The Young Turks - Republican's Racist Tirade

Episode Date: September 18, 2024

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. USA, USA. Bega! All right, welcome the young Turks live at the balant market studio in L.A. Jank Yugar, Anna Kasparan with you guys. Okay, look guys, we've had some days with some piece of good news in it.

Actually, including today, there's one piece of excellent news in the show today. Having said that, a good deal of disaster. So we've got war coming up in so many different ways. And so, but it's important. Like, you're going to find out what's happening on the show today. And then you're going to see it a week, two weeks, two months later on other shows. Because something critical happened today that we have to tell you about. All right, Anna.

Well, why don't we start with one of those critical things, and that it has to do with a broader war in the Middle East. Let's get to it. Today in Lebanon, hundreds of pagers carried by Hezbollah officials and fighters exploded all at once simultaneously in various parts of Lebanon, including the capital of Beirut. You're watching just one of those explosions unfold in a supermarket where there tend to be, you know, civilians. The coordinated attack has killed somewhere between 9 to 10 people. There are conflicting reports on that and wounded over 2,800 people. And that's according to Lebanese officials. Among those killed was a 10-year-old girl. Other civilians are believed to have been killed as part of this attack.

But the target was intended to be Hezbollah fighters, and thus far, no one has taken official responsibility for the attack. But both Lebanon's government and Hezbollah have blamed Israel. And I should also note that earlier this month, Israel made clear that they intended to expand military operations against Lebanon, or Hezbollah in Lebanon, in order to allow for Israeli civilians near the border with Lebanon to be able to go back home. So let me give you the statement from the office of Lebanon's prime minister who labeled the incident criminal Israeli aggression in a statement, adding that it was a serious violation of Lebanese sovereignty. Hezbollah accused Israel of responsibility for the blast, adding that there would be punishment for this blatant aggression.

Now, the IDF has stated that they will not be commenting on the pager explosions, but I should also be clear that the reason why Hezbollah had kind of switched to mainly using pagers is because Nasrallah, their leader, warned them against using smartphones that could be penetrated and hacked into because of their connection to the internet. Pagers don't have that capability, and so the belief is that the pagers were tampered with prior to delivery. But we don't know for sure yet. That is the suspicion. Yeah, so we're gonna tell you two different theories as to why it might have gone off as bombs here, the pagers, and how that affects how Israel probably could kill a lot of people across the world. So be careful who you disagree with apparently.

So this has a lot of important ramifications. The most important by a landslide is we're going to war. So this is pretty much the last step here. The context is so monumentally important, guys. This is not about blame, that's kind of relatively easy when we can get to that, right? And it's not about the tit for tat, well, you know, Hezbo was firing rockets, and then Israel did this. But then earlier there was occupation, and then there was October 7, all these different things.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about right now, America was trying as hard as they can, theoretically. They were with words, but not with power or leverage or money, trying to get Israel to sign a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza and cool things off with Hezbollah and Iran. And they asked for cooler heads from everyone involved. Iran did not do a counter strike, a significant one after Israel killed a Hamas leader in Tehran, their capital, right? Hezbollah has yet to strike back effectively at all, but they did at least launch some rockets

towards Israel earlier. So again, not tit for tab, but basically, according to every credible source, Hezbollah and Iran and Hamas held off from retaliating in a larger way against Israel. So they were all waiting to see if Israel is going to sign the ceasefire. This is Netanyahu saying we're not signing any ceasefire. In fact, we're going to aggravate the situation even more. we're gonna, you know, they just, you know, at least wounded 2,800 Hezbollah guys in Lebanon. And again, we don't know if they're all Hezbollah guys, let's be clear about that.

Okay, yes, okay. And it's, first of all, some of them probably gave it to their kids, et cetera. God knows where those pagers went and Israel certainly doesn't know. But guys, again, it's an atrocious act in my opinion. You can call Hezbollah terrorists, et cetera, and justify it in your head any way you like. But right now the number one point is, this is Israel saying no to the peace path, no to a ceasefire, we want a broader war, we agitated already, we hit Beirut, we hit Tehran, what more do you need before you counter strike and we can get a giant war in the Middle East? So now they hit thousands of people at the same time basically saying it's war.

And so now when Hezbollah counter attacks and Iran counterattacks, because there is no more ceasefire, negotiations and there is no more pathway to peace, then Israel and America will howl and say, oh my God, the terrorists have struck us. Oh, poor us for no reason at all. These dirty terrorist savages have attacked us. And a much larger war will start. And this, I will guarantee you, we will pay for it here in America. Of course. We will pay for it in a thousand ways. The most important, well, I don't know if it's the most important, but the most direct is literally we will pay for it. We will finance it. If you think that America is not going to finance 100% of Israel's war in the Middle East, you don't know anything about American politics.

