The Ben Shapiro Show - October 07, 2026


Why France is Burning

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00:00:00.000 Now, France, of course, is a state in a spiral of collapse.
00:00:05.000 There are still massive riots happening in France as of right now.
00:00:08.000 According to CNBC, mass student riots are escalating across France, with the violent clashes leading to arson, severe injuries, and thousands of arrests.
00:00:16.000 Protests erupted late last month in Paris, spreading into a nationwide movement that has seen students blockade schools and take to the streets to voice their discontent with teacher shortages, long days, and dilapidated school buildings.
00:00:27.000 Hundreds of schools have remained shuttered across the country as the rallies drag on.
00:00:30.000 Education Minister Edouard Geoffrey said Monday evening, 190 students had been injured in the protests, with a 15 year old boy reportedly losing a hand in clashes with riot police in the northern city of Lens.
00:00:42.000 France's Justice Ministry said Monday, some 5,060 people had been arrested since the protests started, 87% of whom are minors.
00:00:49.000 So, who exactly is showing up?
00:00:51.000 According to the New York Times, it's labor activists, teachers, parents, and university students turning out by the thousands to join high school students in demonstrations that swept across France, adding an intergenerational range of voices to demands the government fix.
00:01:02.000 Ailing schools.
00:01:04.000 Now, again, what you're hearing from the media is this is all just about the usual economic factors.
00:01:09.000 And it's really just a bunch of young people who are pissed off they don't have air conditioning in their schools or they have substitute teachers in their schools.
00:01:15.000 But what is really happening?
00:01:17.000 Well, the footage tells a different tale.
00:01:19.000 It is a combination of two factors.
00:01:21.000 Of course, the usual economic unease in France that has led to riots over austerity measures before.
00:01:26.000 You remember the Yellow Jacket riots?
00:01:28.000 Marxists in France, again, are shockingly unhappy with one of the most generous and spendthrift social welfare systems on planet Earth.
00:01:35.000 So, that is not a gigantic shock.
00:01:38.000 Here's a Parisian student explaining with Vincent Lapierre, we wouldn't have to resort to violence if we lived decently.
00:01:46.000 You just need to understand where the problem comes from.
00:01:48.000 And if there are young people, for example, who are a bit violent, even downright violent, well, that is once again proof of poverty, of quote unquote distress that pushes them to do that, that pushes them to do that.
00:01:57.000 Meaning that if they were in a nice home, a nice five room house, well, they would go to school every day, they would eat well, they would surely have enough to eat, and they're, well, no problem.
00:02:06.000 Meaning that you don't resort to violence when you live well, when you live decently, for you is a purely social issue.
00:02:12.000 Okay, so again, this is what the media would like you to believe.
00:02:14.000 It's all about the purely social issue, there's nothing else going on.
00:02:18.000 I don't know.
00:02:18.000 The tape tends to tell a different story.
00:02:19.000 Here's some of the French police trying to quell the rioters.
00:02:40.000 Meanwhile, Bali Bagayoko, the far left mayor of Saint Denis, is marching with the mass students.
00:02:51.000 There's the mayor joining the protesters.
00:02:57.000 Again, this is the Red Green Alliance.
00:02:59.000 That's all this is.
00:03:01.000 As it turns out, it's not just about the Marxism, it is also about the dyspepsia with Western civilization and France in particular.
00:03:07.000 You guys remember that flag of anti Western radicalism that I was talking about?
00:03:11.000 Well, guess what's in pretty much all these protests?
00:03:13.000 I mean, it's shocking.
00:03:14.000 I can't believe it.
00:03:15.000 Here's some of the footage.
00:03:30.000 It's also why you graffiti on a town hall in Paris, free Congo, free Palestine, 710 Deluge de Al-Aqsa, which, by the way, is a reference to the so-called Al-Aqsa flood.
00:03:41.000 That would be the terrorist operation of October 7th.
00:03:44.000 Children in France are on tape singing a song called MRH by a French rapper called Boros 700 in a church.
00:03:52.000 The lyrics to this song, by the way, say, quote, I'm not afraid of hell apart from Allah who can stop me.
00:03:58.000 They did this in a church.
00:03:59.000 The title MRH is a direct reference to one Muhammad Mera.
00:04:02.000 The Islamist terrorist who carried out the 2012 Toulouse and Montauban attacks, during which he murdered three French soldiers, a rabbi, and three children at the Ozar HaTorah Jewish school.
00:04:11.000 Yes, rapping, I'm not afraid of hell apart from Allah, who can stop me inside a church.
00:04:16.000 Pretty indicative of where we are.
00:04:17.000 President Trump is right about this.
00:04:18.000 He says, What's happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration.
00:04:21.000 This isn't about schools.
00:04:22.000 This is about Islam wanting to take over a once great country.
