The Ben Shapiro Show - The Tree Of Life | Ep. 648

00:00:00.000 The worst anti-Semitic shooting in American history rocks the country, the left blames President Trump, and a populist wins a shock victory in Brazil.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:07.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:14.000 Well, obviously an awful morning to be doing a podcast, but here we are, and I have a lot of thoughts, obviously, on what happened over the weekend.

00:00:21.000 The worst anti-Semitic shooting in American history taking place at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

00:00:26.000 Just awful.

00:00:28.000 And a lot to break down here about the state of American politics, about the state of the country, about the state of civilization.

00:00:33.000 Suffice it to say,

00:00:34.000 The short story here is that when the seams of Western civilization begin to come apart, anti-Semitism is what crawls through those gaps, and that's exactly what we've seen in the past few years.

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00:02:30.000 Alright, so.

00:02:31.000 Let's talk about this tree of live shooting.

00:02:34.000 So, over the weekend, obviously, the worst antisemitic shooting attack in the history of the United States.

00:02:38.000 11 people murdered in a synagogue during what we call a Brit Mila.

00:02:42.000 I don't know.

00:03:04.000 Sort of less orthodox.

00:03:06.000 People drive on Sabbath.

00:03:07.000 They sort of keep a form of Sabbath.

00:03:09.000 They don't keep full kosher, but they have certain respect for Torah laws.

00:03:12.000 In any case, this conservative synagogue didn't have much security and an anti-Semitic white supremacist, but I repeat myself, walked into the synagogue armed with an AR-15 and proceeded to shoot up the bris milah. 0.99

00:03:24.000 He was screaming at the time, all Jews must die. 0.99

00:03:27.000 So obviously a subtle fellow. 0.99

00:03:29.000 So, why does this matter?

00:03:31.000 First of all, I think that we need to get something off the table right away.

00:03:34.000 When an anti-Semitic attack occurs, you generally don't need to bother blaming particular politicians.

00:03:40.000 Anti-Semitism is literally as old as the Jewish people.

00:03:43.000 Literally as old as the Jewish people. 0.99

00:03:44.000 Now, there are politicians in the past who have called for anti-Semitism.

00:03:47.000 There are politicians in the past who have actively called for the murder of Jews.

00:03:51.000 I'm not seeing a lot of those on today's American scene.

00:03:53.000 There are a lot of politicians on today's American scene who hobnob with anti-Semites, who make common cause with anti-Semites.

00:03:59.000 We'll get to all of that in just a second.

00:04:00.000 But folks who are blaming the left or the right for the anti-Semitic shooting that happened yesterday, white supremacism and anti-Semitic attacks on Jews have existed for decades in this country, long before anything that is going on in today's politics.

00:04:13.000 And that's not to downplay what's happening in today's politics.

00:04:15.000 That's what the rest of the show is going to be about.

00:04:17.000 But let's just be clear about this.

00:04:19.000 When it comes to attacks on Jews, there is nothing new under the sun.

00:04:23.000 Legitimately nothing new under the sun.

00:04:25.000 I don't know a single Jew, seriously a single Jew, who is not one degree removed from a violent attack on a Jew. 0.96

00:04:31.000 And that's not to say that America is a violent country for Jews. 0.76

00:04:34.000 It is not.

00:04:34.000 America is the safest country in world history for Jews.

00:04:37.000 America's an incredible place for Jews.

00:04:39.000 But because the Jewish population is so small, and because so many Jews know each other, and because the Jews sort of consider themselves an extended family, just as Christians consider themselves an extended religious family, it's difficult not to feel it deeply, obviously, when an attack like this takes place.

00:04:56.000 The history of the Jewish people is filled with fractious division, but history has treated the Jews as a closely bound unit.

00:05:03.000 Jewish identity isn't really a choice, it's a reality.

00:05:06.000 Modernity has obscured this for a lot of Jews, but the fact is that all Jews are in the same boat when it comes to anti-Semites, like this.

00:05:13.000 And as I say, every Jew is one degree removed from some level of anti-Semitic violence.

00:05:17.000 I live in the Los Angeles community.

00:05:19.000 I'm probably, if not the most prominent Orthodox Jew in the country.

00:05:23.000 The most prominent Orthodox Jew wearing a yarmulke in the country, I think, would be fair to say. 1.00

00:05:27.000 I walk around in public with a yarmulke.

00:05:29.000 That's how safe I think this country is.

00:05:30.000 I live in a city with some 900,000 Jews.

00:05:33.000 Los Angeles has 900,000 Jews living in the city.

00:05:37.000 Still, anti-Semitic attacks have occurred in the LA Jewish community since I was a child.

00:05:42.000 In 1991, a synagogue just down the block from me was firebombed.

00:05:46.000 In 1999, a white supremacist drove past the high school that I would attend a year later.

00:05:50.000 Checked it out, and then proceeded to drive over to the West Valley JCC and shoot it up. 0.78

00:05:54.000 In 2002, a radical Muslim terrorist walked into the El Al counter at LAX and shot up the El Al counter, killing a member of my community.

00:06:01.000 When I attended the Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles, we had bomb scares, bomb threats.

00:06:05.000 Maybe every three months we'd have to evacuate the school.

00:06:08.000 So anti-Semitism, particularly from white supremacists, is nothing new here.

00:06:12.000 So, this brings us to the bigger question.

00:06:17.000 This brings us to the bigger question, and that is why this thing happened right now.

00:06:21.000 Now, I'm not going to mention the name of the shooter because I don't mention the name of terrorists or mass shooters on the program.

00:06:26.000 I don't want to give them any sort of glory.

00:06:28.000 This mass shooter used a little-known social network to spew hatred toward Jews. 0.59

00:06:32.000 He called them the children of Satan as he showed off his family of firearms. 0.65

00:06:35.000 He now faces the death penalty after unleashing the guns on worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

00:06:41.000 He was particularly upset about a non-Jewish, a Jewish nonprofit providing aid to refugees.

00:06:46.000 The Jewish nonprofit...

00:06:49.000 is called HIAS. 0.98

00:06:51.000 And he tweeted, HIAS likes to bring in invaders that kill our people.

00:06:53.000 I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered.

00:06:55.000 Screw your optics. 0.54

00:06:56.000 I'm going in. 0.70

00:06:57.000 That was the last tweet that he sent before he went and murdered a bunch of Jews, most of them over the age of 50, including a Holocaust survivor.

00:07:03.000 He also had a particular dislike for President Trump.

00:07:07.000 He dismissed President Trump as a globalist rather than a nationalist.

00:07:10.000 He said there is no MAGA as long as there is a kike infestation. 1.00

00:07:14.000 I'm going to use the word here because I think it's imperative to know the language that these monsters use. 0.98

00:07:19.000 These evil, evil people. 0.99

00:07:21.000 So, the media's take on all of this has, I think, been quite simplistic and foolish. 0.99

00:07:28.000 They have, of course, suggested that President Trump is responsible for everything. 0.98

00:07:32.000 President Trump is responsible for the shooting.