We will actually finance 200% of it. We'll say, oh my God, Israel's a right to defend itself. Those poor Israeli victims, all they did was bomb every local capital in the world. Now we have to give them all the money for the war and extra on top because they might get counterattacked in a different war, et cetera. So that's point one. Second of all, we're going to get our ships involved any second now when Iran, counter strikes. And then Iran will do start doing counter strikes against us. And then Americans will die. And then we'll get dragged into the war even more. And everyone will tell you

you're not allowed to criticize Israel. And you must fight and pay for this war by Israel. I'll tell you the last domino. And I know I'm getting way ahead of myself now. But in about two years, this entire country, and it will start with the right wing, not the left wing, we'll go, enough of this, oh my God, how many wars do we have to fight for Israel in the Middle East? How many Americans have to die? How much of my money do I have to give Israel to start these aggressive wars where they bomb every one of their neighbors and pretend they're defending themselves? And unlike our preemptive invasion into Iraq in 2003, this time when we're dragged into a war, it's abundantly clear that the big influence, that dragged us into that war is Israel.

Yeah, last time it was the neocons and half of them were Israeli, including Benjamin Netanyo. He was literally one of the leading neo-conservatives, okay? But they had Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, etc. They were American, Bill Chrysler said they're Americans, but part of their ideology was we must protect Israel. Right. Not America, Israel, Israel above all. So to be clear, they exploited what happened to us on 9-11.

which was not Iraq's fault, made it appear as though it was Iraq's fault, spread lies about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction to manufacture American consent to go into Iraq preemptively and fight that war that we shouldn't have been fighting. It didn't benefit us in any shape, way, shape, or form, but leading up to that war, you had Netanyahu on multiple occasions, even here on U.S. soil, encouraging the U.S. to go to war with Iraq. And by the way, just to be clear, and I don't want to spend too much time on it because the new wars they're starting are more important and will be much larger.

Okay, but they, not only the neo-conservists said, yeah, this is also to protect Israel, but remember Saddam Hussein was fighting against al-Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Netanyahu Woffice, they all knew that, right? And so they said, we don't really care, even though they're the enemy of our enemy, that just hit us on 9-11, let's start a war against them anyway because they're a regional threat. Who are they a regional threat to? They're fighting against al-Qaeda.

they a regional threat to us. No, they were a regional threat to Israel. Yes. And so, and, and so now after that war went disastrously, not only did Netanyahu fight for it ahead of time, afterwards, he's on tape bragging about how it really helped Israel, because it made the Muslims look like the enemy of America. So that really, really helped Israel. So, okay, I'm glad you're happy about it, but it was a disaster for us. I really think that you should retract that the United States has been doing everything it can to prevent a broader regional war, even with their words only, right? Like, no, their words mean nothing.

No, of course they mean nothing, Anna, I hear you. But we sent a, but this is relevant. We sent a representative at the last minute to Israel just a couple of days ago. And they met with the defense minister, as you know, right? And the defense minister told them, no deal, no. Yeah. Instead, we're going to attack more, not less. That's basically going, bam, right there, open hand is slapped to the U.S.

representative and go, what are you going to do, boy? Well, let me give you the exact statement. So he's talking about Yoav Galant, that's the Israeli defense minister. And after meeting with a senior Biden advisor, Galant said the following, quote, the only way left to return the residents to the north, Israeli residents to the north, to their homes is via military action. And Netanyahu's office also gave a massive middle finger to the Biden. administration essentially stating that while Israel appreciates and respects the support of the

U.S., I mean, it is literally dependent on the military support of the U.S., it will ultimately do what is necessary to safeguarded security and return the residents of the North securely to their homes. And so what I'm trying to refer to, Jank, is the fact that the reason why someone like Netanyahu or Yoavgalant, they feel emboldened to say what they're saying is because they know that even though they're dependent on U.S. weapons to carry out these military operations and a broader regional war, they're willing to give the United States the middle finger because they know the U.S. is still going to provide the weapons to engage in a broader regional war. And the U.S. knows it's willing to provide the weapons. So the U.S. government certainly is not against a broader

regional war. If they really were, they would threaten to withhold the weapons, but they're not doing that, are they? Yeah, so first of all, let me be clear. This is a literally a historic failure by Joe Biden. He said that he, whether you believe him or not, okay, so if you're a Democrat, you love Joe Biden, you believe Joe Biden, okay, he said he said he definitely wanted to a ceasefire. He said he tried his hardest for a ceasefire. So, except he didn't threaten $1.1. That's not trying your hardest. That's saying, I'm just playing around. I'm lying. I'm just a giant liar. I'm lying to the Democrats, to the American people, pretending that I care about Palestinians. Here's a giant $26 billion check. Murder, any of them you like, oh, you want to bomb

Beirut? Great. You want to bomb Tehran? Great. You want to blow up nearly 3,000 people in the middle of Lebanon? Great. Do anything you want. Blank check. That's who Joe Biden is. And he is the next person who tells me that he's an empathetic, sweet guy while I'm on the air with them, is going to have an issue. Okay. He's a monster. For money, he'll let you kill any Arab or Muslim you like. He's a giant, even by his own standards, a giant failure. No ceasefire. All we're going to get is an yet another enormous war in the Middle East. brought to you by Joe Biden, who voted for the last giant war in the Middle East. He voted for the Iraq war.

