Ben Meiselas (host)

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Trump Ambassador Picks Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing · 26 Oct 2025 podcast

I believe your beliefs are sincere.

I believe that when you

became the mayor of the first city in America to pass a BDS resolution, it's because you believe in BDS.

I disagree with you on that.

That is contrary to the policy of the United States government, but you're entitled to have your own views.

What I do not understand is how you could possibly serve as a United States ambassador

for President Trump in the Middle East when you have passionate views, including having been a vocal opponent of the Abraham Accords, the singular and most consequential accomplishment President Trump has negotiated.

I'm curious, would a statement like all Jews are monkeys, would that qualify as anti-Semitism?

My question is, does the statement all Jews are monkeys, does that qualify as anti-Semitism?

You're not answering my question.

Well, actually, like means exactly that.

When you like something, it means you like it.

But that's not disagreeing with the statement that all Jews are monkeys.

But you didn't at the time.

Did you disagree publicly?

Did you say a word of disagreement, or was your only public statement a like, which is the universal method of saying you like something and agree with it?

And just so you can see, Donald Trump's position is, Donald Trump's made up a genocide in South Africa that doesn't exist and says that there's a genocide against white people.

And so his ambassador is also making up this idea that there's a genocide against white people and that America should only take 7,500 total refugees

And they must be white only.

And so that if you're brown skin or black skin or whatever, unless you're a white Afrikaner from South Africa based on a made up genocide that Donald Trump claims takes up in South Africa, you cannot be a refugee is the program.

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