Josh Duhamel

This happened to our magazine's co-founder, William Buckley, who I'm sure is still liked by a lot of conservatives.

I'm not a fan.

Bill Buckley oversaw something called In Search of Anti-Semitism, which is basically a witch hunt book that went after Pat Buchanan and Gore Vidal just for their criticism of Israel.

i think the administration and facets of the administration are basically doing dei for jews only actually that they've they they they are preserved they are preserving the di dei playbook and tools but just for just for jews and just for uh against critics of uh israel's wars and i mean i think case in point i believe the administration is resuing harvard and like look

every single thing that happened on the campus protests in the past years is not defensible there's obviously above zero anti-semitism in the country but it's a country of 330 million people there's the first amendment there's the right to protest uh sometimes protests get out of hand and trying to smash these i think is going to be hugely counterproductive it's not working

Israel's approval rating goes down and down and down and down in every survey.

And the Republicans, I mean, base case, one of the huge reasons they got thrown back into power, that Mr. Trump was reelected president, was that people were fed up

with the woke cancel culture of the early 2020s and for this administration to come in and now to try to you know pseudo criminalize speech critical of Israel I think you know doesn't pass the laugh test for the American people and there's going to be a major Lane uh I in my opinion uh for anti-war Democrats who want to run against this and then also in my opinion eventually right-wing anti-war critics as well

I think the administration is making a huge error on this.

And I think, you know, look, I don't I'm not sure it's so much being driven by Trump himself.

But, you know, he's he's a coalition manager.

He's a sort of boss tweet figure.

And there are elements of his coalition that want to do this.

And like, look, I don't want to start a huge fight with this, but like, you know, there's someone like the Laura Loomer woman.

Who's an utter fanatic and basically just has some sort of operation that is just trying to get people fired for their views on whether or not the Americans support should support a foreign war.

A war, by the way, that she criticized when Trump criticized it two years ago.

I just think it shows how cynical and nasty and stupid, but also I'm very confident on the wrong side of history of all this is.

The Israeli hard line is running out of time in the United States, and they know it.

No doubt.

I mean, I think you're picking up on a macro dynamic, which is the increasing separation of the American Jewish community from the interests of Israel or from the Israeli community, frankly.