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[explosions, terrified screams]
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NEWSCASTER: Right now
a massive barrage of rockets
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coming off of the Gaza Strip.
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NEWSCASTER 2:
The terrorist group Hamas
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launched an unprecedented
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air, ground and even sea assault
on Israeli soil.
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[gunfire, screams]
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NEWSCASTER 3:
Palestinian gunmen are inside
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Israeli cities and towns.
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NEWSCASTER 4:
There are reports that civilians
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were barricaded in their homes
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with Hamas gunmen going door
to door in one Israeli village.
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NEWSCASTER 5:
The single worst incident
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of this entire attack
was at a party
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just a couple of miles away
from the Gaza border.
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[gunshots]
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NEWSCASTER 6:
They have taken Israelis hostage
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back inside of Gaza.
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[chatter in Arabic]
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NEWSCASTER 7:
Israelis woke up today to find
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their worst nightmares
had come true.
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IRIT LAHAV: 6:30 a.m.
we had missile alert.
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I quickly jumped out of bed.
We have ten seconds.
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Ran to the safe room,
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closed the door.
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A minute later,
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my daughter says,
"I hear shooting."
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I said, "No. Come on,
you're imagining."
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Another minute later,
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my next-door neighbor wrote
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in the kibbutz's
messaging system,
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"Somebody is shooting
at our house."
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SHAI DAVIDAI:
It's Friday night here.
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My wife and I are about
to go to bed.
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We just look at our phone
for a second
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and we see a picture that we get
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from my sister-in-law,
her one-year-old boy,
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kind of like standing upright,
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looking at the TV and we see
missiles shot at Israel.
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NOA TISHBY: It was 8:30 p.m.
in the West Coast
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and suddenly my phone rings
and it's my sister from Israel.
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I had a-a hunch
that something is wrong.
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I picked up the phone
and she is there
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and there are sirens in
the background and explosions.
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Nobody is reporting
in mainstream media.
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So I have the Israeli news on
and I'm learning
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what's unfolding
as-as it's happening
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and I go on Live on Instagram.
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The Hamas terrorists have
started launching rockets
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into Israel in order to mask
a land infiltration.
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They have entered Israel
on trucks
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and on air glides, armed,
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and are currently
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roaming the streets all over
the south of Israel,
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looking for Jews to slaughter.
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[gunshots]
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DAVIDAI: Those first images
of Hamas terrorists
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driving Toyotas and shooting
indiscriminately into houses.
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It's just-- we realized
something big is happening.
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LAHAV: Another neighbor
sent us a message saying
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that he sees militant people
fully armed.
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"Stay in your safe rooms
and lock your doors."
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And I knew that these doors
cannot be locked.
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Those was endless shooting,
automatic weapon.
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[gunfire]
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We realized that
they are going from
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door to door, door to door,
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and soon enough
they will come to our house.
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[distant gunshots]
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[chatter in Arabic]
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Luckily, my brother,
who's an engineer,
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he sent me a picture of how
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he locked his door
with two broomsticks.
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I grabbed an oar,
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took apart my vacuum cleaner.
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I used the metal hose of
the Dyson vacuum cleaner,
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took a leather cord because
I wanted it to be very strong,
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and I tied them
to the door handle
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and then made an "X."
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Orna Pauker was writing:
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"My husband was shot.
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He's bleeding."
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Nir Adar:
"They're in my house."
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Michal Itzik:
"They're burning my house."
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Efrat Katz: "They're walking
around with knives.
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They took Gadi."
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Avner Goren:
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"They're in my house."
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[crying softly]
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He was shot.
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In his bed.
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And his dog, too.
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And his wife was
in the baby room
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and she was shot there.
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At around 10:30,
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we were still hoping that they
would not come
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to our safe room's door,
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but eventually they did.
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We thought this was our end.
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TESSA VEKSLER: I woke up
and my two housemates
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were just staring at me.
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They said, "Tessa,
there's a war in Israel."
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And my response was, "There's
always a war in Israel."
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And they looked at me and they
said, "This one's different."
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My phone flooded with
all these horrific images
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and videos coming out.
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[horns honking]
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[repeats phrase in Arabic]
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LAHAV: 6:00,
we had not been able to drink
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or eat for 12 hours.
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We heard Hebrew.
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Somebody was saying,
"I'm from the Army.
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I came to rescue you."
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And then
he opened the door wide.
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We saw everything broken
in the house.
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He walked us to a safer area
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where they gathered all
the people from the kibbutz.
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And we go, "What? Where is
everybody? Where is everybody?"
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And we realized that
so many people are missing.
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NEWSCASTER:
The Israeli military
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has declared
a state of war alert
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and is mobilizing its forces
in response
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to an unprecedented
attack today.
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Israeli forces are
now going house to house
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recovering bodies of... of men,
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of-of women, and of children.
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Too many to count, too many
so far to give name to,
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that they say one word
describes what happened here,
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and that is a "massacre."
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LIAD DIAMOND:
The second day of the war,
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we got nearly 200 journalists
from all over the world
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and we just opened the gate.
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Wars today are not only
in battlefields
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but also on different
media outlets,
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on the Internet.
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It's a very challenging war,
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the war of the narrative
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and sometimes even the war
over truth.
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MANDANA DAYANI:
When you actually see
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the level of devastation,
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I don't know how to unsee it.
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It was meant to cause
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the maximum amount of fear
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and suffering in a population
of people
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who have inherited some
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of the worst generational trauma
you can imagine.
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TISHBY: It's all stories
that we've heard
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and grew up on,
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except this time around
they were also
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videotaped.
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TAL-OR COHEN:
This is not a terrorist attack
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that happened in one place
or period of time.
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It happened multiple times
on your most intimate platforms
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that you're literally seeing
before you go to bed.
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And I think that that's why
this content has penetrated
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the psyche of probably
every Jewish person who
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felt that this
was a genocidal attack
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intended for them.
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[crowd chatter]
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DEMONSTRATOR:
Free, free Palestine!
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Less than 24 hours ago
on the land, from the sea,
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and from the air, the people
of the Gaza Strip...
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[cheering]
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DAN SENOR:
It was October 8th.
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There were still Hamas
terrorists in communities
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in Southern Israel.
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There was still fighting
going on.
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DEMONSTRATORS:
Free, free Palestine!
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Israel was still counting
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the numbers of the dead
and the mutilated
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and the raped and the kidnapped,
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and there's a protest against
Israel in Times Square.
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Fuck Israel! Fuck Israel!
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SENOR: Rather than the outrage
being directed against those
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slaughtering the Jews,
the outrage was being directed
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at the Jews for objecting
to being slaughtered.
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[shouting indistinctly]
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LORENZO VIDINO: We were seeing
protests glorifying the actions
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of the resistance, which is
sort of code word for Hamas.
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How many dead?
How many dead?
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VIDINO: So it became apparent,
I would say from the get-go
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that there was a core
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of individuals nationwide
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that were pushing a pro-Hamas
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narrative.
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DEBRA MESSING:
I just thought
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the entire world
turned upside down
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and I immediately felt like,
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"We're in trouble,"
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because Israel
hadn't responded yet.
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SHABBOS KESTENBAUM: In
the early hours of October 8th,
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34 student groups
really championed
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by the Harvard Palestine
Solidarity Committee,
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promoted this statement.
The opening line says,
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"we hold the Israeli regime
entirely responsible
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for all the violence unfolding."
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At no point was Hamas
ever condemned or even named.
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RABBI DAVID WOLPE: The statement
went viral all over the world.
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In a strange way,
Harvard had become,
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outside of the Middle East
itself, the single
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most important battleground
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for forces on both sides
of this continuing struggle.
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NEWSCASTER: Hundreds of people
supporting the Palestinians
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gathered outside
Cambridge City Hall today.
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Dozens supporting Israel held
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a counter protest
across the street.
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WOLPE:
Once Harvard had set the tone,
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it started this
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unfathomable chain reaction.
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DEMONSTRATORS:
Free, free Palestine!
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- Free, free Palestine!
- Free, free Palestine!
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- Free, free! Free Palestine!
- Free, free! Free Palestine!
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Israel, go to hell!
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NOA FAY:
October 12th was the first
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anti-Israel and pro-terror rally
that we saw on campus.
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I was still consumed by the
ongoing grief of October 7th.
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It was incredibly shocking
to see my peers in support
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of a terrorist attack.
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I personally was starting to
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just feel a lot of tension
within my own social circles.
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REPORTER: From the quad
of Columbia University,
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dual rallies, side by side.
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DAVIDAI: This is the first time
since the Vietnam War
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that Columbia University
shut its gates to the public.
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What I see is about 900 students
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shouting "by all means necessary."
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And behind me, about 200
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Jewish American students
holding the posters
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of the kidnapped
in absolute silence.
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So it's two quads and I'm
standing there in the middle.
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I wasn't seeing an ideological
disagreement between two sides.
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I was seeing hatred.
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[shouting indistinctly]
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EYAL YAKOBY:
Even before October 11th,
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we've been seeing more and more
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anti-Semitic incidents
on campus.
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"Jews are Nazis"
was spray-painted adjacent
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to Penn's main Jewish
fraternity house.
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There was a swastika spray-
painted inside of a building.
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"90% of pigs are gas chambered"
was written in chalk
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in the center of campus.
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DEMONSTRATORS: Hey, hey, ho, ho,
the occupation has got to go.
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Hey, hey, ho, ho,
the occupation...
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CLAUDINE GAY:
Our university embraces
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a commitment to free expression.
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That commitment extends
even to views that many of us
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find objectionable,
even outrageous.
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WOLPE:
I got a call from Claudine Gay
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and she was deeply emotional.
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She'd been in the job for two,
three months
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and all of a sudden
it was the biggest crisis
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that the university has had.
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She talked about creating
an anti-Semitism panel
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and I thought, "Okay,
this is gonna be the response
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"of the university.
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"People can protest
'cause protesting is okay,
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but this stuff is gonna stop."
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JEWISH STUDENT:
Stop touching me.
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PROTESTERS:
Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!
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SENOR:
Protests quickly turned
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beyond just rhetorical outbursts
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to bullying and pushing
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and shoving and then
outright violence.
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FAY:
You have students who are being
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physically assaulted.
Their Magen Davids
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are being ripped off
their neck.
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They're being shouted at because
they're visibly Jewish.
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DEMONSTRATORS:
Viva, viva Palestina.
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TALIA DROR: You had massive
rallies at Cornell.
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Students, professors,
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and administrators all glorified
the October 7th attacks.
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Professor Russell Rickford
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announced that
he was exhilarated
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and energized
by the Hamas attacks.
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A lot of students
called it resistance.
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They called it justified.
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They began calling
Zionist students racist.
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PROTESTOR: All settlers
and all settlements
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are legitimate military targets
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and they will be targeted
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and you can either
live there in peace
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or you can go back to Moscow,
and Brooklyn, and Gstaad
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and fucking Berlin,
where you came from.
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YAKOBY: We started seeing
an explosion of violence.
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The Chabad house
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was broken into and vandalized.
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The Hillel received
bomb threats.
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Jewish students are texting
in their group chats
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saying, "Is it safe
to walk outside?"
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We cannot protect your children
from pro-terror
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student organizations
because the president
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of Columbia University
will not speak out.
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[over video]: People have
asked me in the past few days,
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"Are you not afraid to speak up?
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You're putting your job
on the line."
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You got it all wrong.
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I am not afraid to speak up.
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I am speaking up
because I'm afraid!
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[sighs heavily]
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This is the rawest that
I've ever been. Right?
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Like, this is, you know,
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this is when--
when you take away
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all the-the defense mechanisms
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and it's like this is pure pain.
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VEKSLER:
UCSB is generally a calm campus.
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There were protests
here and there,
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but a lot of it
was behind the scenes.
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A lot of it
was happening online.
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[notification chimes]
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Right after October 7th,
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I made a post essentially
saying October 7th
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was the largest massacre
against Jews
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since the Holocaust.
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Standing up for Jewish
human rights is not political.
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I stand with
the Jewish community.
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And I stand with Israel,
and you should, too.
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The hate started flooding in
almost immediately.
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And a lot of it was really
tied to the fact
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that I'm student body president
of my university.
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And people were upset
that I was taking a stance.
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It was on every platform
you could imagine.
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And also,
they were kind of acting
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as if I had emerged
from the Zionist closet,
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even though
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when I was elected
student body president,
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I was the president of
Students Supporting Israel
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on my campus when I ran.
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My parents
and my brother immigrated
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from the former Soviet Union
in 1990,
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and I know that
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a big reason as to why they left
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was anti-Semitism.
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They didn't want my brother to
have this life that they had.
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The definitely relinquished
their Jewish identities.
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I mean, they put my brother
in a Catholic school.
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My brother and I
are 20 years apart.
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So by the time I was born,
things had changed a bit.
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My parents were more open
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to the idea of having
a Jewish-raised daughter.
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But it was really obvious
that there was a fear
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around being
an openly Jewish person.
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They didn't have to say it.
It was just clear to me.
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I feel a big responsibility
defending my people.
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I can't be quiet about this.
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I published an op-ed called
"What College Students Can Do
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to Support the Jewish People
and Israel."
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Imagine if on October 9th,
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instead of harassing me
on social media,
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that the entire student body
bound together to condemn
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what happened on October 7th.
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And if every American
college campus did that
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and the U.S. government did that
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and the international
community did that,
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Hamas would've had
no ammunition.
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FAY: Everything
that we saw was organized
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and directed by SJP.
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They took the initiative to
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host the rallies,
to provide the chants.
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JONATHAN SCHANZER:
SJP, or Students for Justice
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in Palestine is probably
the most active network
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of students, professors,
administrators, and activists.
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Vehemently anti-Israel,
anti-Zionist.
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75% of most of the resources
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that support Islamophobia
is coming from
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pro-Israel sources.
If you don't know...
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SCHANZER: Hatem Bazian,
the current chairman
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of American Muslims
for Palestine
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created the first branch of
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Students for Justice
in Palestine
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on the campus of Berkeley
in the 1990s.
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HATEM BAZIAN:
Well, we've been watching
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intifada in Palestine.
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We've been watching
an uprising in Iraq
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and it's about time that we have
an intifada in this country!
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- [continues indistinctly]
- [crowd cheering]
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SCHANZER:
And today we believe
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that there are about
200 different branches
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of SJP operating on campuses
across the United States.
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But when I say we believe,
I say that
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because they are
an unincorporated association.
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It's not a not-for-profit.
It's not a 501[c][3].
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They actually don't exist
on paper
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in any accountable way.
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People think they
are grassroots.
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What I don't think
they understand is
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a terrorist group is
actually providing them
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with marching orders.
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DEMONSTRATORS:
Free, free Palestine!
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♪ ♪
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VIDINO:
Back in '93,
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a meeting took place
in a hotel in Philadelphia.
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25 leaders of Hamas in America--
we're talking about
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very senior people--
met and discussed strategy.
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This meeting was monitored
by the FBI.
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[voices speaking Arabic]
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And the main thing they
discussed was how to present
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what Hamas was doing and make it
palatable to Americans.
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And so in a very efficient,
very precise way, they said,
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"Okay, with audience so-and-so--
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"so when we meet
with progressives,
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"we're gonna frame it
in the terms of apartheid
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and racial oppression."
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[voices speaking Arabic]
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What we're seeing today
is the realization
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and the implementation
of that strategy.
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These people know very well
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what the American political
discourse is and the language
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they are repackaging is really
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what makes SJP
a very clever organization.
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ASAF ROMIROWSKY:
SJP had a toolkit in place
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right after October 7th that
was a how-to guide with succinct
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and analogous messaging for how
to mobilize their students
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and their chapter members
throughout the United States.
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And that toolkit came to them
directly
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out of Hamas messaging.
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Hamas is a terrorist
organization defined
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by the U.S. State Department
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and designated
as a terror group.
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TAL-OR COHEN MONTEMAYOR:
The attack
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by Hamas on October 7th
was called
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the Al Aqsa Flood.
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That's how they referred
to it themselves, Hamas.
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And then we saw SJP create
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Flood the Streets for Palestine.
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So they're literally taking
something that's being used
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by a terrorist group to actually
perpetuate violence and now
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adapting that into their imagery
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and their protest content.
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ROMIROWSKY:
From a funding standpoint,
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there's a lot of flow of money
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that's coming to fund
this kind of activism.
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SJP is an affiliate of American
Muslims for Palestine, AMP.
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AMP has direct ties to Hamas
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and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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And so SJP receives direct
funding from groups affiliated
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with the Muslim Brotherhood
including Hamas itself.
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SCHANZER: The Muslim Brotherhood
is the cornerstone ideology
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for every radical group that has
ever attacked America.
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But Hamas took their
radical ideology
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and put it on steroids.
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And that's what is actually
really so troubling
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is that you are now watching
students on the streets
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of America embracing
the notion of violence.
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OTHERS:
I am asking you all to escalate.
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OTHERS:
And to disrupt the streets.
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OTHERS:
To every single oppressor.
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OREN SEGAL: My whole
sort of career is built on
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kind of when the hair stands
behind your neck
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because you know things
are getting too far.
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Well, I'm in that moment
right now,
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and that's why I think this is
different than previous protests
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that didn't have the blatant
blueprint for violence.
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[demonstrators chanting]
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TISHBY: These organizations
are hate groups
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that use amazing words
like "freedom" and "justice,"
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and they make the students
believe that
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that's what they are about.
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Here are the words that
they're not using.
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They're not
using the word "peace"
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and they're not using the word
"two-state solution."
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DEMONSTRATOR:
We want all of it!
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BARI WEISS: SJP says explicitly,
what they want is one state
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and what they're chanting
in Arabic is not,
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"From the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free."
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It's, "From the water to
the water, Palestine is Arab."
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JONATHAN GREENBLATT:
College students didn't
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come up with that slogan.
