The Ben Shapiro Show - December 06, 2023


The Jew-Hating Universities


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

193.05986

Word Count

8,707

Sentence Count

558

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

The Daily Wire and the New Civil Liberties Alliance are suing the U.S. government for censorship, and we talk about what it means to be a Jew in the 21st century, and what that means for our freedom of speech and freedom from anti-Semitism on college campuses. We also hear from Jewish students who have been targeted by anti-semitism on campus, and how they have dealt with it. Today's episode is brought to you by Daily Wire, The New Liberties Alliance, and The Federalist, and features an essay written by a Jewish student at the University of Pennsylvania, Ayelet Cobey, about her experience growing up in a Jewish household in the late 19th century and her experience as a student at a Jewish college in the early 20th century. Subscribe to Daily Wire to get immediate access to all our newest episodes and listen to them wherever you get your news and information, and to stay up to date on what's going on in the world. Subscribe today using our new and improved Daily Wire app, wherever you re listening to podcasts, social media, and other forms of media. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your friends! to all your fellow podulters everywhere! . Thank you so much for being a Friend of the Anti-Defence Project, and thank you for supporting the work of our partners, The Anti-Media Project and The Daily Wire. -The Anti-Discourse Project at Penn Radio and The Forward Project at the Forward Project. to make sure we keep fighting for the voiceless, safe, fair, and just like you do our work. and spreading the word about anti-racism and anti-Israelism everywhere. Thank you for being loud and everywhere else we can be heard everywhere we reach more people everywhere we go. We love you! - Thank you, thank you, Thank you. , and keep shining light, everywhere we can see you, everywhere and everywhere we get it. -Alyssa, Sarah, Sarah and all of our ears everywhere we see you. Love, Sarah -Kaitlyn, Sarah, Caitlyn, and Sarah, and all the rest of the work we can do it, everywhere and we love you, love you. -Sue, - Caitlyn and the rest - Emily, and much more thank you ~ - Sarah, Amy, Rachel, ,


Transcript

00:00:00.000 We'll jump into the news momentarily.
00:00:02.000 First, I want to announce to you that The Daily Wire is joining with the New Civil Liberties Alliance as well as The Federalist to sue the federal government over censorship.
00:00:10.000 The U.S.
00:00:11.000 State Department is funding the development, testing, and marketing of censorship technology used to suppress First Amendment protected activity by conservative media outlets like the Daily Wire.
00:00:21.000 The State Department uses its Global Engagement Center, the GEC, to finance the development and promotion of censorship technology and enterprises, including organizations like NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index, those government-funded Government-promoted censorship technologies and enterprises target conservative media outlets, including The Daily Wire.
00:00:37.000 Their goal is to paint us as unreliable and therefore to push advertisers away from advertising on programs like this one, websites like The Daily Wire, websites like The Federalist, that is being pushed by the State Department.
00:00:49.000 That is an ongoing problem.
00:00:50.000 We are suing not for money.
00:00:51.000 We're suing for an injunction.
00:00:53.000 And so if you want to help us fight the censorship that you are seeing from the federal government, the kind of censorship that on a broader level has reached over into, for example, the FBI and other government organizations coordinating with social media in order to shut off particular stories.
00:01:07.000 This is just one iteration of that via the State Department.
00:01:10.000 If you wish to help us out, you should become a subscriber at dailyware.com slash subscribe.
00:01:13.000 That is the way that you can help.
00:01:14.000 So that is an ongoing lawsuit just like we sued the Biden administration over the pathetic and ridiculous OSHA vax mandate.
00:01:20.000 We are now suing the U.S.
00:01:21.000 State Department for an injunction so they will stop their censorship regime.
00:01:25.000 Alrighty, meanwhile, I know a little bit about the kinds of speech that are generally welcome on campus.
00:01:31.000 I've been banned from quite a few campuses, including DePaul University.
00:01:34.000 I've spoken at more than a few campuses at which violence broke out over my speeches, including Cal State University at Los Angeles, Penn State University of California at Berkeley.
00:01:43.000 I also know that were I a student at any of these universities, and if I said as a student what I routinely say as a speaker, I would undoubtedly be dragged before the administration and hit with some sort of sanctions.
00:01:54.000 I'd be responsible for microaggressions, for saying things like Western culture is superior.
00:01:59.000 I'd be responsible for harmful language, for saying that human beings ought to be judged not based on race, but on merit.
00:02:05.000 These are the kinds of things that are verboten on college campuses all over the country, which is why free speech has never been a top-of-mind issue for many of the administrators on college campus.
00:02:14.000 Instead, sensitivity has.
00:02:16.000 But apparently, at the top universities in America, all of those sensitivities disappear magically for one group specifically.
00:02:24.000 Jews.
00:02:24.000 Yesterday, House Republicans held a hearing in which the heads of major universities were grilled regarding the rise of antisemitism on their campuses over the past few weeks.
00:02:32.000 We've been talking about that spike in antisemitism for weeks, from threats of violence to near riots, from tearing down hostage posters to openly Jew-hating slurs being promulgated in public.
00:02:42.000 Some of the students from these universities explained the situation on campus.
00:02:46.000 Here, for example, was a student named Bella Ingber of New York University.
00:02:50.000 What is it like to be a Jew at NYU?
00:02:53.000 Being a Jew at NYU is walking to class and passing torn and defaced posters of innocent hostages with the words occupier and murderer written across their faces.