He said, oh, George Bush needs my vote. Dick Cheney needs my vote. Yeah, they did, brother, and you gave it to him. He's a war monger, he's a terrible president, terrible. Okay, now, Hoxton and Blinken, they go in and they keep assuaging, and trying to plead with the Israel's, please, please, like pathetic, pathetic. All you got to do is with all the money, but they can't because they serve Israel. Yes. They're dogs.

So they go in and go, oh, please, and then the Israelis bat them around. They do it publicly. They spit in America's face and then they go, oh, it's raining. Hey, American media and American politicians, go tell everybody that's not spit on your face. That's rain and it's going to give you flowers and beautiful things. So shut up and do as you're told and we are and we'll fight this war for them and America will hate them for it. Israeli snipers killed an American citizen in the West Bank. Literally, an American citizen in the West Bank.

Blinken threatened to send a strongly worded letter and then proceeded to urge the UK to lift any pause that they may have on weapons to Israel. Historic failure. Blinken, one of the worst secretaries of state we have ever had. Agreed. But I just, I want to be clear that what Jenk just said about how the government, currently under the Biden administration will give Israel all the money and weapons they need to, you know, kill Muslims and Arabs. And who knows, maybe there are people in the audience

who are so disconnected from that, they don't care. But it's not just Muslims and Arabs. It's also now American citizens with impunity. Yeah. And that should bother Americans. Yeah, one of our members, Suspout just wrote it, my son's a senior in high school and is seriously leaning towards joining the military. I respect that decision immensely, but Dan, I'll be so uncontrollably upset if he goes to war for the inhumanity and stupidity of Israel. You've got to stop them. Don't let him sign up. I'm being serious.

If my kid said, I'm going to sign up, are you crazy? We're about to fight a giant war on behalf of Israel that has nothing to do with America. You think I want my kids and your kids to die for Netanyahu's war so he can stay in office and not face corruption charges? For Netanyahu's political career and a bunch of crazed right wingers, you're going to send your kids to go die for them? What part of this has anything to do with American national security? The only part that has to do with our security is we will now enrage 1.6 billion Muslims and have them hate the United States of America for the rest of their lives.

And you can say, oh, Muslim savages, we hate them anyway. Well, okay, you just made an enemy out of a couple of billion people because Israel, wanted to occupy the West Bank and Gaza. Sounds great for national security. Yeah, that's not helpful to national, no matter what you think, even if you're in the right wing crowd or whatever wing crowd that says, I hate Muslims so much. Enjoy your racism and bigotry, and I'm sure you're bathing in, you love it, et cetera. But for, I'm not talking about that.

I'm not condemning you for that. I'm talking about national security. Is it helpful to our national security to have 1.6 billion people super mad at us and can't wait to attack us because we are funding the slaughter of their families. So, okay, I know, Muslim lives don't count, just murder them all and they won't ever be able to respond and it's okay, ha ha, we just support Israel because Israel's giving, not Israel, A-PAC is giving money to all of our politicians. Richie Torres is out there humiliating himself again.

Federman can't be far behind, et cetera. So, but one more thing here, this is the same exact warning I gave before the Iraq war and And we were literally one of only two national shows that said, don't go into Iraq. I see a lot of Johnny come lately from the right wing pretending they were against the Iraq war. I don't remember you being against it back then, brothers. I remember you kissing Bush and Cheney's ass back then, right? And saying, how dare you? You support Muslims.

We should murder all of them in Iraq. Okay, how did that work out? I told you, I told you. And I'm telling you right now, this is going to be a disaster, not just for America, but for Israel. I know the Israelis supporters are blinded and they can't see, no, we can kill all the Muslims we want. There's never any consequences. Give us more money. Anti-Semite.

Anti-Semite. We fixed it, right? Guys, this is a new era of drone warfare. They taken out Abrams tanks. We got a story on it later. They're taking out Abrams tanks with cheap-ass drones in the Russia-Ukraine battle. Okay? We did the same thing to the Russian tanks.