00:07:35.000 Specifically because President Trump in 2016-2017 winked and nodded at the alt-right.

00:07:40.000 Now, I was highly critical of President Trump for doing that.

00:07:43.000 I am highly critical of President Trump for doing that.

00:07:45.000 I was the number one target of alt-right antisemitism online in 2016 with a bullet.

00:07:50.000 It was not close.

00:07:50.000 40% of all antisemitic tweets by the alt-right in 2016 were directed at me personally.

00:07:55.000 So I am well acquainted with the folks that President Trump winged and nodded at.

00:07:59.000 This guy was not alt-right. 0.97

00:08:00.000 He was a white supremacist.

00:08:02.000 There is a slight difference. 0.99

00:08:03.000 He is not a member of the modern alt-right movement, which is disgusting and evil and anti-Semitic in and of itself. 0.99

00:08:08.000 But he is a white supremacist with a longer standing past. 0.89

00:08:14.000 Because this is a complex topic, I'm going to try to parse this.

00:08:16.000 I'm going to try to parse this because a bunch of things can be true all at once.

00:08:19.000 Number one, just as I said last week with regard to the attempted bombings against Democratic targets, just as I said then, you cannot connect a politician's rhetoric to a violent action unless the politician actually calls for the violent action.

00:08:32.000 President Trump has engaged in nothing even remotely approaching incitement against Jews.

00:08:36.000 No one can name a single comment that he has ever made that looks like incitement against Jews.

00:08:40.000 In fact, this president of the United States has been extraordinarily pro-Israel and pro-Jewish.

00:08:45.000 The President's comments in response to this particular anti-Semitic attack were far stronger than his predecessor's responses to similar anti-Semitic attacks.

00:08:52.000 For example, here's what the President of the United States had to say in the after... This is clip 15.

00:08:57.000 This is what the President had to say in the aftermath of the attack.

00:09:01.000 The scourge of anti-Semitism cannot be ignored, cannot be tolerated, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

00:09:09.000 We can't allow it to continue.

00:09:13.000 It must be confronted and condemned everywhere. 0.97

00:09:17.000 It rears its very ugly head.

00:09:20.000 We must stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters to defeat anti-Semitism and vanquish the forces of hate.

00:09:29.000 That's what it is.

00:09:31.000 Okay, so his statements that anti-Semitism must be eradicated, it was a far stronger statement than Barack Obama's tweet.

00:09:37.000 So here's what Barack Obama tweeted.

00:09:38.000 And I want to show you the contrast between this because, again, if we're going to talk about standing with the Jews, then we have to talk about whose response to this attack was actually better.

00:09:46.000 President Trump's was better than Obama's.

00:09:48.000 Here was Obama's response on Twitter.

00:09:49.000 We grieve for the Americans murdered in Pittsburgh.

00:09:52.000 All of us have to fight the rise of anti-Semitism and hateful rhetoric against those who look, love, or pray differently.

00:09:56.000 And we have to stop making it so easy for those who want to harm the innocent to get their hands on a gun.

00:10:01.000 President Trump took on antisemitism point blank.

00:10:04.000 He said antisemitism is evil and it must be eradicated.

00:10:06.000 He didn't try to liken it to hatred against any other group.

00:10:08.000 He didn't try to make it about gun control.

00:10:10.000 Barack Obama did both of those things.

00:10:11.000 The left has a tendency to obscure antisemitism with a broad brush of bigotry.

00:10:15.000 Simply saying that antisemitism is like any other hatred.

00:10:18.000 It is not like any other hatred.

00:10:19.000 Every hatred has its own diagnosis.

00:10:21.000 Every hatred has its own symptoms.

00:10:23.000 Anti-black racism is not the same as anti-white racism.

00:10:26.000 Anti-black racism is not the same thing as antisemitism.

00:10:29.000 Anti-LGBT.

00:10:30.000 Homophobia.

00:10:31.000 Now, let's go through some of the elements here that I think are important.

00:10:34.000 First of all, as I say, President Trump in 2016-2017 did wink and nod at the alt-right.

00:10:36.000 Okay?

00:10:37.000 Again, I've said this a thousand times.

00:10:38.000 I wrote editorials about it.

00:10:39.000 I was extraordinarily vocal about it.

00:10:57.000 From his unwillingness to condemn David Duke on CNN to his unwillingness to condemn alt-right attacks on Julia Jaffe, the GQ journalist we'll get to in a second.

00:11:06.000 To bringing on Steve Bannon, who called himself the progenitor of a website that became a gathering place for the alt-right.

00:11:14.000 President Trump went and nodded at this.

00:11:15.000 I know this because I became the target of the alt-right.

00:11:18.000 Trump's statements in the aftermath of Charlottesville provided aid and comfort to white supremacists.

00:11:22.000 I don't see any way around that.

00:11:23.000 But Trump is not a white supremacist and he is not an anti-Semite.

00:11:26.000 He has a pathological aversion to criticizing anyone who says anything nice about him.

00:11:30.000 Point number two, these are a bunch of things that are true at the same time.

00:11:33.000 And if you want to understand what's going on, we need to recognize this.

00:11:36.000 Point number two, white supremacism is not alt-right MAGA.

00:11:39.000 They are not the same category of people.

00:11:42.000 White supremacists, long predated President Trump.

00:11:44.000 They're not a new development. 0.98

00:11:46.000 Those people were going to shoot Jews regardless of what anybody had to say because they have been shooting Jews since long before I was born.

00:11:53.000 In 1999, as I mentioned, a white supremacist shot up our local JCC. 0.70

00:11:56.000 That same year, six Orthodox Jews were shot in Chicago along with a black man and several Asians by a white supremacist.

00:12:01.000 This sort of stuff has been happening for a very long time.

00:12:04.000 It has nothing to do with President Trump.

00:12:07.000 Third, President Trump has separated from the alt-right in dramatic ways.

00:12:11.000 To say that President Trump is still associated with the alt-right is to be ignorant of President Trump's administration or what he has done.

00:12:16.000 The alt-right is enraged with him.

00:12:18.000 If you go look at Richard Spencer, if you go look at some of the other members of the alt-right, they're angry at him.

00:12:23.000 They believe that he has been hijacked by the globalists.

00:12:26.000 The same way that this shooter thought that President Trump was standing up too much for the kikes. 1.00

00:12:31.000 OK, so that is the way that that is just a basic truth.

00:12:34.000 President Trump has been extraordinarily pro-Jewish and pro-Israel in his actual presidency.

00:12:39.000 That is a basic foundational truth.

00:12:40.000 And if you fail to acknowledge it, you are lying by omission.

00:12:44.000 Hey, in a second, I'm going to get to a few more points we have to keep in mind, then we'll get to the media's response, which, again, I think is simplistic, despicable, and partisan.

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00:13:54.000 Okay, a few more points that we have to keep in mind with regard to the shooting in Pennsylvania and what it has to do with President Trump, which is to say very little.