00:03:03.000 It is going to Booth's library to study and being interrupted by unauthorized protests where students and faculty call for a globalized intifada revolution, an incitement to violence against Jews everywhere, and a call for the annihilation of the Jewish state and my friends and family who live there.
00:03:20.000 Being a Jew at NYU is being surrounded by students and faculty who support the murder and kidnapping of Jews because after all, as they say, resistance is justified when people are occupied.
00:03:32.000 It is being surrounded by social justice warriors and self-proclaimed feminists whose calls for justice end abruptly when the rape victims are Jews.
00:03:41.000 Being a Jew at NYU has meant being physically assaulted in NYU's library by a fellow student while I was wearing an American-Israeli flag and having my attacker still roam freely throughout the campus.
00:03:54.000 Being a Jew at NYU is experiencing how diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a value that NYU extends to its Jewish students.
00:04:03.000 She, of course, is exactly right on all of that.
00:04:05.000 Here was Ayalia Cobey at the University of Pennsylvania describing similar experiences at that top university.
00:04:11.000 I love Penn.
00:04:13.000 I've wanted to attend this university since before I can remember.
00:04:16.000 I'm here because the Penn I attend today is unrecognizable from the Penn I once used to know.
00:04:23.000 Penn, once renowned for groundbreaking discoveries like the mRNA vaccine, is now a chilling landscape of hatred and hostility.
00:04:31.000 Our university, revered for its pursuit of knowledge, has devolved into an arena where Jewish students tiptoe through their days, uncertain and unsafe.
00:04:40.000 The situation at Penn has escalated into a full-blown crisis, with students openly asserting their intentions to proceed with plans with or without university permission.
00:04:49.000 Penn's ambivalence fuels a crisis that has shattered my academic sanctuary.
00:04:55.000 Policies meant to safeguard us have become hollow promises.
00:04:59.000 And let us be clear, if they fail Jewish students today, tomorrow they will fail the rest of us.
00:05:05.000 Nonetheless, I refused to go back to 1939 when Jews had to hide their religious symbols and hide who they are due to the intimidation and harassment of us.
00:05:15.000 I used to think this was nonsense, fear-mongering, until I was made aware that Penn recommended to students, quote, not wear clothing slash accessories related to Judaism.
00:05:25.000 Now imagine that black students had arrived in Congress to describe similar experiences.
00:05:29.000 Calls for genocide.
00:05:30.000 Celebration of terror and rape against black Americans.
00:05:32.000 Physical threats against black Americans.
00:05:35.000 Does anyone think these respective university presidents would have sat grinning at the lawmakers who were quizzing them on their actions?
00:05:41.000 That's precisely what happened yesterday.
00:05:43.000 Again, if you want to say that everyone should just be less sensitive, whatever, anything goes on campus, that's one thing, but that's not what is happening on these college campuses, where sensitivity is extended to everyone except for the you wouldn't.
00:05:55.000 Here was Representative Elise Stefanik of New York questioning the presidents of University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and MIT about genocidal language chanted on campus.
00:06:04.000 Listen to these responses.
00:06:05.000 It's a long clip.
00:06:05.000 We're going to stop and start it because there's a lot here.
00:06:09.000 Dr. Kornbluth, at MIT, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate MIT's code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment?
00:06:19.000 Yes or no?
00:06:20.000 You've targeted individuals, not making public statements.
00:06:25.000 Yes or no?
00:06:26.000 Calling for the genocide of Jews does not constitute bullying and harassment?
00:06:30.000 I have not heard calling for the genocide for Jews on our campus.
00:06:33.000 But you've heard chants for Intifada?
00:06:36.000 I've heard chants, which can be anti-Semitic, depending on the context, when calling for the elimination of the Jewish people.
00:06:44.000 So those would not be according to the MIT's code of conduct or rules?
00:06:49.000 That would be investigated as harassment, if pervasive and severe.
00:06:55.000 Ms.
00:06:55.000 McGill, at Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's rules or code of conduct?
00:07:02.000 Yes or no?
00:07:07.000 If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment.
00:07:10.000 Yes.
00:07:11.000 I am asking specifically calling for the genocide of Jews.
00:07:15.000 Does that constitute bullying or harassment?
00:07:20.000 If it is directed and severe or pervasive, it is harassment.
00:07:24.000 So the answer is yes.
00:07:26.000 It is a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman.
00:07:28.000 It's a context-dependent decision.
00:07:30.000 That's your testimony today.
00:07:31.000 Calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context.
00:07:35.000 That is not bullying or harassment.
00:07:38.000 This is the easiest question to answer yes, Ms.
00:07:41.000 McGill.
00:07:44.000 So is your testimony that you will not answer yes?
00:07:46.000 Yes or no?
00:07:48.000 If the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment.
00:07:54.000 Yes.
00:07:55.000 Conduct meaning committing the act of genocide?
00:07:58.000 The speech is not harassment?
00:08:00.000 This is unacceptable, Ms.
00:08:01.000 McGill.
00:08:01.000 I'm going to give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer.
00:08:07.000 Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's Code of Conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment?
00:08:14.000 Yes or no?
00:08:18.000 It can be harassment.
00:08:20.000 The answer is yes.
00:08:21.000 Can be.
00:08:22.000 And Dr. Gay, at Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment, yes or no?
00:08:31.000 It can be, depending on the context.
00:08:34.000 What's the context?
00:08:36.000 Targeted at an individual.
00:08:39.000 It's targeted at Jewish students, Jewish individuals.
00:08:43.000 Do you understand your testimony is dehumanizing them?