They're going to take out our aircraft carriers. They're going to take out our tanks and we're going to be shell shot. How could some drones do this? We've been telling you for literally over a decade here on the young Turks. These drones are coming and they're going to make the F-35s and all these things totally obsolete. They're going to launch a thousand drones against these giant sitting ducks we have in the water and in the air. And then when we lose those and all the kids that are on those boats and in those planes, people are going to go, oh my God, I can't believe it went poorly.

And they're going to infiltrate Israel. I know Israel looks impenetrable. And that's why they're absolutely like overcome with their sense of invincibility. Goliath is smashing everything in his path because he, Goliath thinks he can't lose. And I look, I hope no harm comes to Israel or any of those countries. I'm telling you my analysis of the situation, just like I did before the Iraq war, my analysis is Israel is going to get a surprise that they can't, that they are not expecting. I don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is. And maybe it doesn't even exist now. But once you get into a giant messy war, we're human beings, somebody's going to figure out how to get past their defense.

They did on October 7th, they'll do it again and again and again. And then Israel would be like, oh my God, now we're dying. This is terrible. If we're dying, it's terrible. If you're dying, it's Tuesday. Who gives a damn? America, kill them. Kill them, America.

Give me money. Okay? It's going to be an epic disaster for Israel. And it's going to be an epic disaster for America and for the whole world. Well, the Senate Judiciary Committee had a hearing today in which one of the senators raised his hand and said, I'll be the open and overt racist. So we'll get to that video and more when we can. come back, don't miss it.

I'm going to do honest reporting. Good luck trying to find honest reporting like this anywhere in mainstream media. Anna. All right. Let's go to our next story. I think it's exceptionally disappointing that you're looking at an Arab American witness before you and saying you support Hamas. You know what's disappointing to me? You can't bring yourself to say you don't support Hamas or any.

You don't support UNRWA. You don't support Hamas. You don't support. I was very clear in my support. And you don't support Iran. You should hide your head in a. bag. Republican Senator John Kennedy accused Arab American Institute executive director Maya Barry of

supporting Hamas and essentially supporting terrorist activity. Why is it because she happens to be an Arab American? Now this was during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes. And since October 7th, there's been quite a few hate crimes here in the United States, many of which have impacted Muslims and Arabs. For instance, U.S. incidents in recent months, according to Reuters, include the attempted drowning of a three-year-old Muslim girl in Texas, the fatal stabbing of a six-year-old boy in Illinois, Muslim boy,

the stabbing of a Muslim man in Texas, the beating of a Muslim man in New York, threats of violence against Jews at Cornell University that led to a conviction and sentencing. and the unsuccessful plot to attack a New York City Jewish center. So the hearing is well justified. There have been hate crimes in the U.S. and they should be addressed. But interestingly enough, as you can hear from the Republican senator there,

he doesn't seem to think the hatred and vicious attacks against Muslims or Arabs in the United States matter. And instead he wants to turn the topic to an executive director for allegedly being supportive of Hamas, She has the goal, the audacity to be concerned about Palestinians and about Arab Americans, Muslim Americans. We're going to get to more video in just a minute. But, Jank, thoughts. Imagine if I said to John Kennedy in a setting like that, what did he say? You should have your head in a bag.

You say, oh my God, I'm of Muslim origin. That's it. Terrorists arrest him. Saying a U.S. Senator, a person who matters, having his head in a bag. What does that mean? What does that mean? What does that mean?

He's his head in a bag. He says it blithely to an Arab American, and no one's going to do anything about it. He won't be sanctioned. It's Tuesday. Hatred against Arabs and Muslims in this country is very, very normal. And it's expected, and it's not a thing that's noteworthy. Imagine if he said to a Jewish activist, you should have your head in a bag. You support Israel.

Israel has done 30 times the number of civilian deaths as Hamas. Do you condemn Israel? Do you condemn? You don't? You should have, he imagine he said to the head of the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League. You know, you support Israel. You should have your head in a bag. He'd be, come on. He'd be out of the Senate within the week, right? There will be no consequences for this. Republicans, let me ask you a question. No, Jake, but not only that, no consequences for this. I mean, he did it on purpose because he thinks this is going to help him politically. That's why he did it. He thinks it's going to help him. But even worse, even worse, the whole point of these hearings usually is just political theater with a bunch of do nothing politicians who have no interest in looking out for us.

And that's the real injustice here, right? That these are individuals who have been elected through our democratic process to do nothing for us. So you have the prevalence of hate crimes in the country, not just against Muslim Americans, but also Jewish Americans. And this guy is sitting there using this whole hearing to make a name for himself in how much he can be hateful toward Muslim Americans or Arab Americans. That's what he's using it for. It's not about finding solutions.

It's not about understanding the problem. It's not about finding the right legislation if there is the right legislation to pursue in order to mitigate the harms that Americans are. are dealing with right now. It's all about him and it's about all about spewing hatred, which he thinks is going to help him politically. It is dark and disgusting. Okay, now the politics of it.