00:14:21.000 President Trump, as I say, has separated from the alt-right in dramatic ways.

00:14:23.000 So the first three points that I've made here, President Trump did wink and nod at the alt-right for two years.

00:14:27.000 Two, white supremacism not the same as alt-right MAGA.

00:14:30.000 Three, President Trump has separated from the alt-right in dramatic ways and they are pissed at him over it.

00:14:34.000 Okay, that is true of this shooter too, who is anti-Trump.

00:14:37.000 Fourth, if we're going to talk about flirting with anti-Semites and anti-Semitic rhetoric, and this making things less safe for Jews, then let's actually talk about that.

00:14:46.000 Who do you think has made the world less safe for Jews?

00:14:48.000 President Trump and his winking and nodding at the alt-right?

00:14:52.000 Or the left, which mainstreams Louis Farrakhan, which mainstreams Linda Sarsour, which mainstreams the BDS movement, which mainstreams wildly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic policies?

00:15:02.000 Which one do you think is more damaging to Jews all across the world and in the United States?

00:15:07.000 Which one do you think is leading to more mainstream antisemitism?

00:15:11.000 Do you think it's the party that might have removed Jerusalem, tried to remove Jerusalem in 2012 from their platform?

00:15:16.000 Or is it the party that moved the U.S.

00:15:18.000 Embassy to Jerusalem in Israel?

00:15:19.000 Do you think that it's the party standing up for religious freedom?

00:15:22.000 Or do you think that it's the party looking to obliterate religious freedom in the name of so-called anti-discrimination?

00:15:27.000 Do you think that it's the party that mainlines Keith Ellison and tries to make him head of the DNC after he refuses and spends years backing Louis Farrakhan?

00:15:36.000 Or do you think that it might be the party that opposes that?

00:15:40.000 Mainstream members of the Democratic Party routinely hobnob with anti-Semites.

00:15:44.000 Not just hobnob with them, agree with them.

00:15:46.000 This is true on the European left as well.

00:15:48.000 Folks like Jeremy Corbyn in Britain expressing their sympathy for what happened in Pittsburgh.

00:15:52.000 Go F yourself, dude.

00:15:53.000 No one is interested in what a Hamas supporter has to say about Jews being shot in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. 0.99

00:16:00.000 See, for the Jewish community, really, for Jews who really care about being Jewish, there is not a whit of difference between a Jew being murdered for being a Jew in Jerusalem, a Jew being murdered for being Jewish in France, or a Jew being murdered for being Jewish in Pittsburgh.

00:16:11.000 It's all of a piece.

00:16:13.000 And for folks on the left who suggest that the death of a Jew in Jerusalem is different than the death of a Jew in Pittsburgh for anti-Semitic reasons, those people are part of the problem.

00:16:21.000 And so if we're going to talk about anti-Semitic rhetoric and who's to blame for a rise in Jewish deaths the world over, a rise in hate crimes the world over, then let's actually talk about it. 0.82

00:16:31.000 I don't think the left wants to talk about that.

00:16:32.000 I think what they want is partisan hackery.

00:16:34.000 A little more on this in just a second.

00:16:38.000 Let's be clear about this.

00:16:39.000 When President Trump

00:16:41.000 Tried to wink and nod at the alt-right.

00:16:43.000 He was taking a fringe group, a fringe group that was non-associated with the conservative movement, and he was winking and nodding at them for political purposes, and then he tossed them out on their ear, which is why they're angry with him.

00:16:53.000 The mainstream Democratic Party, the mainstream Democratic Party and the left in this country have decided that it is perfectly fine to hobnob with people who support anti-Semitic terrorism.

00:17:03.000 They've decided that's okay.

00:17:05.000 I'm not blaming those folks for what happened in Pittsburgh.

00:17:07.000 That's not their fault either.

00:17:09.000 But if we're going to talk about rhetoric and its impact on anti-Jewish sentiment the world over, I'm going to go with the folks who every time there's a war in the Gaza Strip suggest that Jews the world over are to blame.

00:17:17.000 Or suggest that Israel is to blame for defending itself.

00:17:20.000 Or suggest that when Jews are attacked at a kosher supermarket in France, that that's a random attack.

00:17:28.000 If we're going to condemn rhetoric, let's condemn rhetoric.

00:17:30.000 I'm happy to separate rhetoric from violence.

00:17:32.000 I'm happy to do that on all sides.

00:17:34.000 But if we're going to talk rhetoric, you have to condemn rhetoric when it happens, where it happens, and from whom it comes.

00:17:39.000 Okay?

00:17:39.000 I condemned President Trump when he was candidate Trump doing this nonsense with the alt-right.

00:17:42.000 I did it over and over and over.

00:17:44.000 I've done the same thing with folks on the left.

00:17:45.000 I don't see anyone on the left doing the same thing to folks on the left.

00:17:48.000 I see them only doing it to folks on the right for partisan political reasons.

00:17:52.000 That's all I'm seeing. 0.90

00:17:53.000 I'm seeing a bunch of people who don't give a good damn when a Jew gets killed in Jerusalem 0.85

00:17:58.000 Popping out of the woodwork to say that the right is responsible for what just happened in Pittsburgh, all the while championing an Iran deal that will lead to the annihilation of millions of people if the Iranians have their way. 0.91

00:18:10.000 That is partisanship.

00:18:13.000 That is disgusting partisanship.

00:18:15.000 And I will show you that sort of partisanship in just a second.

00:18:18.000 Because that's the fifth point here.

00:18:19.000 Okay, we're actually going to talk about policy.

00:18:21.000 Let's separate rhetoric and policy for just a second.

00:18:23.000 Okay, again, I'm...

00:18:25.000 For the 1,000th time, when anti-Semitic rhetoric, or rhetoric that tut-tuts anti-Semitism, takes place, I will condemn it loudly and strongly as I have.

00:18:33.000 You can go back and listen to the show.

00:18:35.000 I've done it every step of the way against people on all sides.

00:18:38.000 I don't care.

00:18:39.000 I'll keep doing it because it's the right thing to do.

00:18:41.000 I'll do the same thing with racist rhetoric.

00:18:43.000 I'm happy to do it on every side. 0.99

00:18:45.000 Okay, but now let's talk about policy and which policy is getting Jews killed. 0.95

00:18:49.000 Okay, if you're gonna talk about policies that lead to Jews dying, it ain't President Trump's policy. 0.90

00:18:55.000 The Obama administration lied to the American people and promoted an Iran deal that gave the Mullahs a clear pathway to a nuclear weapon.

00:19:03.000 President Trump not only moved the embassy to Jerusalem, he also cut off aid to the anti-Semitic, openly anti-Semitic, terror-supporting Palestinian Authority.

00:19:10.000 The Obama administration tried to make Israel make concessions to those terrorists.

00:19:15.000 The Obama administration, in the middle of the Gaza War in 2014, threatened to cut off military supplies to the Israelis.