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It is enshrined
in the Hamas charter.
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When they say that
Palestine will be free
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from the river to the sea,
they mean free of Jews.
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TISHBY:
SJP is designed
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to delegitimize the only
Jewish state in the world.
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For example, they'll bring
a vote on campus.
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They'll ask the student body
of the university to adopt
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the BDS resolution.
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SCHANZER:
BDS is the acronym
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for Boycott Divestment
and Sanctions.
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The engineers of
the BDS movement
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look back at the unraveling
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of apartheid South Africa
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as a template for a way
to destroy Israel,
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to turn it into a country
that will be shunned
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by the international community.
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NEWSCASTER: Protestors
are demanding colleges
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divest from companies they say
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profit from ties to Israel.
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DEMONSTRATOR:
How do you spell justice?
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OTHERS:
BDS!
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STUDENT:
SBW 24-0-12 passes with...
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[clamoring, joyful screaming]
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TISHBY:
All of these campus resolutions
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have no actual meaning,
but what it does do
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is it trains
the college students
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that a resolution
on the legitimacy
505
00:27:00,053 --> 00:27:03,360
of Israel is even a valid
resolution to begin with.
506
00:27:03,534 --> 00:27:05,798
So criticism of the state
of Israel is normal
507
00:27:05,972 --> 00:27:08,975
and is important as one would
be critical of any country
508
00:27:09,149 --> 00:27:12,369
and its government for
any range of policies.
509
00:27:13,196 --> 00:27:14,937
There's a big debate
in this country about what
510
00:27:15,111 --> 00:27:17,897
to do about the policies
of the Chinese Communist Party.
511
00:27:18,071 --> 00:27:19,246
You don't hear anyone saying,
512
00:27:19,420 --> 00:27:21,509
"Does China have a right
to exist?"
513
00:27:21,683 --> 00:27:26,079
Somehow when there's a debate
about Israel, it often gets--
514
00:27:26,253 --> 00:27:27,733
there's a sort of
reductionist approach
515
00:27:27,907 --> 00:27:29,299
where quickly the question is,
516
00:27:29,473 --> 00:27:31,040
"Well, does Israel
have a right to exist?"
517
00:27:31,214 --> 00:27:34,653
We don't have that discussion
about any other country,
518
00:27:34,827 --> 00:27:36,524
and that is the way
anti-Semitism
519
00:27:36,698 --> 00:27:38,439
is expressed today.
520
00:27:40,049 --> 00:27:41,877
BLAKE FLAYTON:
One of the greatest perpetrators
521
00:27:42,051 --> 00:27:44,663
of anti-Semitism on campus is,
522
00:27:44,837 --> 00:27:46,447
if not officially DEI,
523
00:27:46,621 --> 00:27:49,015
then the essence of DEI,
the ideology of DEI.
524
00:27:49,189 --> 00:27:51,670
DEI stands for
525
00:27:51,844 --> 00:27:53,541
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
526
00:27:53,715 --> 00:27:58,111
And their mission statement
is to promote diversity.
527
00:27:59,634 --> 00:28:00,853
WOLPE:
DEI was designed
528
00:28:01,027 --> 00:28:03,551
basically to make sure
that people
529
00:28:03,725 --> 00:28:06,380
of color would be protected
on campus.
530
00:28:06,554 --> 00:28:09,078
It was not designed,
first of all,
531
00:28:09,252 --> 00:28:10,514
certainly for Jews,
532
00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:12,212
but also to realize that you
533
00:28:12,386 --> 00:28:13,430
can be vulnerable on campus
534
00:28:13,604 --> 00:28:15,128
for lots and lots of reasons,
535
00:28:15,302 --> 00:28:17,521
not only for reasons
of your race.
536
00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:18,914
SCOTT GALLOWAY:
DEI, like a lot of things,
537
00:28:19,088 --> 00:28:21,482
it started off
with the right intentions
538
00:28:21,656 --> 00:28:23,527
and we've made
tremendous progress,
539
00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:25,399
and that's something
we should celebrate.
540
00:28:25,573 --> 00:28:28,402
The issue is that
we've created this orthodoxy
541
00:28:28,576 --> 00:28:30,230
that's unhealthy,
where we've decided
542
00:28:30,404 --> 00:28:31,710
there are oppressors
and oppressed.
543
00:28:31,884 --> 00:28:33,233
There's not a lot
of nuance here.
544
00:28:33,407 --> 00:28:35,539
We stand here on
the side of Palestine
545
00:28:35,714 --> 00:28:37,977
because that is the side
of the oppressed.
546
00:28:38,151 --> 00:28:40,588
The fastest way to identify
an oppressor is basically
547
00:28:40,762 --> 00:28:44,287
kind of pale and male
and wealth.
548
00:28:44,984 --> 00:28:46,637
People have assigned
this kind of white,
549
00:28:46,812 --> 00:28:50,990
rich oppressiveness to Jews
and Israel.
550
00:28:51,164 --> 00:28:54,471
And this got so kind of overdone
551
00:28:54,645 --> 00:28:57,213
that I think the snake
started eating its own tail
552
00:28:57,387 --> 00:29:00,869
and you've ended up
with racism itself.
553
00:29:01,565 --> 00:29:03,393
SENOR:
If your lens is just on Israel
554
00:29:03,567 --> 00:29:04,743
versus the Palestinians,
555
00:29:04,917 --> 00:29:06,309
Israel is stronger.
556
00:29:06,483 --> 00:29:08,616
So there's your David
and Goliath.
557
00:29:08,790 --> 00:29:10,749
Now, of course,
558
00:29:10,923 --> 00:29:12,663
if you lift the lens
a little bit,
559
00:29:12,838 --> 00:29:15,710
you realize that the story's
more complicated than that.
560
00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:21,368
So you have Hamas,
which is not just a group
561
00:29:21,542 --> 00:29:24,850
of poor Palestinians that have
been oppressed by Israel,
562
00:29:25,024 --> 00:29:28,984
but it is also a military,
which is well-trained
563
00:29:29,158 --> 00:29:31,813
and well-armed by Iran.
564
00:29:31,987 --> 00:29:35,469
And Iran is committed to
Israel's destruction.
565
00:29:44,565 --> 00:29:46,436
Iran is also arming
566
00:29:46,610 --> 00:29:50,353
and training another proxy army
in Israel's north, Hezbollah.
567
00:29:50,527 --> 00:29:52,965
And as we're learning about
these other organizations
568
00:29:53,139 --> 00:29:55,489
like the Houthis and Syria,
569
00:29:55,663 --> 00:29:57,056
which is on Israel's border,
570
00:29:57,230 --> 00:29:59,667
and you start to say,
"Wait a minute,
571
00:29:59,841 --> 00:30:02,061
suddenly who's the David
and who's the Goliath?"
572
00:30:02,235 --> 00:30:04,063
Ethnic cleansing no more!
573
00:30:04,237 --> 00:30:05,673
VIDINO:
We can go back 30 years
574
00:30:05,847 --> 00:30:08,545
and we have seen
these sort of protests,
575
00:30:08,719 --> 00:30:14,029
but they've historically been
confined to small milieus.
576
00:30:14,943 --> 00:30:16,815
It had gotten more brazen
and larger over the years,
577
00:30:16,989 --> 00:30:19,469
but all of a sudden
it really became big.
578
00:30:19,643 --> 00:30:22,298
PROTESTERS:
We demand liberation!
579
00:30:22,472 --> 00:30:24,039
VIDINO:
There has been a growing ability
580
00:30:24,213 --> 00:30:28,130
of that small group
of Hamas sympathizers
581
00:30:28,304 --> 00:30:32,395
and pro-Palestinian advocates
to create synergies
582
00:30:32,569 --> 00:30:35,616
and alliances
with fellow travelers.
583
00:30:37,792 --> 00:30:39,794
FAY: Students for Justice
in Palestine have,
584
00:30:39,968 --> 00:30:42,666
in my view,
manipulated and come
585
00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:46,235
to capitalize on
the very real grievances
586
00:30:46,409 --> 00:30:48,585
of our Black community,
587
00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:51,023
our Indigenous community,
588
00:30:51,197 --> 00:30:53,503
our queer community,
589
00:30:53,677 --> 00:30:56,028
and the rights of other
marginalized identities.
590
00:30:56,202 --> 00:30:58,552
DEMONSTRATORS:
Free, free, free Palestine!
591
00:30:58,726 --> 00:31:00,554
FAY: SJP is showing
our Barnard students
592
00:31:00,728 --> 00:31:02,817
that if you join this movement,
593
00:31:02,991 --> 00:31:04,732
then you're
behaving righteously.
594
00:31:04,906 --> 00:31:06,647
You're doing the correct thing.
595
00:31:11,086 --> 00:31:13,915
ROMIROWSKY: The Palestinian
narrative through the narrative
596
00:31:14,089 --> 00:31:17,092
of intersectionality has
597
00:31:17,266 --> 00:31:20,139
hijacked every underdog cause
in the world.
598
00:31:27,189 --> 00:31:31,628
If you are perceived to be
yourself as an oppressed group,
599
00:31:31,802 --> 00:31:33,587
you also have to support
the Palestinian cause
600
00:31:33,761 --> 00:31:36,111
because they
are the gold standard
601
00:31:36,285 --> 00:31:39,680
of oppression within the pyramid
of oppressed groups.
602
00:31:41,508 --> 00:31:43,684
VIDINO: So when you put
all these elements together,
603
00:31:43,858 --> 00:31:45,425
you have the perfect storm
604
00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:47,079
because you have the ability
605
00:31:47,253 --> 00:31:51,344
of that pro-Hamas,
pro-resistance crowd
606
00:31:51,518 --> 00:31:55,478
to repackage the Hamas narrative
607
00:31:55,652 --> 00:31:58,090
and mobilize the allies
they have made over time.
608
00:31:58,264 --> 00:32:01,658
It was fringe ten, 15 years ago.
609
00:32:01,832 --> 00:32:03,922
It's quite mainstream
610
00:32:04,096 --> 00:32:06,750
at least on college campuses
these days.
611
00:32:07,751 --> 00:32:09,884
ROMIROWSKY: Even though
they're coming from the right
612
00:32:10,058 --> 00:32:12,582
and the left,
all of these groups are willing
613
00:32:12,756 --> 00:32:15,890
to put aside their differences
614
00:32:16,064 --> 00:32:20,329
and they're willing to converge
because of their hatred
615
00:32:20,503 --> 00:32:22,766
and trying to turn the West
on its head.
616
00:32:22,941 --> 00:32:24,943
This is Hamas in America.
617
00:32:25,117 --> 00:32:27,162
♪ ♪
618
00:32:36,693 --> 00:32:38,391
MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF:
Not many people
619
00:32:38,565 --> 00:32:40,915
know Hamas as I know Hamas.
620
00:32:41,089 --> 00:32:43,309
My father,
621
00:32:43,483 --> 00:32:47,661
he was a big shot and he's
still a big shot in Hamas.
622
00:32:47,835 --> 00:32:50,707
REPORTER: For ten years, Mosab
worked undercover for Israel.
623
00:32:50,881 --> 00:32:53,536
Israel's internal
security service,
624
00:32:53,710 --> 00:32:55,756
the Shin Bet, considered him
its most valuable source
625
00:32:55,930 --> 00:32:58,367
within the Hamas
leadership.
626
00:32:58,541 --> 00:33:00,065
YOUSEF: For many years,
when people ask me
627
00:33:00,239 --> 00:33:03,024
about the Middle East,
I did not talk about it
628
00:33:03,198 --> 00:33:04,939
because I thought
I was done with it.
629
00:33:05,113 --> 00:33:08,029
But when October 7th happened,
I had no choice
630
00:33:08,203 --> 00:33:11,337
but to take
my moral responsibility.
631
00:33:11,511 --> 00:33:13,513
[indistinct shouting]
632
00:33:13,687 --> 00:33:17,996
Hamas' ultimate goal is
to establish an Islamic state.
633
00:33:18,170 --> 00:33:20,520
Their fight is not over
territory.
634
00:33:35,622 --> 00:33:40,583
They thought by jumping on
the Palestinian cause,
635
00:33:40,757 --> 00:33:44,848
it's an effective way
to fan the flame
636
00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:48,504
of nationalism, in order to get
637
00:33:48,678 --> 00:33:52,378
to their religious agendas.
638
00:33:53,118 --> 00:33:57,122
If Israel does not
defeat Hamas in Gaza,
639
00:33:57,296 --> 00:34:02,127
Hamas will prove to all other
Islamists around the world
640
00:34:02,301 --> 00:34:07,175
that it was possible to bring
a democracy on its knees.
641
00:34:07,349 --> 00:34:11,832
And any Hamas win
will not be only a threat
642
00:34:12,006 --> 00:34:14,313
to the state of Israel
and to the Jewish people.
643
00:34:14,487 --> 00:34:19,927
It will be a threat against
all civilized people
644
00:34:20,101 --> 00:34:24,888
who want to live in harmony,
who believe in tolerance,
645
00:34:25,063 --> 00:34:28,849
who believe in peaceful dialogue
646
00:34:29,023 --> 00:34:32,809
with their neighbors,
who believe in diversity.
647
00:34:32,983 --> 00:34:36,291
And Hamas is anti all that.
648
00:34:43,385 --> 00:34:46,084
Since October 7th, all this mob,
649
00:34:46,258 --> 00:34:48,869
the angry people you saw
on the streets,
650
00:34:49,043 --> 00:34:51,524
they want to globalize
the intifada.
651
00:34:55,571 --> 00:35:01,011
Globalizing intifada
means global disorder.
652
00:35:01,186 --> 00:35:04,406
People define it as uprise,
but it is not.
653
00:35:04,580 --> 00:35:08,149
My definition of intifada
is chaos.
654
00:35:08,323 --> 00:35:09,672
[cheering]
655
00:35:09,846 --> 00:35:11,805
People here in the West,
656
00:35:11,979 --> 00:35:13,415
what they don't understand
657
00:35:13,589 --> 00:35:16,897
that shortly after adapting
658
00:35:17,071 --> 00:35:18,986
the concept of intifada...
659
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,554
ALL:
Globalize the intifada!
660
00:35:21,728 --> 00:35:22,859
...violence will follow.
661
00:35:25,297 --> 00:35:27,081
Killing,
662
00:35:27,255 --> 00:35:28,691
mass shooting,
663
00:35:28,865 --> 00:35:31,085
bus derailing,
664
00:35:31,259 --> 00:35:32,521
suicide bombings.
665
00:35:33,870 --> 00:35:36,177
It's anti-civilization.
666
00:35:36,351 --> 00:35:39,615
So, to bring intifada
to the United States?
667
00:35:39,789 --> 00:35:42,575
Intifada contradicts
with the American Constitution.
668
00:35:42,749 --> 00:35:48,885
Intifada contradicts with all
the values of the free world.
669
00:35:54,674 --> 00:35:57,677
SENOR: Less than two weeks
after October 7th,
670
00:35:57,851 --> 00:35:59,983
The New York Times
posts an article saying
671
00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:01,898
this hospital's been bombed.
672
00:36:02,072 --> 00:36:03,639
Within minutes of it,
quote, unquote, "being bombed,"
673
00:36:03,813 --> 00:36:05,989
they already know
how many casualties there were.
674
00:36:06,164 --> 00:36:08,862
Buried in the piece was, to me,
675
00:36:09,036 --> 00:36:10,951
the most revealing part
of the article.
676
00:36:11,125 --> 00:36:14,259
The IDF does not believe
it was responsible,
677
00:36:14,433 --> 00:36:16,957
but is looking into it
to get to the bottom of it.
678
00:36:17,131 --> 00:36:19,046
And The New York Times said,
"Sorry,
679
00:36:19,220 --> 00:36:20,874
"we don't have time
for you to get back to us.
680
00:36:21,048 --> 00:36:22,919
We'll take the Hamas version."
681
00:36:23,093 --> 00:36:25,270
And then boom, it goes out
to The New York Times--
682
00:36:25,444 --> 00:36:26,880
seven, eight million
subscribers,
683
00:36:27,054 --> 00:36:28,925
notifications
on everyone's phone.
684
00:36:33,495 --> 00:36:35,105
Intelligence from few sources
685
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,239
that we have in our hands
indicates
686
00:36:38,413 --> 00:36:40,720
that the Islamic Jihad
is responsible
687
00:36:40,894 --> 00:36:42,548
for the failed rocket launch,
688
00:36:42,722 --> 00:36:44,724
which hit the hospital in Gaza.
689
00:36:44,898 --> 00:36:48,162
Soon after, the IDF
and the State Department
690
00:36:48,336 --> 00:36:50,556
and other news organizations
started to put together
691
00:36:50,730 --> 00:36:52,514
that it wasn't Israel.
692
00:36:52,688 --> 00:36:55,300
I need to show you what
The New York Times just did.
693
00:36:55,474 --> 00:36:57,606
They updated their headline
three times.
694
00:36:57,780 --> 00:36:59,304
The first headline says,
695
00:36:59,478 --> 00:37:01,262
"Israeli Strike
Kills Hundreds in Hospital."
696
00:37:01,436 --> 00:37:03,090
The next headline says,
697
00:37:03,264 --> 00:37:06,659
"At Least 500 Dead in Strike
on Gaza Hospital."
698
00:37:06,833 --> 00:37:10,489
The third one says,
"At Least 500 Dead in Blast."
699
00:37:10,663 --> 00:37:11,577
When it's Hamas--
700
00:37:11,751 --> 00:37:12,752
they realize it's Hamas--
701
00:37:12,926 --> 00:37:13,796
it's no longer a strike,
702
00:37:13,970 --> 00:37:15,668
it's just a blast.
703
00:37:15,842 --> 00:37:17,191
We're learning more today
704
00:37:17,365 --> 00:37:19,324
about that explosion
at a Gaza city hospital.
