S5 Ep23 Anti-Zionism is a Conspiracy Theory

Yeah, so Ellie, what got me thinking about it, we in the podcast have done multiple discussions on the history of antisemitism and how it has morphed.

It has many faces, but it's ultimately, you know, the pushback against the nationalist or commission of the Jewish people to bring certain values and a worldview into the world, even though the vast majority of people who have hated us throughout history, aren't aware of that.

It's kind of running as a background thing, but it's still what's driving it.

So we always have to be careful not to get distracted by the symptoms versus the real cause.

But what really got me thinking about that was all the primary elections in America.

We don't want to go into American politics, way too toxic, but the I'll need some some Prozac or something after that gets me too worked up.

But the the the rapid rise, what happened, what's happening to the Democratic Party and all of these primaries being run by one by Democratic socialist candidates is kind of shocking on many levels.

But what really caught my attention, they have a certain economic political platform, which is really kind of Marxist communist style.

We had that discussion also that never works.

Right, that people

shouldn't own private property, that everything should be run by the government, et cetera, et cetera.

Yeah, it's pretty extreme stuff, and it never works in history.

That's why we like talking about it because it's the testing ground of ideas.

Why keep trying to reinvent the wheel that is square and never going to roll? But the only kind of international political agenda they have is – like hatred of Israel.

You know, the notion it's in their platform, cut off aid to Israel, isolate Israel, reject Zionism.

And these come from the people who are generally associated with being the caring people.

You know, we don't, the Democrats, the left is the ones who are, but they're with all the, and we've discussed this also before with all of the, wars and terrorism and tragedies and needs in the world that we focus on this little country, Israel, is very, very scary.

And it's shifting American policy, especially since October 3rd, 2023, with the Hamas's attack on Gaza.

You'd think you would have gained more sympathy.

What's interesting is the normal pattern of Jews being slaughtered gets us a little sympathy.

It didn't last at all.

I mean, because we defend, unlike previous times, we didn't have a state, or we're really clearly the underdog.

It exploded in an explosion of antisemitism, where now when you look at the political environment of America, you see a big split between the Democratic Party and general Republicans.

Again, 83% of Republicans on average are sympathetic towards Israel, while it's only 33% of Democrats and 48% of independents.

So there's a real split going on there.