00:19:22.000 The Obama administration

00:19:25.000 was just blatantly, not only anti-Israel, not only blatantly anti-Israel, but promotional of a wing of progressive Jews for whom progressivism came first and Judaism came second.

00:19:37.000 So if you're going to talk about policy that led to dead Jews, forget the location, then you actually have to talk about it.

00:19:46.000 But we're not going to talk about any of that stuff, obviously.

00:19:48.000 We're not going to talk about any of that stuff.

00:19:50.000 So, now let's talk about how the media actually responded to this.

00:19:54.000 Because it's, while, it's just tremendously dishonest.

00:19:56.000 So let's start with a media story that came courtesy, I'm sorry, all this is deeply upsetting.

00:20:04.000 It's deeply upsetting, because we should all be on the same side when it comes to anti-Semitism.

00:20:07.000 I think that we probably all would be on the same side when it comes to anti-Semitism, but nobody is actually willing to call out anti-Semitism when and where it exists on any side, unless they are busy defending their own political side and their own political hide.

00:20:18.000 It's disgusting.

00:20:20.000 And the media are complicit in this.

00:20:24.000 Maggie Haberman, a reporter for whom I generally have respect at the New York Times, she tweeted out today a letter to President Trump from Pittsburgh Jewish leaders.

00:20:33.000 And this is a headline that was repeated by a variety of media groups.

00:20:36.000 The Washington Post.

00:20:37.000 He is not welcome here.

00:20:39.000 Thousands support Pittsburgh Jewish leaders calling on Trump to denounce white nationalism.

00:20:43.000 The Hill.

00:20:43.000 Progressive Jewish leaders tell Trump he's not welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism.

00:20:48.000 Newsweek.

00:20:48.000 Jewish group says Donald Trump not welcome in Pittsburgh until he is ready to fully denounce white nationalism.

00:20:53.000 Okay, now, you would think this sounds like Jewish leaders in Pittsburgh tell President Trump not to show up.

00:20:57.000 Isn't that what it sounds like?

00:20:59.000 The headline says, after all.

00:21:00.000 I'm going to tell you the whole story in just one second.

00:21:03.000 Because it turns out the media are lying to you.

00:21:06.000 It turns out the media are lying to you because they're more interested in getting President Trump than in actually fighting anti-Semitism or unifying against anti-Semitism.

00:21:12.000 It seems to me when the President of the United States comes out, openly condemns anti-Semitism, wants to visit Pittsburgh, is probably going to put in place new measures to fight anti-Semitism, maybe we all can be on the same side.

00:21:22.000 But apparently not.

00:21:23.000 Apparently not.

00:21:24.000 I'll explain.

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00:22:31.000 Okay, so what are the media not telling you about the Jewish leaders who supposedly said that President Trump shouldn't show up?

00:22:37.000 They're from a group called Bend the Arc.

00:22:39.000 Okay, the Bend the Arc wrote a letter stating, For the past three years, your words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement.

00:22:46.000 You yourself call the murderer evil, but yesterday's violence is the direct culmination of your influence.

00:22:51.000 President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism.

00:22:55.000 Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted.

00:22:57.000 You have deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities.

00:23:02.000 Yesterday's massacre is not the first act of terror you incited. 0.85

00:23:05.000 Okay, so who the hell is this group?

00:23:07.000 Who's been the ARC?

00:23:07.000 Okay, the group is a leftist political action group, self-stated, with a Jewish label.

00:23:13.000 Their stated mission is, quote, rising up in solidarity with everyone threatened by the Trump agenda to fight for the soul of our nation.

00:23:19.000 Their missions include the election of, quote, progressive champions and the implementation of progressive legislation and policies like criminal justice reform and economic equity.

00:23:27.000 Who runs Bend the Arc?

00:23:28.000 It was founded by Alexander Soros, George Soros' son.

00:23:32.000 When he started the PAC,

00:23:33.000 Politico noted Soros, who formed his own foundation in 2012 to promote social justice and human rights, has given $1.2 million to Democratic candidates and groups in the last three decades.

00:23:43.000 This is a Democratic political action committee, and the press treated it as though it was a bunch of rabbis, well-respected in the Jewish community, who came out and told Trump not to show up in Pittsburgh.

00:23:51.000 That is a lie.

00:23:52.000 The director of Bend the Arc originally was a guy at, he was a guy named Hadar Susskind.

00:23:57.000 He was a former head staffer at J Street, an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel BDS group.

00:24:03.000 That's the group that's condemning President Trump.

00:24:05.000 The media ran the headline, thousands support Pittsburgh Jewish leaders calling on Trump to denounce white nationalism.

00:24:11.000 That is the headline from the Washington Post.

00:24:13.000 That is a blatant, absolute, outright lie.

00:24:16.000 It is an outright lie.

00:24:17.000 You know how I know it's an outright lie?

00:24:19.000 Because here is a clip of the rabbi at the Tree of Life synagogue that was just shot up on national television being asked whether President Trump was welcome in Pittsburgh.

00:24:28.000 President Trump has talked about coming to Pittsburgh and coming to your synagogue in the aftermath of this.

00:24:34.000 Do you want him to come?

00:24:36.000 The president of the United States is always welcome.

00:24:40.000 I'm a citizen.

00:24:40.000 He's my president.

00:24:42.000 He's certainly welcome.

00:24:47.000 How dishonest is that?

00:24:48.000 The actual rabbi of the synagogue says, he's welcome.

00:24:50.000 Come to my synagogue.

00:24:52.000 A bunch of anti... I mean, these folks are anti-Israel, by the way.

00:24:56.000 A bunch of people on the radical left say that they don't like President Trump.

00:24:59.000 And suddenly, suddenly, it's Jewish leaders all over Pittsburgh calling for this.

00:25:03.000 Just deep and abiding dishonesty. 0.70

00:25:06.000 Abiding dishonesty.

00:25:07.000 And this, of course, prompted President Trump to get himself in trouble again because President Trump cannot help but step on a rake every five seconds.

00:25:13.000 The president tweets out in response to the media stuff like this.

00:25:16.000 There is great anger in our country caused in part by inaccurate and even fraudulent reporting of the news.

00:25:21.000 The fake news media, the true enemy of the people, must stop the open and obvious hostility and report the news accurately and fairly.

00:25:27.000 That will do much to put out the flame.

00:25:28.000 I agree with President Trump that the media are doing a terrible job and they are lying about him and lying about the situation. 0.88

00:25:33.000 But if he doesn't stop at this enemy of the people crap, he undermines everything that he is saying.

00:25:38.000 The press are not the enemy of the people. 0.96

00:25:41.000 The press are politically biased hacks.

00:25:43.000 There is a difference.

00:25:44.000 Calling on the enemy of the people only raises the temperature in a time when it doesn't need to be raised.

00:25:48.000 But he's not wrong that the media are out to get him, and he is not wrong that the media have decided that no matter what the question was, the answer is, it's Trump's fault.

00:25:57.000 It's so funny, on the left, it became a meme when President Obama was president, that when something went wrong, everybody would say, blame Obama.

