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Speaker 1: Hey guys, So we were technically supposed to be off
Speaker 1: for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, but there were a number
Speaker 1: of stories that I really wanted to update you on,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to go through a few of them
Speaker 1: here for you. To start with, there is a hostage
Speaker 1: deal and a temporary cease fire, so I want to
Speaker 1: give you the details of that. In addition, a wild
Speaker 1: viral video, actually multiple viral videos of this total psycho
Speaker 1: harassing a Hulal truck food vendor. And you're never gonna guess,
Speaker 1: or maybe you will guess who this man turned out
Speaker 1: to be. You've got to hear those details. It says
Speaker 1: a lot about the US government under Obama, under Clinton,
Speaker 1: and our policy towards Israel. We'll break that down for you.
Speaker 1: And in addition, there is what I think you could
Speaker 1: only describe as a complete witch hunt happening in Hollywood
Speaker 1: right now. I'm trying to find anyone who is exercising
Speaker 1: wrongthink on Israel and Palestine, and those people are losing
Speaker 1: their jobs, they are losing roles in major films, they
Speaker 1: are being cut loose by their talent agencies. So I've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of details and updates for you there
Speaker 1: as well, But I want to go ahead and start
Speaker 1: with the biggest news certainly, which is they have now
Speaker 1: officially come to a hostage for temporary cease fire deal.
Speaker 1: Let's go and put some of these details up on
Speaker 1: the screen. Israel voted their security cabinet voted on this
Speaker 1: yesterday and approved it. Negotiations happened between the US, Hamas, Israel, Qatar,
Speaker 1: and Egypt. I think the Egyptians and the Kataris were
Speaker 1: incredibly crucial and being able to come to these terms.
Speaker 1: So here's what we know. Hamas is supposed to lease
Speaker 1: fifty hostages, including Israeli women and children. Included in that total,
Speaker 1: we expect there to be three US citizens as well.
Speaker 1: In exchange, Israel is going to release one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty Palestinian prisoners. These are also mostly women and miners.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you some more details on exactly
Speaker 1: who those individuals are in just a moment. Israel will
Speaker 1: also allow around three hundred AID trucks per day to
Speaker 1: enter Gaza from Egypt, plus or fuel, and this ceasefire
Speaker 1: duration is expected to last for four days. However, there
Speaker 1: is a condition in here that if additional hostages are released,
Speaker 1: that ceasefire could be extended. The numbers that I saw
Speaker 1: were for every ten additional hostages who were released, the
Speaker 1: ceasefire would be extended for an additional day, So no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. This is a temporary reprieve. However, it
Speaker 1: is a reprieve nonetheless incredibly important given the dire situation
Speaker 1: on the ground to be able to get those AID
Speaker 1: trucks in to be able to give people in Gaza
Speaker 1: a break from the bombing. Of course, it would be
Speaker 1: much better if the bombing was just not going to
Speaker 1: restart at all, But very clear, this is not a
Speaker 1: permanent ceasefire, only a temporary measure. It's also important to
Speaker 1: think about the context here. So there were previous deals
Speaker 1: that were being negotiated that were on the table. There
Speaker 1: was a report that they basically had ironed out a
Speaker 1: very similar deal for a return of hostages in exchange
Speaker 1: for a temporary ceasefire, and that was blown up by
Speaker 1: Israel's ground invasion. There have been a lot of indications
Speaker 1: that net and Yahoo and his security cabinet have really
Speaker 1: not wanted to secure any sort of deal, but they
Speaker 1: were under tremendous pressure. Now there's a lot of leaks
Speaker 1: to the US media that the US has been and
Speaker 1: Biden in particular, has been putting a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes to try to secure this deal.
Speaker 1: That is certainly possible, certainly possible that that is the case. However,
Speaker 1: I think more likely the pressure that Ntyahuo ultimately responded
Speaker 1: to here came from his own domestic population. There were
Speaker 1: huge protests, There were a massive sentiment in favor of
Speaker 1: trying to secure some hostage release and be able to
Speaker 1: bring some of the Israeli citizens home who've been held
Speaker 1: in unconscionable conditions by Hamas in Gaza. So I think
Speaker 1: that's a lot of what unfolded here. So let me
Speaker 1: go ahead and give you some details about the Israeli,
Speaker 1: the Palestinians who are being held by Israelis, who some
Speaker 1: of they might be when they are released, God and
Speaker 1: put this up on the screen. So Israel in all
Speaker 1: times takes effectively political prisoners, arrest people in this very
Speaker 1: sort of like Guantanamo Bay esque fashion where they're held
Speaker 1: indefinitely with no charges filed, in what human rights organizations
Speaker 1: have documented to be abhorrent and tortuous conditions. As of
Speaker 1: this week, according to this New York Times article, the
Speaker 1: total number of what one aid organization calls Palestinian political
Speaker 1: prisoners include people from Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.