00:04:25.000 President Trump.
00:04:26.000 He ain't wrong.
00:04:27.000 And the telltale sign here is that Iran is now signing into chat in sympathy with the protesters.
00:04:34.000 Iran has now summoned the French ambassador over student protests.
00:04:37.000 Which is amazing.
00:04:38.000 It's amazing.
00:04:39.000 Iran, which shot between 40 and 50,000 people in one weekend back in January, is now very, very upset with the French over cracking down on student protests.
00:04:49.000 What does Iran have to do with any of this?
00:04:50.000 Well, I think we know what Iran has to do with this because, again, anti Westerners are all part of the same group.
00:04:56.000 Iran summoned the French ambassador in Tehran to the foreign ministry on Tuesday over the French government's handling of protests, according to the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB.
00:05:06.000 The summons followed the French government's violent handling of student protests and widespread human rights violations, according to IRIB.
00:05:13.000 And they're accusing France of double standards, contrasting its January calls for restraint toward protesters in Iran with its response to high school protests at home.
00:05:21.000 Again, not a shock.
00:05:22.000 By the way, here are some of the footage of the riots.
00:05:24.000 They're getting worse, not better.
00:05:27.000 It's probably about the air conditioning in the schools.
00:05:33.000 It's probably just too hot, you know?
00:05:35.000 And they just spent a little money on textbooks.
00:05:37.000 None of this would be happening.
00:05:40.000 These look like kids who are desperately in need of a textbook.
00:05:43.000 These people jumping on cars.
00:05:45.000 And flying Palestinian flights, they look like what they really, really need more than anything else is to be able to set the thermostat to 74.
00:05:51.000 That's what they really desperately need.
00:05:54.000 Meanwhile, those with the brainworms, like Anna Kasparian, are blaming the riots on Israel.
00:06:00.000 There's a shock.
00:06:02.000 I tweeted out France is exploding with riots.
00:06:04.000 That's what happens when you combine endless welfare statism with open third world immigration and add a large helping of communist politics.
00:06:11.000 Americans be warned.
00:06:12.000 Anna Kasparian immediately responds no mention of how endless U.S. welfare to Israel enables them to destabilize the very countries.
00:06:18.000 Many of these migrants are coming in from welfare bad, unless it's for Israel's bombs and slaughter campaigns.
00:06:23.000 Again, when the Jews are behind everything, I guess you can just find the Jews behind everything if that's the way you want to do this.
00:06:30.000 Of course, this is just stupid.
00:06:31.000 By the statistics, the top sources of immigration to France historically are Algeria, which was a French protectorate, Morocco, Tunisia, again, under the auspices of the French for a century, Portugal, Italy, and Turkey.
00:06:44.000 You cannot explain how U.S. foreign aid to Israel destabilized any of those countries.
00:06:48.000 Even if you're talking about refugees from Syria, Via Turkey, blaming American aid to Israel for the Syrian civil war is historically illiterate.
00:06:55.000 But again, none of this is related to the facts or reality.
00:06:58.000 It just requires a story.
00:06:59.000 That story is always about how the West is terrible.
00:07:02.000 And the West has decided to tell that story itself.
00:07:06.000 It is not relegated, unfortunately, to France.
00:07:08.000 It is also happening over in the UK.
00:07:11.000 Lubna Spiton is a British Palestinian artist and has proposed a controversial motion at the Green Party conference in Brighton to declare that Zionism is racism.
00:07:19.000 This person, by the way, has offered to testify in defense of Min Kuang Pham, jailed in the U.S. for a plot to detonate a backpack filled with shrapnel dipped in rat poison in the airport arrivals lounge.
00:07:30.000 So apparently, Spytan and Pham were close friends.
00:07:33.000 And she said that they're still friends.
00:07:35.000 Here she was urging Zionists to be hunted.
00:07:37.000 Things are going well in Great Britain.
00:07:39.000 We will continue until we dismantle Zionism from everywhere, from every country, from every place.
00:07:47.000 They will be shunned.
00:07:49.000 And inshallah, that time will come.
00:07:51.000 Where they are oppressed, where they are hunted in the same way as the Nazi oppressors were.
00:07:57.000 This is justice.
00:07:58.000 We will take freedom.
00:08:00.000 It won't happen without force.
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00:09:13.000 The mayor of London, Sid Kahn, who again is very much in tune with these anti Western sentiments, he put out a statement on the third anniversary of the October 7th attacks.
00:09:21.000 And he says Three years on from Hamas' horrific terrorist attack on Israel, we remember all the innocent victims whose lives were cruelly taken and unimaginably changed on October 7th.
00:09:30.000 As well as expressing our deepest condolences again to the families who lost loved ones on that dark day.
00:09:34.000 But don't worry, that's not the end of his statement.