So Republicans will say, hey, you know, you guys accurately point out Joe Biden, Kamala Harris is terrible on Israel and potentially starting a huge war in the Middle East. So hey, just support Trump and the Republicans. And you go, say, okay, what's Trump's policy? Oh, he says you should cause Israel's ask more, that the Democrats are not being sufficiently loyal to Israel, and that maybe they should get the, Israel should just annex the West Bank according to herets. So that's pretty bad, right?

And so I say, I complain about that or I say something. They say, oh yeah, of course you think that you're dirty Muslim, you dirty Arab, said we're Turkish, not Arabs, but it doesn't matter. And then John Kennedy, a U.S. Senator, Republican, comes out and does this, and by the way, we'll show you more. He went on and about how if you're an Arab, you must support Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the terrorists. He's a deep, deep racist, right?

He does this racism and then goes, now vote for me. Republicans, do you have any idea how absurd you sound? No, why? Do they sound absurd? He'll get reelected. He'll get reelected to. No, no, no. He'll get reelected in Louisiana. And that might serve part of his base. My point is to trump Republicans, politicians all across the country. You don't get to say, I hate you, and then say, now vote for me. That's an unreasonable ask. If you can't understand that that's an unreasonable ask, you're never going to get our vote, their vote, however you want to characterize it.

Just so kiss a goodbye. Just when Biden was doing the very worst thing in the world on Israel, here comes to Republicans to save them and to say, we hate all Arabs, we hate all Muslims. Now vote for us. Yeah, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen because of clowns like John Kennedy who are racist piles of trash. All right, let's go to the next video. Do you support Hamas, do you not?

Senator, oddly enough, I'm going to say thank you for that question, because it demonstrates the purpose of our hearing today in a very effective way. Let's start first with a yes or no. Hamas is a foreign terrorist organization that I do not support. But you asking the executive director of the Arab American Institute, that question, very much puts the focus on the issue of hate in our country. Well, I got your answer, and I appreciate it. What is the, you support Hezbollah too, don't you?

Again, I find this line of questioning extraordinarily disappointing, is that a no? That, you have Arab American constituents that you represent in your great state. Yes, ma'am, I understand that, but is my time's limited to and I apologize, but is that a yes or no? Yes or no question, too, do I support Hezbollah? The answer is I don't support violence, whether it's Hezbollah, Hamas, or any other entity that invokes it. You can't bring yourself to say no, can you?

No, I can say no. I can say yes. But you haven't. You just can't make yourself do it. Do you support or oppose Iran and their hatred of Jews? Again, I'm going to emphasize Iran, Hizbollah Hamas, none of them is going to, this discussion. You can't bring yourself to say no, can you? It's real simple.

Excuse me, I'm going to, if I may, as a Muslim woman, sir, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you, I do not support Iran. I don't know how many more times she can say the same thing. And it's not, I think it is getting through to him. But he's intentionally smearing this woman. That's what he's making this hearing about. He's making this hearing about smearing a woman who has answered his question repeatedly. She's not in favor of Hamas, not in favor of Hezbollah, not in favor of Iran, and would like to, I don't know, contribute her testimony to finding solutions to hate crimes

are being committed in the United States. Okay, the senator's not interested in that at all. I just, I think the American experiment has failed, Jank, okay? Because he looks at that woman and he doesn't see an American, okay? That is unfortunately where we are as a country right now, where even if you're an American citizen, even if you were born and raised in America, we don't see each other as Americans. We see each other as like whatever the racial background is, whatever the national nationality is where they immigrated from, even if they came here and they did it legally and they're now

American citizens, everyone is one of the others, right? We're all in our own little bubbles, our own little ethnic groups, and we all hate each other. The experiment failed. That's it. It failed. You look at that Senate hearing and how can you not think that it failed? So Senator Kennedy, unfortunately, he's a bright guy. He's got a great education. And before, he used to say reasonable things. So that's why I know he's not like a dumbass like Louis Gomer, just doesn't understand the world.

So he has apparently made a political calculation that his Republican voters in Louisiana are deep racist. So it's not my calculation. It's Senator Kennedy's calculation. And he thinks, if I take this poor woman who's just trying to fight anti-Arab hatred, anti-Semitism, and all the different things that were worried about getting out of control here in America, if I take her and I just attack her for being an Arab, even if it's the most unfair thing you've ever seen, are you in favor of Hamas? Wait, why are you even asking that question?

Just because I'm an Arab person, you think that I'm going to support a terrorist organization. Like, by definition, in your mind, if I'm Arab, I'm terrorists. And then she says no to Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, I do not support any of them. And he goes, so you support them. Okay, so that's this calculation that my voters are deep racist. And they will love me attacking this Arab woman and, and insinuating that she's a terrorist. And then I'll say, it needs to put a bag over your head, right? And my voters will love it and they'll reelect me.