00:26:05.000 Obama even joked about it.

00:26:06.000 There's no question that for the left, it doesn't matter what the question is.

00:26:10.000 Why did the butter get spoiled?

00:26:12.000 Why is the fridge broken?

00:26:14.000 Why did I get in a car crash?

00:26:15.000 The answer is President Trump.

00:26:17.000 Here is the Washington Post headline, the day after the shooting in Pittsburgh.

00:26:21.000 This is, uh, this is this.

00:26:24.000 Yeah, there we go.

00:26:25.000 The headline was, 11 killed in shooting at Pittsburgh Synagogue.

00:26:28.000 And then underneath that headline, it says, Trump allies set the tone for violence they'd announced, critics say.

00:26:35.000 Really?

00:26:36.000 That's where we're going now?

00:26:37.000 Trump allies set the tone for violence they'd announced, critics say?

00:26:39.000 Well, that's a fun way to do journalism.

00:26:41.000 Critics say.

00:26:42.000 See, when I have an opinion, I just say it.

00:26:44.000 When the Washington Post has an opinion, they just say, critics say.

00:26:48.000 How convenient.

00:26:49.000 How convenient.

00:26:50.000 And then you have Julia Jaffe.

00:26:51.000 So Julia Jaffe is a so-called journalist at GQ.

00:26:54.000 Now, she has a reason to be mad at Trump back in 2015, 2016. 0.98

00:26:58.000 She wrote a piece for GQ about Melania Trump wasn't very nice, and a bunch of alt-righters attacked her in anti-Semitic fashion. 0.95

00:27:05.000 President Trump was asked about it.

00:27:06.000 He didn't condemn it.

00:27:07.000 That was gross. 1.00

00:27:08.000 That was stupid, and that was wrong. 1.00

00:27:09.000 I said so at the time. 1.00

00:27:10.000 Go back and listen to the tape.

00:27:12.000 But Julia Jaffe has gone off her rocker. 0.99

00:27:14.000 So here is what she tweeted. 0.98

00:27:16.000 To all the well-meaning Gentiles telling me what to think and not go think about the synagogue shooting today, kindly shut up. 1.00

00:27:22.000 Today's your day to be quiet. 0.99

00:27:24.000 No.

00:27:25.000 Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

00:27:26.000 The question is whether that opinion is good or not.

00:27:28.000 Like, for example, Julia Jaffe is a Jew. 1.00

00:27:30.000 Her opinion sucks. 1.00

00:27:32.000 Here's her second take on this. 1.00

00:27:54.000 Except for the fact that this shooter specifically hated President Trump, and except for the fact that you don't get to blame Jews for how they vote on Jews getting killed.

00:28:02.000 Talk about blaming the victims.

00:28:04.000 I don't know how anybody at this synagogue voted.

00:28:08.000 Maybe they voted for Trump, maybe they didn't.

00:28:10.000 It doesn't matter.

00:28:11.000 You don't get to blame people for the death of other people when they have no connection to the death of other people.

00:28:16.000 But this is what the left has decided to do.

00:28:17.000 They've decided that every bad thing that happens in the country from an evil person has to be the result of President Trump's rhetoric.

00:28:23.000 Now, again, I condemned President Trump when it came to the alt-right stuff, but you can't show me the connection that is solid between what happened at the Pittsburgh synagogue and President Trump's alt-right stuff, number one.

00:28:35.000 And number two, if we're going to talk about rhetoric that leads to violence against Jews, that's going to open a whole can of worms.

00:28:40.000 I don't think the left wants opened. 1.00

00:28:43.000 Matt Iglesias, who is just an idiot. 1.00

00:28:46.000 I mean, he's Ralphie from The Simpsons over at Vox. 1.00

00:28:50.000 He tweeted out about Steve Scalise.

00:28:52.000 Steve Scalise said, This morning's attack is a reminder that anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry still persist in our society and must be confronted and combated at every turn.

00:29:00.000 Matt Iglesias tweeted, David Duke without the baggage.

00:29:03.000 So now every Republican is responsible for a white nationalist shooting up a synagogue.

00:29:08.000 I'm an Orthodox Jew. 0.96

00:29:10.000 This is a lie.

00:29:11.000 It is a lie.

00:29:12.000 I go to synagogue way more than any of the people who I've quoted so far in the show.

00:29:16.000 And not only that, I'm seeing an argument being made, we'll get to this in a second, the gun control argument that is being made by folks on the left in response to all of this.

00:29:24.000 You know what my response to all of this is?

00:29:26.000 I'm going to start carrying a gun to shul.

00:29:29.000 That's my response to all of this. 0.96

00:29:31.000 My response is, Jews should be armed. 1.00

00:29:33.000 People in synagogues should be armed. 1.00

00:29:36.000 Hey, you know why? 0.90

00:29:37.000 Because white nationalists are not going to give up their guns. 0.98

00:29:39.000 Evil people don't give up their guns. 0.95

00:29:41.000 So that means I want more people at my shul armed.

00:29:43.000 I want more security guards at my shul.

00:29:45.000 We'll get to all of that in just a second.

00:29:48.000 Sorry, it's an angry show today, but there's no way around it, really.

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00:32:22.000 So as I say, members of the Democratic left have decided that when an anti-Semitic shooting takes place in Pittsburgh that has nothing to do with President Trump, it's obviously President Trump's fault, and they've continued with this narrative.

00:32:31.000 Franklin Fuller, who's a columnist over at The Atlantic, he wrote a full column basically on this idea, that members of the Jewish community who support Republicans are responsible.

00:32:39.000 He tweeted, So let me get this straight, being mean to Jared Kushner is now going to prevent shootings at synagogues?

00:32:51.000 Being mean to Sheldon Adelson, one of the great supporters of Israel in the United States, and one of the great supporters of Jewish programs like Birthright in the United States, that is somehow going to make Jews safer in the United States. 0.87

00:33:02.000 If you shun me, because according to Foer, I'm one of the enablers, if you shun me, you shun Dennis Prager, you shun any other Jew who happens to be on the right, this is protecting the security of the community.

00:33:12.000 Really?

00:33:13.000 Is that what this is?

00:33:14.000 So if you elect Barack Obama, or if you elect Keith Ellison, or if you elect a bunch of Democrats who openly hobnob with Linda Sarsour, then that makes Jews safer.

00:33:25.000 But if you shun the most pro-Israel president in American history, and any Jew who supports that president, even while condemning his rhetoric, then you are somehow making the Jewish community safer. 0.66

00:33:37.000 I'm sorry, this is disgusting stuff. 0.95

00:33:39.000 It's disgusting stuff.

00:33:40.000 And then you get folks like Adam Schiff.

00:33:41.000 Again, Democrat from California.

00:33:43.000 He says, Again, this is just an extension of the argument made last week about the bombing attempts against Democratic members.

00:33:53.000 That rhetoric is what causes violence.

00:33:57.000 I don't remember any of these conversations happening on mainstream television after Bernie Sanders supporters shot up a bunch of Congress people on a congressional baseball field.