705
00:37:19,498 --> 00:37:21,630
REPORTER:
Israel released what it says is
706
00:37:21,804 --> 00:37:25,155
an intercepted conversation
between two militants.
707
00:37:26,679 --> 00:37:28,202
"It's from us?" asks one.
708
00:37:28,376 --> 00:37:30,900
"It looks like it,"
replies the other.
709
00:37:31,074 --> 00:37:32,815
SENOR:
After The New York Times
710
00:37:32,989 --> 00:37:35,557
jumped the gun,
they said they were wrong,
711
00:37:35,731 --> 00:37:37,516
but it was too late.
712
00:37:37,690 --> 00:37:41,041
God knows how many TikTok videos
were created
713
00:37:41,215 --> 00:37:43,086
and circulating
off that headline.
714
00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:45,132
And there we go.
715
00:37:45,306 --> 00:37:47,177
RASHIDA TLAIB:
To bomb a hospital...
716
00:37:48,396 --> 00:37:50,833
...where children...
717
00:37:51,007 --> 00:37:54,402
HEN MAZZIG: People don't
really notice the correction.
718
00:37:54,576 --> 00:37:56,404
They hear some headline that
719
00:37:56,578 --> 00:37:59,189
triggers this
emotional response.
720
00:37:59,364 --> 00:38:01,322
Protests erupted
around the world,
721
00:38:01,496 --> 00:38:03,672
calling to kill the Jews,
attack the Jews.
722
00:38:06,371 --> 00:38:09,069
MAZZIG: One of the most
important symbols for my family
723
00:38:09,243 --> 00:38:11,767
in Tunisia,
the oldest Jewish synagogue,
724
00:38:11,941 --> 00:38:14,030
was burned to the ground.
725
00:38:16,729 --> 00:38:18,383
Wasn't just the media
that ran with the story.
726
00:38:18,557 --> 00:38:19,732
Leading NGOs--
727
00:38:19,906 --> 00:38:22,865
Human Rights Watch,
728
00:38:23,039 --> 00:38:25,694
Amnesty International,
729
00:38:25,868 --> 00:38:28,436
the Red Cross
on their Twitter account,
730
00:38:28,610 --> 00:38:30,264
the World Health Organization--
731
00:38:30,438 --> 00:38:34,355
all of them were pushing out
the false story.
732
00:38:34,529 --> 00:38:37,706
So the demonization of Israel
is not only being put out
733
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,796
by governments that have
their own self-interests,
734
00:38:40,970 --> 00:38:42,755
but human rights groups,
735
00:38:42,929 --> 00:38:45,105
which should have
no particular interest--
736
00:38:45,279 --> 00:38:47,499
they're acting by ideology.
737
00:38:48,413 --> 00:38:50,110
DANIELLE HAAS:
Human Rights Watch has become,
738
00:38:50,284 --> 00:38:52,155
in recent years,
739
00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:55,028
one of the world's major
human rights organizations,
740
00:38:55,202 --> 00:38:57,857
both in size and influence.
741
00:38:58,553 --> 00:39:00,860
As the senior editor,
I oversaw the production
742
00:39:01,034 --> 00:39:03,079
of the World Report, which was
743
00:39:03,253 --> 00:39:05,212
annual review
of human rights abuses
744
00:39:05,386 --> 00:39:07,693
in more than 100 countries
around the world.
745
00:39:08,868 --> 00:39:10,652
On October the 7th,
746
00:39:10,826 --> 00:39:13,438
I was the only Jewish
747
00:39:13,612 --> 00:39:17,833
Israeli staff member in
the 600-plus-strong organization
748
00:39:18,007 --> 00:39:20,575
who actually lived in Israel.
749
00:39:20,749 --> 00:39:25,493
The first public response by
the organization was a tweet.
750
00:39:25,667 --> 00:39:29,192
It was not unequivocal
condemnation
751
00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:31,760
of the massacre
that had just happened.
752
00:39:31,934 --> 00:39:34,937
It was wrapped up with
the language of apartheid
753
00:39:35,111 --> 00:39:36,809
and oppression.
754
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,421
[notification chimes]
755
00:39:40,595 --> 00:39:43,598
It was my first indication
that something was kind of awry
756
00:39:43,772 --> 00:39:45,557
of not only my organization,
757
00:39:45,731 --> 00:39:47,385
but rather many organizations.
758
00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:49,430
Failing to call a spade a spade,
759
00:39:49,604 --> 00:39:52,868
calling a massacre
a "military offensive"
760
00:39:53,042 --> 00:39:55,218
or an "escalation in violence."
761
00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:57,525
I think what really tipped me
over the edge
762
00:39:57,699 --> 00:40:00,223
was this meeting
on October the 23rd.
763
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:02,922
There was a great deal
of space given
764
00:40:03,096 --> 00:40:05,620
to what was going on in Gaza.
765
00:40:05,794 --> 00:40:09,711
And not one mention was made
of a Jewish Israeli victim
766
00:40:09,885 --> 00:40:12,627
or a hostage.
767
00:40:12,801 --> 00:40:14,803
It felt sinister.
768
00:40:16,762 --> 00:40:20,374
I had a very strong visceral,
physical reaction
769
00:40:20,548 --> 00:40:23,508
after that meeting.
I was in a public space.
770
00:40:23,682 --> 00:40:27,207
I shut my computer
and I-I-I went hysterical.
771
00:40:27,381 --> 00:40:30,602
I just, I-I just,
I just kneeled by a wall
772
00:40:30,776 --> 00:40:35,433
and I-I was really, I don't--
I was really upset
773
00:40:35,607 --> 00:40:38,087
because it just seemed
like something
774
00:40:38,261 --> 00:40:41,613
profoundly wrong had engulfed
the organization.
775
00:40:41,787 --> 00:40:44,224
♪ ♪
776
00:40:44,398 --> 00:40:47,314
I was there
for 13 and a half years,
777
00:40:47,488 --> 00:40:50,056
and when I left
Human Rights Watch,
778
00:40:50,230 --> 00:40:53,886
I wrote an internal email
laying out what I thought
779
00:40:54,060 --> 00:40:58,194
was so problematic about
its Israel/Palestine work.
780
00:40:58,368 --> 00:41:02,808
They have had a conscious
strategy to establish
781
00:41:02,982 --> 00:41:06,899
in the public mind that Israel
is an apartheid state.
782
00:41:07,073 --> 00:41:08,422
We're here precisely because
783
00:41:08,596 --> 00:41:12,470
of years of impunity
for grave abuses,
784
00:41:12,644 --> 00:41:14,254
including Israel's apartheid
against Palestinians.
785
00:41:14,428 --> 00:41:16,169
HAAS:
There were individuals
786
00:41:16,343 --> 00:41:18,606
that were slowly beginning
to absorb others
787
00:41:18,780 --> 00:41:22,523
into really seeing Israel
as some sort of exceptional
788
00:41:22,697 --> 00:41:25,657
demonic country
amongst all others.
789
00:41:25,831 --> 00:41:29,051
It flattened all complexities
about Israel.
790
00:41:29,225 --> 00:41:32,054
These organizations
are now conflated,
791
00:41:32,228 --> 00:41:33,273
by virtue of
their moral message,
792
00:41:33,447 --> 00:41:36,189
with being moral themselves.
793
00:41:36,885 --> 00:41:39,540
And I think
conscientious people think
794
00:41:39,714 --> 00:41:42,369
we are getting this
from a reputable source.
795
00:41:42,543 --> 00:41:45,328
If a human rights organization
is saying it,
796
00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:47,069
it must be true.
797
00:41:47,243 --> 00:41:51,247
And that's an incredibly
dangerous assumption to make.
798
00:41:51,421 --> 00:41:54,120
♪ ♪
799
00:42:01,606 --> 00:42:03,172
MESSING:
We went to Times Square
800
00:42:03,346 --> 00:42:07,089
and we hung posters
of all the hostages.
801
00:42:20,146 --> 00:42:23,889
People stayed away,
but they were taking it in.
802
00:42:24,063 --> 00:42:25,978
And I thought, "Good...
803
00:42:27,153 --> 00:42:29,068
"...just take it in,
804
00:42:29,242 --> 00:42:31,244
just do not
forget the hostages."
805
00:42:33,028 --> 00:42:34,464
Children, it's innocent people.
806
00:42:34,639 --> 00:42:37,076
Okay, what about the children
in Palestine?
807
00:42:37,250 --> 00:42:38,556
They're not innocent civilians
808
00:42:38,730 --> 00:42:40,296
if they're profiting
from the genocide.
809
00:42:40,470 --> 00:42:41,907
You just ripped off a kid.
810
00:42:42,081 --> 00:42:43,430
I thought you said
the kids are-are innocent.
811
00:42:43,604 --> 00:42:45,693
SENOR: The infamous image
of the posters
812
00:42:45,867 --> 00:42:49,131
of the hostages
being torn down was, to me,
813
00:42:49,305 --> 00:42:51,612
one of the most powerful
events to happen so soon
814
00:42:51,786 --> 00:42:53,440
after October 7th.
815
00:42:53,614 --> 00:42:56,661
And that's when I started
to say, "Wait a minute.
816
00:42:56,835 --> 00:42:59,228
Something is really wrong here."
817
00:42:59,402 --> 00:43:00,839
You're taking
the kidnapped posters down.
818
00:43:01,013 --> 00:43:02,928
'Cause fuck Israel. That's why.
819
00:43:05,278 --> 00:43:06,671
MESSING: Please stop
ripping our posters down.
820
00:43:06,845 --> 00:43:08,586
These are innocent civilians
in Israel.
821
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,413
[bleep] you and Israel.
822
00:43:10,588 --> 00:43:12,111
MESSING:
There was so much happening,
823
00:43:12,285 --> 00:43:14,504
all of these horrendous
narratives,
824
00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:18,508
that the hostages were being
completely forgotten.
825
00:43:22,121 --> 00:43:23,775
We sent out a letter,
826
00:43:23,949 --> 00:43:25,167
a plea
827
00:43:25,341 --> 00:43:26,691
to our government
828
00:43:26,865 --> 00:43:28,170
and all governments
around the world
829
00:43:28,344 --> 00:43:30,216
to prioritize
830
00:43:30,390 --> 00:43:33,349
getting the hostages back.
831
00:43:36,483 --> 00:43:39,355
And people wouldn't sign it.
832
00:43:40,052 --> 00:43:45,013
I thought that there would be
an army of activists
833
00:43:45,187 --> 00:43:48,800
and celebrities
who would be out,
834
00:43:48,974 --> 00:43:52,847
and I felt completely
835
00:43:53,021 --> 00:43:56,372
betrayed by Hollywood.
836
00:43:56,546 --> 00:43:59,506
The hostages must come home.
837
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,639
Free every single one of them.
838
00:44:01,813 --> 00:44:04,424
I spoke at the rally
in Washington, D.C.,
839
00:44:04,598 --> 00:44:07,688
and I was so humbly appreciative
840
00:44:07,862 --> 00:44:10,299
with the response
of the way I spoke.
841
00:44:10,473 --> 00:44:12,475
And I appreciate you guys.
Thank you.
842
00:44:12,650 --> 00:44:15,087
I know where I am
on the pecking order.
843
00:44:15,261 --> 00:44:19,482
There's so many other bigger
names, bigger celebrities,
844
00:44:19,657 --> 00:44:21,484
the fact that I,
845
00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:25,793
Michael Rapaport,
was the big Hollywood name
846
00:44:25,967 --> 00:44:27,186
outside from the great
847
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:28,622
Debra Messing,
848
00:44:28,796 --> 00:44:30,798
it's some real fucking
849
00:44:30,972 --> 00:44:33,453
disappointing fucking shit.
850
00:44:35,063 --> 00:44:37,413
Hollywood celebrities
851
00:44:37,587 --> 00:44:39,720
speak out about
so many different things.
852
00:44:39,894 --> 00:44:44,682
If it isn't the planet,
Black Lives Matter, Ukraine,
853
00:44:44,856 --> 00:44:47,728
LGBTQ, trans community,
854
00:44:47,902 --> 00:44:50,513
inclusion, diversity.
855
00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:52,994
But if you're gonna say things
about trees being cut down
856
00:44:53,168 --> 00:44:55,431
and penguins dying,
857
00:44:55,605 --> 00:44:57,303
you should be ashamed
of yourself not saying anything
858
00:44:57,477 --> 00:44:59,392
about the fact
that there's hostages.
859
00:44:59,566 --> 00:45:01,133
Just that.
860
00:45:02,917 --> 00:45:05,703
MURRAY: About ten years ago,
I covered the conflict
861
00:45:05,877 --> 00:45:09,097
in northern Nigeria,
which is where,
862
00:45:09,271 --> 00:45:12,318
famously, the Chibok
schoolgirls were abducted
863
00:45:12,492 --> 00:45:15,016
by Boko Haram,
an Islamist group very,
864
00:45:15,190 --> 00:45:17,584
very similar to Hamas.
865
00:45:17,758 --> 00:45:20,892
There was a huge campaign
internationally,
866
00:45:21,066 --> 00:45:22,676
"Bring Back Our Girls."
867
00:45:26,549 --> 00:45:28,682
♪ ♪
868
00:45:28,856 --> 00:45:33,426
When Israeli children
were abducted,
869
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,994
silence from the world.
870
00:45:36,864 --> 00:45:39,911
I know that many of my peers
faced with so much hatred
871
00:45:40,085 --> 00:45:43,741
and anti-Semitism on campus
are feeling helpless
872
00:45:43,915 --> 00:45:45,960
and hopeless.
873
00:45:46,134 --> 00:45:49,877
As I started speaking out,
Barnard students were
874
00:45:50,051 --> 00:45:52,924
calling me names and saying
that I-I support terrorism
875
00:45:53,098 --> 00:45:55,753
and that I support genocide
because I'm a Zionist
876
00:45:55,927 --> 00:45:58,103
and that my residents are afraid
877
00:45:58,277 --> 00:46:00,235
to have a Zionist RA
on their floor
878
00:46:00,409 --> 00:46:02,324
and they don't feel safe.
879
00:46:02,498 --> 00:46:03,935
Students started harassing me
880
00:46:04,109 --> 00:46:05,414
in the middle of the night,
881
00:46:05,588 --> 00:46:08,069
banging on my door.
882
00:46:08,243 --> 00:46:12,595
I felt a sense of isolation.
Honestly,
883
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:16,774
I-I really, I did fall
into a very deep depression.
884
00:46:16,948 --> 00:46:19,298
No one expected
the United States
885
00:46:19,472 --> 00:46:22,649
to enter into a ceasefire
with the Empire of Japan
886
00:46:22,823 --> 00:46:25,217
when 2,400 Americans
were murdered in Pearl Harbor.
887
00:46:25,391 --> 00:46:27,045
[crowd cheering]
888
00:46:27,219 --> 00:46:31,092
No one expected the United
States to enter into a ceasefire
889
00:46:31,266 --> 00:46:34,269
with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban
when 3,000 Americans
890
00:46:34,443 --> 00:46:36,402
were murdered on 9/11.
891
00:46:36,576 --> 00:46:39,448
And so, those who insist
892
00:46:39,622 --> 00:46:43,017
that Israel should
no longer defend itself
893
00:46:43,191 --> 00:46:45,628
are holding the Jewish state
to a dangerous double standard
894
00:46:45,803 --> 00:46:47,500
that no other country,
895
00:46:47,674 --> 00:46:50,242
including the United States,
would ever impose on itself.
896
00:46:50,416 --> 00:46:52,592
[crowd cheers]
897
00:46:52,766 --> 00:46:54,507
TORRES:
I'm commonly asked
898
00:46:54,681 --> 00:46:57,336
why would a gay Black Latino
899
00:46:57,510 --> 00:46:59,207
from the South Bronx speak out
900
00:46:59,381 --> 00:47:01,427
so forcefully
against anti-Semitism?
901
00:47:01,601 --> 00:47:05,257
The right question is,
why have others chosen silence
902
00:47:05,431 --> 00:47:07,041
amid the deadliest
day for Jews
903
00:47:07,215 --> 00:47:08,477
since the Holocaust?
904
00:47:08,651 --> 00:47:11,002
Dr. King once said
905
00:47:11,176 --> 00:47:14,483
that the greatest tragedy is
not only the striding clamor
906
00:47:14,657 --> 00:47:16,224
of the bad people,
907
00:47:16,398 --> 00:47:18,836
but it's the appalling
silence of the good people.
908
00:47:19,010 --> 00:47:22,361
And what we've seen
after October 7th
909
00:47:22,535 --> 00:47:25,320
is widespread silence
and indifference
910
00:47:25,494 --> 00:47:28,889
and cowardice from so-called
leaders in our society,
911
00:47:29,063 --> 00:47:31,457
from college and university
presidents and deans,
912
00:47:31,631 --> 00:47:33,459
from self-proclaimed
progressives
913
00:47:33,633 --> 00:47:35,374
and human rights activists.
914
00:47:35,548 --> 00:47:36,984
[notification chimes]
915
00:47:37,158 --> 00:47:40,031
When I express
an opinion on Twitter
916
00:47:40,205 --> 00:47:42,337
that Israel has a right
to exist as a Jewish state
917
00:47:42,511 --> 00:47:44,731
and to be a sanctuary
for the Jewish people,
918
00:47:44,905 --> 00:47:47,865
what often follows
is an endless stream
919
00:47:48,039 --> 00:47:52,739
of anti-Semitic,
homophobic, racist hate.
920
00:47:54,567 --> 00:47:57,918
There's no issue on which
I face more harassment
921
00:47:58,092 --> 00:48:01,008
and death threats than
on the subject of Israel.
922
00:48:01,182 --> 00:48:02,967
It's terrifying.
