What Is Zionism? - #882
THE SAVAGE NATION
Michael Savage
4.4 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Michael Savage explores Zionism, distinguishing it from anti-Semitic sentiments disguised as anti-Zionism. He reflects on his personal experiences with anti-Semitism during his time at the University of California, Berkeley. Savage asserts that Zionism is the Jewish people's right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland, Israel. He blasts both the Right and Left for their hypocritical stances on Israel and the Jewish community. He warns against the dangers of current Israeli policies led by Netanyahu in Gaza, emphasizing the need for peace and an end to hatred.
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| 0:00.0 | And now the world's most exciting podcast, The Savage Nation, home of borders, language, culture. Here he is, Michael Savage. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Michael Savage's corner here. I want to take on a very powerful topic, |
| 0:28.1 | which is Zionism, what it is and what it isn't. I have faced this hatred for many years when I was a student at University of California |
| 0:39.8 | at Berkeley for my doctorate, and I was already in my 30s. |
| 0:44.5 | Already we saw the Arabs in the left marching together against Zionism, which was really |
| 0:50.5 | a desire to eliminate the Jewish state. |
| 0:53.7 | And I argued with them to no avail. Now it has metastasized. was really a desire to eliminate the Jewish state. |
| 0:54.2 | And I argued with them to no avail. |
| 0:57.1 | Now it has metastasized to the point where the American right and the American left have |
| 1:03.1 | something in common, which is their new hatred for Jews. |
| 1:08.3 | They don't call it that. |
| 1:09.7 | They say, well, we can criticize Israel without hating Jews. |
| 1:12.2 | No, that's not what they're doing. It's become very fashionable on the right to hate Israel |
| 1:18.9 | and hate Jews. And I can understand with Epstein and those names, you know, it's very easy. |
| 1:25.7 | It's coming up again, bubbling up from the surface. |
| 1:29.0 | But before you confuse yourself with words such as genocide, which most of you don't even know what the hell it means, |
| 1:37.8 | and look only at what's going on in Israel and Gaza without looking at what's going on in Africa with your friends from |
| 1:46.3 | the Islamic world, killing Christians by the thousands for many years now, slaughtering whole |
| 1:53.9 | communities of black Christians without one, not one word on the campuses. Now, this is not |
| 2:00.2 | justifying. I want you to hear me out. My on the campuses. Now, this is not justifying. |
| 2:01.8 | I want you to hear me out my entire lecture today or sermon or discourse, really. |
| 2:07.6 | The discourse is a proper word before you judge any further. |
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