And my guess is his calculation is correct. Prove me wrong, Louisiana. You have an embarrassment for a senator. Just the very bottom of the barrel, a person who profits off of hatred and getting us to fight culture wars and getting us to hate each other. And to Anna's point, never solving any of the problems. In fact, making the problem is even worse. And we know what he's going to do when he's got you fully distracted? Pass a giant corporate tax cut for all of his.

his donors. And by the way, start another war so his defense contractor donors and his oil company donors can get incredibly rich. And then he'll get you to hate Muslims more. And by the way, when the time comes, he'll easily flip and start to get you to hate Jewish Americans. Because it isn't about which side he's on. It's about getting you to hate one another so that his robber barren friends could rob you in the middle of the night without you noticing. UNRWA, which is a U.N. aid group as terrorists, like just basically called them terrorists and accused her of supporting UNRWA as if she's supporting a terrorist organization by doing so. I didn't miss that. Let's go to one more clip of their exchange.

You called our decision to cut funding for them, quote, an incredible moral failure, close quote. That is absolutely correct. But again, I would suggest that conversation is about foreign policy. I did that because nine UNRWA staff members were fired for actually helping Hamas on October 7th. Isn't that case? I don't believe that that's correct in terms of me. Let me ask you one more time. You support Hamas, don't you? You support UMRA and Hamas, don't you?

I think it's exceptionally disappointing that you're looking at an Arab American witness before you and saying you support Hamas. You know what's disappointing to me? I do not support Hamas. I do not support Hamas or any. You don't support UNR. You don't support Hamas. I was very clear in my support for UNRWA.

You don't support Iran. You should hide your head in a bag. I am sick of paying for the deadbeats in Congress. Okay, congratulations Americans. Your tax money pays their salaries. They're health insurance. They're cushy benefits, which you could only dream of. That's where your tax money.

money is going to garbage like Senator Kennedy. Yeah. So UNRWA has 30,000 workers and they suspended nine of them. By the way, there's reports that they deeply regret it because there's never been any evidence against anyone that Israel's presented against UNRWA. Even America had to sheepishly come out and say, Israel has not shared any evidence with us against UNRWA. It doesn't matter. If Israel says that they're terrorists, then we might.

They must all believe that they're all terrorists and anyone who supports UNRWA is a terrorist themselves. By the way, 30,000 people, you're not gonna find, even if it were true, is there any organization filled with 30,000 people where you can't find nine bad guys? Okay, but okay, no, defund the whole thing that even though they're saving lives, there's polio outbreak right now in Palestine. If it wasn't for UNRah, going and vaccinating those people, there'd be a giant polio outbreak in the Middle East, not just in Gaza, but it'll spread. There's starvation in Gaza. Their only lifeline is UNRWA. That's why the monster known as Netanyahu is trying to cut off their supply lines through UNRWA so he could starve them to death.

He said, you want to talk about a terrorist? Netanyahu is one of the biggest terrorists of my lifetime. You see this son of a bitch talking about him at all? No, instead, you know, Netanyahu through his government, murdered six UN workers recently in another bombing. They killed two Americans. Is John Kennedy talking about that at all? In separate assassinations, snipers hitting them from longest, hundreds of yards away, headshots, killing American citizens.

No, those are our terrorists. We fund those terrorists. So those are Americans being killed. Does John Kennedy care about Americans? No, no. When's a corporate tax cut? Let me get them all hate each other. Or Arab, probably terrorists.

Ah, ha, ah, put a bag over your head. That's kind of sick, disgusting. disgusting person, Senator Kennedy. And mainstream media, I got a note for you guys, stop kissing politicians' asses. You're supposed to be holding them accountable instead, oh, what is the honorable gentleman from Louisiana thing? Oh my God, we have a politician on our air. Call them what they are, low life scum.

So there were condemnations for the way that Kennedy behaved during the hearing, but I'm just gonna skip ahead and share with the official Twitter page for the Senate Judiciary Committee had posted. A Senate Republican told an Arab American civil rights leader that you should hide your head in a bag. We will not amplify that horrible clip, but we will amplify the witness's powerful response calling it out. And then they embedded a video featuring her condemnations of his line of questioning. Again, the heart of this is the fact that you have a senator who does not care about doing anything to improve the lives of Americans or to protect Americans who might be dealing with hate crimes in America as a result of this ongoing war in Gaza.

It was all about spewing the kind of hatred you heard because his political calculation is that it's going to help him politically. Yeah. He's a terrible person. Yeah. So the last thing, if a campus protest. had said to a Jewish student, you're a terrorist and you should have your head in a bag, insinuated that they were terrorists and that you should have your head in a bag.

