Ezra Klein

And if you're not willing to have Israel pay the cost of its actual actions, I don't think you should be supporting its actions.

I mean, let's talk about what happened in the Israel Day parade here in New York.

Mm-hmm.

In terms of attention.

So you've got this you've got the Israel Day parade.

It's happened every year.

And in in the context of New York, it has been a kind of, you know, cross ideological day of Jewish unity and solidarity.

Now, this year, it's controversial for reasons the mayor is not going to attend for the first time in a long time.

Other politicians will be there.

What happens in that parade?

Basil Smoltrich, the most one of the most far right ministers who's in the Israeli government, who is, you know, pushed for, along with Ben-Gavir, the law to...

Execute people by hanging who has been, you know, a proponent of the settlers and more than that has put out a functional plan for the expulsion of Palestinians.

What I think it is reasonable to call the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.

Yes.

He shows up at the Israel parade with a bunch of like also hardcore extremist right wingers.

His intentional politics.

His intentional politics.

And they do a bunch of interviews.

And he even says to one of the interviewers, I love this parade.

It reminds me of Jerusalem Day, which, of course, is like the far right parade that happens every year in Jerusalem, where like a very extremist right wing Israelis march through Jerusalem in an act of like very clear provocation.