Speaker 1: That total number was seven thousand. That's up from about
Speaker 1: five thousand before October seventh. That includes more than two
Speaker 1: thousand people held in that administrative detention, which is what
Speaker 1: I was referring to, meaning they are being held indefinitely
Speaker 1: without charges. Legal Rights center for Arab minority rights in
Speaker 1: Israel called Adala, said it was monitoring one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one cases of arrests and detentions linked to social
Speaker 1: media posts, some of which merely contained expressions of solidarity
Speaker 1: with the Palestine people in Gaza or even versus shared
Speaker 1: from the Quran Military Court Watch and nonprofit legal group
Speaker 1: said last year that of the one hundred Palestinian children
Speaker 1: detained by Israeli forces that it had interviewed, seventy four
Speaker 1: percent reported physical abuse, forty two percent said they were
Speaker 1: put in solitary confinement. So that is some of the details,
Speaker 1: because you might be wondering, like I haven't really heard
Speaker 1: about these Palestinians that are being held by Israelis. It's
Speaker 1: been much less of a focus of international media coverage.
Speaker 1: As I said, this is something that has done commonly
Speaker 1: in Israel even before October seventh. Those detentions and arrest
Speaker 1: and imprisonments have escalated since October seventh, so and includes
Speaker 1: many hundreds. We don't know exactly the number of women
Speaker 1: and children. So those are some of the people who
Speaker 1: will be released on the Palestinian side by the Israelis.
Speaker 1: And of course this is good news. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a lot less than what you would hope for. But
Speaker 1: for those families of the hostages who have been just
Speaker 1: sick with worry and grief, I hope that these fifty
Speaker 1: hostages are returned. They should all be released, of course,
Speaker 1: and for the people of Gaza, obviously it's the aid trucks,
Speaker 1: much needed, small respite, much needed, but wildly insufficient in
Speaker 1: order to bring an ultimate end to this conflict. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to add this piece which was reported by
Speaker 1: Politico and is pretty wild about what the Biden administration's
Speaker 1: concerns were about this deal, what their fears are. Their
Speaker 1: fears aren't that, Oh, this is not enough, it's not
Speaker 1: long enough. There aren't enough hostages released. No, put this
Speaker 1: up on the screen. Doctor Tree de Parsi flagged this.
Speaker 1: Apparently the Biden folks fear that a pause in the
Speaker 1: fighting may enable more journalists to get into Gaza and
Speaker 1: cover the carnage. This is a quote from this Politico report.
Speaker 1: There was some concern in the administration about an unintended
Speaker 1: consequence of the pause, that it would allow journalists broader
Speaker 1: access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the
Speaker 1: devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel. So they're
Speaker 1: not worried about the human beings, they're worried that we
Speaker 1: may be able to see the extent of the devastation
Speaker 1: that has already been brought in Gaza, the extent of
Speaker 1: the carnage that has already been brought in Gaza. That's
Speaker 1: their concern in this moment. It's quite astonishing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's incredible that they would admit this to the press.
Speaker 1: It's incredible that this is the way that they're thinking
Speaker 1: about this conflict. And it harkens back to those statements
Speaker 1: from Tony Blincoln when he traveled to Israel and was
Speaker 1: apparently trying to make the case to net Yahoo that
Speaker 1: we needed a quote unquote humanitarian pause, and he said, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is for you. This is so we can buy
Speaker 1: you some time so that you can continue the bombing
Speaker 1: campaign for longer. So when you see statements like this
Speaker 1: made to Politico that you know, our real concern here
Speaker 1: is that people may see the carnage, it dovetails with
Speaker 1: those comments from b Lincoln that the real concern here
Speaker 1: isn't humanitarian. The real concern is buying Israel more time
Speaker 1: so that they can continue the bombing campaign, the indiscriminate
Speaker 1: bombing campaign, which has already killed we don't know somewhere
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand potentially civilians depending on the numbers and the
Speaker 1: count that you're using, thousands and thousands of children that
Speaker 1: that bombing campaign can continue for a long or period
Speaker 1: of time. Lank go ahead and put this up on
Speaker 1: the screen at Yahoo's reaction to the announcement of this deal.
