"Former" Al-Qaeda Leader Welcomed to the White House; The "New TikTok" Clamps Down on Israel Critics: With Influencer Guy Christensen
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 118 minutes
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The White House warmly welcomed the "former" Al-Qaeda leader-turned-Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, demonstrating the absurdity of the term "terrorist." Plus: Glenn and pro-Palestinian activist Guy Christensen discuss TikTok's intensifying crackdowns on Israel's critics.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Tuesday, November 11th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live |
| 0:21.1 | nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 o'clock p.m. Eastern on the dot, |
| 0:27.0 | exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight, although the idea |
| 0:32.0 | of the TikTok ban was first introduced in 2020 by claiming that it allowed China undue influence over American minds. |
| 0:39.8 | The bill only attracted enough votes to pass after October 7, 2023. When the Biden White |
| 0:45.6 | House and leading Democrats in Congress became convinced that young Americans were turning against |
| 0:50.7 | Israel, not because they were watching dead babies be blown up every day and |
| 0:55.0 | starved to death and sat on fire, but rather because that platform was simply too permissive |
| 0:59.8 | when it came to anti-Israel content. Now the for sale of TikTok is putting it into the hands |
| 1:06.1 | of the same Larry Ellison whose family just bought CBS, and who just happens to be, by coincidence, |
| 1:12.1 | the largest ever private donor to the friends of the IDF. Already, as expected, extreme censorship |
| 1:18.9 | of Israel critics is very visible on the platform, and we'll talk to Guy Christensen, who is a |
| 1:24.4 | very young and very popular TikTok commentator, who has made criticism |
| 1:29.0 | of Israel, one of his primary focal points, and has already seen and firsthand experienced |
| 1:34.5 | an explosion of censorship firsthand on that site when it comes to that foreign country. |
| 1:41.0 | Then the president of Syria was welcomed today for a state visit at the White House. |
| 1:46.0 | Even under the most normal of circumstances, that would be newsworthy. |
| 1:49.0 | No Syrian president has ever been received before at the White House. |
| 1:54.0 | But given who the current Syrian president is, a long-time operative and even leader of al-Qaeda. |
| 2:05.4 | As you may recall, that's the group in whose name the U.S. launch then fought for 25 years, |
| 2:07.8 | a multifaceted war, both abroad and at home. |
| 2:13.7 | The imagery of him being welcomed into the White House in the Oval Office was absolutely wild. |
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