#173 - The Jewish Man Who Changed An Antisemite's Mind On Twitter (David Abitbol)

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

1.7 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Twitter. A place where you usually go when you’re in a desperate need for a good, pointless argument. Some people are drawn to this arena, like an insect to the light. And you gotta wonder - what’s the point in those endless discussions about Trump, or Bibi or Greta. No one has ever been convinced by some super witty or well articulated Tweet or Facebook comment. Right? Well, usually. Something different happened when blogger David Abitbol (aka Jewlicious) started a thread on Twitter with Megan Phelps-Roper, a daughter to a notorious family, that’s part of the Westboro Baptist Church, in Topeka, Kansas. About a week ago David sent us an email with the subject “I think we have what to talk about!‏”, followed by: I was recently on Good Morning America, a Steven Spielberg documentary and all kinds of fun stuff for something I did out of my shitty apartment in Machane Yehuda.” And that, dear listeners, is what we call an offer we cannot refuse. We’re super excited to have David "Jewlicious" Abitbol here with us on the podcast today.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the new film The Song of Names,
0:03.2	directed by Francois Gerard and starring Tim Roth and Clive Owen.
0:07.2	The Song of Names opens December 25th.
0:10.3	This is Aiton Weinstein.
0:11.8	And I'm Naor Menninger,
0:13.4	and you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.
0:25.9	This podcast is made in collaboration with the Jewish Journal.
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0:32.9	Also in collaboration with Arutsheva, IsraelnationalNews.com. If you'd like to support the podcast, visit 2NJB.com slash donate.
0:44.0	Twitter, a place where you usually go when you're in desperate need of a good, pointless argument.
0:52.4	Some people are drawn to this arena like an insect to the light. And you've got to wonder, what's the point in argument. Some people are drawn to this arena like an insect to the light.
0:56.0	And you gotta wonder, what's the point in those endless discussions about Trump or
1:01.0	BB or Greta? No one has ever been convinced by some super witty or well-articulated tweet
1:09.0	or Facebook comment, right?
1:12.0	Well, usually.
1:14.1	Something different happened when blogger David Abutbul, aka Jules,
1:19.3	started a thread on Twitter with Megan Phelps Roper,
1:23.8	a daughter to a notorious family that's part of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.
1:30.1	Just to give you an idea, the family owns a website.
1:33.7	Two domain names, amongst many others, lead to this website.
1:37.5	Those domains are god hatesfags.com and Jewskilled Jesus.com.
1:47.8	About a week ago, David sent us an email with the subject,
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