Speaker 1: He wants to make it clear to his public, and
Speaker 1: to our public and to the world that this ceasefire
Speaker 1: is temporary. It in no way means an end to
Speaker 1: the hostilities, to the war that they're waging on Gaza.
Speaker 1: He says, the war will continue. Quote, we will not
Speaker 1: stop the war after the ceasefire. There is nonsense out
Speaker 1: there suggesting that we will hold the war after the
Speaker 1: ceasefire to return the hostages. I would like to make
Speaker 1: it clear we are at war and we will continue
Speaker 1: the war until we achieve all our goals, eliminate Hamas,
Speaker 1: return all the hostages and missing, and guarantee that there
Speaker 1: will be no threat to Israel in Gaza. So making
Speaker 1: it clear to satisfy his population and certainly his extremely
Speaker 1: fringe right wing, outright fascist cabinet, that he has no
Speaker 1: intentions of stopping. They intend to continue. We've been tracking
Speaker 1: how the campaign is moving from the north to the south,
Speaker 1: and they've already made Gaza city completely uninhabitable, unlivable, according
Speaker 1: to you know reports in Israeli media, including Harats. So
Speaker 1: Gaza City is destroyed. Storming al Shifa was kind of
Speaker 1: the final piece of rendering Gaza City completely unlivable. And
Speaker 1: now they're saying, okay, well, actually Hamas leadership, they're headquarters.
Speaker 1: We said it was Al Shifa, and now we're saying
Speaker 1: it's in Communis. They're saying that Hamas has fled to
Speaker 1: the south, and so they're ramping up the bombing campaign
Speaker 1: in the south, including in Communis. And so that's what
Speaker 1: we can expect to continue once this short term, temporary
Speaker 1: pause in hostilities is over. And just to underscore again
Speaker 1: the horrific nature of what is unfolding here, and frankly,
Speaker 1: the US complicity and US unwillingness to use any of
Speaker 1: the considerable leverage we have to change the results that
Speaker 1: are occurring on the ground. Let's put this up on
Speaker 1: the screen. Apparently the US has been sending the coordinates
Speaker 1: of aid organizations on the ground in Gaza to Israel
Speaker 1: in order to help prevent strikes on those aid organizations,
Speaker 1: which is real redline and war clearly against international laws
Speaker 1: of war. Targeting aid organizations except in absolutely extraordinary circumstances
Speaker 1: is a war crime. But despite that effort, many humanitarian
Speaker 1: sights have been bombarded. And if you read this article,
Speaker 1: they detail how there are standard channels of deconfliction, usually
Speaker 1: run through the UN, where aid organizations, hospitals, schools, and
Speaker 1: the like will send their coordinates through the UN so
Speaker 1: that Israel or whoever the army is, whoever the war
Speaker 1: fighting force is, can avoid striking those targets. Well, that
Speaker 1: channel was being ignored, so they decide, okay, well maybe
Speaker 1: we can get help from the US. So they started
Speaker 1: sending their coordinates through US members of Congress, any sort
Speaker 1: of senior official, State Department officials they could get a
Speaker 1: hold of, and the US started providing these coordinates to Israel, saying, hey,
Speaker 1: don't target these hospitals, don't target these schools, etc. Israel
Speaker 1: completely ignored all of this, and that has been the
Speaker 1: dynamic throughout this war. You know, we'll sort of Biden
Speaker 1: will sort of like ask nicely that they bomb a
Speaker 1: little bit nicer than they've been doing, maybe use smaller bombs,
Speaker 1: maybe don't target thousands and thousands of civilians. And since
Speaker 1: there's no willingness to use the leverage that we have,
Speaker 1: Israel just ignores it and does whatever they want. So
Speaker 1: that's the trend that will continue. But as of today,
Speaker 1: some good news, certainly in terms of hostages being released,
Speaker 1: prisoners on the Israeli side being released, Palestinians being released,
Speaker 1: and a short term temporary ceasefire, so at least some
Speaker 1: sort of progress. And let's hope that this short term
Speaker 1: ceasefire can lead swiftly to a permanent ceasefire, cessation of hostilities,
Speaker 1: returning of all of the hostages, and ultimately peace in
Speaker 1: the region. All right, So this is a wild story
Speaker 1: that I had to update you guys on. So you know,
Speaker 1: you've probably seen this before. People will post videos, viral
Speaker 1: videos of somebody being a complete jerk and asked them
Speaker 1: to be identified. So this video got posted of a
Speaker 1: man who not once, but multiple times went back to
Speaker 1: the same helal food cart vendor in New York City
Speaker 1: and harassed him in the most disgusting, racist, outrageous way
Speaker 1: multiple days, not just one day, multiple days, and you
Speaker 1: will never guess who this man, who, this psycho absolute
Speaker 1: low life turned out to be. Firstly, I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: for the video for you so you can watch the
Speaker 1: behavior and judge it for yourself. And then on the
Speaker 1: other side, I'm going to reveal to you who this
Speaker 1: individual turned out to be. Take a listen, No, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: You don't know to speak English? Yeah, in Egypt, we'll
Speaker 3: get your parents. Did your father like his fingernails? They'll
Speaker 3: they'll take them out one by one. Did you rape
Speaker 3: your daughter like Muhammad? Did? Hm? Did you rape your
Speaker 3: daughter like Muhammad? To speak English? You only speak English English?