00:08:47.000 Do you understand that dehumanization is part of antisemitism?
00:08:52.000 I will ask you one more time.
00:08:55.000 Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment?
00:09:01.000 Yes or no?
00:09:03.000 Anti-Semitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct and we do take action.
00:09:18.000 So the answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct, correct?
00:09:27.000 Again, it depends on the context.
00:09:29.000 It does not depend on the context.
00:09:32.000 The answer is yes, and this is why you should resign.
00:09:35.000 These are unacceptable answers across the board.
00:09:39.000 I mean, they're amazing answers because, again, just substitute the language.
00:09:43.000 Now, we're not talking here whether the First Amendment protects activity.
00:09:47.000 For example, like the KKK marching through Skokie, the First Amendment does protect that activity.
00:09:51.000 We are talking about college campuses where there are strict speech codes that exist on every one of these college campuses.
00:09:57.000 So if you don't want to have speech codes, don't have speech codes.
00:09:59.000 But if you are going to, it is weird that it only applies to everyone except for one group.
00:10:05.000 Can you imagine going at Harvard University and leading a rally saying, death to all black people, all black people should be killed?
00:10:12.000 Can you imagine that not being punished by Harvard University with expulsion?
00:10:15.000 Can you imagine the University of Pennsylvania, some sort of rally where everyone is yelling at the top of their lungs, death to gay people, all gay people should die?
00:10:24.000 And that not being punishable at University of Pennsylvania.
00:10:28.000 But when you chant from the river to the sea, Palestine should be free or intifada revolution, there is only one solution.
00:10:34.000 When you chant those things that is now considered perfectly acceptable at these schools, quote unquote, dependent on context.
00:10:41.000 Now, what's amazing is that the context very often includes conduct when they say things like.
00:10:47.000 We're not worried about speech, but when it bleeds over into conduct, we have a problem.
00:10:52.000 The truth is that depending on the conduct, they're fine with that too.
00:10:56.000 How many students have been suspended or expelled for actively harassing students who are Jewish?
00:11:01.000 For lining up outside libraries and pounding on the doors in acts of intimidation?
00:11:07.000 And all of this is ridiculous.
00:11:08.000 Listen to the amount of obfuscation that they are putting forward.
00:11:11.000 Listen to the amount of spin.
00:11:13.000 Can you imagine during the Black Lives Matter protests anyone saying something remotely similar as a university president about any of this?
00:11:19.000 It's difficult to imagine.
00:11:20.000 These icons of sensitivity and diversity, equity and inclusion would be nearly so sanguine about slurs against any other racial or ethnic minority in America.
00:11:30.000 Simply put, they wouldn't.
00:11:32.000 One can make the case for free speech on campus.
00:11:34.000 I can, and I do.
00:11:35.000 But one cannot pretend that universities protect students against harassment and then soft-pedal Holocaust-level rhetoric.
00:11:41.000 These university presidents don't even like free speech, but they're perfectly fine not only mouthing language they certainly don't believe about free speech, but then smiling while they violate these prescriptions.
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00:13:06.000 So, as we're saying, there are two reasons why the left is so comfortable on campus with excluding the Jews when it comes to all of their language about rhetoric, diversity, harassment, all the rest.
00:13:17.000 First, the left, and university presidents are almost the platonic ideal of intellectual leftists, believe that Jews are not part of the intersectional coalition of oppression.
00:13:26.000 By leftist logic, Jews are part of the superstructure of power, since all success is merely a reflection of hierarchies of power, and Jews are disproportionately successful.
00:13:35.000 Success equals power.
00:13:37.000 Power equals bad.
00:13:38.000 Antisemitism is merely the ugliest guise for the oppressor-oppressed binary.
00:13:42.000 But it isn't the only one.
00:13:43.000 Just ask the newest white Americans, Asian Americans.
00:13:46.000 On university campuses, who are now white because they scored too high on their SATs.
00:13:51.000 Thus, it's okay to discriminate against them.
00:13:53.000 Then there's the second reason.
00:13:54.000 The left really, really hates Israel.
00:13:57.000 The left hates Israel because, like American Jews, Israel is too successful in the region in which it is located.
00:14:03.000 Israel, according to the left, is a colonialist outpost of the West.
00:14:06.000 The West is evil because it is too successful.
00:14:09.000 The West is therefore exploitative and oppressive.
00:14:11.000 Therefore, Israel is exploitative and oppressive as a outlet of the West in the Middle East.
00:14:16.000 Hence, the deep and passionate attempt by the left to pretend that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are unrelated.
00:14:21.000 The left does not want to be perceived as openly anti-Semitic.
00:14:24.000 They want to pretend that they are actually tolerant and diverse.
00:14:27.000 But they understand that anti-Zionism can provide a heartening opportunity to oppose Jewish and Western flourishing.
00:14:33.000 Hence, the left's rabid attachment to the idea that calls for Israel's destruction are somehow not anti-Semitic, but actually a reflection of a more universalistic humanitarian creed.
00:14:43.000 Sure, that creed would result in the death of millions of Jews and the dominance of radical Muslim terror all over the Middle East.
00:14:49.000 But that doesn't matter.
00:14:50.000 After all, Israel is the real problem because the West is the real problem.
00:14:54.000 And we know that's true because, again, the West is successful and because Israel is successful and success equals power and power equals exploitation.
00:15:02.000 According to the left, radical Muslim regimes that impoverish and oppress their citizens aren't worth one bit of attention.