923
00:48:03,141 --> 00:48:05,665
Social media enables
924
00:48:05,839 --> 00:48:09,495
the virus of anti-Semitism
to spread on a scale
925
00:48:09,669 --> 00:48:13,803
and at a pace and to an extent
that we've never seen before.
926
00:48:13,978 --> 00:48:15,544
♪ ♪
927
00:48:15,718 --> 00:48:17,285
[notification chimes]
928
00:48:20,767 --> 00:48:22,551
SEGAL: For over 20 years,
I've been tracking
929
00:48:22,725 --> 00:48:25,903
extremist movements across
the ideological spectrum.
930
00:48:26,077 --> 00:48:29,080
I remember in the first
three weeks after October 7th,
931
00:48:29,254 --> 00:48:30,908
in the online spaces
932
00:48:31,082 --> 00:48:34,389
that we monitor for...
for just threats against Jews,
933
00:48:34,563 --> 00:48:36,783
we saw a 400% increase.
934
00:48:37,479 --> 00:48:42,136
MICHAEL MASTERS: Fantasies
of violence, rape fantasies,
935
00:48:42,310 --> 00:48:44,704
mutilation fantasies,
936
00:48:44,878 --> 00:48:46,924
statements of, "I'm gonna go
937
00:48:47,098 --> 00:48:48,664
"into a synagogue
938
00:48:48,838 --> 00:48:52,016
and blow off the heads of
as many Jews as I can find."
939
00:48:52,190 --> 00:48:56,063
That level of visualization
of violence
940
00:48:56,237 --> 00:48:58,196
we've now seen
become much more common
941
00:48:58,370 --> 00:49:00,720
and normalized.
942
00:49:01,416 --> 00:49:04,158
SEGAL: When Jews die,
a lot of people get excited.
943
00:49:04,332 --> 00:49:07,727
That is not uncommon
on social media platforms.
944
00:49:07,901 --> 00:49:10,034
But then we started seeing
945
00:49:10,208 --> 00:49:12,906
how certain online platforms
946
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,561
were creating almost
like a connective
947
00:49:15,735 --> 00:49:19,130
online space for "activists"
948
00:49:19,304 --> 00:49:21,393
and terrorists.
949
00:49:21,567 --> 00:49:23,525
Not only is there
calls for events
950
00:49:23,699 --> 00:49:27,051
by American
anti-Israel activists,
951
00:49:27,225 --> 00:49:32,012
but, like, Hamas communiques
and other terrorist propaganda.
952
00:49:32,186 --> 00:49:35,363
[singing "Hezbollah
Hezbollah Hezbollah"]
953
00:49:35,537 --> 00:49:38,192
I mean, it's mixing it all up
954
00:49:38,366 --> 00:49:41,065
so that people don't even
recognize what is extremist
955
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:42,631
and anti-Semitic anymore,
956
00:49:42,805 --> 00:49:45,721
'cause it's all existing
in the same space.
957
00:49:47,201 --> 00:49:49,769
I mean, let's just face it,
the imagery
958
00:49:49,943 --> 00:49:52,380
and the language of revolution
and of change
959
00:49:52,554 --> 00:49:56,602
that they're putting into
their pro-terror narratives,
960
00:49:56,776 --> 00:49:59,605
it creates something that is
intriguing to people.
961
00:50:01,433 --> 00:50:04,740
It doesn't get more clear
than the immediate embrace
962
00:50:04,914 --> 00:50:08,918
of iconography from that day.
963
00:50:10,398 --> 00:50:12,183
So whether it was paragliders
964
00:50:12,357 --> 00:50:14,924
that were appearing
on event notices
965
00:50:15,099 --> 00:50:17,144
to protest Israel
966
00:50:17,318 --> 00:50:19,581
or red triangles.
967
00:50:21,235 --> 00:50:23,324
A red triangle is used
in Hamas propaganda
968
00:50:23,498 --> 00:50:24,891
to show Israeli targets
969
00:50:25,065 --> 00:50:26,849
before they are killed.
970
00:50:27,024 --> 00:50:28,590
♪ ♪
971
00:50:30,331 --> 00:50:34,640
[explosions]
972
00:50:34,814 --> 00:50:38,992
This red triangle
was "reappropriated"
973
00:50:39,166 --> 00:50:41,777
by pro-Palestinian groups
as a symbol of resistance.
974
00:50:46,956 --> 00:50:48,784
SEGAL:
The use of that red triangle now
975
00:50:48,958 --> 00:50:50,743
is-is almost like a threat.
976
00:50:50,917 --> 00:50:52,701
If somebody is being pro-Israel,
977
00:50:52,875 --> 00:50:54,529
you just reply
with the red triangle
978
00:50:54,703 --> 00:50:56,749
as a substitute
for the funny words
979
00:50:56,923 --> 00:50:59,143
that social media
won't let me say anymore.
980
00:50:59,317 --> 00:51:01,841
SEGAL: It connotes that
this is a legitimate target
981
00:51:02,015 --> 00:51:03,930
for this protest movement
982
00:51:04,104 --> 00:51:05,801
because they are
either perceived to be,
983
00:51:05,975 --> 00:51:08,848
you know, Jewish or Zionists
or pro-Israel.
984
00:51:09,022 --> 00:51:10,893
GALLOWAY: 70% of people
my age support Israel.
985
00:51:11,068 --> 00:51:13,592
And the reality is 20%
of people under the age of 25
986
00:51:13,766 --> 00:51:16,073
support Israel.
987
00:51:16,247 --> 00:51:17,900
We've never seen this sort
of generational divide
988
00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:19,554
on a conflict.
989
00:51:19,728 --> 00:51:20,860
And the question is, well,
why is it happening?
990
00:51:21,034 --> 00:51:22,688
♪ ♪
991
00:51:22,862 --> 00:51:25,778
If you go on TikTok,
for every one video that's
992
00:51:25,952 --> 00:51:29,390
served to young people
that is pro-Israeli,
993
00:51:29,564 --> 00:51:31,610
there's 54 pro-Hamas
994
00:51:31,784 --> 00:51:33,655
and pro-Palestine videos served.
995
00:51:33,829 --> 00:51:35,831
54 to 1.
996
00:51:36,528 --> 00:51:38,356
So you might say, "Well,
Scott, you're being paranoid.
997
00:51:38,530 --> 00:51:40,314
"This is just a function,
a reflection of
998
00:51:40,488 --> 00:51:42,316
how young people feel who've
come to their own conclusions."
999
00:51:42,490 --> 00:51:45,145
It's not.
The ratio is wildly skewed.
1000
00:51:45,319 --> 00:51:48,540
Any thoughtful analysis of
what is going on here
1001
00:51:48,714 --> 00:51:51,412
is basically saying the people
controlling the algorithms
1002
00:51:51,586 --> 00:51:52,935
at TikTok
1003
00:51:53,110 --> 00:51:55,764
have decided it is
in their interests
1004
00:51:55,938 --> 00:51:59,855
to get young people more
pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas.
1005
00:52:04,991 --> 00:52:07,907
MASTERS: Foreign state
and non-state actors
1006
00:52:08,081 --> 00:52:12,216
are trying to influence
and foment hate,
1007
00:52:12,390 --> 00:52:14,392
extremism, anti-Semitism.
1008
00:52:14,566 --> 00:52:17,395
And to include anti-American,
anti-Western,
1009
00:52:17,569 --> 00:52:19,223
anti-U.S. sentiment.
1010
00:52:19,397 --> 00:52:22,443
GALLOWAY: If the Chinese
Communist Party owned Sky,
1011
00:52:22,617 --> 00:52:28,275
the BBC, ABC, NBC, Netflix,
Amazon Prime, Apple TV+,
1012
00:52:28,449 --> 00:52:30,016
would we be okay with that?
1013
00:52:30,190 --> 00:52:33,541
Because they do for people
under the age of 25.
1014
00:52:35,369 --> 00:52:38,198
VEKSLER: People my age
do not read the news.
1015
00:52:38,372 --> 00:52:40,026
They do not read books.
They do not read
1016
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,115
scholarly articles.
They watch short-form content
1017
00:52:42,289 --> 00:52:44,987
on apps like TikTok
and Instagram
1018
00:52:45,162 --> 00:52:47,990
and they take what they see
to be true.
1019
00:52:48,165 --> 00:52:50,863
The fact that we have put
the leading news source
1020
00:52:51,037 --> 00:52:54,432
for the most impressionable
minds in our society,
1021
00:52:54,606 --> 00:52:56,825
in the hands of our leading
foreign adversary...
1022
00:52:56,999 --> 00:52:59,176
Like, historians
will remember that
1023
00:52:59,350 --> 00:53:01,395
as a colossal strategic
miscalculation
1024
00:53:01,569 --> 00:53:03,049
that we will live to regret.
1025
00:53:03,223 --> 00:53:06,313
MASTERS:
Iran, North Korea, China
1026
00:53:06,487 --> 00:53:09,795
and Russia are amongst
the largest
1027
00:53:09,969 --> 00:53:12,145
and perhaps
most dangerous of those
1028
00:53:12,319 --> 00:53:14,103
that are actively engaged
in fomenting misinformation,
1029
00:53:14,278 --> 00:53:15,801
disinformation,
1030
00:53:15,975 --> 00:53:18,195
seeding the world
of the online space
1031
00:53:18,369 --> 00:53:20,327
with deepfakes
1032
00:53:20,501 --> 00:53:24,853
and false narratives in order
to sow division and distrust.
1033
00:53:25,027 --> 00:53:28,814
It impacts the national security
of-of our country
1034
00:53:28,988 --> 00:53:31,077
and the stability
of Western democracy.
1035
00:53:31,251 --> 00:53:33,819
Raise your hands
if you're a Zionist!
1036
00:53:33,993 --> 00:53:35,647
OTHERS: Raise your hands
if you're a Zionist!
1037
00:53:35,821 --> 00:53:38,215
This is your chance to get out.
1038
00:53:38,389 --> 00:53:40,042
REPORTER:
Flags of terror groups
1039
00:53:40,217 --> 00:53:41,827
Hamas and Hezbollah were waved.
1040
00:53:42,001 --> 00:53:44,612
Another saying,
"Long live October 7th."
1041
00:53:44,786 --> 00:53:49,356
Last year we had over
500 incidents reported to us
1042
00:53:49,530 --> 00:53:51,924
that occurred
on college campuses.
1043
00:53:52,098 --> 00:53:56,276
That was a 141% increase
from the year prior.
1044
00:53:56,450 --> 00:53:58,931
62% of those incidents
1045
00:53:59,105 --> 00:54:02,151
occurred in the three months
post October 7th.
1046
00:54:02,326 --> 00:54:07,374
And that pace
has not abated at all.
1047
00:54:08,070 --> 00:54:10,334
SEGAL: What we see online
animates real-world activity
1048
00:54:10,508 --> 00:54:11,900
and both the online space
1049
00:54:12,074 --> 00:54:13,902
and the real-world space
1050
00:54:14,076 --> 00:54:16,470
are so brazen in terms of
1051
00:54:16,644 --> 00:54:19,299
their embrace
of terrorist organizations
1052
00:54:19,473 --> 00:54:22,650
and of denial
of Jewish suffering,
1053
00:54:22,824 --> 00:54:27,220
that my big concern is that
somebody is going to get killed.
1054
00:54:27,394 --> 00:54:28,787
REPORTER:
Violence that turns deadly
1055
00:54:28,961 --> 00:54:30,702
at a pro-Palestinian rally.
1056
00:54:30,876 --> 00:54:32,704
A Jewish man in his 60s
seen here holding the flag
1057
00:54:32,878 --> 00:54:34,967
of Israel one moment,
and the next
1058
00:54:35,141 --> 00:54:37,056
he's down on the ground bleeding
1059
00:54:37,230 --> 00:54:39,232
after being hit in the head
with a megaphone.
1060
00:54:39,406 --> 00:54:41,539
MASTERS:
In the last reporting period,
1061
00:54:41,713 --> 00:54:45,020
over 1,100 religiously motivated
1062
00:54:45,194 --> 00:54:47,066
hate crimes
in the United States
1063
00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:48,850
are directed
against the Jewish community.
1064
00:54:49,024 --> 00:54:52,071
The next highest group
was under 150.
1065
00:54:52,245 --> 00:54:55,117
So there is no question
by the data
1066
00:54:55,292 --> 00:54:58,512
that the Jewish community
is the most targeted group
1067
00:54:58,686 --> 00:55:02,124
in the United States
as a religious minority.
1068
00:55:03,125 --> 00:55:04,910
And we are a minority.
1069
00:55:05,084 --> 00:55:09,436
In the United States, we make up
only 2.4% of the population,
1070
00:55:09,610 --> 00:55:13,962
but we are disproportionately
targeted by hate and violence.
1071
00:55:14,136 --> 00:55:16,835
55% of all religiously
motivated hate crimes
1072
00:55:17,009 --> 00:55:18,706
in the United States
1073
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,231
are directed against
the Jewish community.
1074
00:55:23,929 --> 00:55:26,018
[loud banging on glass]
1075
00:55:27,846 --> 00:55:30,631
PROTESTORS [chanting]:
Free, free, free Palestine.
1076
00:55:30,805 --> 00:55:33,286
[chanting continues]
1077
00:55:33,460 --> 00:55:35,897
GREENBLATT: Jewish students
were barricaded in the library
1078
00:55:36,071 --> 00:55:37,769
because of a mob outside
1079
00:55:37,943 --> 00:55:39,423
that banged on the doors
1080
00:55:39,597 --> 00:55:41,338
and yelled,
"Globalize the intifada."
1081
00:55:41,512 --> 00:55:42,948
[loud banging]
1082
00:55:43,122 --> 00:55:45,472
Freedom of speech
is not the freedom
1083
00:55:45,646 --> 00:55:46,908
to incite violence.
1084
00:55:47,082 --> 00:55:48,780
Over the past
few weeks at Cornell,
1085
00:55:48,954 --> 00:55:51,870
there's been a surge
like never before
1086
00:55:52,044 --> 00:55:54,263
in anti-Semitic acts.
1087
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,266
AMANDA SILBERSTEIN:
At Cornell, a student had posted
1088
00:55:57,441 --> 00:55:59,747
on a message board
called Greekrank
1089
00:55:59,921 --> 00:56:02,794
that he wanted
to attack Jews on campus,
1090
00:56:02,968 --> 00:56:05,405
to shoot up
our kosher dining hall,
1091
00:56:05,579 --> 00:56:09,104
to gang-rape
all Jew pig women on campus,
1092
00:56:09,278 --> 00:56:12,107
to follow Jews home
and slit their throats.
1093
00:56:12,281 --> 00:56:14,022
TALIA DROR:
We received advice
1094
00:56:14,196 --> 00:56:18,026
from police and administration
to stay in our dorms
1095
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:21,029
because of potential
security threats.
1096
00:56:21,203 --> 00:56:22,683
And essentially,
everyone was just locked up
1097
00:56:22,857 --> 00:56:25,947
in their houses that night,
terrified.
1098
00:56:27,035 --> 00:56:28,994
Two friends of mine and I
1099
00:56:29,168 --> 00:56:31,736
published an article in
The New York Times
1100
00:56:31,910 --> 00:56:33,912
entitled "What's Happening
on Campuses Right Now
1101
00:56:34,086 --> 00:56:36,088
Isn't Free Speech."
1102
00:56:36,262 --> 00:56:38,656
We made our way around the news.
1103
00:56:38,830 --> 00:56:40,266
I mean, you had students
1104
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,050
fearing to go
into the kosher dining hall
1105
00:56:42,224 --> 00:56:43,835
'cause they were afraid
they were gonna get shot.
1106
00:56:44,009 --> 00:56:45,576
We spoke on multiple
different shows
1107
00:56:45,750 --> 00:56:48,492
about our personal experiences.
1108
00:56:48,666 --> 00:56:50,145
♪ ♪
1109
00:56:50,319 --> 00:56:52,887
My mother grew up in Iran.
1110
00:56:53,061 --> 00:56:56,630
She used to get slapped
at school for being Jewish.
1111
00:56:56,804 --> 00:57:00,417
My grandfather was stabbed
on a bus one day
1112
00:57:00,591 --> 00:57:03,245
after someone called him
"a dirty Jew."
1113
00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:05,509
I should never have to walk
around campus listening
1114
00:57:05,683 --> 00:57:09,817
to my peers scream that I
and my family should be killed.
1115
00:57:09,991 --> 00:57:11,776
- And that's happening?
- Yes.
1116
00:57:11,950 --> 00:57:13,299
- At Cornell?
- Yes.
1117
00:57:13,473 --> 00:57:14,909
DROR:
My mom always says that
1118
00:57:15,083 --> 00:57:17,521
the hardest thing right now
1119
00:57:17,695 --> 00:57:21,873
is watching me go through
1120
00:57:22,047 --> 00:57:24,441
inherent Jew hatred
1121
00:57:24,615 --> 00:57:27,879
after she abandoned everything
to come to a country
1122
00:57:28,053 --> 00:57:30,621
where she didn't think she would
have to deal with that.
1123
00:57:30,795 --> 00:57:33,841
After all the news appearances,
I was reached out to by someone
1124
00:57:34,015 --> 00:57:37,105
in D.C. calling me to testify.
1125
00:57:37,279 --> 00:57:39,717
Universities
have failed to uphold
1126
00:57:39,891 --> 00:57:43,155
their self-proclaimed
values of equity and belonging
1127
00:57:43,329 --> 00:57:45,592
when it comes
to Jewish students.
1128
00:57:45,766 --> 00:57:48,552
I really wanted to communicate
what it was like
1129
00:57:48,726 --> 00:57:51,250
to be a student
when you're watching
1130
00:57:51,424 --> 00:57:54,035
350 people in front of you
1131
00:57:54,209 --> 00:57:56,516
scream that Jews
should be killed
1132
00:57:56,690 --> 00:57:58,562
for Palestinian liberation.