Speaker 3: You don't speak English? Yes, all right, well that's that.
Speaker 3: See that just shows how ignorance you are because you
Speaker 3: know Muhammad was a rapist? What do you think of that?
Speaker 3: People who use the randism ployment? Does it bother you?
Speaker 3: Not my fault that you pray to a criminal? Listen,
Speaker 3: i'mmoking now, okay, can you leave? Go a bay something? No, okay, cool,
Speaker 3: I don't want to go. I have a right to stay.
Speaker 3: You have no right to be on the sidewalk. Do
Speaker 3: you have a permit? Yeah? I have a vernamin I seen,
Speaker 3: I have a license. Okay, But you don't have a visa.
Speaker 3: But you're a terrorist. You support terrorist? Listen, go unless
Speaker 3: about something. No, you support terrorism unless some book you go.
Speaker 3: I'm you're a terrible person. You can shuved noth me?
Speaker 3: Who my kids? What about my kid? You can shulding
Speaker 3: knock me go. I didn't kill children? Okay, well I
Speaker 3: see why if we killed four thousand Palestinian kids, you
Speaker 3: know why, it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: So that man who says four thousand dead Palestinian kids
Speaker 1: isn't enough. Who accused this man, the food cart vendor,
Speaker 1: of being a terrorist, who you know, asked if he
Speaker 1: raped his daughter? I mean, just the most horrific things
Speaker 1: you can imagine. That man turns out to be Stuart Seldowitz.
Speaker 1: This is confirmed. By the way, This is not rumor,
Speaker 1: This is not here, This is not speculation. This is confirmed.
Speaker 1: Stuart Seldowitz acting former Director for the National Security Council
Speaker 1: South Asia director at under Obama, and was Deputy Director,
Speaker 1: senior and political officer in the US State Department's Office
Speaker 1: of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from nineteen ninety nine to
Speaker 1: two thousand and three. More recently, he served as foreign
Speaker 1: Affairs chair for Gotham Government Relations, which announced his new
Speaker 1: role in a press release in November of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: Gotham Government Relations, to their credit, fired him immediately, and
Speaker 1: not only that said that if the man he was
Speaker 1: harassing wants to sue him, they will represent him pro bono.
Speaker 1: So this disgusting human being was an aid in the
Speaker 1: Obama administration. He was involved in Israel and Palsatian affairs
Speaker 1: during the time when the Oslo Accords there was still
Speaker 1: a hope of peace and peace deals being you know,
Speaker 1: potential deals being traded back and forth. Absolutely insane, but
Speaker 1: on another level, not that surprising, sadly not that surprising.
