to pay Paul's essentially giant pyramid scheme.
00:48:33.000Well, a jury has now found Sam Bankman Freed guilty on all seven criminal counts against him.
00:48:38.000The FTX founder faces a maximum sentence of 115 years in prison.
00:48:43.000Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement, Sam Bankman Freed thought he was above the law.
00:48:46.000Today's verdict proves that he was wrong.
00:48:49.000So he was a person who believed that his political connections were going to allow him to get off scot-free.
00:48:56.000He was the biggest single Democrat donor in the last election cycle.
00:49:00.000Other members of FTX gave some money to Republicans as well.
00:49:03.000The government flipped a bunch of people against him, including his ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, and the former head of Alameda and FTX co-founder, Gary Wang, whose Bankman Freed's childhood friend from math camp both pled guilty in December and then cooperated as witnesses for the prosecution to get off easier.
00:49:20.000As CNBC says, the central question for jurors to consider was whether Bankman Freed acted with criminal intent in taking customer funds from FTX and using that money to pay for real estate venture investments, corporate sponsorships, political donations, and to cover losses at Alameda after crypto prices plunged last year.
00:49:34.000There was $10 billion in customer money that went missing.
00:49:39.000So Bankman Freed now awaits sentencing.
00:49:42.000We'll see how long he ends up going to jail.
00:49:44.000Now, one of the things that's so funny about the whole Sam Bankman Freed situation, as we talked about when the story first broke, is that Sam Bankman Freed had built his entire persona around, quote-unquote, effective altruism.
00:49:53.000And the idea was, if you give me a lot of money, if you give me tons of money, and I'll spend a lot of that money on politics, I'll spend a lot of that money on the causes that you love most, I'll be really rich and then I'll spend... Now, The basic idea, which is that one of the great aspects of capitalism is that when people become rich, they give a lot more charity.
00:50:11.000I give a lot more charity now when I make a lot more money than I did 15 years ago when I made a lot less money.
00:50:16.000However, the basic hiding behind altruism in order to justify his own business malpractice and his political payoffs and all the rest was one of Benkman Freed's favorite things.
00:50:51.000According to a columnist at Coindesk, Despite the wreckage he caused and the accompanying failure to do good, there remain numerous voices sympathetic to SBF.
00:50:58.000Chief among them is well-known author Michael Lewis.
00:51:00.000Throughout his new book on SBF and FTX, Going Infinite, he paints a portrait of SBF as a misunderstood genius whose intentions were pure.
00:51:07.000On his book tour, Lewis continues to say things like, quote, I think of him as a creature of modern finance.
00:51:12.000At almost any period in history, he's like a high school physics teacher.
00:51:16.000Well, if Lewis is right, says this columnist, he should be indicting modern finance wholesale.
00:51:20.000After all, SBF, by skipping the effort of honestly earning the money he gave away, never actually performed a genuinely altruistic deed.
00:51:25.000See, this is one of the things that people should also notice about altruism.
00:51:28.000When it comes to the business world, we tend to think of business and altruism as in opposition to one another, or as though business is not a form of altruism.
00:51:36.000If business is done right, it is in fact the best form of altruism.
00:51:39.000So Maimonides, one of the great Jewish thinkers of all time, Maimonides suggested the highest form of charity was giving somebody a job.
00:51:50.000Because it turns out that the most good that you do for the world is a sustainable method for generating things that are good for other people.
00:51:56.000You know what we usually call those markets?
00:51:58.000Markets are usually where you generate a sustainable, repeatable method of doing a good thing for another person.
00:52:02.000If I give charity, eventually, if I don't earn more money, the charity runs out.
00:52:07.000If I give you a job, and that means that you can earn a living, and meanwhile, you're providing me with good or service that I can use to generate more goods and services, and then I can pay other people, and I can buy other things.
00:52:18.000I've helped many, many more people that way than I would have if I just gave away the money.
00:52:22.000Just giving away the money in some cases is obviously justified.
00:52:59.000This is interesting, for example, socialism and capitalism.
00:53:01.000Socialism is how do I redistribute everybody else's money.
00:53:03.000Capitalism is how do I create entirely new lines of business thus to support money earning by millions more people, which is why when capitalism is tried, it succeeds.
00:53:13.000In socialism, the best you can talk about with socialism is redistributing the gains.
00:53:38.000They're predominantly characterized by their capitalist business structures.
00:53:42.000The heads of the government of Denmark have said as much.
00:53:45.000When you call them socialists, they get annoyed.
00:53:46.000They're like, what are you talking about?
00:53:47.000There's no nationalization of resources here.
00:53:50.000There's redistribution of some resources at the top level in the same way that they have a mixed economy.
00:53:55.000In other words, the same as the United States.
00:53:57.000It's just that their mixed economy happens to be significantly smaller.
00:54:00.000Their population tends to be significantly more homogenous.
00:54:04.000And their redistributive weight tends to be greater.
00:54:08.000But the sort of point of Sam Beckman Freed is that when you place altruism in differentiation from business, you end up being a bad business person.
00:54:17.000You end up treating business as though business is the dirty part and altruism is the good part when that's wrong.
00:54:21.000I've said this before and I'll say it again.
00:54:22.000Bill Gates did more for the world by creating Microsoft than he has in giving away his billions of dollars to charity.
00:54:28.000Because he has led to the employment of probably hundreds of thousands of people, not just directly at Microsoft, but indirectly through his software.