00:00:31.000The video is of Shawnee Luke, aged 22, her body mutilated and broken, being driven through Gaza as crowds of Palestinians cheer and celebrate and spit on her.
00:00:41.000That's what October 7th was about three years ago evil people doing evil things in the name of an evil ideology.
00:00:47.000And every day since has been about people in the West making excuses for it, defending it, bolstering it.
00:00:52.000We need to talk about why and how the West's response to October 7th spells the end of our civilization if we do not course correct right now.
00:01:07.000So, obviously, by today's date, it is October 7th.
00:01:10.000Three years ago today, October 7th, 2023, the Palestinian Arab terror group Hamas broke through a defensive wall erected by Israel on the Gaza border and proceeded to slaughter 1,200 Israelis, wound another 5,000 or so.
00:01:24.000This was not only the deadliest terror attack on planet Earth since 9 11, it was the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
00:01:29.000And it was driven by the genocidal desire of Hamas and its Palestinian supporters to wipe Israel off the map and wipe Jews off the planet.
00:01:37.000The terrorists carried GoPros, phones, they wore body cameras to document executions, home break ins, and kidnappings on Facebook Live and Telegram, and their victims' personal devices even to stream to their own families in real time.
00:01:50.000Some 47 minutes of raw footage gathered from the terrorist recordings was later presented to the world.
00:01:55.000I want to remind you today what happened because it's important to understand what did happen to truly get the magnitude of what happened next.
00:02:02.000This right here is footage of the Nova Festival.
00:02:04.000Nova was an EDM music festival that was taking place in southern Israel.
00:02:09.000And Hamas terrorists, of course, not only broke through the barrier between the Gaza Strip and southern Israel, they took paragliders and proceeded to murder everyone.
00:02:22.000These are all just people who went to essentially a dance party.
00:02:26.000Between 364 and 378 people were murdered at the festival site, including 344 civilians and 30 security and first responders.
00:03:31.000They were murdered again with bare hands by Hamas.
00:03:36.000Ariel and Kefir, the children in this video, were returned to Israel as part of a hostage deal for 600 prisoners.
00:03:41.000And then Hamas returned a body they claimed was the mother Shiri.
00:03:44.000DNA tested proved the body was actually not hers.
00:03:47.000And forensic examination found the kids were murdered with blunt force violence.
00:03:52.000Meanwhile, some of the hostages, including Hirsch Goldberg Pullen, an American citizen, celebrated Hanukkah in the tunnels before they were murdered execution style, bullet to the back of the head in a tunnel.
00:05:18.000That reason is not contrary to the media narrative, Israel's deliberate and meticulous and targeted response to that genocidal terror assault.
00:05:27.000Israel's opponents, including New York Mayor Zarn Mamdani, were yelling genocide literally before Israel had even started its ground assault in Gaza.
00:05:35.000And if you look back at the history, people have been shouting genocide at Israel literally since its creation.
00:05:40.000There was Zarn Mamdani on October 20th, 2023, before Israel went into Gaza, yelling for a ceasefire and calling what was happening a genocide.
00:05:50.000The only way we can honor the lives of those who have been taken from us is to resolve the context within which they all live.
00:08:12.000It represents a desire for the destruction of Israel.
00:08:15.000This is why, historically speaking, there was no clamor for a Palestinian state during Jordan's rule of the so called West Bank, Judea and Samaria, or Egypt's rule over the Gaza Strip.
00:08:24.000Between the foundation of Israel in 1947, And the Six Day War in 1967.
00:08:29.000That is why Palestinians have refused over and over and over again a so called two state solution.
00:08:34.000Because they don't want a two state solution, they want Israel destroyed.
00:08:38.000When Israel unilaterally abandoned the Gaza Strip and removed, by force, Israelis who were living there, Palestinians promptly burned all the greenhouses and the synagogues and the homes that Israel left them and elected Hamas, a group whose stated purpose was the destruction of the Jewish state, and then used all the aid flowing in to build a terror tunnel network larger than the London Underground.
00:08:57.000Now, those who fly the Palestinian flag in solidarity, they know this.