Speaker 1: And why do I say that, Well, for one, his
Speaker 1: view that he's expressing there is the crude and unvarnished
Speaker 1: and utterly discussed version of what US policy towards Israel
Speaker 1: and Palestine has effectively been. So should we really be
Speaker 1: shocked that there are people that were working directly on
Speaker 1: these issues that hold these sort of abhorrent views that
Speaker 1: clearly view Arabs, Arab Americans, Palestinians as less than human,
Speaker 1: as worthy of their scorn, as all of them terrorists, etc. No,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be surprised by that, because these people who
Speaker 1: hold those views are exactly the type that would succeed
Speaker 1: given the consistent policy, whether it is Democrats or Republicans
Speaker 1: of US successive US administrations. This has been bipartisan policy
Speaker 1: for decades and decades now. Mister Seldowitz has since replied
Speaker 1: he does not deny that these videos, which again happened
Speaker 1: over multiple visits over a number of weeks, where he
Speaker 1: came back and back to harrass Yes, well, apparently the
Speaker 1: same hallal food truck vendor. He's just trying to live
Speaker 1: and feed his family or whatever, he admits in an
Speaker 1: interview with City and State quote, I did have an
Speaker 1: argument with a food vendor. It is quite possible that
Speaker 1: it's me. I mean, I've not seen the video, but
Speaker 1: I believe it's probably me. No shame there, apparently. Seldawitz
Speaker 1: said he regularly passes the halal cart vendor and wanted
Speaker 1: to engage him in a discussion about current events in
Speaker 1: the Mid East. He said he became defended when the
Speaker 1: vendor did not condemn Hamas. I went to the food
Speaker 1: cart expecting to buy a soda, and I had an
Speaker 1: understanding that most of the food cart guys in New
Speaker 1: York are Egyptian, he said. I said to him, this
Speaker 1: is a tough time to be an Egyptian in New
Speaker 1: York and he said why, and I said, because of
Speaker 1: what happened on October seventh with Hamas. And he said, well,
Speaker 1: I approve of Haamas or I like Kamas or something
Speaker 1: like that. If I had to do it all over again,
Speaker 1: I would not have raised the religious aspect, Seldawitz said,
Speaker 1: insisting he was not bigoted against Muslims. I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm an islamophomic guy. I've spoken up for equal to
Speaker 1: treatment of Muslims on numerous occasions with numerous different people.
Speaker 1: Seldowitz said that he's been in multiple arguments with the
Speaker 1: same vendor, but denied allegations he has had confrontations with
Speaker 1: other vendors around the city. Yes, I went back because
Speaker 1: I passed that food cart regularly, and I went back
Speaker 1: and had other arguments. So this person does not even
Speaker 1: deny that it was him, doesn't deny that he went
Speaker 1: back multiple times to harass this vendor. And by the way, man,
Speaker 1: it's amazing that the vendor that he was harassing repeatedly
Speaker 1: was able to stay so calm, cool and collected kudos
Speaker 1: to him, because there is no way that I would
Speaker 1: have been able to keep my composure faced with those
Speaker 1: sorts of repeated insults, bullying, and harassment over days and days,
Speaker 1: and he's just like nicely asking Stuart Seldowitz, absolute creep
Speaker 1: and disgusting human being to leave. So, you know, we
Speaker 1: seldom do these leg Oh look at this viral video moment,
Speaker 1: and you know, look at this Karen or whatever. We
Speaker 1: don't do those because one individual person doing something obnoxious.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes too sometimes they've taken on a context you don't
Speaker 1: know what the full story here is, et cetera. Here,
Speaker 1: not only do you see the full picture of this
Speaker 1: repeated harassment over days, but it exposes a little something,
Speaker 1: doesn't it about the type of people who are working
Speaker 1: on Israel and Palestine policy in our government, supposed diplomat,
Speaker 1: the State Department, working on this very issue, and the
Speaker 1: way they actually view in some cases, the human beings
Speaker 1: who are involved in this conflict. It's a shocking window
Speaker 1: into the underbelly of how these policies ultimately get crafted.
Speaker 1: All Right, the last story I wanted to bring you
Speaker 1: guys is what I can only describe as a complete
Speaker 1: witch hunt that is unfolding right now in Hollywood. Here's
Speaker 1: the very latest, but there's a whole lot of other
Speaker 1: pieces here. But let's go ahead and start with this. So,
Speaker 1: Melissa Barrera, who was starring in Scream seven, has reportedly
Speaker 1: been fired from the Scream franchise for denouncing the genocide
Speaker 1: in Gaza. One of her posts. I try to look
Speaker 1: at what it was that she said that was apparently
Speaker 1: so insane an important quote unquote anti Semitic that she
Speaker 1: got fired for one of them. She had an Instagram
Speaker 1: post that said, I too come from a colonized country.