1133
00:57:58,736 --> 00:58:00,868
This atmosphere is intolerable.
1134
00:58:01,042 --> 00:58:04,306
Jewish students do not believe
that the MIT administration
1135
00:58:04,481 --> 00:58:07,484
has done an adequate job to make
students feel safe on campus.
1136
00:58:07,658 --> 00:58:08,963
MIT is not doing anything
1137
00:58:09,137 --> 00:58:10,312
to make anybody
feel safe on campus
1138
00:58:10,487 --> 00:58:11,879
is the problem.
1139
00:58:12,053 --> 00:58:15,492
And the fact
that they're unwilling to say
1140
00:58:15,666 --> 00:58:18,407
there are ten times
more anti-Semitic incidents
1141
00:58:18,582 --> 00:58:21,759
happening on MIT's campus
than Islamophobic incidents.
1142
00:58:21,933 --> 00:58:25,240
It's not saying that we value
Jewish students more, it's not.
1143
00:58:25,414 --> 00:58:27,025
It's just saying
this is a bigger problem
1144
00:58:27,199 --> 00:58:28,505
that we need to focus on.
1145
00:58:28,679 --> 00:58:30,419
My mother is Jewish
1146
00:58:30,594 --> 00:58:34,380
and my father is an Afghan
Muslim from Afghanistan.
1147
00:58:34,554 --> 00:58:36,338
Obviously,
as the daughter of a Muslim,
1148
00:58:36,513 --> 00:58:39,385
and half of my family is Muslim,
1149
00:58:39,559 --> 00:58:41,822
I totally empathize with people
who are hijabi, for example,
1150
00:58:41,996 --> 00:58:43,476
being scared.
1151
00:58:43,650 --> 00:58:47,959
But it's--
it's not an either-or.
1152
00:58:48,133 --> 00:58:50,265
President Kornbluth,
1153
00:58:50,439 --> 00:58:53,312
please let me go back
to being a scientist.
1154
00:58:53,486 --> 00:58:55,488
Let me go back
to being a student.
1155
00:58:55,662 --> 00:58:57,925
I don't want to have
to keep advocating
1156
00:58:58,099 --> 00:59:00,319
for Jewish student safety
on campus.
1157
00:59:00,493 --> 00:59:02,974
It's not my job. It's your job.
1158
00:59:03,148 --> 00:59:05,803
Please do your job and act now.
1159
00:59:05,977 --> 00:59:09,546
And if you can't, I'm asking
Congress to do it for you.
1160
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,243
Thank you.
1161
00:59:11,417 --> 00:59:12,940
There's no way
we're gonna get any change
1162
00:59:13,114 --> 00:59:16,509
unless people from the top,
you know,
1163
00:59:16,683 --> 00:59:19,338
people from the White House,
people from Capitol Hill,
1164
00:59:19,512 --> 00:59:21,296
bring these
university presidents
1165
00:59:21,470 --> 00:59:23,037
to the principal's office.
1166
00:59:23,211 --> 00:59:26,214
ELISE STEFANIK:
Dr. Kornbluth, at MIT,
1167
00:59:26,388 --> 00:59:28,173
does calling
for the genocide of Jews
1168
00:59:28,347 --> 00:59:31,045
violate MIT's code of conduct
1169
00:59:31,219 --> 00:59:33,744
or rules regarding bullying
and harassment, yes or no?
1170
00:59:33,918 --> 00:59:36,398
I have not heard calling
for the genocide for Jews
1171
00:59:36,573 --> 00:59:38,313
- on our campus.
- But you've heard chants
1172
00:59:38,487 --> 00:59:40,315
for intifada.
1173
00:59:40,489 --> 00:59:43,188
I've heard chants,
which can be anti-Semitic
1174
00:59:43,362 --> 00:59:44,755
depending on the context.
1175
00:59:44,929 --> 00:59:47,584
It is a context-dependent
decision, Congresswoman.
1176
00:59:47,758 --> 00:59:49,194
Depending on the context.
1177
00:59:49,368 --> 00:59:51,109
What's the context?
1178
00:59:51,283 --> 00:59:53,241
- Targeted as-- at an individual.
- It's targeted
1179
00:59:53,415 --> 00:59:56,549
at Jewish students,
Jewish individuals.
1180
00:59:59,334 --> 01:00:01,423
GALLOWAY:
We saw really well-educated,
1181
01:00:01,598 --> 01:00:02,729
highly esteemed,
very intelligent
1182
01:00:02,903 --> 01:00:04,557
university presidents
1183
01:00:04,731 --> 01:00:07,038
unable to condemn
1184
01:00:07,212 --> 01:00:10,563
language that calls
for genocide.
1185
01:00:10,737 --> 01:00:13,000
And in a different setting,
if they'd been asked,
1186
01:00:13,174 --> 01:00:16,961
well, if people started chanting
"Lynch the Blacks,"
1187
01:00:17,135 --> 01:00:20,051
they would have had no problem
finding the words to say,
1188
01:00:20,225 --> 01:00:21,661
"This is unacceptable."
1189
01:00:21,835 --> 01:00:24,098
It just would've been
unacceptable, full stop.
1190
01:00:24,272 --> 01:00:27,058
It wouldn't have been
context-dependent.
1191
01:00:27,232 --> 01:00:30,931
So we've gotten to a point
where the hard-fought victories
1192
01:00:31,105 --> 01:00:34,805
against racism, against bigotry,
against persecution
1193
01:00:34,979 --> 01:00:38,243
don't apply to this small group
of people.
1194
01:00:39,679 --> 01:00:41,159
DAVIDAI:
We see these videos
1195
01:00:41,333 --> 01:00:42,856
of book burnings in Germany
1196
01:00:43,030 --> 01:00:45,250
and we're shocked by that.
1197
01:00:45,424 --> 01:00:46,860
Where did those books come from?
1198
01:00:47,034 --> 01:00:49,428
They came
from university libraries.
1199
01:00:49,602 --> 01:00:52,431
Who brought those books out
from the library?
1200
01:00:52,605 --> 01:00:55,042
Student organizations.
Who looked the other way?
1201
01:00:55,216 --> 01:00:58,089
The administration
and the presidents.
1202
01:00:58,263 --> 01:01:00,831
NEWSCASTER: The University
of Pennsylvania president
1203
01:01:01,005 --> 01:01:02,833
has resigned.
1204
01:01:03,007 --> 01:01:04,878
REPORTER: Harvard president
Claudine Gay has announced
1205
01:01:05,052 --> 01:01:07,228
she is resigning from office.
1206
01:01:07,402 --> 01:01:09,143
WOLPE:
Over the past 30 years,
1207
01:01:09,317 --> 01:01:12,407
these universities
have geared up to make sure
1208
01:01:12,581 --> 01:01:15,759
nobody is anti-LGBTQ,
nobody is anti-Black.
1209
01:01:15,933 --> 01:01:20,851
But the idea that anti-Semitism
was in that same category
1210
01:01:21,025 --> 01:01:24,768
was foreign to many of them,
and they wouldn't see it
1211
01:01:24,942 --> 01:01:28,641
even though the evidence
stared them in the face.
1212
01:01:30,382 --> 01:01:31,644
STUDENTS [chanting]:
Rape is rape!
1213
01:01:31,818 --> 01:01:33,820
Rape is rape!
1214
01:01:33,994 --> 01:01:37,041
Rape is rape! Rape is rape!
1215
01:01:37,215 --> 01:01:39,478
Rape is rape!
1216
01:01:58,105 --> 01:02:00,891
[all chanting]:
Me too, unless you are a Jew!
1217
01:02:01,065 --> 01:02:03,502
One of the least-discussed
atrocities
1218
01:02:03,676 --> 01:02:06,418
in the October 7th
Hamas attack on Israel
1219
01:02:06,592 --> 01:02:09,203
is coming into
horrifying focus tonight.
1220
01:02:09,377 --> 01:02:13,294
Stories of women sexually
assaulted and brutally killed.
1221
01:02:13,468 --> 01:02:16,776
RUTH HALPERIN-KADDARI:
Immediately after October 7th,
1222
01:02:16,950 --> 01:02:20,214
it was clear to me
that sexual violence
1223
01:02:20,388 --> 01:02:23,043
was also part of the massacre.
1224
01:02:23,217 --> 01:02:28,353
On the-the Monday following
that Saturday of October 7th,
1225
01:02:28,527 --> 01:02:32,618
we gathered
more than 800 signatures
1226
01:02:32,792 --> 01:02:35,490
of international gender
and law professors
1227
01:02:35,664 --> 01:02:37,754
from all over the world.
1228
01:02:37,928 --> 01:02:43,585
We requested U.N. agencies--
and U.N. Women, of course--
1229
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:48,329
that they issue statements
condemning Hamas.
1230
01:02:49,243 --> 01:02:50,288
[notification chimes]
1231
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:54,988
But the statements
that came out
1232
01:02:55,162 --> 01:02:58,426
were extremely disappointing,
1233
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,690
especially U.N. Women,
1234
01:03:01,865 --> 01:03:05,999
who resorted
to familiar symmetry
1235
01:03:06,173 --> 01:03:09,046
between the two sides
of the conflict.
1236
01:03:11,048 --> 01:03:13,485
The report that they issued
1237
01:03:13,659 --> 01:03:17,402
hardly even mentioned
Israeli women.
1238
01:03:19,404 --> 01:03:22,973
Proper comparison should be
1239
01:03:23,147 --> 01:03:26,237
to the Russian invasion
of Ukraine.
1240
01:03:26,411 --> 01:03:28,282
Global outrage grew today
1241
01:03:28,456 --> 01:03:32,591
as more horrific revelations
surfaced from Bucha, Ukraine.
1242
01:03:32,765 --> 01:03:35,681
HALPERIN-KADDARI:
After the Bucha massacre,
1243
01:03:35,855 --> 01:03:40,294
you see that U.N. Women reacted
immediately, within days.
1244
01:03:40,468 --> 01:03:42,557
There was no need to wait
1245
01:03:42,731 --> 01:03:46,474
for firsthand accounts.
1246
01:03:46,648 --> 01:03:49,608
They immediately called
for investigation
1247
01:03:49,782 --> 01:03:54,004
and called for
a resolute condemnation.
1248
01:03:54,178 --> 01:03:57,355
And that didn't happen
after October 7th.
1249
01:03:59,661 --> 01:04:01,838
MICHAL COTLER-WUNSH:
Women of the world united
1250
01:04:02,012 --> 01:04:04,666
around #MeToo
and "we believe you."
1251
01:04:04,841 --> 01:04:09,715
#MeToo, unless you're
a Jew/Zionist/live in Israel.
1252
01:04:10,716 --> 01:04:13,240
That is the ultimate,
1253
01:04:13,414 --> 01:04:16,026
most painful double standard.
1254
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:19,246
FAY: Their silence
was not surprising to me.
1255
01:04:19,420 --> 01:04:21,422
Even at my school,
1256
01:04:21,596 --> 01:04:25,731
the refusal
of my Barnard sisterhood
1257
01:04:25,905 --> 01:04:29,256
to support the women
who had been raped
1258
01:04:29,430 --> 01:04:30,692
and sexually assaulted
1259
01:04:30,867 --> 01:04:33,173
was incredibly shocking to me.
1260
01:04:33,347 --> 01:04:38,222
If an all-women's college
cannot support
1261
01:04:38,396 --> 01:04:40,093
our fellow women
around the world
1262
01:04:40,267 --> 01:04:41,878
because we're Jewish,
1263
01:04:42,052 --> 01:04:43,705
it really, if nothing else,
showed me
1264
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:45,925
that I truly did not know
1265
01:04:46,099 --> 01:04:49,668
what anti-Semitism was
before October 7th.
1266
01:04:50,582 --> 01:04:51,757
[notification chimes]
1267
01:04:51,931 --> 01:04:53,324
DAYANI:
What is the point
1268
01:04:53,498 --> 01:04:55,195
of you sitting this one out?
1269
01:04:55,369 --> 01:04:57,154
Do we say
1270
01:04:57,328 --> 01:04:59,199
some people's suffering
is more valuable than others?
1271
01:04:59,373 --> 01:05:01,201
That certain victims deserve
more rights than others?
1272
01:05:01,375 --> 01:05:04,378
Like, either you say,
"We believe women,"
1273
01:05:04,552 --> 01:05:05,902
and then you believe all women.
1274
01:05:06,076 --> 01:05:07,555
When you say,
"we stand for women,"
1275
01:05:07,729 --> 01:05:09,601
and then you stand
for all women,
1276
01:05:09,775 --> 01:05:11,820
or do you just get to sit there
and choose?
1277
01:05:13,692 --> 01:05:15,520
SHERYL SANDBERG: As the reports
started to come out
1278
01:05:15,694 --> 01:05:17,130
about the sexual violence,
1279
01:05:17,304 --> 01:05:18,915
and people weren't speaking out,
you know,
1280
01:05:19,089 --> 01:05:21,874
I did what I know how to do:
I wrote an op-ed.
1281
01:05:22,048 --> 01:05:24,833
And my husband said to me,
"We should make a video,"
1282
01:05:25,008 --> 01:05:27,140
so, over a weekend,
we made a video.
1283
01:05:27,314 --> 01:05:28,968
No matter
1284
01:05:29,142 --> 01:05:31,797
which marches you attend,
which religion you practice,
1285
01:05:31,971 --> 01:05:35,105
or none at all, there is one
thing we should all agree on:
1286
01:05:35,279 --> 01:05:38,891
rape should never be used
as an act of war.
1287
01:05:39,065 --> 01:05:40,327
U.N. Women, it was like
1288
01:05:40,501 --> 01:05:43,940
their core job to speak out
1289
01:05:44,114 --> 01:05:46,768
on any international situation
on women, so for them,
1290
01:05:46,943 --> 01:05:49,336
late is totally unacceptable.
1291
01:05:51,948 --> 01:05:53,558
DAYANI:
At this point, it has been
1292
01:05:53,732 --> 01:05:55,864
well over 50 days
since the attack.
1293
01:05:56,039 --> 01:05:58,215
There were so many
women's organizations
1294
01:05:58,389 --> 01:06:00,782
that had not said a word.
1295
01:06:00,957 --> 01:06:04,743
So, we had to call this session
at the United Nations.
1296
01:06:04,917 --> 01:06:06,788
We had to force their hand.
1297
01:06:06,963 --> 01:06:08,921
♪ ♪
1298
01:06:15,319 --> 01:06:18,061
HALPERIN-KADDARI:
It took them almost eight weeks
1299
01:06:18,235 --> 01:06:21,673
after the attack to acknowledge
1300
01:06:21,847 --> 01:06:24,241
that there are
concerning reports
1301
01:06:24,415 --> 01:06:29,376
of severe sexual violence
and sexual atrocities.
1302
01:06:34,207 --> 01:06:37,776
DAYANI: What is it
about these women and girls
1303
01:06:37,950 --> 01:06:40,039
that makes them so unworthy
1304
01:06:40,213 --> 01:06:43,521
of your otherwise limitless
capacity for outrage,
1305
01:06:43,695 --> 01:06:45,958
solidarity and justice?
1306
01:06:46,132 --> 01:06:51,007
Once again, I am afraid
the reason is quite simple.
1307
01:06:51,181 --> 01:06:52,617
Because they're Jews.
1308
01:06:52,791 --> 01:06:55,794
We have come so far
in establishing
1309
01:06:55,968 --> 01:06:58,188
that rape is a crime
against humanity.
1310
01:06:58,362 --> 01:06:59,667
And we have come so far
1311
01:06:59,841 --> 01:07:02,496
in believing survivors
of sexual assault
1312
01:07:02,670 --> 01:07:05,108
in so many situations.
1313
01:07:05,282 --> 01:07:10,069
That's why the silence on
these war crimes is dangerous.
1314
01:07:10,243 --> 01:07:11,462
I think one of the most
important things
1315
01:07:11,636 --> 01:07:13,246
that happened at the U.N.
1316
01:07:13,420 --> 01:07:16,728
was not just people
who were Jewish speaking out,
1317
01:07:16,902 --> 01:07:19,644
but the people who really are
the allies and joined us.
1318
01:07:21,211 --> 01:07:23,909
When I saw the list
of women's rights organizations
1319
01:07:24,083 --> 01:07:27,608
who have said nothing,
I nearly choked.
1320
01:07:27,782 --> 01:07:29,219
I think it's shocking.
1321
01:07:29,393 --> 01:07:32,657
I am mystified
1322
01:07:32,831 --> 01:07:34,398
by the lack of solidarity
1323
01:07:34,572 --> 01:07:37,140
for women's rights
by women's rights organizations.
1324
01:07:37,314 --> 01:07:40,665
That, in some way,
Israeli women don't count
1325
01:07:40,839 --> 01:07:42,971
or are not women
or are not human.
1326
01:07:44,234 --> 01:07:47,193
There's no room
for doing nothing.
1327
01:07:47,367 --> 01:07:49,630
♪ ♪
1328
01:07:55,897 --> 01:07:58,030
VEKSLER: On February 25th,
I got a message
1329
01:07:58,204 --> 01:07:59,901
that there was a sign
on the door
1330
01:08:00,076 --> 01:08:01,642
of the multicultural center
1331
01:08:01,816 --> 01:08:03,862
that said
"Zionists not allowed."
1332
01:08:06,386 --> 01:08:08,823
The Jewish community obviously
was freaking out about this.
1333
01:08:08,997 --> 01:08:10,434
Not only because of the irony
of this happening
1334
01:08:10,608 --> 01:08:12,523
at a multicultural center
1335
01:08:12,697 --> 01:08:15,308
but because it was scary.
1336
01:08:15,482 --> 01:08:17,180
The next morning,
the Jewish students chose to go,
1337
01:08:17,354 --> 01:08:19,182
and they chose to sit
in the exact room
1338
01:08:19,356 --> 01:08:22,054
where they were told
they were not allowed to be.