00:09:01.000When they say free Palestine, they don't care about free Palestine.
00:09:04.000If they did, they'd be protesting, say, Hamas, which shoots dissidents while ruling Gaza and sells women into sex slavery, which is what's happening right now in the Gaza Strip.
00:09:57.000When they say that Israel is an apartheid state, they say so is America with regard to its minority citizens.
00:10:03.000When they say that Israel is a capitalist exploiter, of course, they mean that much more about America.
00:10:07.000When they say that Israel is a military state intent on subjugation of third world peoples, they believe that exponentially more about the United States.
00:10:15.000Never mind that these critiques are nonsense.
00:10:17.000What matters is the overall claim the West is exploitative and evil.
00:10:21.000Israel is an outpost of the West, therefore, Israel is evil.
00:10:23.000And again, people who fly the Palestinian flag know this, they embrace it.
00:10:28.000They don't give two shits about freedom or democracy.
00:10:31.000They care about destroying the West because they believe the West is fundamentally evil.
00:10:35.000This is why Tanahasi Coates, a man cherished by the left, who wrote that he felt nothing on 9 11.
00:10:40.000Wrote in a recent horrible book, I remember watching World News Tonight with my father and deriving from him a dull sense that the Israelis were white and the Palestinians were black, which is to say the former were the oppressors and the latter the oppressed.
00:10:53.000And this explains why the Palestinian flag flies at every single anti Western rally.
00:10:57.000Because that's what it represents hatred of the West.
00:11:03.000Because the radical LGBTQ divided by sign movement is happy to claim solidarity with people who had kicked them off roofs, as we show in our film Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels, just so long as before they take the drop, they destroy the West.
00:11:14.000And again, the left is pretty open about this.
00:11:17.000Congressional candidate Chris Rabb, who's like Lieutenant for Congress this year in Pennsylvania, says it outright.
00:11:23.000If you can't name the demon, you can't kill it.
00:11:30.000And nobody who gives money to my campaign is going to get me to move on my position on genocide because I can't be free until the Palestinians are free.
00:11:41.000And like Brother Street said, Israeli Jews can't be free.
00:11:48.000But if we can't say genocide, if we can't say white supremacy, if we can't say patriarchy or oligarchy, if we can't say the words, how are you going to trust somebody to do the work when it matters most in the darkest times we've seen in a long time?
00:12:32.000And we watched it unfold, and we have a moral culpability here because we are American taxpayers.
00:12:41.000And America aided and abetted in Israel's genocide.
00:12:45.000However, beyond that, for the average person, for the average American citizen, The average American voter, Israel is profoundly important because it's a fantastic litmus test to see if your representative that is elected will represent your interests or represent the interests of foreign lobbies or even other corporate lobbies.
00:13:15.000Again, indictment of Israel is indictment of the West.
00:13:18.000Hassan Piker hates the West, so he hates Israel.
00:13:21.000Abdul Rahman El Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan.
00:13:25.000The reason that he keeps saying that a genocide took place in Gaza, even while admitting no genocide took place in Gaza, is because you have to say it.
00:13:41.000And when you have foreign ministers declaring intent and then the outcome is tens of thousands of children who have been killed, I would call that a genocide.
00:14:00.000When you look at the world's greatest, worst genocide, right, in history, the greatest crime committed on people that is in memorable history, the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust.
00:14:15.000Coming out of that horrific crime, the word genocide was created to explain what that was.
00:14:22.000But the whole point of creating that word isn't that you have to wait.
00:14:26.000Until the crime is that big again to be able to use it.
00:14:31.000Its power is in naming a thing before it gets that big so we can do something about it.
00:14:37.000Okay, so in other words, the power is in lying about things in order to promote a narrative.
00:14:42.000But again, this still doesn't really explain why the Palestinian cause of all the different anti Western causes has become predominant, why it has become de rigueur for Democrats to lie, and they are lying, and say that Israel committed a genocide in Gaza.
00:14:54.000They didn't commit a genocide in Gaza.
00:14:55.000Israelis shipped in a ton of food for every person in Gaza.