00:15:07.000 I mean, they're poor, which means they're victimized, which means that they're the oppressed.
00:15:12.000 Israel, by contrast, being tolerant, diverse, open and successful ought to be destroyed.
00:15:17.000 That's why yesterday, in a subtle bit of maneuvering, Harvard President Claudine Gay, among the other college presidents, acknowledged that Israel does have a right to exist, but not as a Jewish state, which is like saying that Ireland has a right to exist, but not as an Irish country.
00:15:30.000 President Gay, do you believe that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish nation?
00:15:38.000 I agree that the state of Israel has the right to exist.
00:15:42.000 Ms.
00:15:42.000 McGill, same question.
00:15:45.000 I agree, Chairwoman Fox, the state of Israel has the right to exist.
00:15:48.000 Dr. Kornbluth.
00:15:50.000 Absolutely.
00:15:50.000 Israel has the right to exist.
00:15:54.000 Israel has the right to exist, but that's not the question.
00:15:57.000 You notice that the chairwoman is actually asking, as a Jewish state, which is the definition of Israel.
00:16:01.000 And all three of those college presidents ignore that.
00:16:04.000 They're doing that for a reason, because Israel is bad.
00:16:07.000 So if Israel is a Jewish state, then it doesn't have the right to exist by that definition.
00:16:11.000 So, what ought to be done?
00:16:13.000 Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square and a major donor to Harvard, wrote that the college presidents, quote, must all resign in disgrace.
00:16:18.000 If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.
00:16:23.000 Why has anti-Semitism exploded on campus and around the world?
00:16:26.000 Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, McGill and Kornbluth, who believe genocide depends on the context.
00:16:31.000 To think that these are leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.
00:16:38.000 Ackman is right, of course, but that isn't nearly sufficient.
00:16:41.000 The universities across America are corrupt through and through.
00:16:44.000 Their endorsement of DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, has been a curse to reason and decency.
00:16:50.000 Their politics are vile.
00:16:51.000 Those politics also make the universities corrupt factories of moral depravity.
00:16:56.000 Which means that first, every major donor to these universities should, like Bill Ackman, think about cutting funding.
00:17:01.000 Of course, some of us were on this bandwagon years ago.
00:17:03.000 Like 20 years ago.
00:17:05.000 I wrote a book titled Brainwashed How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth when I was still at UCLA.
00:17:09.000 I was 19 years old.
00:17:10.000 The book came out when I was 20 in 2004.
00:17:11.000 In it, I wrote that conservatives ought to, quote, pull money from universities.
00:17:16.000 I also said that tactic wouldn't be nearly sufficient, that other sources, including radical Islamic regimes, would fill the gap, which is what happens.
00:17:23.000 Saudi Arabia, Qatar, there are plenty of places who are willing to pour their money into these universities because those universities very often reflect their values.
00:17:31.000 That means the universities ought to be hit with another tactic.
00:17:34.000 Business people must stop falling for the credentialing scam that universities represent.
00:17:39.000 They ought to be hiring bright kids out of high school directly and giving them internships or hiring from solid state schools.
00:17:45.000 That's what these universities are anyway.
00:17:47.000 They are just factories for diplomas.
00:17:49.000 And the entire idea here is that if you get a really good SAT score and you go to Harvard, this means you're smart.
00:17:54.000 Well, I can tell you're smart just by the SAT score and your GPA coming out of high school.
00:17:57.000 I don't need you to go $200,000 into debt and be indoctrinated in queer theory in order for me to recognize that you're a smart person.
00:18:03.000 Instead, businesses should just hire people out of high school if they have good SAT scores and good grades, for example.
00:18:10.000 Finally, parents need to seriously think about not sending their kids to these universities at all, especially in the liberal arts.
00:18:17.000 They're indoctrination mills for truly immoral garbage.
00:18:20.000 If you want a case in point as to how bad these universities are, here's actually a great case in point.
00:18:25.000 Young liberal Jews.
00:18:27.000 A whole generation of young Jewish kids have been sent to university by their parents who believed in the upwardly mobile American dream.
00:18:32.000 A lot of Jewish parents out there who say that their great dream is to get their kid into a place like Harvard.
00:18:37.000 There, these kids were then turned against their parents and their roots.
00:18:40.000 The New York Times has a fascinating story today about many young Jews, meaning, of course, people who were born Jewish, but have nothing to do with actual Jewish practice or identity, as even the Times recognizes.
00:18:49.000 And the New York Times says that many of these young Jews are, quote, abandoning Israel in the name of leftist ideology.
00:18:54.000 Here is the Times, quote.
00:18:56.000 Mark Kornblatt prepared uneasily last month for his daughter Louisa to arrive for 10 days with the family.
00:19:01.000 Her homecomings once brought the comfort of movie nights and card games, but this year was different.
00:19:05.000 He and his wife Judith had moved away from Madison, Wisconsin to live in Tel Aviv, where they felt a real sense of belonging as Jews.
00:19:11.000 Around the same time, their daughter, attending graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, came to oppose the existence of Israel as a Jewish state.
00:19:19.000 That daughter, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, sometimes uses the pronouns they them.
00:19:24.000 Shocker.
00:19:25.000 It's all the uni thing.
00:19:26.000 It's all one thing.
00:19:27.000 Everyone who supports trans rights also supports Palestine.
00:19:30.000 Everyone who supports Palestine also supports abortion.
00:19:32.000 It's the uni left-wing thing.
00:19:34.000 According to the Times, at Berkeley, she read Audre Lorde, Mariam Kama, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and other black feminist thinkers who prompted her to consider questions around power, privilege, and whiteness.
