Jon Favreau

Like the head of the moderate Yashar party just visited a West Bank settlement and that was like tied to some really horrible abuses.

Yair Lapid seemed to back Mike Huckabee's bizarre claim that Israel has like a right to take over the whole Middle East because of biblical claims.

So like, again, it would be great to see that in Yahu Gan and like preferably in a prison somewhere, but isn't there a lot of evidence that

for the Palestinians and for the Palestinian issue, the even more moderate parties are not going to be all that much better?

Yeah, look, I—

I hope that's true.

I don't know, I guess I just worry that, look, when I see this effort, it's a very misguided effort by the Third Way to try to declare that Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer, is sort of out of bounds, it seems to me to be part of a broader effort

to silence critics of Israel in the US and chill debate about policy that frankly happens all the time in Israeli media.

For example, if an American politician was like, Israel is an apartheid state, that's language that is treated as outrageous or potentially anti-Semitic all the time.

But as you know, I mean, in 2021, the most prominent Israeli human rights organization in Israel,

called Israel an apartheid regime.

And I was just like, that was in 2021.

And I've just sort of pushed back on this idea that, you know, maybe the Knesset is growing increasingly concerned about like sort of view US views of laws and decisions like that, because pretty recently, Israeli lawmakers passed a law to expand the death penalty, but only for Palestinians.

which seems like a pretty like egregious example of the kind of law or policy that B'Tselem was talking about when they wrote that paper several years ago.

So, I mean, aren't those pretty clear cut examples of kind of apartheid like or, you know, unequal treatment of individuals based on religion?

And shouldn't we be having a more honest conversation about that kind of stuff in the United States and not like doing what the third way is doing here?

I hear that.

I don't think people – I don't think Hassan is arguing that Israel is the devil or that Israeli people are evil in any way.

I think what's happening and what I think the sort of political class can sometimes miss because they've been having these conversations for years.

People like you are genuine experts in the founding documents of Israel, right?