00:14:59.000In the middle of a war, the Israelis gave a million polio vaccines in the middle of a war.
00:15:03.000The Israelis moved civilian populations to avoid their destruction in the middle of a war at the cost of legitimately over a thousand Israeli soldiers in that area.
00:15:12.000It doesn't explain why this has become a moral litmus test for anti Westerners.
00:15:15.000After all, again, there are lots of things you could back to show how much you hate the West.
00:15:18.000Why not fly the flag of, say, the National People's Army in the Philippines, or Al Shabaab in Somalia, or the Jamaat Nusra Al Islam while Muslimin in Africa, or Lashkar i Taiba in Kashmir and Jammu?
00:15:30.000All of those terrorist groups hate the West, all claim to be victims of the West.
00:15:34.000In fact, there are plenty of West hating separatist movements across the world with an Islamic flavor.
00:15:40.000Now, the answer is almost too obvious to state out loud, but we ought to for the sake of clarity.
00:15:45.000Nobody cares about those separatist anti Western movements among anti Western radicals because those movements are not fighting Jews.
00:15:54.000Israel routinely receives more media coverage per capita than any country on earth.
00:15:58.000Over the last decade, in per capita terms, the media covered Israel 71 times more than Brazil, 86 times more than China, 283 times more than India.
00:16:06.000It's a tiny country and it receives outside media coverage.
00:16:13.000Why the constant, unremitting focus on Israel above all other conflicts on planet Earth?
00:16:17.000It's not about the nature of the conflict.
00:16:19.000After all, since October 7th, more people by far have been killed in the Russia Ukraine war.
00:16:24.000More have been killed in the Sudanese Civil War.
00:16:27.000The Iranian government killed far, far more innocent people in a single weekend in January than Israel killed during the entirety of the Gaza war.
00:16:34.000Before October 7th, far more people were killed in the Tigray War in northern Ethiopia.
00:16:38.000Now, war is breaking out again in Ethiopia, but you haven't heard about it because nobody cares very much.
00:16:43.000In Congo, there have been tens of thousands of direct killings between 2023 and 2026, including 7,000 killings in the first two months of 2025 alone.
00:16:55.000Now, the answer to that question also explains why Tucker Carlson, for example, has devoted more time talking about the Jews and Israel over the last three years than any rabbi I know, and why he's currently stumping for Abdulrahman El Sayed, why the Horseshoe Right has made common cause with, say, Hassan Piker and Anna Kasparian.
00:17:15.000The West is currently experiencing a deep crisis over what it is and what it ought to be.
00:17:20.000On one side lie those who look at the prosperity, freedom, and strength of the West, in particular the United States, and attribute it to the founding ideals, the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property given to us by nature's God, protected by a constitutional system designed by the wisest political minds who have walked this earth.
00:17:36.000And on the other side are people who reject those principles.
00:17:38.000They believe they're victims of the system, that the system has been twisted against them by nefarious conspiratorial voices, that the meritocracy You know, the idea that you ought to rise if you have merit is actually fake or empty.
00:17:53.000That those who succeed in our purported meritocracy aren't actually meritorious, but corrupt and manipulative.
00:17:59.000And that those who are successful in America must be the villains of this story.
00:18:02.000Well, that story crosses streams really easily with conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel.
00:18:08.000If Jews in the West, say, are disproportionately well educated and high income, which they are, they must be the great manipulators.
00:18:14.000If Israel is disproportionately and puzzlingly successful in the worst area of the world, They must be the villains.
00:18:20.000Somehow they must be manipulating President Trump into doing their dirty work.
00:18:24.000In this view, President Trump isn't a free actor.
00:18:26.000He's enslaved to Israel, as Tucker and Chank Uyghur are fond of saying.
00:18:31.000There's Tucker saying this not that long ago at the BBC.
00:18:35.000I feel sorry for him, as I do for all slaves.
00:18:38.000He is not free in this moment at all to do what he thinks is best for himself or his country.
00:19:01.000It's rejection of the foundational principles that make the West and America in particular great.