00:19:45.000 Ms.
00:19:46.000 Kornblatt came to feel that her emotional ties to Jewish statehood undermined her vision for collective liberation.
00:19:52.000 Over the last year, she became increasingly involved in pro-Palestine activism, including through Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist activist group, and the If Not Now movement.
00:20:00.000 I don't think the state of Israel should ever have been established, she said.
00:20:03.000 It's based on this idea of Jewish supremacy, and I'm not on board with that.
00:20:08.000 Actually, the concept of Israel is based on, you know, Jewish existence.
00:20:11.000 But that's really what leftism opposes, for all the reasons we have talked about.
00:20:16.000 Universities are a disaster area.
00:20:18.000 Full stop.
00:20:19.000 Parents should pull their kids unless those kids are prepared for the raging hellstorm of foolishness and immorality they are about to be taught.
00:20:25.000 Okay, in just one second.
00:20:27.000 We are going to get to the latest on the Israel-Hamas war and the battle inside Congress over anti-Semitism.
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00:21:41.000 Okay, so in the halls of Congress, people having a similarly tough time actually taking on anti-Semitism.
00:21:46.000 There's some of this actually from both sides of the aisle.
00:21:48.000 So, for example, Republicans yesterday put forward a resolution condemning anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism.
00:21:55.000 This led Representative Jerry Nadler to suggest that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.
00:22:00.000 Now, the reason he's doing this is because there are people inside his own coalition who wish that Israel would just disappear, that it would be destroyed.
00:22:06.000 That'd be like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
00:22:09.000 And he doesn't wish to condemn them, so he's gonna pretend that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are totally unrelated.
00:22:15.000 The way that he gets out of this particular box, since, obviously, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are anti-Semites and hate Jews and Israel, the way he gets out of this box is he suggests, well, you know there are some Jews who are anti-Zionist.
00:22:26.000 This is the favorite tactic.
00:22:27.000 And the people he cites are Satmar Hasidim.
00:22:30.000 Which is a sect of ultra-Orthodox, who, by the way, when it says they're anti-Zionist, let's be clear what they mean by anti-Zionist.
00:22:37.000 What's Satmar Hasidim, this ultra-Orthodox sect, which is a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of even the Orthodox, what exactly is their belief system?
00:22:45.000 Their belief system is that there should, in fact, be a Jewish country in Israel, but it should be a Davidic monarchy with the reestablishment of the Third Temple.
00:22:53.000 Not quite the anti-Zionism of, you know, the Palestinians, who wish to see every Jew obliterated from the region, The Samar Hasidim don't believe in a secular state of Israel.
00:23:02.000 They believe in a Jewish theocracy.
00:23:04.000 So if you're talking about these people as though what they actually want is for all Jews to be removed from the region, no, actually what they want is for there to be a Jewish monarchic theocracy in the land, complete with high priesthood and a third temple built right now instead of what they think of as an obstacle to that, the secular Jewish state of Israel.
00:23:25.000 That's what you're talking about.
00:23:27.000 So you're playing a word game.
00:23:28.000 When you say the Saddam Hussein want the same thing as, for example, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, that they're the same kind of quote-unquote anti-Zionist, that's ridiculous.
00:23:35.000 That's ridiculous.
00:23:36.000 That's like saying that somebody who wants a Christian theocracy in the United States is in the same camp as someone who wants to tear down the government of the United States and replace it with a communist dictatorship.
00:23:46.000 Not quite the same thing.
00:23:48.000 In any case, here's Jerry Nadler, and what he's really doing here, obviously, is he's covering for Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and other members of the Democratic Party who don't actually like Israel and don't like Jews.
00:23:58.000 Unfortunately, this resolution does absolutely nothing to genuinely counter the scourge of anti-Semitism, nor does it help bring us together with the unity of purpose that this topic merits.
00:24:11.000 Rather, it is another attempt in a long series of veiled efforts by the GOP to weaponize
00:24:18.000 Jewish lives for political gains.
00:24:21.000 It is another partisan gotcha game that amounts to cheap value signaling, not serious action.
00:24:28.000 But if there ever was a time for real action, it is now.
00:24:33.000 Today, in the face of the largest increase in anti-Semitism, both violent and virulent,
00:24:39.000 In this nation's history, we have a clear choice.
00:24:43.000 We can abuse this moment to try to inflict inter-party political damage, or we can rise to the occasion and do something real and powerful to actually help the Jewish community.
00:24:55.000 Well, you know what's one thing that I noticed?
00:24:57.000 I noticed that Jerry Nadler, when he says, well, you know, we shouldn't look to inflict intraparty damage on one another over antisemitism.
00:25:03.000 Again, this is the same guy who also did not vote to censure Rashida Tlaib over her comments with regard to Israel, which are complete antisemitic lies.
00:25:11.000 He says he vehemently disagrees with her, but he has not called her, for example, an antisemite, which she clearly, clearly is.
00:25:16.000 So I'll take my tips on antisemitism from someplace else.
00:25:20.000 Meanwhile, Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal, how she answered the questions by my colleague Dana Bash on Sunday on this.
00:25:26.000 Pramila Jayapal, who spent yesterday basically trying to walk back her comments that rape
00:25:31.000 was not that big a deal when it's against Jewish ladies in Israel.
00:25:36.000 Pramila Jayapal, how she answered the questions by my colleague Dana Bash on Sunday on this.
00:25:41.000 Did that play any part in your push to in your push to draft this resolution?
