Bassem Youssef
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3 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5 Jun
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I am really worried because the rise of anti-Semitism and the rise of hate against Jews is not because of the Jews. It's because of the actions of the government. Jews do not have to be on the side of apartheid. Ronnie Kestrels, he is a Jewish South African, and he fought shoulder to shoulder next to Nelson Mandela. He was part of the African National Conference ANC.
And he had an article saying, like, I know what apartheid is, and I saw Israel, and this is what they have. And the thing is, the Israeli government should listen to other people. You cannot call anybody who criticize you either an anti-Semite or if they're already Jewish, you call them like self-hating Jew.
Because we did that. When I would go in and criticize the Islamists, it's like, oh, you're self-hating Muslim. You're not really Muslim. You're an infidel. You're a secret. You're a secular, whatever. We have the power in order to reform the course by holding people in power accountable. And the thing is, it is very stupid to actually call this antisemitism. My idol is Jon Stewart.
I voted for Bernie Sanders. Sarah Taxler, the one who did this amazing documentary about me, Tickling Giants, she's a Jew. She is married to an Israeli Jew. We have a good ratio because we know what the right is. They don't have to associate themselves with the action of the Israeli government.
It's his favorite hobby. It's my show. It's like, what's his favorite? I talk about like how when a white shooter does something, he talks about all of his family and all of his hobbies. Like, what if we did this for Arab terrorists? What are his hobbies? Jihad.
Wow, you're making me feel good.
Yeah, I totally agree, but people don't wake up in the morning and say, like, I want to declare jihad. Think about it. Why would anybody choose to end his life by taking other people with him and end that life? His life must be miserable. He must be pushed into that. Nobody chooses death over life willingly. One of the first suicide bombers in the Palestinian resistance were Christians.
Of course, but here's my problem with Sam Harris and... Usually people, they have free range talking about the Islamic faith and nitpicking the stuff that makes it put in a bad light. I can go and nitpick every single religion. There are Jews there, like Ben Ghafir, who openly say spitting on Christians is not a hate speech. All right.
They are, I mean, you can bring me like all kinds of videos of Islamic jihadists saying horrible things on YouTube, and I can bring you Jews who live there. They're like, we're going to have the whole world enslaved for us, and everybody would love to be slaved for the Jews.
You know, I can use the Talmudic argument that if you tie a man to a tree and he dies of thirst and hunger, you didn't kill that man. And this is kind of the same arguments like, ah, we're not killing Palestinians, it's just like killing, they're dying by themselves, you know? So it is, the nitpicking of a certain narrative, religious narrative,
that is separate from the political context and what's happening right now, it's very unfair. Because I can read, if you want to have a deep dive into religious texts, nobody will be happy. And I can bring stuff from the Talmud and the Torah and stuff that is horrible. But like, you know, this is a way, again, of like, distraction.
Well, you know, the people who killed the Muslims in Myanmar, weren't they Buddhist? Yeah.
Well, let's go Jain. Okay, I'll find religion. I've got to get back to you.
I'll have to find religion. The flying monster, the church of the flying monster spaghetti.
I think there's a few books written about the fact that they do other stuff as well.
Soaking.
Okay, so I don't know how much. So soaking, basically, if you get into the woman and you don't move, that's not adultery. That's not like... Oh, interesting.
So there's a loophole. You go in and you just take. There's a loophole.
There's a loophole.
Maybe if I converted you as a Jew, I'll get you 80.
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