1339
01:08:25,405 --> 01:08:27,146
Half of the room was Jewish
students doing their homework,
1340
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,105
and then the other half
1341
01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:32,934
was a bunch of students wrapped
in keffiyehs making posters.
1342
01:08:33,109 --> 01:08:34,849
I went to the side of the room
with the keffiyehs
1343
01:08:35,023 --> 01:08:36,547
because I wanted to understand
1344
01:08:36,721 --> 01:08:38,549
what they were trying
to accomplish.
1345
01:08:38,723 --> 01:08:40,159
And while I was trying to speak
1346
01:08:40,333 --> 01:08:43,249
to these students very calmly,
they were trying
1347
01:08:43,423 --> 01:08:45,164
to intimidate me
to get me out of the room.
1348
01:08:45,338 --> 01:08:47,166
So what they started to do
was to make posters
1349
01:08:47,340 --> 01:08:50,604
targeting me directly
with my full name.
1350
01:08:50,778 --> 01:08:53,564
"Tessa Veksler
supports genocide."
1351
01:08:55,566 --> 01:08:58,830
"You can run, but you can't
hide, Tessa Veksler."
1352
01:08:59,004 --> 01:09:01,180
After that, I mean,
it only got worse.
1353
01:09:01,354 --> 01:09:04,966
I remember getting a text
at, like, 2:00 a.m.,
1354
01:09:05,141 --> 01:09:08,144
"There's people
walking around in masks,
1355
01:09:08,318 --> 01:09:11,756
putting flyers in mailboxes
near your house."
1356
01:09:13,671 --> 01:09:17,065
UCSB is investigating signs
and social media posts
1357
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:20,417
that appear to single out
the student body president.
1358
01:09:20,591 --> 01:09:23,768
I honestly thought that
administration was on my side.
1359
01:09:23,942 --> 01:09:25,552
They issued a couple
of statements,
1360
01:09:25,726 --> 01:09:28,425
but nothing about me directly.
1361
01:09:28,599 --> 01:09:31,689
The urgency of this situation
cannot be overstated.
1362
01:09:31,863 --> 01:09:34,996
We must act decisively
and demand accountability
1363
01:09:35,171 --> 01:09:39,392
to ensure the safety
and well-being of all students.
1364
01:09:39,566 --> 01:09:42,874
I, Tessa Veksler, will not
stand for this on my campus,
1365
01:09:43,048 --> 01:09:46,312
in my community
or in my workplace.
1366
01:09:47,008 --> 01:09:48,445
Want to see what
Rutgers Jewish students
1367
01:09:48,619 --> 01:09:49,402
dealt with last night?
1368
01:09:49,576 --> 01:09:50,882
Watch this.
1369
01:09:51,056 --> 01:09:53,711
STUDENT:
All Zionists are racists!
1370
01:09:53,885 --> 01:09:56,670
STUDENTS [chanting]:
All Zionists are racists!
1371
01:09:56,844 --> 01:09:58,977
STUDENT:
We don't want two states...
1372
01:09:59,151 --> 01:10:00,718
SCHANZER:
We now are in a situation
1373
01:10:00,892 --> 01:10:04,025
where Jewish students on campus
feel unsafe.
1374
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:08,116
They feel attacked, they feel
alienated and ostracized,
1375
01:10:08,291 --> 01:10:12,991
and it is because of this
growing movement of anti-Zionism
1376
01:10:13,165 --> 01:10:16,124
that has taken on
a different life
1377
01:10:16,299 --> 01:10:18,562
since the October 7th attacks.
1378
01:10:18,736 --> 01:10:21,782
♪ ♪
1379
01:10:25,177 --> 01:10:28,702
TISHBY: The first phase
of anti-Semitism is peoplehood.
1380
01:10:28,876 --> 01:10:33,316
There are reports
of Alexandria, 300 BC,
1381
01:10:33,490 --> 01:10:36,014
of people saying,
"Who is this weird people?"
1382
01:10:36,188 --> 01:10:38,146
When Christianity appeared,
1383
01:10:38,321 --> 01:10:40,714
anti-Semitism turned into
religious anti-Semitism.
1384
01:10:40,888 --> 01:10:43,935
So, the whole concept
of "the Jews killed Christ."
1385
01:10:44,109 --> 01:10:45,763
It was all about
religious persecution
1386
01:10:45,937 --> 01:10:47,112
of the Jewish people.
1387
01:10:47,286 --> 01:10:49,854
Then anti-Semitism
morphed again,
1388
01:10:50,028 --> 01:10:52,552
into racial anti-Semitism.
1389
01:10:52,726 --> 01:10:54,902
The tricky part about
that shape-shifting
1390
01:10:55,076 --> 01:10:56,643
is that you can't convert
out of it.
1391
01:10:56,817 --> 01:10:58,732
So once you're racially Jewish,
it doesn't matter
1392
01:10:58,906 --> 01:11:01,387
what percentage of Jew
you have in you, you're done.
1393
01:11:01,561 --> 01:11:02,997
That was the third iteration.
1394
01:11:03,171 --> 01:11:05,173
Obviously,
it created the Holocaust.
1395
01:11:05,348 --> 01:11:07,175
The fourth iteration of
anti-Semitism is anti-Zionism.
1396
01:11:07,350 --> 01:11:09,352
PROTESTOR:
Smash the settler Zionist state!
1397
01:11:09,526 --> 01:11:11,354
PROTESTORS [chanting]:
Smash the settler Zionist state!
1398
01:11:11,528 --> 01:11:14,574
PROTESTOR: Smash-smash
the settler Zionist state!
1399
01:11:14,748 --> 01:11:16,359
SENOR:
Once you normalize
1400
01:11:16,533 --> 01:11:17,751
Zionism equals apartheid,
1401
01:11:17,925 --> 01:11:20,667
Zionism equals genocide,
1402
01:11:20,841 --> 01:11:22,365
and that person is a Zionist,
1403
01:11:22,539 --> 01:11:24,323
"then I can do
a lot to that person."
1404
01:11:24,497 --> 01:11:26,064
That justifies a lot.
1405
01:11:28,153 --> 01:11:29,937
And attacking that person,
in any way I choose
1406
01:11:30,111 --> 01:11:32,070
to attack them
becomes defensible.
1407
01:11:32,244 --> 01:11:34,246
Zionists don't deserve to live.
1408
01:11:34,420 --> 01:11:37,380
The existence of Nazis,
white supremacists,
1409
01:11:37,554 --> 01:11:40,121
Zionists--
these are all the same people--
1410
01:11:40,296 --> 01:11:42,254
the existence of them...
1411
01:12:03,101 --> 01:12:05,364
The anti-Semitism
we see from the left
1412
01:12:05,538 --> 01:12:08,367
doesn't surprise me, 'cause
I've been tracking it for years.
1413
01:12:08,541 --> 01:12:11,414
But I used to talk about
a political spectrum
1414
01:12:11,588 --> 01:12:13,894
from far right to far left
and where you find
1415
01:12:14,068 --> 01:12:16,244
the anti-Semitism
on the political spectrum.
1416
01:12:16,419 --> 01:12:19,552
I've changed that.
I now talk about a horseshoe.
1417
01:12:19,726 --> 01:12:22,425
And you know, the two ends
of a horseshoe are magnetic.
1418
01:12:22,599 --> 01:12:24,688
And you would think,
how would the far, far left
1419
01:12:24,862 --> 01:12:27,430
and the far, far right
share views on anything?
1420
01:12:27,604 --> 01:12:30,041
They don't,
except in this regard.
1421
01:12:31,956 --> 01:12:33,653
TISHBY: In recent years,
when I would try to tell people
1422
01:12:33,827 --> 01:12:36,569
that anti-Zionism is the worst
part of anti-Semitism today,
1423
01:12:36,743 --> 01:12:39,485
they would point out
to an easy-to-identify
1424
01:12:39,659 --> 01:12:42,749
anti-Semitism
like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
1425
01:12:45,404 --> 01:12:47,928
It's very easy
for every one of us to be like,
1426
01:12:48,102 --> 01:12:50,061
"Oh, yeah,
that's anti-Semitism."
1427
01:12:51,062 --> 01:12:52,629
Or "Jews will not replace us."
1428
01:12:55,762 --> 01:12:58,069
That's overtly
right-wing anti-Semitism.
1429
01:12:58,243 --> 01:12:59,766
We understand this,
we know this.
1430
01:12:59,940 --> 01:13:03,204
It's very easy for us
to point that out.
1431
01:13:03,379 --> 01:13:04,902
But what was very difficult
for a lot of people
1432
01:13:05,076 --> 01:13:08,122
in polite society is to identify
what it changed to today.
1433
01:13:08,296 --> 01:13:10,647
♪ ♪
1434
01:13:12,823 --> 01:13:16,522
DAYANI:
We have raised this generation
1435
01:13:16,696 --> 01:13:20,439
to stand up
against social injustice.
1436
01:13:21,875 --> 01:13:24,269
And I think
that they have understood
1437
01:13:24,443 --> 01:13:27,228
a lot of oppression
through a construct of race.
1438
01:13:27,403 --> 01:13:29,448
That construct does not apply
to the Middle East.
1439
01:13:29,622 --> 01:13:33,844
Like, I am not white, and most
people in Israel are not white.
1440
01:13:36,237 --> 01:13:40,328
Hey, this is me,
the Zionist Israeli.
1441
01:13:40,503 --> 01:13:44,420
The white colonialist,
settler, occupier.
1442
01:13:44,594 --> 01:13:49,163
When you describe Zionism
as this white imperialist idea,
1443
01:13:49,337 --> 01:13:53,994
you actively delete the history
of Black and brown Jews.
1444
01:13:55,213 --> 01:13:56,693
My name is Ashager,
1445
01:13:56,867 --> 01:14:01,045
I'm 33 years old,
uh, I live in Tel Aviv.
1446
01:14:01,219 --> 01:14:03,526
I educate people about Israel,
1447
01:14:03,700 --> 01:14:05,528
about the Ethiopian Jewish
community.
1448
01:14:05,702 --> 01:14:09,532
Uh, I tell stories
of my family, my community,
1449
01:14:09,706 --> 01:14:12,839
in order to connect people
to who we are as people.
1450
01:14:14,014 --> 01:14:16,016
My family came from Ethiopia,
1451
01:14:16,190 --> 01:14:19,890
my grandparents looked like
any other Ethiopian.
1452
01:14:20,064 --> 01:14:25,330
But their Black skin didn't
protect them from anti-Semitism.
1453
01:14:25,504 --> 01:14:27,506
They were still looked at
as "the Jews."
1454
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,727
They were treated as "Jews,"
they were othering
1455
01:14:30,901 --> 01:14:33,643
by their own society,
by people who look like them.
1456
01:14:33,817 --> 01:14:37,516
So, a lot of people that I meet
who ask me to choose,
1457
01:14:37,690 --> 01:14:42,042
what are you, Black or Jewish?
Black or Jewish?
1458
01:14:42,216 --> 01:14:44,958
Like one comes
at the expense of another.
1459
01:14:45,132 --> 01:14:46,786
To be Black and Jewish,
1460
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:50,877
you live in this intersection
of identities.
1461
01:14:51,051 --> 01:14:53,053
When BLM said, "You cannot be
1462
01:14:53,227 --> 01:14:55,795
pro-Black lives
and be a Zionist,"
1463
01:14:55,969 --> 01:14:58,015
you were saying to me,
1464
01:14:58,189 --> 01:15:00,408
"You have to choose
one of your identities."
1465
01:15:01,453 --> 01:15:02,933
Like, either you accept me,
1466
01:15:03,107 --> 01:15:04,587
me being Black
and me being Jewish.
1467
01:15:04,761 --> 01:15:06,763
That's it, I'm not gonna give up
1468
01:15:06,937 --> 01:15:09,113
on any identity that I have.
1469
01:15:09,287 --> 01:15:11,768
I am both at the same time.
That's it.
1470
01:15:11,942 --> 01:15:14,074
♪ ♪
1471
01:15:19,384 --> 01:15:21,081
FAY:
Before October 7th,
1472
01:15:21,255 --> 01:15:23,736
I thought we were all
on the same page,
1473
01:15:23,910 --> 01:15:26,130
that I am supported
1474
01:15:26,304 --> 01:15:28,219
because I'm Black,
because I'm a woman,
1475
01:15:28,393 --> 01:15:30,787
because I'm Native American
and because I'm Jewish.
1476
01:15:30,961 --> 01:15:33,180
But as I've now seen,
1477
01:15:33,354 --> 01:15:36,444
this-this never included
my Jewish identity.
1478
01:15:36,619 --> 01:15:40,710
I know what it's like
to be discriminated against.
1479
01:15:40,884 --> 01:15:43,626
Nobody would've questioned me
if I were to say,
1480
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,412
as a Black woman, I-I'm feeling
as though I am being aggressed.
1481
01:15:47,586 --> 01:15:50,197
And I'm telling you now,
that is what I'm facing.
1482
01:15:50,371 --> 01:15:52,460
So why are you not
listening to me?
1483
01:15:55,551 --> 01:15:58,075
These ideas had been germinating
in the ivory tower
1484
01:15:58,249 --> 01:15:59,729
for a very long time.
1485
01:15:59,903 --> 01:16:02,906
And I remember
encountering these ideas
1486
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:04,777
from the very first days
1487
01:16:04,951 --> 01:16:07,258
when I was a student
at Columbia University.
1488
01:16:07,432 --> 01:16:09,347
I was a political progressive.
1489
01:16:09,521 --> 01:16:13,873
I was, you know,
dating women, I was pro-choice.
1490
01:16:14,047 --> 01:16:16,136
I was all of the things
that I thought made me
1491
01:16:16,310 --> 01:16:21,446
totally part of progressive
milieu, let's say, on campus.
1492
01:16:21,620 --> 01:16:24,754
But what I was encountering was
an ideology that said to me,
1493
01:16:24,928 --> 01:16:27,365
"No, no, you're not part of us."
1494
01:16:27,539 --> 01:16:30,324
And the reason that I wasn't
part of them was because I was
1495
01:16:30,498 --> 01:16:34,198
unabashed in my support
of Israel.
1496
01:16:35,808 --> 01:16:38,594
I was hearing that
in order to be accepted
1497
01:16:38,768 --> 01:16:40,900
into the groups
that traveled under the banner
1498
01:16:41,074 --> 01:16:43,250
of progress and social justice,
1499
01:16:43,424 --> 01:16:45,426
I was gonna have
to disavow something
1500
01:16:45,601 --> 01:16:48,299
that was absolutely fundamental
to my Jewish identity,
1501
01:16:48,473 --> 01:16:50,301
and I would argue,
the Jewish identity
1502
01:16:50,475 --> 01:16:53,478
of the vast majority of Jews
in the world.
1503
01:16:55,001 --> 01:16:56,481
TISHBY: It's very important
to understand
1504
01:16:56,655 --> 01:17:00,354
why Zionism is a big part
of who we are.
1505
01:17:00,528 --> 01:17:02,400
Judaism,
it's an indigenous religion
1506
01:17:02,574 --> 01:17:04,358
that is inseparable
from a place,
1507
01:17:04,532 --> 01:17:06,273
from a land, from a country.
1508
01:17:06,447 --> 01:17:07,971
For thousands of years,
1509
01:17:08,145 --> 01:17:10,060
we were saying,
"Next year in Jerusalem."
1510
01:17:10,234 --> 01:17:12,105
That's connected to a place.
1511
01:17:12,279 --> 01:17:14,238
We became a people
in that place.
1512
01:17:14,412 --> 01:17:20,070
So there is no separating
Zionism from Judaism.
1513
01:17:20,244 --> 01:17:23,639
GREENBLATT: Zionism is not
some philosophical idea
1514
01:17:23,813 --> 01:17:26,729
just born out
of the 19th century.
1515
01:17:26,903 --> 01:17:30,167
Zionism is a Jewish value
1516
01:17:30,341 --> 01:17:31,995
that's 3,000 years old.
1517
01:17:32,169 --> 01:17:33,692
There's a reason why,
1518
01:17:33,866 --> 01:17:36,739
at every synagogue
on the planet Earth,
1519
01:17:36,913 --> 01:17:40,003
Jews pray toward the east,
toward Jerusalem.
1520
01:17:40,177 --> 01:17:43,571
There's a reason why,
in every prayer book,
1521
01:17:43,746 --> 01:17:46,270
there are words
like "Eretz Yisrael,"
1522
01:17:46,444 --> 01:17:48,446
or "Yerushalaim" or "Zion."
1523
01:17:48,620 --> 01:17:52,624
So the return to Zion
is not new.
1524
01:17:52,798 --> 01:17:55,888
It is as old
as the Jewish people.
1525
01:17:56,062 --> 01:17:58,151
EMILY SCHRADER:
Zionism does not negate
1526
01:17:58,325 --> 01:18:00,458
the existence
of the state of Palestine,
1527
01:18:00,632 --> 01:18:03,940
it does not deny anyone else's
right to exist inherently.
1528
01:18:04,114 --> 01:18:06,551
It is not mutually exclusive.
1529
01:18:06,725 --> 01:18:11,077
It is simply a civil rights
movement for the Jewish people.
1530
01:18:11,251 --> 01:18:14,951
VIDINO: The definition
of-of any form of bigotry
1531
01:18:15,125 --> 01:18:18,302
is exceptionalizing
or applying a different standard
1532
01:18:18,476 --> 01:18:20,260
to a different population.
1533
01:18:20,434 --> 01:18:22,306
So if any people have
a right of self-determination,
1534
01:18:22,480 --> 01:18:26,789
a right of creating a-a country,
a homeland for-for themselves,
1535
01:18:26,963 --> 01:18:28,399
that's what Zionism is.