They would have been arrested, not allowed to graduate. And then remember, we covered the story of the Wall Street guys saying, we have them on a blacklist, anyone who protested Israel. And they're never going to get hired in New York finance circles again. I mean, you want to talk about cancel culture. They would have been obliterated if they said it to a non-Arab, non-Muslim. But you say to an Arab, there will be no consequences at all, and Senator Kennedy will be comfortably re-elected in Louisiana.

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In anticipation of the fall semester, New York University, NYU, commendably took the initiative to modernize its non-discrimination and anti-harassment policy. in response to the increasingly complex and ever-evolving reality of campus anti-Semitism. The modernization of NYU's policy merits not only the attention of all university administrators, but also their emulation. I am calling upon every college and university to follow NYU's example and modernize their non-discrimination and non-harassment policies. Democratic Congressman Richie Torres is calling for all universities across the country to implement broader rules and punishments for what he considers anti-Semitic speech.

Now, the arbiter here of what is and isn't considered anti-Semitic speech is relevant because he equates certain speech that is not anti-Semitic with anti-Semitism. So let me explain. So, here's the context. Taurus has been an ardent defender of Israel in the House of Representatives. He has refused to criticize Israel for any of the actions that it has taken, any of the military operations it has conducted over the past 11 months, and has slammed any calls for limiting military aid to Israel. Now, he wrote last November, quote, when I ran for Congress, I made it crystal clear that I would oppose anything other than unconditionally. aid to Israel, whether the attempts at conditioning come from the far left or from the far right. Now, the attempts at conditioning from either side, put that, put that away. It doesn't even matter.

What matters here is the word unconditional. Unconditional aid to Israel. So the IDF just killed a U.S. citizen in the West Bank. Unconditional aid to Israel. That doesn't bother him. So is there any? any number of American citizens that can be shot to death by IDF snipers that would maybe make Richie Torres reconsider the word unconditional in that statement. Just want you to think about that. He's also repeatedly condemned pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses and accused them of being anti-Semitic. Now we covered some of those college protests and there were a few instances of people saying

anti-Semitic things or making Jewish students on campus feel uncomfortable. But the vast majority of the protesters were not doing that. And there is, and has been a successful effort to lump everyone together with those who engaged in bad behavior. For example, at the height of the Columbia protests, here's what Richie Torres had tweeted. Let's go to that. So much for peaceful protests at Columbia University, violence is not a bug, but a feature of the pro-Hamas encampment movement, which has a deep rot of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism

at its core. These weren't pro-Hamas encampments. These were protests specifically demanding that universities divest from weapons manufacturers and military contractors that have been supporting the slaughter of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A pro-Israel supporter ran over one of the protesters with his car at those Columbia protests. Rishi Torres couldn't seem to find a way to criticize that. There's been no legislation proposed that being anti-Arab or anti-Muslim should mean that Your entire life should be canceled and you should be driven from the school and not allowed to graduate and arrested, et cetera.

At UCLA, a pro-Israel crowd attacked the peaceful protesters. Cops standing right there, just let them beat up the peace protesters for hours at an end. Richie Torres, nope, no, you can beat up all the Americans you want. As long as you don't touch Richie Torres's beloved Israel. So let's get to why that might be. And then I'll come back and talk about his comments here and why they're so dangerous. Let's go to Graphics 6 and find out how many reasons Richie Torres might have to support Israel. Hmm, let's take a look.

Oh, right. One million $782,858 is what pro-Israel lobby groups have given to Representative Rich Richie Torres, representative of what? Somewhere in New York or somewhere in Haifa or Tel Aviv, I don't know. But now mainstream media reporters will say, oh, that is so anti-Semitic to point out that he's getting $1.7 million from pro-Israel groups. And of course, he's such a beloved, honorable politician that that would never affect his thinking. Is there anyone in the country that isn't a mainstream media reporter who is stupid enough to believe that? I don't think there is. On the right, the left or the middle, okay?

The only people who would be that dumb are national reporters. Okay, so Richie Torres says, now anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. So you should have your entire college career canceled. You know, I don't know what kind of gulag he has ready for us if we're dare to be anti-Zionists. So, but wait a minute, if you criticize Israel, they say you're criticizing Zionism. Oh, there you go. So if you criticize Israel, you're anti-Zionist, which means you're anti-Semitic, which means that your life should be ruined here in America.

