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Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro DESTROYS Ben Gvir, Historian Greg Grandin DEBUNKS Imperialist History

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Find the full interview with Yaakov Shapiro here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-full-127784040 Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro talks about his protest against Ben Gvir in front of the Israeli Consulate in New York and why he sees Zionism as the enemy of Judaism. Jennifer Koonings shares what she observed attending a Ben Gvir protest where a woman was physically attacked and bloodied by Ben Gvir supporters. But first historian Greg Grandin talks about the Pope, immigration, imperialism and his excellent new book America "America, América: A New History of the New World" Greg Grandin is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including most recently The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, and The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes in American History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in the UK. He is also the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Yaakov Shapiro is an international speaker, author, and pulpit rabbi for over 30 years, now emeritus. He has attained an enviable place in the arena of anti-Zionist public intellectuals, having constructed a unique oeuvre on the ideology of Zionism and its relationship to Judaism. After graduating high school at age 16, Rabbi Shapiro dedicated himself to full-time study of religion, becoming the protégé of some of the most well-regarded rabbinic scholars in Orthodoxy. Among his areas of research are religious philosophy, analytic theology, Talmud, Halachah, and Biblical exegesis. At age 19 he published his first book, משפטי הבירורים, a collection of original expositions on rabbinic principles of tort adjudication. His most recent work, The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft (2018), a 1381-page treatise on the differences between Judaism and Zionism, is the most comprehensive work written on the subject and considered by many to be definitive. Jennifer Koonings is a psychiatric nurse practitioner, New York State certified sexual assault forensic examiner (SAFE) and former ER nurse. She completed graduate studies in global public health. She was fired from her long held held SAFE role for her anti-genocide advocacy after the NY district attorney’s office accused her of being a rape apologist as well as the reason why a sexual assault victim she provided care to and testified in court for did not receive justice. She currently works providing mental health services to underserved women in the NYC shelter system. She also runs a social media account focusing on social justice issues. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/

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0:40.4

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Katie Halper Show. We are so excited to be here with you.

0:45.6

We have a great show for you. It is jam-packed with all sorts of great discussions, great guests,

0:50.8

and we are traveling from the United States to the Americas, of which the United States is part, but we're going to go around the Americas.

0:58.0

We're going to go to Brooklyn. We're going to go to Palestine, figuratively, obviously, with our discussions.

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During the second half of the show, I'm going to be joined by Rakov-Jayakov Shapiro, who is an anti-Zionist rabbi.

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You guys are all fans of him.

1:13.3

Whenever I have a mom, people ask for me to bring him back on, which is always a great sign.

1:17.8

He's going to talk to us about why he and others protested the arrival of Ithamar

1:23.7

Ben-Gavir in New York City, and he delivered an excellent speech that I tweeted out parts of it and people were really

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excited by it and moved by it.

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We're also going to be joined by Jennifer Koenig, who is a psychiatric nurse practitioner,

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who is also a pro-Palestine activist.

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And she was at the anti-Bengivir protests where we saw a lot of violence.

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If people don't know about that, definitely stay tuned because you're going to want to see that.

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Not surprisingly, you had a bunch of Zionists who pretend they were defending themselves.

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And when they said they were defending themselves, they mean that they, you know, harassed and physically attacked a woman who was on her own,

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spat at her through traffic cones at her, et cetera, et cetera.

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That was just one of the attacks that we saw.

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