1536
01:18:28,573 --> 01:18:30,793
So, if we say that Jews
are the only people
1537
01:18:30,967 --> 01:18:33,839
that don't have that right,
that becomes anti-Semitism.
1538
01:18:34,013 --> 01:18:35,232
DEMONSTRATORS [chanting]:
Free, free Palestine!
1539
01:18:35,406 --> 01:18:37,103
Free, free Palestine!
1540
01:18:37,277 --> 01:18:38,496
- Free, free Palestine!
- MAN: Hey!
1541
01:18:38,670 --> 01:18:40,237
EINAT WILF:
When anti-Zionism
1542
01:18:40,411 --> 01:18:42,500
becomes the defining feature
of a society,
1543
01:18:42,674 --> 01:18:45,633
what happens to Jews?
Practically.
1544
01:18:45,808 --> 01:18:48,854
And here, the record is clear.
1545
01:18:49,028 --> 01:18:53,250
As soon as anti-Zionism
became the ideology
1546
01:18:53,424 --> 01:18:58,298
of the Arab world
in the '30s and '40s and '50s,
1547
01:18:58,472 --> 01:19:00,387
no Jews were left.
1548
01:19:00,561 --> 01:19:02,912
And you are talking about
Jewish communities
1549
01:19:03,086 --> 01:19:06,045
that predated
the Arab and Muslim conquests
1550
01:19:06,219 --> 01:19:10,093
of North Africa and the Levant
in the Middle East.
1551
01:19:10,267 --> 01:19:12,660
And the mechanism
is always the same.
1552
01:19:12,835 --> 01:19:14,401
They say,
"We have nothing against Jews.
1553
01:19:14,575 --> 01:19:17,317
It's not about Jews,
it's only Zionists,"
1554
01:19:17,491 --> 01:19:21,931
but then they blame Jews for
harboring Zionist sympathies.
1555
01:19:22,105 --> 01:19:24,237
And then they turn on the Jews,
1556
01:19:24,411 --> 01:19:26,936
and the Jews understand
and they leave.
1557
01:19:27,110 --> 01:19:28,415
And the same thing
that we're seeing right now
1558
01:19:28,589 --> 01:19:30,374
on American campuses.
1559
01:19:30,548 --> 01:19:34,813
When anti-Zionism begins
to become a dominant feature
1560
01:19:34,987 --> 01:19:38,599
of campus ideology,
of academic ideology,
1561
01:19:38,774 --> 01:19:42,995
the environment turns hostile
to Jewish life.
1562
01:19:44,170 --> 01:19:45,606
JAMES:
We have Zionists...
1563
01:19:45,781 --> 01:19:46,999
PROTESTORS:
We have Zionists...
1564
01:19:47,173 --> 01:19:48,827
JAMES:
...who have entered the camp.
1565
01:19:49,001 --> 01:19:50,655
PROTESTORS:
...who have entered the camp.
1566
01:19:50,829 --> 01:19:53,136
JAMES: We are going
to create a human chain...
1567
01:19:53,310 --> 01:19:55,573
PROTESTORS: We are going
to create a human chain...
1568
01:19:55,747 --> 01:19:57,618
JAMES:
...so that we can...
1569
01:19:57,793 --> 01:19:59,098
PROTESTORS:
...so that we can...
1570
01:19:59,272 --> 01:20:00,491
JAMES:
...start to push them...
1571
01:20:00,665 --> 01:20:02,101
PROTESTORS:
...start to push them...
1572
01:20:02,275 --> 01:20:03,581
JAMES:
...out of the camp.
1573
01:20:03,755 --> 01:20:05,148
PROTESTORS:
...out of the camp.
1574
01:20:05,322 --> 01:20:06,584
JAMES:
One step forward.
1575
01:20:06,758 --> 01:20:09,500
PROTESTORS:
One step forward.
1576
01:20:09,674 --> 01:20:11,284
JAMES:
Another step forward.
1577
01:20:11,458 --> 01:20:12,982
PROTESTORS:
Another step forward.
1578
01:20:13,156 --> 01:20:15,941
♪ ♪
1579
01:20:16,115 --> 01:20:17,987
REPORTER: They're turning the
campus into what they're calling
1580
01:20:18,161 --> 01:20:20,816
a "Gaza solidarity encampment."
1581
01:20:20,990 --> 01:20:24,297
STUDENTS [chanting]:
Shut it down! Shut it down!
1582
01:20:24,471 --> 01:20:27,126
Shut it down!
1583
01:20:27,300 --> 01:20:28,911
STUDENT PROTESTOR: By setting up
this encampment in the heart
1584
01:20:29,085 --> 01:20:31,652
of the Zionist stronghold
of Columbia University,
1585
01:20:31,827 --> 01:20:33,872
we intend to tear down
the iron gates
1586
01:20:34,046 --> 01:20:35,265
of this institution.
1587
01:20:35,439 --> 01:20:37,615
SEGAL:
What the encampments did
1588
01:20:37,789 --> 01:20:41,271
was ratchet up that activity
to a level of saying...
1589
01:20:42,838 --> 01:20:43,839
...we're not leaving.
1590
01:20:48,669 --> 01:20:50,802
- [whistle blowing]
- STUDENT: Fuck you! Fuck you!
1591
01:20:50,976 --> 01:20:53,065
We are Hamas!
1592
01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:01,160
SEGAL:
They were stopping people
1593
01:21:01,334 --> 01:21:03,380
and asking them,
"Are you a Zionist?"
1594
01:21:03,554 --> 01:21:05,208
It was more explicit.
1595
01:21:05,382 --> 01:21:06,905
STUDENT: You guys want
to prevent Jewish students
1596
01:21:07,079 --> 01:21:08,864
from entering? Fine.
1597
01:21:12,302 --> 01:21:15,131
Yeah, of course I'm Zionist.
1598
01:21:15,305 --> 01:21:16,959
SEGAL:
You can't walk
1599
01:21:17,133 --> 01:21:20,919
safely or without fear
of intimidation or harassment.
1600
01:21:21,093 --> 01:21:23,966
[students chanting]
1601
01:21:24,140 --> 01:21:26,185
REPORTER: Intensifying
anti-Israel protests
1602
01:21:26,359 --> 01:21:30,320
at Columbia University this week
now prompting the school rabbi
1603
01:21:30,494 --> 01:21:35,151
to warn Jewish students
to leave campus and return home.
1604
01:21:35,325 --> 01:21:38,197
FAY: I received this notice
from our rabbi.
1605
01:21:38,371 --> 01:21:41,984
He believed it was no longer
safe for Jewish students.
1606
01:21:42,158 --> 01:21:44,769
But whether or not it was naive,
1607
01:21:44,943 --> 01:21:48,599
I stayed on campus
the entire second semester.
1608
01:21:48,773 --> 01:21:50,993
I was not going to let
these people push me out.
1609
01:21:51,167 --> 01:21:53,343
STUDENT [chanting]:
Intifada, intifada.
1610
01:21:53,517 --> 01:21:55,519
STUDENTS:
Intifada, intifada.
1611
01:21:55,693 --> 01:21:57,738
STUDENT:
Long live the intifada.
1612
01:21:57,913 --> 01:21:59,610
STUDENTS:
Long live the intifada.
1613
01:21:59,784 --> 01:22:01,264
WEISS:
What does it mean,
1614
01:22:01,438 --> 01:22:02,961
that the future leaders
1615
01:22:03,135 --> 01:22:05,964
of the most important democracy
in the world
1616
01:22:06,138 --> 01:22:09,054
are chanting for revolution
and intifada?
1617
01:22:09,228 --> 01:22:11,622
What is the country gonna
look like a decade from now?
1618
01:22:21,545 --> 01:22:24,026
VEKSLER:
Their petition for my removal
1619
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:27,507
had reached enough signatures,
and it was going to be
1620
01:22:27,681 --> 01:22:29,814
on the agenda
for that senate meeting.
1621
01:22:29,988 --> 01:22:31,947
They got about 850.
1622
01:22:32,121 --> 01:22:33,513
- SACHS: 850?
- Yes.
1623
01:22:33,687 --> 01:22:35,298
- That's a lot.
- It is a lot.
1624
01:22:35,472 --> 01:22:38,344
♪ ♪
1625
01:22:38,518 --> 01:22:39,693
VEKSLER:
I remember I had to miss
1626
01:22:39,867 --> 01:22:41,608
all my final exams in person,
1627
01:22:41,782 --> 01:22:43,088
I had to take
all my exams online
1628
01:22:43,262 --> 01:22:45,569
because campus
was just not safe for me.
1629
01:22:47,875 --> 01:22:52,315
The vote took place
on April 10th, 2024.
1630
01:22:52,489 --> 01:22:54,839
The student senate votes
whether or not
1631
01:22:55,013 --> 01:22:56,493
they want to proceed
with a recall election
1632
01:22:56,667 --> 01:22:58,060
where the entire student body
would be asked
1633
01:22:58,234 --> 01:22:59,931
to vote on my removal.
1634
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:06,242
The administration
was advocating
1635
01:23:06,416 --> 01:23:08,418
for the vote
to take place on Zoom.
1636
01:23:08,592 --> 01:23:10,420
So, I couldn't even look
these people in the eyes and say
1637
01:23:10,594 --> 01:23:12,900
my speech out loud to them.
1638
01:23:14,337 --> 01:23:15,773
They voted
at 1:00 in the morning.
1639
01:23:15,947 --> 01:23:17,818
It was a six-hour-long meeting,
1640
01:23:17,993 --> 01:23:19,690
and they needed
a two-thirds vote.
1641
01:23:19,864 --> 01:23:22,214
STUDENT:
The final count was 11 yes's...
1642
01:23:22,388 --> 01:23:24,129
VEKSLER:
11 yes's,
1643
01:23:24,303 --> 01:23:26,001
seven no's, one abstention.
1644
01:23:26,175 --> 01:23:28,525
- STUDENT: Fuck yeah.
- [cheering]
1645
01:23:29,874 --> 01:23:33,965
STUDENT: The Veksler
isn't going anywhere!
1646
01:23:34,139 --> 01:23:35,923
VEKSLER: I fought
till the very last second.
1647
01:23:36,098 --> 01:23:38,404
And the recall effort failed
by one vote.
1648
01:23:38,578 --> 01:23:40,450
[cheering continues]
1649
01:23:40,624 --> 01:23:41,538
It was a feeling of relief,
1650
01:23:41,712 --> 01:23:43,279
but also a deep sadness
1651
01:23:43,453 --> 01:23:45,542
that it ever had to happen
in the first place.
1652
01:23:45,716 --> 01:23:47,805
Also, a lot of betrayal,
1653
01:23:47,979 --> 01:23:50,808
for 11 people that I worked
side by side with
1654
01:23:50,982 --> 01:23:53,028
to vote for something like that.
1655
01:23:53,202 --> 01:23:55,291
♪ ♪
1656
01:23:55,465 --> 01:23:57,162
Usually, the student body
president speaks
1657
01:23:57,336 --> 01:23:58,598
at one
of the graduation ceremonies,
1658
01:23:58,772 --> 01:24:00,818
and I'm not partaking.
1659
01:24:00,992 --> 01:24:03,473
I really didn't want the one day
1660
01:24:03,647 --> 01:24:06,606
that my family is supposed
to be proud of me into...
1661
01:24:06,780 --> 01:24:09,044
be watching a bunch of students
scream at me.
1662
01:24:10,219 --> 01:24:12,264
To see your daughter
1663
01:24:12,438 --> 01:24:16,399
facing the thing
that you once fled...
1664
01:24:16,573 --> 01:24:19,576
...I can't even imagine
how painful that must be.
1665
01:24:24,102 --> 01:24:27,540
LAHAV: It's been eight months
since, uh, the attack.
1666
01:24:27,714 --> 01:24:29,412
I don't live here.
1667
01:24:29,586 --> 01:24:31,066
Every time I come here,
1668
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:32,980
I take the key,
1669
01:24:33,155 --> 01:24:37,159
I open the door quietly,
1670
01:24:37,333 --> 01:24:39,291
and I look to all the sides,
1671
01:24:39,465 --> 01:24:42,468
I make sure that there
is no terrorist inside,
1672
01:24:42,642 --> 01:24:44,644
and then I relax.
1673
01:24:52,565 --> 01:24:55,090
We hid under the table here.
1674
01:24:55,264 --> 01:24:57,875
I made a wall of books
that were here,
1675
01:24:58,049 --> 01:25:01,008
thinking that once
somebody would open
1676
01:25:01,183 --> 01:25:04,795
and the Palestinian terrorist
would shoot us,
1677
01:25:04,969 --> 01:25:06,666
the books
will slow down the bullets
1678
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:09,016
and we will not die.
1679
01:25:09,191 --> 01:25:10,670
So, it was like this.
1680
01:25:10,844 --> 01:25:14,761
And I tied this part
to the door handle, so it,
1681
01:25:14,935 --> 01:25:17,982
they couldn't, uh, move it,
they couldn't open it.
1682
01:25:18,156 --> 01:25:21,203
We stayed here
from 6:30 in the morning
1683
01:25:21,377 --> 01:25:22,900
until 6:00 in the evening.
1684
01:25:23,074 --> 01:25:25,772
- I'll turn off the light, okay?
- [switch clicks]
1685
01:25:25,946 --> 01:25:27,383
Like this.
1686
01:25:27,557 --> 01:25:29,994
When you only can hear outside,
1687
01:25:30,168 --> 01:25:34,041
shooting and grenades
all the time.
1688
01:25:36,305 --> 01:25:37,306
[switch clicks]
1689
01:25:37,480 --> 01:25:40,004
It was just my workroom.
1690
01:25:40,178 --> 01:25:45,966
But now when I come here,
I feel it's my safe haven.
1691
01:25:46,141 --> 01:25:49,579
I feel this is
the-the most secured...
1692
01:25:52,843 --> 01:25:55,106
...the most secured place
on Earth for me.
1693
01:25:55,280 --> 01:25:58,979
That's how it feels.
It feels like a home, you know?
1694
01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:01,591
A nest, maybe, whatever.
1695
01:26:04,681 --> 01:26:06,770
♪ ♪
1696
01:26:22,089 --> 01:26:23,787
MAYA BENTWICH:
We're in kibbutz Kfar Aza,
1697
01:26:23,961 --> 01:26:26,093
which is one of the 22 points--
kibbutzs, communities--
1698
01:26:26,268 --> 01:26:28,705
that were infiltrated
on the 7th of October.
1699
01:26:28,879 --> 01:26:32,143
And we're currently standing
in the Itamari family house,
1700
01:26:32,317 --> 01:26:34,145
which is or was
the childhood home
1701
01:26:34,319 --> 01:26:36,843
of a close friend of mine,
Raz Itamari.
1702
01:26:37,017 --> 01:26:38,802
I'm gonna take you
inside her room,
1703
01:26:38,976 --> 01:26:40,717
which was the MAMAD,
the bomb shelter.
1704
01:26:40,891 --> 01:26:43,502
And that's the room
that's supposed to be safest,
1705
01:26:43,676 --> 01:26:45,722
supposed to protect you
from bombs, missiles,
1706
01:26:45,896 --> 01:26:47,289
not from terrorists.
1707
01:26:47,463 --> 01:26:48,899
And that's where
both her parents,
1708
01:26:49,073 --> 01:26:52,119
Lili and Ram Itamari Z"L
were murdered.
1709
01:26:57,255 --> 01:26:59,605
This is the MAMAD.
1710
01:27:00,563 --> 01:27:03,479
You would have ashes up to here
1711
01:27:03,653 --> 01:27:06,221
'cause everything was burned.
1712
01:27:06,395 --> 01:27:10,660
And you see it, like, you see,
there's nothing left.
1713
01:27:14,011 --> 01:27:17,319
We had families that would go
to the Gazan border
1714
01:27:17,493 --> 01:27:20,713
almost every Shabbat and fly out
kites as a peace gesture
1715
01:27:20,887 --> 01:27:24,282
that often had written on them
"Peace, Salam, Shalom."
1716
01:27:24,456 --> 01:27:27,807
Five family members--
the parents were Americans--
1717
01:27:27,981 --> 01:27:30,157
were found shot to death
in their MAMADs,
1718
01:27:30,332 --> 01:27:33,160
the father hugging his family,
trying to protect them.
1719
01:27:33,335 --> 01:27:35,554
And right outside in the living
room, we found the kite
1720
01:27:35,728 --> 01:27:38,688
that they were planning
to fly out on that Saturday.
1721
01:27:40,646 --> 01:27:43,693
One of the organizer
of the flying of the kites
1722
01:27:43,867 --> 01:27:45,738
is Lili, my friend's mom.
1723
01:27:45,912 --> 01:27:48,785
These people believed in peace
and worked towards peace.
1724
01:27:50,656 --> 01:27:52,397
The world needs to know
and to understand
1725
01:27:52,571 --> 01:27:54,443
what happened here.
1726
01:27:54,617 --> 01:27:56,140
Because if you're a human being,
1727
01:27:56,314 --> 01:27:58,055
you can't be ignorant
to what happened.
1728
01:27:58,229 --> 01:28:00,318
You can't be ignorant
to the sexual assault
1729
01:28:00,492 --> 01:28:01,928
and to the raping
and to the murdering,
1730
01:28:02,102 --> 01:28:03,930
and to the kidnapping.
1731
01:28:04,104 --> 01:28:06,063
♪ ♪
1732
01:28:27,040 --> 01:28:29,826
KHAN:
It's June, um...
1733
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:31,654
we're at the Nova site,
1734
01:28:31,828 --> 01:28:34,831
uh, the site of the now infamous
1735
01:28:35,005 --> 01:28:37,660
Nova festival massacre.
1736
01:28:37,834 --> 01:28:39,444
Uh, and we're standing--
1737
01:28:39,618 --> 01:28:41,838
I'm sorry...
