>>> THEODORE HERTZLE WROTE HIS
CLASSIC "JEWISH STATE" IN 1896.
THAT HE WAS DECADES BEFORE ADOLF
HITLERS RISE TO POWER AND THE
MURDER OF 6 MILLION JEWS BY THE
NAZIS.
WHEN I WILL THE UNSPEAKABLE
HORROR OF THE HOLOCAUST IS WHAT
SPARKED TO CREATE ISRAEL, THE
JEWISH STATE, FOR CENTURIES AND
CENTURIES, JEWS ACROSS THE
WORLD, PARTICULARLY IN EUROPE,
LIVE IN THE A STATE OF FEAR.
THE VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS THAT HAD
THEM AS SUBJECTS COULD TURN ON
THEM AT ANY POINT, AND EVEN IF
THE STATE DID NOT PUT THEM IN
THE CROSSHAIRS OFTEN IT WAS
THEIR NEIGHBORS WHO DID.
THE KNOCK AT THE DOOR.
THE MOB WITH A HIS OF NAMES.
THE POGROMS WHIPPED UP BY
DEMAGOGUES MARAUDING THE
STREETS.
THESE WERE THE ELEMENTAL THREATS
THAT STALKED JEWISH LIFE ON THIS
PLANET FOR CENTURIES.
IT IS WHAT BROUGHT SO MANY JEWS
TO OUR SHORES HERE IN THE U.S.
IN THE GREAT WAVES OF
IMMIGRATION IN THE LATE 1880s.
IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE
IMAGES COMING FROM THE STREETS
OF ISRAEL RIGHT NOW ARE SO
MORALLY SHOCKING.
AMIDST ROCKET FIRE IN HAMAS AND
PUNISHING AIR STRIKES AGAINST
BUILDINGS IN GAZA BY THE ISRAELI
ARMY, A BOUT OF COMMUNAL
VIOLENCE HAS BEEN UNLEASHED ON
THE STREETS OF ISRAEL.
SYNAGOGUES SET ON FIRE AND.
MOBS OF YOUNG ARAB ISRAELIS HAVE
BEEN ORGANIZED ON SOCIAL MEDIA
AND PROWLING AND STREETS,
TARGETING.
THE FOOTAGE YOURE WATCHING IS
DISTURBING.
THIS HAPPENED IN ISRAEL WHERE A
CROWD DRAGGED A PALESTINIAN MAN
FROM THE CAR AND BEAT HIM WHILE
THE NEWS CAMERA ROLLED.
ISRAELI ANCHORS USED THE ENGLISH
WORD LYNCHING TO DESCRIBE THE
MOB.
IT IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.
THIS INTIMIDATION HAS BEEN
DOCUMENT IN THE CITIES.
ISRAELI POLITICIANS FROM PRIME
MINSTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ON
DOWN HAVE CONDEMNED THE MOB
VIOLENCE AS INTOLERABLE.
IN A VIDEO FROM HIS OFFICE
NETANYAHU SAID, QUOTE, YOU CANT
TAKE THE LAW INTO YOUR OWN
HANDS.
YOU CANNOT COME TO AN ARAB
SIEVIAN AND LYNCH HIM JUST AS WE
CANNOT SEE ARAB CITIZENS DO IT
TO JEWISH CIVILIANS.
THIS WILL NOT STAND.
THEY HAVE BEEN SOUNDING THE
ALARM AND SAYING THE SAME THING.
WITH THE EXPANSION OF ISRAELI
SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST BANK
WOULD HAVE THE EFFECT OF
DESTROYING THE POSSIBILITY OF A
TWO-STATE SOLUTION.
MORE THAN THAT, THEY HAVE
WARNED, IT WOULD HAVE TO EFFECT
OF FUNCTIONALLY ANNIHILATEING TH
CONCEPTUAL COHERENCE OF THE
JEWISH STATES BORDERS.
IT WOULD CHANNEL THE CONFLICT
INSIDE WITH VIOLENT MOBS NOW ON THE STREETS OF ISRAEL.
THE STREETS OF ISRAEL.
THAT PROPHESY LOOKS PRETTY --
LISA GOLDMAN IS A JOURNALIST AND
FOUNDER OF 972, A MAGAZINE THAT
PROVIDES INDEPENDENT NEWS AND
COMMENTARY FROM ISRAEL AND
PALESTINE.
I HAVE BEEN CONSUMING A LOT OF
ISRAELI MEDIA OVER THE LAST 24
HOURS AND IT HAS BEEN STRIKING
TO ME THERE IS A KIND OF GENUINE
PAP POSSIBLE SENSE OF SHOCK TO
THE CONSCIOUS OF THESE IMAGES OF
THESE MOBS ON THE STREETS.
I WONDER IF YOU COULD JUST TALK
ABOUT WHAT THAT HAS MEANT INSIDE
THE CONVERSATION INSIDE ISRAEL
AND PALESTINE.
>> WOW, ITS A VERY -- ITS
HUGE.
PEOPLE ARE INDEED SHOCKED.
I SHOULD SAY THAT THESE GANGS
ARE A COMBINATION OF BEATHARD
FOOTBALL FANS.
THEYRE RACIST FOOTBALL THUGS
WHO ARE CALLED LA FAMILIA.
THERES ALSO RADICAL SETTLERS
COMING IN BUSS AND CARS COMING
FROM GROUPS FROM THE WEST BANK.
AND JUST GENERAL, YOU KNOW --
THERES A LOT OF RACISM IN
ISRAEL BECAUSE THE -- HAVE
BECOME QUITE POWERFUL IN THE
GOVERNMENT, AND THIS IS
SOMETHING THE CHIEF OF POLICE
ACTUALLY SAID EXPLICITLY TODAY
THAT A MEMBER FROM KNESSET FROM
THE JEWISH POWER PARTY INCITED
AN A JEWISH ANTIFADA.