00:25:46.000 Well, this really has been in the works since, as I said, what really it's been in the works
00:25:52.000 for many months and we started hearing the stories from the women in Ukraine and then
00:25:57.000 of course again this now with Hamas and its atrocities and.
00:26:03.000 And I try not to have my actions here be dictated by inartful comments by other members.
00:26:09.000 This is a much more serious issue than one member.
00:26:13.000 And it has to be said by all.
00:26:17.000 Rape and sexual assault as a tool of war, as a weapon of war, is not acceptable.
00:26:23.000 It's not hard for you to say this very eloquently and very clearly.
00:26:27.000 Why is it for others?
00:26:33.000 Now you're asking me to be a psychiatrist or a psychologist?
00:26:37.000 You know what?
00:26:38.000 They have to answer for themselves, and I'll answer for myself, but I do think I speak for the overwhelming majority.
00:26:46.000 Republicans, Democrats here, people with good hearts.
00:26:53.000 Sexual assault should not be a tool of war, and it's not acceptable.
00:26:58.000 It has to be criminalized, and it has to be called out.
00:27:03.000 I don't understand why this is very tough.
00:27:04.000 It really, really is not.
00:27:05.000 And meanwhile, on the right side of the aisle, Thomas Massie put out what is pretty obviously an anti-Semitic meme yesterday.
00:27:10.000 It was a meme in which he compared American patriotism to Zionism.
00:27:13.000 He said, Congress these days.
00:27:15.000 American patriotism, it's the meme of Drake.
00:27:17.000 You know, basically it's a binary meme.
00:27:19.000 One where he's shunning a thing and one where he's giving it a thumbs up.
00:27:22.000 This is Congress these days shunning American patriotism.
00:27:25.000 Congress these days giving a thumbs up to Zionism.
00:27:29.000 And obviously, the idea here is that American patriotism is somehow directly opposed to Zionism.
00:27:35.000 Now, there are a couple reads on this that are possible.
00:27:37.000 There's the more charitable read, which is that there are Democrats in the Democratic Party who, for example, don't like American patriotism, but they're okay with Zionism.
00:27:46.000 And that's weird, and they should be okay with both.
00:27:48.000 And then there's the read, which is the more obvious read, which is that American patriotism is somehow opposed to Zionism, that you can't be both an American patriot and a Zionist, which of course is ridiculous.
00:27:59.000 I mean, just ridiculous, full stop, crazy, considering that that has been the mainstream position in the United States since the birth of the state of Israel, is being an American patriot and being a Zionist, being in favor of the existence of a Jewish state of Israel, are not in favor, are not in conflict in any way, shape, or form.
00:28:14.000 And you can read it in in either of those two ways.
00:28:17.000 There's the more charitable way in which the argument is that Congress should not be shunning American patriotism.
00:28:22.000 They should be embracing American patriotism in the same way that many Democrats embrace Zionism.
00:28:26.000 That's the more charitable way.
00:28:27.000 The other way is that Representative Massey, who's voted alongside Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib with regard to any Any indication of support for Israel actually just doesn't like Zionism.
00:28:37.000 And so, what he actually wants is for Congress to dismiss Zionism, and he's really saying the two are directly in conflict.
00:28:43.000 The White House, and we're talking about scoring political points, so the White House immediately jumps on that.
00:28:47.000 And the White House suggests that it's time for Republicans to condemn the post.
00:28:50.000 Herbie Ziskin of the White House said, So, here's the deal.
00:28:53.000 leadership should condemn this virulent anti-Semitism from a sitting member of Congress.
00:28:57.000 So here's the deal.
00:28:58.000 We should condemn anti-Semitism wherever it exists.
00:29:01.000 If what Massey meant is the latter, which again, given his voting record, would not
00:29:04.000 shock me, that American patriotism and Zionism are somehow in direct conflict, then yeah,
00:29:08.000 that's anti-Semitism and it should be condemned.
00:29:09.000 Bye.
00:29:11.000 Also, what Pramila Jayapal did the other day, anti-Semitism should be condemned.
00:29:15.000 This is not particularly tough.
00:29:16.000 The fact that it is tough demonstrates once again, everything can be made a partisan issue, even hatred of Jews.
00:29:22.000 Speaking of which, one of the things that's been lost in this entire fight between Israel and Hamas is the simple fact that there is a good side here and there is a bad side, and Hamas is the bad side.
00:29:33.000 Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel yesterday, he gave a speech in which he was beside himself because he's pointing out that as the tales come out from October 7th of rape of women, by the way, reports of rape of men as well, which is just horrifying on a weirdly different level, I mean, I know stories of things that are happening that happen to hostages that are not public knowledge at this point.
00:29:53.000 And I got to tell you, it's way worse than anything you have heard.
00:29:56.000 Way, way worse than anything you have heard.
00:29:58.000 And the international community is still poo-pooing this and pretending that there's some sort of moral equivalence here.
00:30:02.000 Netanyahu was beside himself yesterday speaking about this.
00:30:05.000 The women's rights organizations to the human rights organizations.
00:30:10.000 You've heard of the rape of Israeli women?
00:30:15.000 Horrible atrocities, sexual mutilation.
00:30:18.000 Where the hell are you?
00:30:22.000 I expect all civilized leaders, governments, nations to speak up against this atrocity.
00:30:30.000 Well, they're not going to.
00:30:31.000 And the reason they're not going to is, again, because they have to have that moral equivalence.
00:30:34.000 Israel is bad, and that means anything that is done against it is justified.