00:34:03.000 I don't remember these conversations happening for longer than two days.

00:34:06.000 It was out of the headlines immediately.

00:34:08.000 Now we're going to get nothing but this for months.

00:34:11.000 Because this was always... Let's be clear about something.

00:34:13.000 This was always going to be the Democratic narrative.

00:34:15.000 And it almost has nothing to do with President Trump.

00:34:17.000 Now President Trump plays right into the heart of it because he can't shut his face.

00:34:20.000 But!

00:34:21.000 This has almost nothing to do with President Trump. 0.99

00:34:23.000 If this happened under President Bush, you'd get the same crap. 0.99

00:34:25.000 If this happened under President Romney, you'd get the same crap. 0.99

00:34:29.000 It would not matter. 0.98

00:34:30.000 People on the left tried to suggest that I was responsible for the bombing attempts last week.

00:34:35.000 There are folks on the left who tried to suggest that I bore responsibility for what happened in Pittsburgh.

00:34:40.000 This is insane.

00:34:42.000 This is insane.

00:34:43.000 And you can separate out all these issues.

00:34:45.000 You can condemn bad rhetoric when you see it on any side without doing this routine, this partisan hack job, where Adam Schiff is suddenly the great arbiter of decent rhetoric in the middle of a terrible political time.

00:34:56.000 No one sets the tone more than President of the United States.

00:34:59.000 And the tone that he sets is one of division, often one of hatred, sometimes one of incitement of violence against journalists.

00:35:06.000 And there's no escaping

00:35:09.000 Our collective responsibility, but there's no escaping the tone that he sets for the country.

00:35:13.000 Okay, it's just, again, I agree that President Trump should set a better tone for the country.

00:35:18.000 To blame President Trump's tone for everything that has happened heretofore is insane.

00:35:21.000 Okay, the tone of the country was already off the rails by 2012.

00:35:24.000 It's been years since we've had a decent political conversation in this country.

00:35:28.000 It's been a very, very long time.

00:35:30.000 Blame Trump all you want.

00:35:32.000 Pretend that this is all about Trump.

00:35:34.000 Ignore your own complicity in the breakdown of our political culture.

00:35:37.000 But let's not pretend that the world started spinning when President Trump suddenly entered the political scene.

00:35:43.000 And let's stop pretending that the Democratic Party has clean hands when it comes to association with anti-Semites.

00:35:49.000 Now, one of the more scurrilous attacks on Trump and folks on the right is the suggestion that if you're critical of George Soros, you're somehow anti-Semitic.

00:35:57.000 So there's been a big narrative put out by folks on the left that George Soros, who is a lead Democratic donor, that if you criticize George Soros by suggesting that he gives a lot of money to causes that are nefarious, then this means that you are somehow anti-Semitic.

00:36:10.000 Now, you can attack George Soros in an anti-Semitic way.

00:36:13.000 You can suggest that he is part of a Jewish cabal attempting to run the country. 1.00

00:36:16.000 But it seems to me that the criticism of George Soros on the right, on the mainstream right, has been no more marked than the criticism of Sheldon Adelson on the left.

00:36:26.000 It seems to me that the criticism of George Soros is very much akin to the criticism of the Koch brothers on the left.

00:36:32.000 And yet, the idea now is that we're going to spin every critique of George Soros into this is all about George Soros' Jewish heritage, which is nonsense.

00:36:40.000 But again, CNN is pushing this.

00:36:43.000 Fox is going to say you're blaming them.

00:36:45.000 Are you blaming them?

00:36:46.000 I'm blaming them for putting that guest on the air and not, you know, correcting him in real time.

00:36:50.000 And so far as I know, 12 hours later, doing nothing about it.

00:36:53.000 And I'm blaming, honestly, at this level, after we have Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, and I've known all these people in the past on TV every night, I'm blaming the management of Fox and the investors in Fox.

00:37:03.000 Okay, what he's talking about here is there was a Fox business guest who said that the caravan had something to do with the Soros-run State Department or something like that.

00:37:11.000 Now, is that anti-Semitic? 0.99

00:37:12.000 No, it may be idiotic, but it's not anti-Semitic. 0.97

00:37:15.000 George Soros doesn't run the State Department, but the idea that going after George Soros as a nefarious force in American politics is somehow inherently anti-Semitic is ridiculous in the same way as suggesting that going after Sheldon Adelson is inherently anti-Semitic when he's a major donor to the Republican Party. 0.98

00:37:31.000 The Democrats are looking for a narrative.

00:37:32.000 They found a convenient narrative.

00:37:33.000 And so this is what they're going to do.

00:37:35.000 And again, I am not going to pretend.

00:37:37.000 I'm not going to pretend that the left has clean hands when it comes to fighting anti-Semitism.

00:37:42.000 They certainly do not.

00:37:43.000 The Women's March tweeted out their sympathy for all of this.

00:37:46.000 They tweeted sympathy.

00:37:47.000 They said, we are turning our grief to action with

00:37:50.000 I am not interested in your help, ladies. 1.00

00:37:52.000 If you refuse to denounce the antisemitism in your own midst, I am not interested.

00:37:54.000 There's a solidarity event in New York City.

00:37:56.000 Al Sharpton showed up at the solidarity event.

00:37:57.000 You've got to be kidding me.

00:38:19.000 Is there anything more partisan and hackish than this?

00:38:22.000 I haven't seen anything recently.

00:38:24.000 Marsha Blackburn did a unity event.

00:38:26.000 Leftists came and they disrupted a unity event.

00:38:29.000 An anti-anti-anti-anti-semitism unity event with Marsha Blackburn, the Tennessee senatorial candidate.

00:38:36.000 Leftists showed up to scream at her.

00:38:43.000 Within the last few hours, protesters interrupted a rally for Congresswoman Marsha Blackmon.

00:38:49.000 She hosted Senator Lindsey Graham in West Nashville at Ray Stephens Cabaret.

00:38:53.000 Our crew at the event saw four people taken out, and a police sergeant told us three of them will likely be charged with disorderly conduct.

00:39:14.000 You take a look, if they had protection inside, the results would have been far better.

00:39:17.000 This is a dispute that will always exist, I suspect, but if they had

00:39:43.000 Some kind of a protection inside the temple.

00:39:47.000 Maybe it could have been a very much different situation.

00:39:49.000 Okay, he is not wrong.

00:39:51.000 I know he got a lot of flack for this because he's not talking about anti-Semitism right there.

00:39:56.000 Not only is he not wrong, this has been known, widely known in the Jewish community for legitimately decades.

00:40:02.000 For decades.

00:40:04.000 In France, if you go to France and you go to a Jewish institution, every Jewish institution in France has a gated yard.

00:40:09.000 Every single one.

00:40:10.000 If you go to any place in Europe that is a synagogue, the security there is heavy.

00:40:14.000 The security at my synagogue is heavy.

00:40:16.000 We have probably 15 synagogues in my immediate area.