Speaker 1: Palestine will be free. They tried to bury us. They
Speaker 1: didn't know we were seeds. In addition, she shared a
Speaker 1: Jewish Insider article with an Israeli historian making the case
Speaker 1: that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute genocide. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if there were other posts in addition, but these
Speaker 1: are the ones that have come to people's attention on
Speaker 1: social media that apparently were sufficient to get her fired
Speaker 1: from the Scream franchise. The Spyglass put out a statement
Speaker 1: explaining their decision to fire her from this film and
Speaker 1: this franchise. They said, quote, we have zero tolerance for
Speaker 1: anti Semitism or the incitement of hate in any form,
Speaker 1: including false references to genocide. So that would reference when
Speaker 1: she was sharing a Jewish insider is really historian analysis
Speaker 1: of what is unfolding in Gaza right now, ethnic cleansing,
Speaker 1: holocaust distortion, or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into
Speaker 1: hate speech. So that is their justification. But as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: she is far from alone in facing professional consequences, severe
Speaker 1: professional consequences for daring to have wrongthink on the Israel
Speaker 1: and Palestine conflicts. Variety had a great report where they
Speaker 1: went through some of the well known instances, some of
Speaker 1: the instances that have been reported. Let's go and put
Speaker 1: this up on the screen. I want to go through
Speaker 1: a few of these. So they talk about and we
Speaker 1: covered this previously. CIA one of their top agents, mahade Kiel,
Speaker 1: ignited a firestorm with her Instagram posts, including one that said,
Speaker 1: what's more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? Witnessing the denial that
Speaker 1: genocide is happening. In response, she was relieved of her
Speaker 1: duties as co chief of the Motion Pictures department. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: she was allowed to stay on as an agent, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people are pointing to the intervention directly
Speaker 1: of one of her clients, Tom Cruise, on her behalf,
Speaker 1: who showed up in person to make it clear that
Speaker 1: he was backing her, so Tom Cruise to the rescue
Speaker 1: on that one. However, she still was devoted, and apparently
Speaker 1: there was a lot of fallout at the agency in
Speaker 1: both directions, people very upset that she was demoted at all,
Speaker 1: and people upset that she wasn't fired and asked completely
Speaker 1: thanks to Tom Cruise's intervention, you have them coming apparently
Speaker 1: for Boots Riley. Laila Land producer Or Clatt texted WME Leadership,
Speaker 1: that's another big Hollywood agency about why Boots Riley was
Speaker 1: still a client. After the be Sorry to Bother You,
Speaker 1: writer director urged his followers on X to boycott and
Speaker 1: industry screening footage of Hamas atrocities in La So he
Speaker 1: told people not to go to this screening of Hamas atrocities,
Speaker 1: and now people are trying to get him fired. Several
Speaker 1: agents at UTA, another big agency, have expressed outrage internally
Speaker 1: over a recent open letters spearheaded by writer Tanahisi Coates,
Speaker 1: believe he should be dropped from the agency's roster. Coates
Speaker 1: was the first signature on an October fourteenth letter that
Speaker 1: many industryites felt dehumanized Israelis and softened Hamas's actions with
Speaker 1: such lines. As Hamas militants broke out of Goza, more
Speaker 1: than thirteen hundred Israelis were subsequently killed. The agency is
Speaker 1: sticking with him, though it has sever ties with Susan
Speaker 1: Sarandon over her controversial words on the conflict. Susan Saran
Speaker 1: and of course a noted activist, very courageous in all
Speaker 1: sorts of circumstances and has been speaking out on behalf
Speaker 1: of the humanity of Palestinians, and that was apparently enough
Speaker 1: to get her dropped from her talent agency in spite
Speaker 1: of all of her long record of work and accomplishments.
Speaker 1: CIA too has been willing to cut ties over problematic
Speaker 1: social media missives. The agency fired assistant German Barricott over
Speaker 1: her posts that called all Israeli's white supremacists and mocked
Speaker 1: a post from the country's official handle that stated even
Speaker 1: Israelis deserved to live by calling it a fascist regime regime.
Speaker 1: CIA also dropped Sarah Raw and Regina Jackson, who co
Speaker 1: wrote the twenty twenty two book White Women, Everything You
Speaker 1: Already Know About your Own Racism and How to do Better.
Speaker 1: They were fine with them when they were doing anti
Speaker 1: racist work. But now it's another story. Their social media
Speaker 1: posts got them fired. Ral wrote on ex Zionist ur
Speaker 1: starting a panic that more and more of the world
Speaker 1: sees them for the bloodthirsty, genocidal ghouls that they are.