00:09:36.000 Quote, Today is also a moment to reflect on the unfathomable suffering and killing of Palestinians over the last three years, both in Gaza and in the West Bank.
00:09:45.000 The UK government is right to call out the reprehensible actions of the Israeli government and apply more pressure to keep the prospect of a two state solution alive.
00:09:52.000 This is critical not only for upholding Palestinian human rights, but for ending the cycle of terror, killing, and bloodshed that has engulfed the region for decades and destroyed countless lives, Israeli and Palestinian alike.
00:10:04.000 Yes, on the third anniversary of the mass murder of Jews, which resulted in Israel engaging in a vast campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:10:12.000 By the way, if you think it didn't work, it did.
00:10:15.000 Israel on October 7th received some 3,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip.
00:10:19.000 In the last year, Israel has received three.
00:10:22.000 Also, Israel is no longer under threat from hundreds of thousands of rockets in the north of Israel from Lebanon because Israel has struck back against that.
00:10:30.000 That's what happens when successful democratic allies of the United States go to war with terrorists.
00:10:35.000 But people like Sidi Khan are very unhappy with all of that.
00:10:38.000 Well, in America, the equivalent of Sidi Khan, the mayor of London, is Zarnamdani, the radical Marxist slash Islamist mayor of New York.
00:10:45.000 He has his own October 7th statement.
00:10:46.000 He says, This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers.
00:10:50.000 It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7th.
00:10:53.000 On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others.
00:10:56.000 We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
00:11:00.000 Now, that should be the end of the statement, but of course it isn't.
00:11:03.000 The suffering did not begin nor end that day.
00:11:05.000 Again, it didn't begin that day.
00:11:06.000 Understand?
00:11:07.000 What happened October 7th was the predictable result of the evil Jews and their evil state.
00:11:11.000 It instead continued through the Israeli government's devastating ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, including more than 21,000 children.
00:11:20.000 These stats are directly from the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is to say Hamas.
00:11:24.000 Even since the so called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed.
00:11:29.000 Now, again, since the so called ceasefire, Israel has been targeting in extraordinary fashion members of Hamas who actively participated in October 7th.
00:11:37.000 He does not note, by the way, how many members of Palestinian society have been murdered by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:11:43.000 And the answer is a lot.
00:11:45.000 He says that suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone striking a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away to border crossing.
00:11:55.000 Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them, all the while knowing our tax dollars from these war crimes.
00:12:01.000 So he dedicated approximately, so that would be about 49 words on the Jews on October 7th, and then 141 words on how terrible it is for the Muslims on the third anniversary of the greatest mass terror assault on Jews since World War II.
00:12:15.000 Because that's who Zoran Andani is.
00:12:17.000 And of course, his answer is that Israel is responsible.
00:12:20.000 Quote, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
00:12:30.000 So his answer on October 7th is help Hamas.
00:12:33.000 That's his answer.
00:12:34.000 No shock there.
00:12:35.000 We are set in the United States to elect a full scale terror supporter, Abdulrahman al Sayed, to the United States Senate.
00:12:43.000 According to the Washington Free Beacon, we are now finding out. that Abdul El Sayed has quietly campaigned three times this year with a Michigan-based cleric who served as an Iranian Navy propaganda apparatchik in the 1980s and a high-ranking official at Iran's Martyrs Foundation, now sanctioned by the U.S. government for funneling money to Hezbollah and paying stipends to the families of suicide bombers.
00:13:03.000 Muhammad Ali Allahi, the Imam of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, hosted El Sayed at a campaign event at his mosque on June 24th, organized an anti-Israel interfaith roundtable for El Sayed on July 21st, and attended a Dearborn fundraiser last month That raised $350,000 for the far left Democrats' Senate bid.
00:13:21.000 Elahi also, by the way, claims that Mossad in Israel did 9 11.
00:13:25.000 And he served as the head of the Iranian Navy's political ideological office, opposed to which he was appointed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
00:13:34.000 That is who El Sayed's friends are.
00:13:37.000 And it turns out the Democratic Party is falling right in line.
00:13:40.000 El Sayed is now bragging to New York City Democrats that the 2020 presidential candidates from the Democratic Party are calling him all the time.
00:13:47.000 I've got to say, I've talked to a lot of them, all very nice people.
00:13:55.000 But they always call.
00:13:56.000 They're like, just wanted to check in, see how you're doing.
00:13:58.000 I'm like, oh, it's going great.
00:13:59.000 You know, I really appreciate the call.
00:14:01.000 So are you running?
00:14:03.000 They're like, oh, no, I haven't made a decision about that.
00:14:06.000 I'm like, mm hmm.
00:14:07.000 But those folks are watching too.
00:14:09.000 Again, none of this is a shock.