So enjoy the cancel culture that Richie Torres brings you guys. And under the guise of, oh my God, I care so much about protecting students and protesters. Oh, when it's peace protesters that are mauled and run over by cars, I don't care at all. Because they didn't pay me at one point seven million. I mean, I mean, I mean, this is a thing that I care about our special. ally so much. Look guys, not only, you know, you can get into the Jewish friends and blah, blah, we don't believe you, blah, we don't believe you that you don't care about the tribes, etc. I got a nephew who is Jewish and in college right now, okay? There's no way I'm going to

put that kid in danger in any way, shape, or form, or I'm going to allow danger to him or to anyone else and if when if people in this country come for the Jews you know who's going to fight back the hardest we are because that's what we do when someone is attacked we defend them when you attack based on tribes or religious identity or national background we defend those people no matter where they come from we're not going to let anybody do this stupid anti-Semitism it isn't about the Jews Israel is a government governments do terrible things At the same time, you don't get to say, because it's a Jewish state, you're not allowed to criticize it. Otherwise, we're going to ruin your life and arrest you.

No, no, that's not a thing, unless you're a corrupt dirtbag like Richie Torres. All right, so let me get to what he wants to do. Specifically, he wants universities to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance organization's definition of anti-Semitism, which states the following. Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and or their property, toward Jewish community, institutions, and religious facilities. Okay, zero issues with that at all. But they go on, manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity.

There you go. So I think that governments and countries should be open for criticism. A government is not representative necessarily of an entire group of people. So for instance, as an American, if other countries are critical of our government, I do not feel aggrieved as though I am being targeted as an American. They are criticizing my government for whatever reason, and I think they should have the right to do that, just as Americans should have the right to criticize the government of Israel. Or the concept of Zionism itself. You can be someone who loves Jewish people, but disagrees with the notion of Zionism. Yeah.

So what is this nonsense about, oh, Israel represents Jewish collectivity? That's a new word apparently that we made up. So why? because they declared themselves a Jewish state. Okay, Saudi Arabia declares themselves a Muslim state. Does that mean they represent Muslim collectivity? And hence, no one is allowed to criticize Saudi Arabia. Otherwise, you're in a world of trouble. By the way, that might be next because Saudi Arabia also finances a lot of our politicians. They sure do. Right. So that'll be a funny day when now you're like, well, if you criticize Saudi Arabia, that means you're anti-Muslim.

And that means you're going to have to get arrested and taken off in handcuffs because this isn't America anymore. It's whichever foreign government is buying off our politicians, 1.7 million dollars at a time. And remember, Rishi Torres back in May introduced a bill alongside Republican Mike Lawler that would have implemented anti-Semitism monitors at universities to essentially crack down on pro-Palestinian protests. The bill would allow the Department of Education to send a third-party anti-Semitism monitor to any college that receives federal funding. and to revoke that funding for colleges that do not comply. Oh my God, you're gonna revoke the funding of the entire university if anyone dares to criticize Israel.

In fact, anti-Semitism monitors are on their way. That is unbelievable, that's Israel sending in people to monitor anything, anybody that criticized Israel on a university of Wisconsin. We found one guy criticizing Israel. How many guys did you find criticizing Muslims? Oh, hundreds, but nobody cares. Okay, Israel, that's it. Cut all their funding. Look, guys, if you care about anti-Semitism, this is the worst idea in the world

because rage is going to build. The minute you, and left wing, you could abuse all day and all night. You do this to a single right-winger, and you're going to have this country go nuts on you. Good luck, good luck. Also, laughably, Torres himself, who is not Jewish, publicly accused Jewish Americans of libel for criticizing Israel, which is amazing. I mean, what a joke this guy is. So one of the more recent examples featured filmmaker Sarah Friedland, who condemned Israel's war on Gaza during a speech at the Venice Film Festival. And in response to that, here's what Torres said.

In the span of only 35 seconds, Sarah Friedland manages to accuse Israel of genocide, demonize Israel's existence as a 76-year occupation, and romanticized the struggle for Palestinian liberation all without condemning the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. More troubling than the lies and libeles themselves was the rapturous response that the elites of our society would so instinctively applaud the destruction of the world's only Jewish state reveals a cruel irony, an utter lack of moral intelligence among the intelligentsia. This guy, this pathetic, pathetic low life is questioning other people's intelligence. Brother, you didn't write that.

In that video you just shot looks like a hostage video. Remember that a Republican congressman revealed that every U.S. congressman has an Israeli, what they called a babysitter. That's just a handler. That's what other governments do. They have handlers who handle some important people in our country. And so his, and he's reading from a script, I get, look, I don't know for a fact. I'm just telling you honestly here, we're very clear about what we know is facts and what our opinion is. My guess is that his handler wrote that video, wrote this tweet and writes whatever Richie Torres needs and hands it to him and goes, dog, I need you right now. And then Richie Torres comes running like the servant that he is.

All right, we got to take a break. When we come back for the second hour of the show, we'll get into the details of Sean Diddy Combs' arrest. We also have other stories in the rundown that I'm sure you'll enjoy, but you're going to have to come back to find out what they are. Oh, but...