1738
01:28:42,012 --> 01:28:46,669
amongst pictures of the people
who were killed,
1739
01:28:46,843 --> 01:28:48,714
murdered-- brutally murdered--
1740
01:28:48,888 --> 01:28:51,195
and kidnapped...
[sniffles]
1741
01:28:51,369 --> 01:28:53,328
...on October 7th.
1742
01:28:53,502 --> 01:28:55,678
♪ ♪
1743
01:29:01,205 --> 01:29:03,816
Hearing the stories
over the past few months
1744
01:29:03,990 --> 01:29:05,862
about what happened here
1745
01:29:06,036 --> 01:29:09,387
is, you know, it-it's gutting.
1746
01:29:09,561 --> 01:29:11,607
Being here and seeing
their faces
1747
01:29:11,781 --> 01:29:15,262
and seeing, like, the face
of this girl...
1748
01:29:20,833 --> 01:29:22,922
♪ ♪
1749
01:29:29,364 --> 01:29:32,497
I think, it's so important
to bear witness
1750
01:29:32,671 --> 01:29:35,631
and to humanize
these innocent people.
1751
01:29:38,677 --> 01:29:41,332
A lot of these people
were, you know, anti-war
1752
01:29:41,506 --> 01:29:42,768
and believed in peace,
1753
01:29:42,942 --> 01:29:45,336
- you know...
- [distant explosion]
1754
01:29:45,510 --> 01:29:47,860
So, like, we're really close
to the war.
1755
01:29:48,034 --> 01:29:49,862
I mean, we're hearing
the bombs overhead
1756
01:29:50,036 --> 01:29:51,821
that are being sent into Gaza.
1757
01:29:51,995 --> 01:29:55,172
It is horrific thinking that--
1758
01:29:55,346 --> 01:29:57,217
or knowing, that there are
innocent people
1759
01:29:57,392 --> 01:30:01,004
who are dying in Gaza,
um, you know, young children.
1760
01:30:01,178 --> 01:30:02,571
That's why I really do empathize
1761
01:30:02,745 --> 01:30:05,617
with the people
protesting on campuses.
1762
01:30:05,791 --> 01:30:07,314
I mean, war is horrible.
1763
01:30:07,489 --> 01:30:09,795
Nobody wants to see
these people dying.
1764
01:30:09,969 --> 01:30:13,190
That's one thing that these
students on campuses get wrong,
1765
01:30:13,364 --> 01:30:16,106
is they're saying
that we want a war.
1766
01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:17,629
We don't want a war.
1767
01:30:17,803 --> 01:30:20,153
We want to just live in peace.
1768
01:30:23,461 --> 01:30:25,158
PROTESTORS [chanting]:
Fuck Israel.
1769
01:30:25,332 --> 01:30:26,725
Israel's a bitch.
1770
01:30:26,899 --> 01:30:28,248
Fuck Israel.
1771
01:30:28,423 --> 01:30:29,685
Israel's a bitch.
1772
01:30:29,859 --> 01:30:31,295
Fuck Israel.
1773
01:30:31,469 --> 01:30:32,775
Israel's a bitch.
1774
01:30:32,949 --> 01:30:34,298
PROTESTOR:
Smash the settler Zionist state!
1775
01:30:34,472 --> 01:30:36,213
PROTESTORS:
Smash the settler Zionist state!
1776
01:30:36,387 --> 01:30:38,563
- [horn honking]
- [whistle blowing]
1777
01:30:38,737 --> 01:30:40,826
DAVIDAI: When historians
write this dark chapter
1778
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:43,089
in American history,
1779
01:30:43,263 --> 01:30:46,353
there will be a very clear
chronological,
1780
01:30:46,528 --> 01:30:48,355
temporal narrative.
1781
01:30:48,530 --> 01:30:52,272
And it will start
in October 8th,
1782
01:30:52,447 --> 01:30:56,146
with the justification,
excusal and celebration
1783
01:30:56,320 --> 01:31:00,150
of the massacre of more than
1,200 civilians by Hamas.
1784
01:31:02,152 --> 01:31:05,721
It will go through
the violent protests
1785
01:31:05,895 --> 01:31:09,115
and the crazy resolutions
we're seeing in the U.N.
1786
01:31:09,289 --> 01:31:11,117
and in city councils.
1787
01:31:11,291 --> 01:31:12,815
It will go through Congress
and we hear
1788
01:31:12,989 --> 01:31:15,339
university presidents
that are unable to say
1789
01:31:15,513 --> 01:31:18,690
that calling for genocide
is bad.
1790
01:31:18,864 --> 01:31:20,387
It will go through mobs
1791
01:31:20,562 --> 01:31:23,390
storming restaurants
just because
1792
01:31:23,565 --> 01:31:27,046
they are owned by
Israelis and Jews.
1793
01:31:28,483 --> 01:31:30,093
And when I can't fall asleep
at night,
1794
01:31:30,267 --> 01:31:33,096
that's what runs in my mind.
1795
01:31:33,270 --> 01:31:34,880
What if what we're seeing now
1796
01:31:35,054 --> 01:31:38,318
is the 1930s,
1797
01:31:38,493 --> 01:31:43,889
but we're unable to steer
the train off the tracks?
1798
01:31:45,412 --> 01:31:47,806
And I just hope
that enough Americans
1799
01:31:47,980 --> 01:31:51,157
will wake up and realize
that this is not about Jews.
1800
01:31:51,331 --> 01:31:53,899
It never ends with the Jews.
1801
01:31:54,073 --> 01:31:55,945
This is about democracy,
1802
01:31:56,119 --> 01:31:58,556
this is about human decency.
1803
01:31:59,862 --> 01:32:01,472
YOUSEF:
The United States of America
1804
01:32:01,646 --> 01:32:03,126
took me in
1805
01:32:03,300 --> 01:32:05,389
when my own family rejected me
1806
01:32:05,563 --> 01:32:09,088
and, uh, condemned me to death.
1807
01:32:09,262 --> 01:32:11,438
Today, I'm an American.
1808
01:32:11,613 --> 01:32:15,573
I have obligation to my country,
to my Constitution,
1809
01:32:15,747 --> 01:32:18,315
to be the eyewitness
1810
01:32:18,489 --> 01:32:21,448
and to speak up,
not to be afraid.
1811
01:32:21,623 --> 01:32:23,755
TORRES:
You know, it's not lost on me
1812
01:32:23,929 --> 01:32:26,584
that throughout history,
there have been Jews
1813
01:32:26,758 --> 01:32:29,456
who gave their lives
for the cause of civil rights.
1814
01:32:29,631 --> 01:32:31,371
Andrew Goodman,
Michael Schwerner,
1815
01:32:31,546 --> 01:32:34,461
were brutally murdered
in the Mississippi Burning
1816
01:32:34,636 --> 01:32:37,726
so that Black Americans
could vote and live freely,
1817
01:32:37,900 --> 01:32:40,598
unencumbered by the cruelty
of Jim Crow.
1818
01:32:40,772 --> 01:32:42,165
And so, for me,
1819
01:32:42,339 --> 01:32:44,384
the lesson learned from history
1820
01:32:44,559 --> 01:32:46,604
is that we're all
in this together.
1821
01:32:46,778 --> 01:32:49,868
We all have a moral obligation
to fight extremism,
1822
01:32:50,042 --> 01:32:51,957
hate and fear,
1823
01:32:52,131 --> 01:32:53,872
no matter what form it takes.
1824
01:32:54,046 --> 01:32:55,787
And that obligation
is based not only
1825
01:32:55,961 --> 01:32:58,007
on the particularity
of our identity,
1826
01:32:58,181 --> 01:33:00,183
it's based on something
more universal,
1827
01:33:00,357 --> 01:33:01,706
which is our common humanity.
1828
01:33:01,880 --> 01:33:05,841
And for me,
October 7th was so barbaric
1829
01:33:06,015 --> 01:33:09,322
that it was a frontal assault
on our common humanity.
1830
01:33:10,933 --> 01:33:13,065
College campuses
and social media platforms
1831
01:33:13,239 --> 01:33:16,939
are indoctrinating
young Americans
1832
01:33:17,113 --> 01:33:19,071
with a hatred for Israel
1833
01:33:19,245 --> 01:33:21,944
that is so visceral
and so fanatical
1834
01:33:22,118 --> 01:33:24,860
that it renders them indifferent
1835
01:33:25,034 --> 01:33:26,992
to the butchering
of Israeli babies,
1836
01:33:27,166 --> 01:33:28,559
to the cold-blooded murder
1837
01:33:28,733 --> 01:33:30,692
of Israeli children
and civilians.
1838
01:33:30,866 --> 01:33:34,565
And so, if we as a society
1839
01:33:34,739 --> 01:33:38,438
cannot bring ourselves
to condemn
1840
01:33:38,613 --> 01:33:40,919
the cold-blooded murder
of children and civilians
1841
01:33:41,093 --> 01:33:43,530
with moral clarity,
1842
01:33:43,705 --> 01:33:45,445
then we should ask ourselves,
"What are we becoming
1843
01:33:45,620 --> 01:33:47,447
as a society?"
1844
01:33:47,622 --> 01:33:49,275
You know, this is
not only about Israel,
1845
01:33:49,449 --> 01:33:50,755
and this is not only about
the Jewish community.
1846
01:33:50,929 --> 01:33:54,019
What is at stake
is the soul of America.
1847
01:33:56,152 --> 01:33:57,675
I was on a walk
with one of my closest friends
1848
01:33:57,849 --> 01:33:59,329
who's not Jewish,
1849
01:33:59,503 --> 01:34:01,853
and just out of nowhere,
not expecting to say this,
1850
01:34:02,027 --> 01:34:06,031
what came out of my mouth was,
"Will you hide me?"
1851
01:34:06,205 --> 01:34:10,296
Like, "If it comes to that,
will you hide me and my family?"
1852
01:34:10,470 --> 01:34:12,255
And like, do I really think
that's gonna happen
1853
01:34:12,429 --> 01:34:14,561
in the United States? No.
1854
01:34:14,736 --> 01:34:15,911
And it was interesting,
'cause she didn't really know
1855
01:34:16,085 --> 01:34:17,347
what I was talking about.
1856
01:34:17,521 --> 01:34:19,131
She said,
"What do you mean, hide you?"
1857
01:34:19,305 --> 01:34:20,916
And I explained that there are
these righteous people
1858
01:34:21,090 --> 01:34:23,222
that hid Jews,
this is the story of Anne Frank.
1859
01:34:23,396 --> 01:34:25,572
And then, of course, she said,
"Oh, I know what you mean,"
1860
01:34:25,747 --> 01:34:28,314
but any Jew would've known
what I meant immediately.
1861
01:34:28,488 --> 01:34:31,448
♪ ♪
1862
01:34:31,622 --> 01:34:35,757
I feel like I'm grieving for
the security I thought we had.
1863
01:34:35,931 --> 01:34:38,411
And I'm grieving
for the sense of protection
1864
01:34:38,585 --> 01:34:40,892
I thought my children had.
1865
01:34:41,066 --> 01:34:45,505
And I'm working hard to find,
in that grief, our strength.
1866
01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:47,856
And so,
if all of the anti-Semitism
1867
01:34:48,030 --> 01:34:51,773
was true on October 6th,
we just didn't know it,
1868
01:34:51,947 --> 01:34:53,600
at least we're awake now.
1869
01:34:54,558 --> 01:34:56,429
And we're not alone.
1870
01:34:56,603 --> 01:34:58,649
The friend that I said,
"Will you hide me?"
1871
01:34:58,823 --> 01:35:00,738
She cried.
1872
01:35:00,912 --> 01:35:02,653
Not for me, with me.
1873
01:35:02,827 --> 01:35:04,350
She said,
"I'm not gonna let that happen
1874
01:35:04,524 --> 01:35:08,093
to this world either,"
and I believe her.
1875
01:35:09,442 --> 01:35:10,617
VEKSLER:
Our history shows us
1876
01:35:10,792 --> 01:35:13,098
that Jews always make it out.
1877
01:35:13,272 --> 01:35:15,666
I look at young people
who are the future,
1878
01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:18,495
and they are ready.
1879
01:35:18,669 --> 01:35:21,628
They are proud,
they are ready to fight.
1880
01:35:22,760 --> 01:35:24,762
They are smart,
1881
01:35:24,936 --> 01:35:26,633
they are brave,
1882
01:35:26,808 --> 01:35:29,811
and they inspire me.
1883
01:35:29,985 --> 01:35:31,987
The shared resilience
and the future resilience
1884
01:35:32,161 --> 01:35:33,945
that I can see
forming in front of my eyes,
1885
01:35:34,119 --> 01:35:36,295
that's what gives me hope.
1886
01:35:37,949 --> 01:35:40,386
MESSING: We can't fight
the tsunami of Jew hatred
1887
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:42,780
that has exploded
across our country
1888
01:35:42,954 --> 01:35:45,435
since October 7th alone.
1889
01:35:45,609 --> 01:35:47,785
We have partners who believe
1890
01:35:47,959 --> 01:35:51,528
in pluralism and peace
and freedom
1891
01:35:51,702 --> 01:35:56,576
and we have
to lock arms together.
1892
01:35:56,751 --> 01:36:00,798
If we do that,
we can change minds and hearts.
1893
01:36:00,972 --> 01:36:05,368
And ultimately,
that will change the world.
1894
01:36:06,935 --> 01:36:11,678
And so, we have to live
1895
01:36:11,853 --> 01:36:14,116
by Hatikvah.
1896
01:36:14,290 --> 01:36:18,642
We have to live
from a place of hope
1897
01:36:18,816 --> 01:36:22,211
because that is going
to bring us together
1898
01:36:22,385 --> 01:36:26,868
and that is going to help us
1899
01:36:27,042 --> 01:36:28,695
light up the dark.
1900
01:36:31,786 --> 01:36:33,744
♪ ♪
1901
01:37:14,480 --> 01:37:16,439
♪ They told me ♪
1902
01:37:16,613 --> 01:37:19,659
♪ It would be impossible ♪
1903
01:37:19,834 --> 01:37:24,621
♪ And for many,
they would be right ♪
1904
01:37:24,795 --> 01:37:27,363
♪ But for every dark cloud ♪
1905
01:37:27,537 --> 01:37:29,974
♪ Cast I ask ♪
1906
01:37:30,148 --> 01:37:33,848
♪ Have you seen my light? ♪
1907
01:37:34,022 --> 01:37:35,632
♪ Hold my head up ♪
1908
01:37:35,806 --> 01:37:39,201
♪ When I'm feeling down ♪
1909
01:37:39,375 --> 01:37:41,159
♪ 'Cause hope's all I need ♪
1910
01:37:41,333 --> 01:37:43,988
♪ To survive ♪
1911
01:37:44,162 --> 01:37:46,425
♪ No, you can't break ♪
1912
01:37:46,599 --> 01:37:48,819
♪ What's born to stand ♪
1913
01:37:48,993 --> 01:37:52,954
♪ Have you seen my light? ♪
1914
01:37:53,128 --> 01:37:55,870
♪ Seen my light ♪
1915
01:37:58,002 --> 01:38:00,657
♪ Seen my light ♪
1916
01:38:02,615 --> 01:38:05,618
♪ Seen my light ♪
1917
01:38:07,533 --> 01:38:12,364
♪ Seen my light ♪
1918
01:38:12,538 --> 01:38:17,761
♪ Life could make me hard
and solitaire ♪
1919
01:38:17,935 --> 01:38:22,766
♪ Instead I choose to be kind ♪
1920
01:38:22,940 --> 01:38:24,724
♪ I thank God ♪
1921
01:38:24,899 --> 01:38:27,423
♪ For the love that I bear ♪
1922
01:38:27,597 --> 01:38:31,514
♪ Have you seen my light? ♪
1923
01:38:31,688 --> 01:38:36,823
♪ As the sun shines
in Jerusalem ♪
1924
01:38:36,998 --> 01:38:39,174
♪ No prayer shall be
left behind ♪
1925
01:38:39,348 --> 01:38:42,046
♪ No prayer
should be left behind ♪
1926
01:38:42,220 --> 01:38:44,005
♪ Gratitude hymns ♪
1927
01:38:44,179 --> 01:38:46,572
♪ As I cross each bridge ♪
1928
01:38:46,746 --> 01:38:50,228
♪ Have you seen my light? ♪
1929
01:38:50,402 --> 01:38:52,970
- ♪ Seen my light ♪
- ♪ Seen my light ♪
1930
01:38:53,144 --> 01:38:54,885
♪ Seen my light ♪
1931
01:38:55,059 --> 01:38:57,932
- ♪ Seen my light ♪
- ♪ Seen my light ♪
1932
01:39:00,586 --> 01:39:03,372
♪ Seen my light ♪
1933
01:39:05,330 --> 01:39:09,160
♪ Seen my light ♪
1934
01:39:11,075 --> 01:39:13,556
♪ Hmm ♪
1935
01:39:15,471 --> 01:39:18,517
♪ Hmm ♪
1936
01:39:20,432 --> 01:39:23,218
♪ Hmm ♪
1937
01:39:25,133 --> 01:39:27,178
♪ Hmm ♪
1938
01:39:29,137 --> 01:39:31,704
- ♪ Seen my light ♪
- ♪ Seen my light ♪
1939
01:39:34,707 --> 01:39:36,796
♪ Shine a little bit ♪
1940
01:39:36,971 --> 01:39:40,191
♪ The sun is always shining
on me, yeah ♪
1941
01:39:40,365 --> 01:39:42,454
♪ Seen my light ♪
1942
01:39:42,628 --> 01:39:45,675
- ♪ Seen my light ♪
- ♪ Seen my light ♪
1943
01:39:50,375 --> 01:39:53,509
♪ Ooh. ♪