00:40:19.000 The security at all of them is heavy.

00:40:22.000 The synagogue where I was bar mitzvahed now has a security fence all the way around it and does not leave the door unlocked.

00:40:26.000 Is that sad?

00:40:28.000 Yes.

00:40:28.000 Is it reality?

00:40:29.000 Also yes.

00:40:30.000 When I pick a school for my children, a Jewish day school for my children, they have to fulfill certain philosophical commitments, obviously, but within that band, there are a bunch of schools in the area that do that.

00:40:39.000 The very first thing that I look at, the first thing I ask about is the security consideration at those schools.

00:40:45.000 Really.

00:40:46.000 And it's been this way for, like, to pretend this started with Trump is just nonsense.

00:40:50.000 It's not true.

00:40:51.000 Okay, in 2001, I remember on September 11, 2001,

00:40:54.000 My father and I were actually set to go golfing that morning, and we drove up to a school where my sisters were going.

00:41:00.000 And we drove up, and they didn't really have security.

00:41:04.000 That wasn't a thing back in 2001 so much.

00:41:06.000 And they asked if we could just stand outside.

00:41:08.000 So we were the extra security that day on 9-11, okay, with our nine irons.

00:41:13.000 That very soon ended.

00:41:15.000 Right after 9-11, they upped security significantly, and that was true for every Jewish institution that I knew about. 0.92

00:41:20.000 This is true

00:41:22.000 for virtually every Jewish institution in the United States.

00:41:25.000 Antisemitism is very real.

00:41:27.000 Violence is very real.

00:41:29.000 Now, one of the reasons that I suspect there wasn't additional security at this conservative synagogue is because conservative and reform synagogues typically don't have quite the same security as orthodox synagogues.

00:41:39.000 I'm not sure why that is.

00:41:40.000 I don't really have an ideological reason or philosophical reason for that.

00:41:43.000 All I can say is that if you go to Beth Jacob in Los Angeles, they actually check everybody's bag.

00:41:47.000 If you bring your talis, your tefillin, which are the phylacteries or the prayer shawl, with you to shul, they legitimately have a security force out front that checks your bags like you're going to Disneyland or something.

00:41:56.000 This has been part of Jewish reality for a very long time.

00:42:00.000 Does that mean that I feel unsafe?

00:42:01.000 No.

00:42:01.000 Again, I walk around in public with a yarmulke every single day.

00:42:04.000 Every single day.

00:42:06.000 America is the safest country in world history for Jews.

00:42:08.000 But, if you actually want to protect Jews, the answer is not to take the guns out of the hands of people like me, or out of the hands of people at my synagogue who are carrying.

00:42:16.000 The answer is for some of those people to be armed, so that if somebody likes this shows up, maybe it's not the solution, maybe it doesn't solve the problem, but you do have a better shot at defending yourself if there are guns in the place.

00:42:25.000 So for folks who are using this as a gun control argument, I'm having a hard time seeing that.

00:42:31.000 I mean, California is replete with gun control, and it doesn't actually stop shootings in California.

00:42:36.000 I know because I live here.

00:42:37.000 It doesn't stop anti-Semitic attacks in California.

00:42:39.000 I know because I live here.

00:42:42.000 The attempt to jump to politics from something that has had a long and glorious history of thousands of years, I find deeply off-putting.

00:42:50.000 We ought to delve into the nitty-gritty of anti-Semitic rhetoric and the nitty-gritty of anti-Semitic policy.

00:42:54.000 We ought to delve into all of that.

00:42:56.000 But for Jews, Jews know that this is nothing new.

00:43:00.000 Not only is this nothing new, this is something that Jews have always fought.

00:43:06.000 On the Saturday that this happened, the Jews were reading a section of the Bible called Vayera.

00:43:10.000 It's from the book of Genesis.

00:43:11.000 And that section of the Bible talks about Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac.

00:43:15.000 You know, God tells Abraham, go sacrifice your son. 0.71

00:43:17.000 Very cryptic section of the Bible.

00:43:19.000 What that really is about, what that really is about is God saying to Abraham, what are you willing to risk?

00:43:24.000 Are you willing to bring your child into a more dangerous world and stand for values even at the risk of that child's life?

00:43:30.000 Are you willing to dedicate your child to me?

00:43:32.000 This happened at Bris Milah, which is the circumcision ceremony for a Jewish boy that brings him into the Jewish world. 0.87

00:43:37.000 The Jewish people have always stood up and they have said, yes, yes, we're willing to stand with life.

00:43:41.000 This is the Tree of Life Synagogue. 0.87

00:43:42.000 They're willing to stand with life.

00:43:44.000 And because they're willing to stand with life, there are those who want death.

00:43:46.000 There are those who want Western civilization broken down.

00:43:49.000 There are those who want religion destroyed. 0.82

00:43:51.000 There are people who are evil out there. 0.71

00:43:52.000 The Jews have stood against that.

00:43:53.000 The Jews will continue to stand against this.

00:43:55.000 And if you are part of the right side, then you will stand against it too.

00:43:59.000 And you'll do so without maliciously tearing down people who are also on the side of Western civilization.

00:44:04.000 There should be more unity than fractiousness with regard to stuff like this.

00:44:07.000 There just should be.

00:44:09.000 Okay.

00:44:09.000 Now, some things I like and some things I hate.

00:44:11.000 You know, first I want to give a brief comment.

00:44:14.000 On the situation in Brazil.

00:44:15.000 So I want to talk about this more tomorrow because obviously we're running out of time.

00:44:18.000 But the situation in Brazil is that there's a politician who is quote unquote far right, which is to say he's a populist.

00:44:24.000 His name is Yair.

00:44:25.000 I think it's Yair.

00:44:26.000 I'm not sure how you pronounce it.

00:44:27.000 Is it Yair?

00:44:29.000 Jair, okay, so Sena knows.

00:44:31.000 Bolsonaro, he won Brazil's presidential election on Sunday. 0.67

00:44:34.000 The reason that he won the election is because the communists have been running Brazil for the past 10, 15 years, and they are deeply corrupt.

00:44:39.000 They kept getting thrown out of office over corruption.

00:44:41.000 Brazil's economy has stagnated, and so Bolsonaro came in saying, I'm gonna deregulate the economy, I'm gonna fight crime, and they elected him over this, and people are panicking.

00:44:48.000 Oh, it's the end of democracy in Brazil.

00:44:50.000 Okay, we'll find out, but it seems like democracy in Brazil had some real problems with the communists in the very recent past.

00:44:57.000 And not only that, if Brazil did not rapidly shift course on economics and on crime, the hope for the future in Brazil was not bright.

00:45:05.000 It's so funny how folks on the left seem to ignore the fact that it was the left's malfeasance, corruption, and inability to run a country that led to Bolsonaro's win.

00:45:12.000 And Bolsonaro said, we cannot continue flirting with communism.

00:45:14.000 We're going to change the destiny of Brazil. 0.99

00:45:17.000 He rejected the leftist PT that ran Brazil for 13 of the last 15 years.