00:19:05.000And that malady, hatred of the meritocracy, of founding principles, of the basic idea that people are successful because they work hard and make the right decisions, that malady is spreading like the ideological cancer it is.
00:19:15.000And it unites the left, it unites the horseshoe right, and it's embraced by celebrities and politicians and fake journalists all over the place.
00:19:21.000It embraces everybody from Miss Rachel.
00:19:24.000To the dolt to attend the Venice Film Festival.
00:19:26.000Here's Miss Rachel literally stumping with terror supporters.
00:19:46.000Again, that guy is a terror supporter from Gaza.
00:19:49.000It's why you get a 22 minute standing ovation, 22 minute standing ovation, as though they're at some sort of Stalin event at the Venice Film Festival for a completely specious piece of crap called NASA, which is essentially a series of accusations about the Israeli activity in Gaza that is rooted in essentially nothing.
00:20:09.00022 minutes of standing ovation because, again, you will be cast out of the movement if you don't say the words or if you don't clap the clap.
00:20:33.000Chanting free, free Palestine to be ruled, presumably, by terror groups that murder their own citizens, to create a Uden Rhine state.
00:20:41.000And a Christian free state, by the way, because the Christian population of Palestinian areas has basically gone to zero.
00:20:48.000Well, this anti Westernism is exacerbated by economic dyspepsia, much of which is caused by governmental centralization and overregulation, by empty promises of utopia made by lying politicians on all sides.
00:21:00.000And of course, it's made worse by systems of discrimination embedded in law, usually in order to stop the meritocracy from succeeding.
00:21:07.000And again, this conspiracy theory that all the systems are rigged against you and cui bono, the people who are successful, must be the people who design the system.
00:21:16.000The reason all conspiracy theories are popular is that it gives people a reprieve from the harshness of a world that demands consequences for actions.
00:21:23.000Now, that ideological cancer isn't about Israel.
00:21:27.000It is about the West and the basic principles of the West.
00:21:30.000And that is why the Palestinian flag flies everywhere from left wing rallies to essentially the Tucker Carlson show.
00:21:37.000So, how do we fight this as people who care about the West?
00:21:40.000Well, first, we can fight it at the ballot box.
00:21:42.000We can actually fight against candidates who pledge to undermine the very basis.
00:21:45.000Of what it means to be American or Western.
00:21:49.000We can vote and stump against Abdul Rahman, El Sayed, or James Tallarico and all the rest.
00:21:54.000Secondly, we can stand with our allies, all allies who stand against our common anti Western enemies.
00:22:00.000That doesn't just mean standing with Israel.
00:22:01.000And again, standing with Israel doesn't necessarily mean particular levels of military aid, but it means moral solidarity with, you know, the democratic ally of ours in a region where they are fighting overt Islamic terrorists.
00:22:13.000It means standing with Israel, but also it means, by the way, standing with Ukraine.
00:22:16.000Because despite Tucker Carlson's videographed visits to Russian grocery stores, Russia's interests are anti Western and antithetical to our own.
00:22:22.000It means standing with the Taiwanese against Chinese predation.
00:22:26.000Finally, finally, and most importantly, we can look within.
00:22:30.000We should recognize that in a free country like the United States, yes, with all of its problems and yes, with all of its flaws, responsibility for our lives doesn't lie with conspiratorial Yudin.
00:23:08.000That's the first section of the book of Genesis, which is also called Bereshit this week.
00:23:13.000It contains the most vital story in the history of mankind, Cain and Abel.
00:23:17.000I want to take just a moment to read you the crucial section of the Bible because Again, if we're talking about human nature, the Bible is very true when it comes to human nature.
00:23:28.000Quote Now, Abel kept flocks and Cain worked the soil.
00:23:31.000In the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.
00:23:35.000And Abel also brought an offering, fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock.
00:23:39.000The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering, he did not look with favor.
00:23:44.000So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
00:23:47.000Then the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry?
00:25:25.000Or will we poison the ground of Western civilization with the blood of our brothers out of jealousy and envy and hatred of our own civilization?