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Mohammed El-Kurd

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Absolutely, I disagree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Absolutely, I disagree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Absolutely, I disagree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

I watched the first 20 minutes and then I couldn't do it anymore. What was interesting about Netanyahu is that he said being anti-Zionist is like saying I'm okay with the Jews. I just don't believe the Jews have a right to form their own state. That's like saying I'm okay with Americans. I'm just not okay with Americans having their own state.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

I watched the first 20 minutes and then I couldn't do it anymore. What was interesting about Netanyahu is that he said being anti-Zionist is like saying I'm okay with the Jews. I just don't believe the Jews have a right to form their own state. That's like saying I'm okay with Americans. I'm just not okay with Americans having their own state.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

I watched the first 20 minutes and then I couldn't do it anymore. What was interesting about Netanyahu is that he said being anti-Zionist is like saying I'm okay with the Jews. I just don't believe the Jews have a right to form their own state. That's like saying I'm okay with Americans. I'm just not okay with Americans having their own state.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

And there is so much wrong with that statement in the sense that Jewish people are a religious group and Americans and being an American is a nationality that consists of a diversity of religions and and so on and so forth, first of all. And the second thing that's wrong with that statement is the whole idea that states somehow have a right to exist or whatever. It's such a distraction.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

And there is so much wrong with that statement in the sense that Jewish people are a religious group and Americans and being an American is a nationality that consists of a diversity of religions and and so on and so forth, first of all. And the second thing that's wrong with that statement is the whole idea that states somehow have a right to exist or whatever. It's such a distraction.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

And there is so much wrong with that statement in the sense that Jewish people are a religious group and Americans and being an American is a nationality that consists of a diversity of religions and and so on and so forth, first of all. And the second thing that's wrong with that statement is the whole idea that states somehow have a right to exist or whatever. It's such a distraction.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

You have people getting shot in the street. You have millions and millions of people besieged. You have people losing their homes. You have people who are held in Israeli prisons without trial. or charge indefinitely, but the conversations that are being held on the Hill, the conversation that are being held on CNN are, does Israel has a right to exist?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

You have people getting shot in the street. You have millions and millions of people besieged. You have people losing their homes. You have people who are held in Israeli prisons without trial. or charge indefinitely, but the conversations that are being held on the Hill, the conversation that are being held on CNN are, does Israel has a right to exist?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

You have people getting shot in the street. You have millions and millions of people besieged. You have people losing their homes. You have people who are held in Israeli prisons without trial. or charge indefinitely, but the conversations that are being held on the Hill, the conversation that are being held on CNN are, does Israel has a right to exist?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Or like, why would you negate Israel's having a right to exist? That's one. Now, of course, I just find it's ridiculous, again, that opposing a secular political movement that was explicitly colonialist, expansionist, exclusive, and racist through the words of its own authors is somehow... And also, again, opposing such a political movement that is...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Or like, why would you negate Israel's having a right to exist? That's one. Now, of course, I just find it's ridiculous, again, that opposing a secular political movement that was explicitly colonialist, expansionist, exclusive, and racist through the words of its own authors is somehow... And also, again, opposing such a political movement that is...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Or like, why would you negate Israel's having a right to exist? That's one. Now, of course, I just find it's ridiculous, again, that opposing a secular political movement that was explicitly colonialist, expansionist, exclusive, and racist through the words of its own authors is somehow... And also, again, opposing such a political movement that is...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

quite young and quite recent, is somehow equivalent to opposing a religion that is thousands and thousands of years old. But it is convenient, again, for Israeli politicians. to frame us who oppose Zionism, a form of racism and bigotry, as anti-Semites. But I can guarantee you Benjamin Netanyahu has no problem with anti-Semitism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

quite young and quite recent, is somehow equivalent to opposing a religion that is thousands and thousands of years old. But it is convenient, again, for Israeli politicians. to frame us who oppose Zionism, a form of racism and bigotry, as anti-Semites. But I can guarantee you Benjamin Netanyahu has no problem with anti-Semitism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

quite young and quite recent, is somehow equivalent to opposing a religion that is thousands and thousands of years old. But it is convenient, again, for Israeli politicians. to frame us who oppose Zionism, a form of racism and bigotry, as anti-Semites. But I can guarantee you Benjamin Netanyahu has no problem with anti-Semitism.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

This is the same man who has no problem getting on stage and shaking hands with Pastor John Hagee, doing webinars with Pastor John Hagee. For those who don't know, Pastor John Hagee is the founder of Christians United for Israel, who has said on multiple occasions that Hitler was a hunter, who was sent to hunt the Jews, who said on multiple occasions that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

This is the same man who has no problem getting on stage and shaking hands with Pastor John Hagee, doing webinars with Pastor John Hagee. For those who don't know, Pastor John Hagee is the founder of Christians United for Israel, who has said on multiple occasions that Hitler was a hunter, who was sent to hunt the Jews, who said on multiple occasions that