00:30:37.000 In the Franz Fanon oppressor oppressed coalition of the wretched idea, The basic idea is that if you are a member of the oppressed class, you get to do whatever the hell you want to members of the so-called oppressor class.
00:30:49.000 That has been a moral equation that has been done by a number of insanely anti-Semitic and self-hating Jewish people.
00:30:57.000 And it's totally wild.
00:30:59.000 But it has become mainstream.
00:31:00.000 It has become absolutely mainstream.
00:31:02.000 By the way, it is worth noting at this point, That Israel has actually hit a shocking number of terrorists.
00:31:06.000 Despite all of the talk about how Israel is not being specific enough in its attack, the reality is that according to the Israeli military, a leaked report from an off-the-record briefing for foreign journalists suggests that Israel believes that of the roughly 15,000 people that Hamas has reported dead, 5,000 of them are terrorists, which is an amazing ratio, by the way, like way better than the United States in, for example, Iraq.
00:31:27.000 Typically, urban warfare means that for every terrorist you kill, you're probably going to kill three to four civilians because they embed with civilians.
00:31:34.000 So Israel is being incredibly specific.
00:31:36.000 And yet what's amazing about this is that even if you point that, like even the New York Times is now admitting that.
00:31:42.000 Even the New York Times admitting that Israel hit like 5,000 terrorists in the course of killing 15,000 people.
00:31:47.000 Again, their goal was to hit the 5,000 terrorists and they killed 15,000 because Hamas hides among civilians.
00:31:52.000 And now they're complaining that Israel hasn't killed enough terrorists.
00:31:54.000 According to the Washington Post, quote, at least 5,000 Hamas militants have been killed, according to three Israeli security officials, leaving the majority of the group's estimated 30,000 strong military wing intact.
00:32:03.000 Why do you think that is?
00:32:05.000 Why do you think Israel hasn't killed all 30,000?
00:32:06.000 The answer is because they are being considered in how they go about this war.
00:32:10.000 It doesn't matter.
00:32:11.000 The narrative is set and the media are going to keep pumping it out there that Israel is somehow the inhumane party in this conflict.
00:32:17.000 Which is truly an astonishing reversal of the truth.
00:32:20.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to more fun and games on Capitol Hill.
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00:35:13.000 Okay, meanwhile, Chris Wray had a tough time on the Hill yesterday.
00:35:16.000 Chris Wray is the head of the FBI, and he's not been doing an excellent job over at the FBI.
00:35:20.000 Between the reports of the FBI targeting certain types of Christians in the United States, certain types of Catholics in the United States, and the FBI targeting, for example, pro-life people, and the FBI's disproportionate resources spent on anyone who's wandering around the Capitol on January 6th, And the FBI's complete failure with regard to the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020, it's been a bad stretch for the FBI.
00:35:41.000 Chris Wray was on the Hill, and Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana read him the Riot Act over the FBI's failure to say that the Hunter Biden laptop was real, which the FBI full well knew during the 2020 election.
00:35:52.000 These are very weak answers here from Chris Wray.
00:35:56.000 Why didn't the FBI just say, hey, the laptop's real?
00:36:04.000 Why don't you just tell everybody the laptop's real?
00:36:07.000 We're not vouching for what's on it, but it's real.
00:36:09.000 This isn't a fiction.
00:36:14.000 Well, as you might imagine, the FBI cannot, especially in a time like that, be talking about an ongoing investigation.
00:36:22.000 Second, I would tell you that, at least my understanding, is that both the FBI folks involved in the conversations and the Twitter folks involved in the conversations both say that the FBI did not direct Twitter to suppress that particular story.
00:36:36.000 But others were in government?
00:36:38.000 Well, again, I can't speak to others in government.
00:36:40.000 That's part of the point that I was trying to make, because the Fifth Circuit's opinion... But you're the FBI.
00:36:44.000 You're not part of the White House and part of Homeland Security.
00:36:48.000 You're not supposed to be political.
00:36:50.000 You see all this controversy going on.
00:36:52.000 Why didn't the FBI say, time out, folks.
00:36:54.000 We're not getting in the middle of this, but the laptop's real.
00:36:59.000 Again, we have to be very careful about what we can say, especially in the middle of an election season, because that's precisely some of the problems that led to my predecessor's negative findings from the Inspector General.
00:37:11.000 Okay, but that's not right.
00:37:14.000 Because, again, failure to say the true thing because your predecessor said not true things, that's not the same thing.
00:37:22.000 Again, actively involving yourself in an election cycle in which you announce that your activity, your activity is ongoing, which is what James Comey did with regard to Hillary Clinton a few days from the election in 2016.
00:37:32.000 He said, reopening the investigation because we found this laptop.
00:37:35.000 He didn't have to announce that because that was about his activity.
00:37:38.000 But if the FBI knows for a fact that a narrative is false, And that it's being promulgated by one of the campaigns and the media and other parts of the government.
00:37:46.000 And the FBI knows that.
00:37:48.000 It is, in fact, an act or omission that is material to the election for them not to say, we know the laptop is real.
00:37:55.000 That's ridiculous.
00:37:56.000 Either way, you are quote-unquote interfering, but on one side, you are quote-unquote interfering, but on behalf of a true thing.
00:38:02.000 That's not the same thing as what James Comey did in 2016.
00:38:05.000 Meanwhile, Chris Wray said, oh yeah, by the way, even though there are still court cases pending that suggest that we shouldn't be coordinating with social media about what can and cannot be said leading up to the election, we'll still be coordinating with social media.