00:14:11.000 The Democratic Party is deepening deeply from this well of anti Westernism, which is why Troy Jackson, who's currently locked in a very close race with Susan Collins up in Maine, he says, That Jews should declare that there is a genocide in Gaza.
00:14:24.000 And the only reason they don't do it is because of their nefarious Jewiness.
00:14:27.000 It's unfortunate that there are people here in Maine that don't like to use that term only because, you know, they're Jewish and, you know, what that means to them with the Holocaust.
00:14:38.000 You know, it fits that description.
00:14:40.000 And, you know, it is.
00:14:42.000 It's an unbelievable thing that's happened there that people that are innocent are being murdered and it is a genocide.
00:14:49.000 Even though.
00:14:51.000 Hamas and Gaza started the war by massacring 1,200 Israelis, many civilians, women, and children.
00:14:57.000 You could argue the same thing for Hamas, too.
00:14:59.000 Oh, you could argue the same thing.
00:15:00.000 You could argue it, but this is what the Democratic Party has become.
00:15:03.000 This is what they have become.
00:15:05.000 And this is not a shock.
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00:16:13.000 And again, it's James Tallarico over in Texas who says that, again, America is a violent hierarchy, a white supremacist country.
00:16:20.000 We're a heteropatriarchy.
00:16:21.000 Here's James Tallarico.
00:16:22.000 Again, this guy could be a senator from Texas.
00:16:24.000 Here he was in 2020.
00:16:26.000 I think we have to understand, especially for the white educators that are on this call, that these violent hierarchies, these systems, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, economic exploitation, those things have colonized our own minds.
00:16:46.000 And this is where the Democratic Party is.
00:16:48.000 And by the way, the revolution will just continue.
00:16:52.000 The New York City Young Democrats, Socialists of America are now protesting against Zorhan Mamdani for being too conciliatory toward Jews.
00:16:59.000 This is how insane the left is.
00:17:02.000 They put out a poster, quote, citywide protest resisting genocide since 1948.
00:17:07.000 Right, you see that?
00:17:09.000 Since 1948.
00:17:09.000 Remember, when people who hate Israel enough that they call Israel's existence a genocide say genocide, it's because they're full of crap, and they always were.
00:17:18.000 It's a lie.
00:17:19.000 It always was a lie.
00:17:20.000 It's an absurdity.
00:17:22.000 But again, this is where the left is.
00:17:25.000 So combine open borders immigration policy with a vast social welfare state with love for anti Western activity, and you've got the modern Democratic Party.
00:17:33.000 Bernie Sanders yesterday called for mass amnesty to take place in the United States.
00:17:39.000 And what we have got to do is move this country as soon as possible to comprehensive immigration reform and a path toward citizenship.
00:17:51.000 Claire Valdez, another one of the TSA Congress people who is likely to enter the Congress in just a month or so here.
00:17:59.000 She is full scale engaged in the fight for what she calls a trans bill of rights.
00:18:04.000 If you think the Democrats are getting less left wing, you're out of your mind.
00:18:10.000 In my conversation, I want to emphasize how important certain issues were in my district and that were defining parts of my race.
00:18:18.000 That includes the war, it includes the genocide, Medicare for all, trans bill of rights.
00:18:23.000 There are a lot of things that.
00:18:25.000 I ran on that.
00:18:26.000 I want to deliver for my district.
00:18:28.000 And I think it's our responsibility to do exactly that.
00:18:33.000 Get ready.
00:18:33.000 It's coming.
00:18:34.000 It is coming.
00:18:34.000 If the Democrats take control of Congress, all of it is coming.
00:18:36.000 President Trump is correct.
00:18:38.000 He says, listen, the choice is between the radical left and just not that.
00:18:46.000 So the choice in this election is very simple.
00:18:49.000 You can vote for the radical left, Democrat, communist, to loot your wealth, raise your taxes by $5 trillion.
00:18:56.000 Annihilate your borders, crush Nebraska farmers and ranchers, mutilate your children, and give 25 million illegal aliens amnesty and the right to vote.
00:19:07.000 That's what they want to do.
00:19:07.000 They're letting them in so they can get amnesty and the right to vote.
00:19:10.000 That's the only reason they're letting them in.
00:19:12.000 Or you could defeat the Democrat communists and vote for more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your families, lower taxes, less crime, a roaring Nebraska farm industry, and no amnesty for illegal aliens.
00:19:27.000 You must vote Republican.
00:19:32.000 Okay, he ain't wrong.
00:19:33.000 He ain't wrong.
00:19:34.000 Okay, so radicalism on the march from the Red Green Alliance all over the globe.
00:19:38.000 And it's true.
00:19:39.000 In literally every left wing cause.
00:19:41.000 It's unbelievable how every single left wing cause ends up infused with the flag of the Palestinians.
00:19:46.000 It's unbelievable, truly.
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