00:45:21.000 They were ousted two years ago in the midst of a deep recession and political graft scandal.

00:45:25.000 Bolsonaro won a sweeping victory.

00:45:27.000 He won 55% of the vote.

00:45:29.000 That is a very, very broad victory in Brazil.

00:45:32.000 Folks who are panicking in the United States are panicking for the same reason that they look at Europe and they see right parties in Europe panicking.

00:45:40.000 Now, let's not pretend that the Brazilian far-right is the same thing as the American conservative movement.

00:45:45.000 Very few things are the same as the limited government American conservative movement.

00:45:49.000 Bolsonaro's view of economics is much more akin to a free market system of economics than anything the left was proposing, and that is one of the driving factors here.

00:45:57.000 Brazil was misrun in a brutal fashion over the last 15 years.

00:46:01.000 The old joke about Brazil that was always told is, Brazil is the country of the future and always will be.

00:46:06.000 Well, maybe if they actually shifted economic policy, maybe if they started tamping down crime, then things would change.

00:46:11.000 But Brazil has a number of its own issues that it has to deal with, and Bolsonaro is a symptom of those issues, not the cause of them, even though the press will cover it as though Bolsonaro is the cause of those issues.

00:46:19.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I like.

00:46:22.000 So...

00:46:23.000 This synagogue was called Eitzchayim.

00:46:26.000 The phrase Eitzchayim comes from the book of Proverbs.

00:46:31.000 There is something called Eitzchayim in the book of Genesis, right?

00:46:33.000 The tree of life in the book of Genesis when it talks about what's there in the garden.

00:46:36.000 There's the tree of life and there's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

00:46:39.000 Adam and Eve are allowed to eat from the tree of life.

00:46:41.000 They're not allowed to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

00:46:43.000 They have to be banished from the garden so they don't live forever after eating from the knowledge of good and evil.

00:46:47.000 The Jewish tradition has always suggested the tree of life is

00:46:50.000 Torah, it's Bible, it's relationship with God.

00:46:53.000 And the proverb, you know, from Proverbs 3.18.

00:46:56.000 So that's in Hebrew.

00:46:57.000 The English is that the tree of life.

00:47:06.000 You should grasp onto it, because in it you will find pleasure, that you will find happiness.

00:47:12.000 And it's sung every single Sabbath.

00:47:14.000 Whenever we put away the Torah back into our own, back into the ark, we sing the song Etz Chaim Hi. 0.94

00:47:20.000 Here's a choir rendition of that song.

00:47:36.000 Yeah.

00:48:19.000 So it's, you know, the whole thing is just awful and awful and awful.

00:48:24.000 And if we're not all on the same side here, and if we aren't willing to call out anti-Semitic rhetoric wherever it exists, not for partisan political purposes, but wherever it exists, if we're not willing to stand up against anti-Semites of every brand, and I don't just mean white nationalists, I mean Hamas, I mean the Palestinian Authority, I mean anti-Semites who want to destroy the state of Israel, I mean anti-Semites who want to see the death of Jews everywhere, if you're not willing to do that, all you see is Trump, just in big, bright, flashing letters, when something like this happens, let me suggest you're not being honest.

00:48:50.000 You're being dishonest and you're being spiritually dishonest as well.

00:48:53.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:48:59.000 As we can see, the media narrative is set here, and it's being promulgated by folks, you know, who you would expect to promulgate this media narrative.

00:49:07.000 Last week, the big story before the shooting, obviously, was this attempted bombing against a bunch of Democratic officials.

00:49:11.000 Michael Moore decided to share footage of a mail bomber, of the mail bomber at a Trump rally, as though this proves that President Trump somehow deputized this guy.

00:49:20.000 Again, the Bernie Sanders congressional shooting had nothing to do with Bernie Sanders.

00:49:24.000 It had to do with an evil person doing an evil thing.

00:49:27.000 And as a secondary note, should we all take down the rhetoric a pitch?

00:49:31.000 You bet we should. 0.90

00:49:32.000 But this kind of stuff, blaming the entire right or President Trump for a man sending pipe bombs in the mail, is patently insane.

00:49:39.000 Bill Maher went even further.

00:49:40.000 He said that President Trump was partnering with the bomber.

00:49:43.000 Mainstream media must clean up its act fast.

00:49:47.000 That sounds like he's not condemning the bomber.

00:49:49.000 It sounds to me like he's partnering with him.

00:49:52.000 Okay, that is such a despicable statement, that when you criticize the media and say that they need to do a better job, that you're partnering with people who are sending bombs to the media.

00:50:00.000 It's just, it's a blatantly insane statement.

00:50:02.000 That's like saying that Bill Maher is accusing President Trump of partnering with a bomber, so if somebody shoots President Trump, because obviously he is now complicit in terror, right, he's basically a terrorist, then that's Bill Maher's fault.

00:50:13.000 That's not the way it works.

00:50:14.000 Criticizing somebody is not the same thing as suggesting that they ought to be killed, or that violence ought to be done against them.

00:50:20.000 If that becomes the case, then free speech is really on the brink as well.

00:50:23.000 So obviously honesty is on the brink, but now we've got free speech on the brink, and gun rights on the brink,

00:50:29.000 Everything is going to continue getting uglier until we can at least unify on the things we should be able to unify about.

00:50:32.000 But apparently, we can't even do that.

00:50:34.000 It's a very depressing day.

00:50:35.000 It's been a very depressing week.

00:50:36.000 Hopefully, the country starts to pull out of this tailspin.

00:50:39.000 The first thing to do, I said this last week with regard to the bombing, I will say it again with regard to the shooting.

00:50:44.000 The first thing that we ought to be doing is we ought to be judging people.

00:50:48.000 We should be trying to see people's point of view.

00:50:51.000 We should try and be judging them with a certain amount of actual

00:50:56.000 Merit.

00:50:57.000 We should try to see it as though they're not bad people.

00:51:00.000 There are evil people, and those evil people ought to be condemned.

00:51:03.000 But the attempt to get people on the back of evil people doing things that have nothing to do with those third parties, it's just making the country a worse place.

00:51:11.000 Well, we'll be back here tomorrow with much more.

00:51:12.000 I'll be in Vancouver, so I'll be broadcasting from there.

00:51:15.000 I'm speaking to a Jewish group up there.

00:51:16.000 We also are visiting the University of Pittsburgh in the next few weeks.

00:51:20.000 My heart goes out, my prayers go out to the folks in Pittsburgh.

00:51:22.000 Just a devastating, devastating weekend again.

00:51:25.000 And, you know, I hope that, folks, if we're not going to, we have to cling to the tree of life, those eternal values, but we also have to cling to each other.

00:51:33.000 This is still a country that was built on those eternal values.

00:51:35.000 If we're not going to cling to each other and see each other as friends, then we will surely see each other as enemies, and that the country cannot withstand.

00:51:40.000 We'll be back here tomorrow.

00:51:41.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 29, 2018

The Tree Of Life | Ep. 648

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