00:38:15.000 Are you concerned about the Fifth Circuit saying, in effect, that you can't communicate with social media to alert them to threats?
00:38:25.000 Well of course, as you know, this is the subject of ongoing litigation.
00:38:30.000 The findings of the lower courts in that litigation are things that are hotly contested through the department's filings.
00:38:40.000 President Trump himself, rightly, In 2018 or 19, issued an executive order on this very subject, calling it a national emergency.
00:38:50.000 SISI, the Senate Intelligence Committee, on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis, identified much the same and called for more engagement, more engagement with social media companies, not less.
00:39:01.000 The key, the key, is making sure that it's done in the right way, and that's what we're committed to do.
00:39:07.000 Focus on the hidden hand of the foreign actor, Not on the content itself posted.
00:39:13.000 Okay.
00:39:14.000 Well, I wish they would do that, but I don't trust you and I'm sure that no one else does either.
00:39:18.000 So once again, our administration is staffed.
00:39:21.000 I mean, this is the American government is staffed by people who are just not either good at their jobs or who very often are good at their jobs, but in the wrong way.
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00:41:40.000 And meanwhile, Congress continues to debate over Ukraine aid.
00:41:44.000 According to the New York Times, President Biden's urgent push to replenish Ukraine's war chest and send aid to Israel is on the brink of collapse in the Senate, where Republicans are prepared on Wednesday to block funding unless Democrats agree to add strict measures to clamp down on migration at the U.S.
00:41:55.000 border with Mexico.
00:41:57.000 Why in the world is that even remotely controversial?
00:41:59.000 So Democrats will get what they want, namely the full funding to Ukraine.
00:42:02.000 Republicans will get, you know, a border that is not going to be completely open.
00:42:07.000 And Democrats are somehow blocking at this?
00:42:09.000 The meltdown apparently took place on the eve of a critical test vote in the Senate on the $110 billion emergency spending bill, and not only made it clear the measure would fail, but severely dimmed the prospects for any bipartisan agreement soon.
00:42:20.000 A vote to block aid would spotlight flagging U.S.
00:42:22.000 resolve at a critical time in Ukraine's war against President Putin's Russia.
00:42:26.000 We're about to abandon Ukraine, said Senator Chris Murphy.
00:42:28.000 Well, you know what you could do is you could just allow there to be border security.
00:42:33.000 You could do that.
00:42:34.000 I don't even understand why this is remotely controversial.
00:42:36.000 Border security, by the way, is being called for by Democrats down at the border.
00:42:41.000 It's amazing that basically Democrats in the Senate are so attached to their open borders nonsense that they are willing to scuttle their own support for Ukraine aid.
00:42:48.000 Senator Lindsey Graham says, count me in on Ukraine.
00:42:50.000 If we don't help get Ukraine and Putin gets away with this, you'll be in a war with NATO.
00:42:54.000 I got all that.
00:42:55.000 You'll get a robust Republican vote for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan if you have real border security.
00:43:00.000 But apparently, they're not doing anything on the border.
00:43:04.000 Chuck Schumer is now suggesting that if the bill fails because of the border, that's on Republicans.
00:43:08.000 Well, here's the thing.
00:43:10.000 Either Joe Biden wants the aid or he doesn't want the aid.
00:43:12.000 Either he thinks it's important for Ukraine not to collapse to the Russians and for Israel to win in Gaza, or he doesn't.
00:43:17.000 If he doesn't think it's that important, then, um, I suppose that Chuck Schumer is right, and he'll try to blame the Republicans for it.
00:43:23.000 If he thinks it's important, maybe he might try, you know, shoring up the border.
00:43:25.000 Here's Chuck Schumer trying to blame Republicans for what is obviously a Democratic failure here.
00:43:30.000 Let's remember three things as we move forward.
00:43:32.000 One, how important Ukraine is.
00:43:35.000 It's a turning point in Western civilization.
00:43:38.000 This is a historic moment, and this cannot be delayed any longer.
00:43:43.000 Zelensky, by the way, could not make it to our, something happened at the last minute to our briefing at three, but we'll hear, and you'll hear particularly from Mark Warner, who knows this so well, how desperate Ukraine is for the aid that the President has proposed.
00:44:00.000 But it's vital.
00:44:01.000 Vital.
00:44:03.000 Second, if this fails because of border, that's not a bipartisan failure.
00:44:09.000 That's a failure of the Republicans and the Republican leadership.
00:44:14.000 The only reason they added border was because a lot of members of their hard right said they want border.
00:44:20.000 But a lot of those same members aren't going to vote Ukraine no matter what is there.
00:44:26.000 I mean, first of all, that's not true.
00:44:29.000 First of all, it's not true.
00:44:29.000 Republicans are saying, why not add border to the package so you have bipartisan support for the bill?
00:44:35.000 Republicans support the Israel aid more than Democrats do.
00:44:38.000 Democrats support the Ukraine aid more than Republicans do.
00:44:41.000 So the idea is the compromise middle is going to be all those things plus border.
00:44:45.000 And Chuck Schumer is balking at that?
00:44:47.000 What is the high priority on leaving the border open?
00:44:50.000 Why exactly does he desperately want to leave the border open?
00:44:52.000 This is why people are suspicious of what exactly are the motives over here.
00:44:55.000 OK, in just one second, we're going to get to Joe Biden make an extraordinary comment.
00:44:59.000 With regard to the 2024 election.
00:45:01.000 We'll get to that momentarily.
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