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🗓️ 12 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So what do you think was going on there? |
| 0:02.7 | Because the reaction was not only outsized, |
| 0:05.4 | but the thing that to me is so strange is, like, |
| 0:08.5 | one could arguably say that the far right in Israel has, quote, unquote, |
| 0:11.9 | one, not from a universalistic humanist perspective, |
| 0:14.9 | but the project of colonization is clearly proceeding apace |
| 0:18.5 | and Likud and people to their right. |
| 0:24.6 | So I just don't understand this sort of, I would almost argue, |
| 0:32.1 | feigned notion that Jews around the world are in danger. |
| 0:36.6 | To me, it just reads very strange and anachronistic. I could understand why someone would feel that way |
| 0:39.7 | in the immediate post-Holocast period. |
| 0:42.9 | I understand that. |
| 0:44.0 | It's not so crazy to think that. |
| 0:47.2 | But it seems like from the perspective of the 2020s, |
| 0:50.2 | it's kind of a bizarre and strange thing to believe. |
| 0:53.1 | And I do believe that a lot of people really |
| 0:55.5 | felt that. So what do you think was going on there? And it was expressed, this is related, |
| 1:01.4 | because it was expressed vis-à-vis the criticisms of Momdani in his campaign. Yeah. So I think |
| 1:06.1 | there's a few things going on. I mean, one I think is why was Mom Dani such a target, right? What was the threat? |
| 1:12.5 | And I think at the big picture level, he's offering an antidote to Trump's regime that we need, right? |
| 1:20.8 | We so badly need. And in a time where, you know, the MAGA movement is doing everything it can to divide us |
| 1:27.1 | and make us afraid of our neighbors and using anti-Semitism as a smokescreen as we discussed, you know, Zoran is a leader that's able to bring people together across difference and strengthen our communities. And that, I think, scares them. You know, I think that, like, the only thing that can actually effectively defeat MAGA is an undivided, you know, |
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