Discussion on Israel and Media Perception

But the fact is now Bibi and the Israeli hard-right government

has a mandate,

I gotta be careful the way I say this, to--

they're gonna try to ethnically cleanse

Gaza.

I mean that, that's-- and I'm, I don't use that term lightly, okay?

And Jewish donors, they have a lot of explaining to do,

a lot of

decoupling to do because Jewish donors have been the number

one funding mechanism of radical open border neoliberal

quasi-Marxist policies,

cultural institutions, and nonprofits.

This is a beast created by secular Jews, and now

it's coming for Jews, and they're like, "What on earth happened?"

And it's not just the colleges. It's the nonprofits. It's the movies.

It's Hollywood. It's all of it. It's like time for you guys to wake up

and say, "No

more." Draw a line in the sand. I don't care if you hate me.

There's been many people in the pro-Israel world that have been very sweet, very

kind, and I, and I will say this, the behavior by a

lot, both privately and publicly, are pushing people like you

and me away. We're like, "Honestly, the way you are treating me is

so repulsive." I have text messages, Megan, calling me an

anti-Semite.

That's ridiculous.

I am learning biblical Hebrew and writing a book on the Shabbat.

"Charlie, what are you doing?" Like, "Why are you..." What am I doing?

I-I'm sorry. Like, let's just take a step back here.

Like, I'm an American citizen. My moral

character is now being put into question, Megan.

Not my decisions,

not like, "Hey, are you doing this?

Is it smart, or is it dumb?" But no, I am a bad

person if I do this. A claim I receive often is that

Israel is committing genocide. And, and one thing a friend said to me,

interestingly,

which is, "Okay, Charlie, we pushed back against the media on COVID,

on lockdowns, on

Ukraine, on the border, on..." So like maybe we should also ask a

question, is the media totally presenting the truth

when it comes to Israel?

Just a question, you know, that maybe we shouldn't believe everything

the media

says because I know I've been conditioned to ask a lot more critical

questions over the last couple of years.

Ben-

The perception the legacy media is like owned by the Jews and therefore-

I was gonna say, Ben, come on

... not pro-Israel.

Y-You Jews own the media, Ben. Bibi said, quote, "You can't be MAGA if you're

anti-Israel." I think you can have disagreements on Israel and still be MAGA,

obviously.

And if my life

is like the dust,

ooh, that hides

the glow of a rose.

Well, what good am I?

What good am I?

Heaven only knows.

He

didn't deserve that ending. You know, he's really young.

But I know that, um,

we will carry the torch. I will never allow the memory

of Charlie to be forgotten, obviously, because there is no Candace

without Charlie.