Speaker 1: And maybe the line in this that was the most
Speaker 1: stunning to me was that apparently WhatsApp text chains have
Speaker 1: popped up all over Hollywood sharing instances of perceived anti semitism.
Speaker 1: Wimes is particularly lively. They say. One member derided director
Speaker 1: Ava Duverne for posting in support of that agent that
Speaker 1: I mentioned the beginning, who was demoted that Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: intervened on her behalf. And that's why this really you
Speaker 1: can't describe it as anything other than a witch hunt.
Speaker 1: You've got these WhatsApp text chains flying around with people
Speaker 1: trying to scrape Instagram post and find any instance where
Speaker 1: they feel that the person said the wrong thing and
Speaker 1: deserves to be blacklisted, deserves to be fired, deserves to
Speaker 1: be punished for it. It's utter insanity. And of course
Speaker 1: it's not just in Hollywood where we've seen this happen.
Speaker 1: We've seen all sorts of censorship, you know, coming from
Speaker 1: official governments. Certainly in the government of Israel, government of France.
Speaker 1: We've seen people losing their jobs over things that they
Speaker 1: said in support of Palestinians. The climate is like, it's unimaginable.
Speaker 1: I mean, it really is just like the War on
Speaker 1: Terror or era, when anyone who said anything different than
Speaker 1: official US government policy was branded a terrorist sympathizer. And
Speaker 1: now you layer on this this, you know, sort of
Speaker 1: like weaponization or use of woke language to brand anyone
Speaker 1: who has a different opinion as an anti Semite, worthy
Speaker 1: of scorn, worthy of blacklisting, worthy of being shoved down
Speaker 1: of polite society, you know, and aggressive efforts by the
Speaker 1: ADL to say that if you are have a critique
Speaker 1: of Zionism, that makes you anti Semitic. I mean, that's insane.
Speaker 1: Zionism is a political project. There are many Jews who
Speaker 1: are anti Zionists. There are many non Jews who are Zionists.
Speaker 1: If you can't critique a political ideology without being smeared
Speaker 1: and branded as somehow a racist anti Semite, that's insane.
Speaker 1: It's insane that, you know, you can't critique foreign government
Speaker 1: without being smeared and branded as an anti Semite and
Speaker 1: fired and facing all these professional consequences. That's completely insane.
Speaker 1: And so this climate of fear has seemingly completely overtaken Hollywood,
Speaker 1: maybe more than any other place. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: noteworthy because, of course, with previous political moments, Hollywood has
Speaker 1: tended to be more unified on the liberal side of things,
Speaker 1: and so now you have this huge schism and people
Speaker 1: apparently they're out for blood. They're out aggressively trying to
Speaker 1: fire and cancel absolutely anyone who disagrees with the stated,
Speaker 1: you know, official US policy. You are not allowed to
Speaker 1: dissent and keep your keep your agents, keep your you know,
Speaker 1: ties to Hollywood elites, keep your roles in your credits
Speaker 1: in films. Wild to watch what is unfolding right now
Speaker 1: and just goes back to with so many of these things,
Speaker 1: the throwback vibes to the War on Terror and the
Speaker 1: freak outs and the Panics and the witch hunts of
Speaker 1: that time. So much of this it just seems like
Speaker 1: we have not learned any lessons, and we are retreading
Speaker 1: so much of the history that I had thought and
Speaker 1: hoped perhaps we had put behind us. So in any case,
Speaker 1: that's what I got for you today. Thanks so much,
Speaker 1: guys for supporting us. I hope all of you have
Speaker 1: a wonderful Thanksgiving and if anything else pops off, that's big.
Speaker 1: Of course, we will keep you updated. But otherwise and
Speaker 1: we do have some great content for you too that
Speaker 1: we recorded a long interview I did with Norman finkelstin
Speaker 1: long interview that Sager did with Jocko Willock, and those
Speaker 1: are going to be posted a little bit earlier for
Speaker 1: premium subscribers. We're also going to release a few teaser
Speaker 1: clips of that too, so make sure you stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that. Those are some longer conversations we thought it
Speaker 1: would be a good way to dive into some deeper
Speaker 1: topics over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Enjoy your time, guys,
Speaker 1: and we will certainly see you back here for full
Speaker 1: shows next week on Monday,