HES A NOTORIOUS RADICAL, RACIST
SETTLER, AND YEAH, VERY -- HAS
BEEN INCITING QUITE POWERFULLY.
WHAT YOU SEE NOW, BY THE WAY, IS
NOT PARTICULARLY A REACTION TO
GAZA.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS -- YOU
KNOW, THERES BEEN A LOT OF
VIOLENCE GROWING INSIDE OF
ISRAEL DUE TO NUMEROUS FACTORS
THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE
INEQUALITY BETWEEN PALESTINIAN
CITIZENS OF ISRAEL AND YOUJEWISH
CITIZENS INSIDE ISRAEL.
BUT ALSO THERES A LOT OF
BREAKING DOWN OF THE BARRIERS
THAT USED TO EXIST BETWEEN
PALESTINIAN CITIZENS OF ISRAEL
OR 1948 ISRAELS, WHO ARE, AS I
SAID, CITIZENS, AND EASTERN WHO
ARE STATELESS BUT HAVE ISRAELI
STATE CARDS.
PREVIOUSLY THERE WAS THE
SOLIDARITY BETWEEN THE TWO
GROUPS WAS NOT HIGH, AND THAT
HAS RECENTLY CHANGED.
THERES A LOT OF SOLIDARITY
THATS GROWING AND A NATIONAL
IDENTITY, WHICH IS SOMETHING
THAT NETANYAHU PROBABLY WOULD
HAVE WANTED TO PREVENT.
BUT HE WAS SO INTENT ON
CULTIVATING THE FAR RIGHT TO
SHORE UP HIS POWER AND HIS BASE
THAT HE HAS UNLEASHED DOGS OF
EXTREME RACISM ON THE STREETS OF
ISRAEL.
>> JUST FOR CONTEXT, WHEN YOU
SAY KAHANIS, THATS THE MAYOR
WHOS AN EXTREME RIGHT WING
RABBI WHO LED A FACTION.
HE WAS MURDERED LATER IN
MISLIFE.
HE HAS BEEN THIS SORT OF
FOUNDING FATHER FOR A LOT OF
EXTREMIST ELEMENTS IN ISRAEL.
RULA, YOU GREW UP IN PALESTINE WITH ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP.
WITH ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP.
YOURE FATHER WAS AN IMAM AT A
MOSQUE.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOU?
>> THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE ALL BEEN
WARNING AGAINST, AND WERE
APPEALING TO DEMOCRATS IN THE
UNITED STATES, ACROSS THE WORLD,
ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO, FOR ALL
THEIR LIFE FOUGHT WITH
AFRICAN-AMERICANS HERE TO AFFIRM
EQUALITY, EQUAL RIGHTS AND TO
PROTECT MULTIRACIAL DEMOCRACY IN
THE UNITED STATES.
WHAT YOURE SEEING IN ISRAEL IS
TRUMPISM ON STEROIDS.
WHAT YOURE SEEING IN THE STREET
OF ISRAEL IS WHEN YOU LIKE PRIME
MINSTER NETANYAHU WEAPONIZED
ETHNONATIONALISM AND UNLEASHED
IT IN THE STREETS AND NOW ITS
THE DOMINANT SENTIMENT IN ISRAEL
POLITICS AND SOCIETY.
I NEVER IN MY LIFE SEEN ANYTHING
LIKE WHAT WE ARE SEEING ALL OVER
ISRAEL.
IN MIXED CITIES.
SUPPOSEDLY ALSO TOLERANT.
KPO EXISTENCE WAS THE CHARACTER
OF THOSE CITIES.
WHAT YOURE SEEING IS YEARS AND
YEARS WHERE THESE NATIONALIST
EXTREME ISS, THE MILITIAS, THE
MOB, THE EQUIVALENT OF THE PROUD
BOYS, WERE SO LEGITIMATIZED AND
NORMALIZED AND NOW THEYRE
SITTING IN PARLIAMENT, AND
THEYREBY
THEYRE BEBES ALLIES.
THEY WILL PROBABLY FORM A
GOVERNMENT.
HES BEEN EMBRACING THESE GUYS
SOME WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT IN THE
UNITED STATES SAYS THEY SUPPORT
ISRAEL, THEYRE ASKING THE
PALESTINIANS WHO ARE OKAY PIECCU
PROTECT THEIR OCCUPIERS.
THIS IS WHAT WERE ASKING.
IN THE MEANTIME THEYRE ACTUALLY
SPONSORING, UNDERWRITING THE
OCCUPATION IN THE TERRITORIES IN
THE WEST BANK WHILE UNDERWRITING
AGAIN THE ETHNO SEGREGATION
EVERYWHERE ELSE.
AND THE COUNTRY IS EXPLODING.
WEVE SEEN THIS GRADUALLY
INCREASING BUT ITS IMPLODING
RACIALLY, ECONOMICALLY, AND
RELIGIOUSLY.
YOU MENTIONED MY FATHER WHO
WORKED IN THE MOSQUE.
IN 1984, THE U.S. EXTREMIST
FANATICS TRIED TO BLOW UP THE
MOSQUE.
THEY WERE CAUGHT, THEY WERE
SENTENCED, AND THEY WERE
PARDONED.
IN 96, THEY KILLED THE PRIME
MINSTER OF ISRAEL, YITZHAK
RABIN.
THEY CALLED HIM A TRAITOR OF THE
JEWISH PEOPLE AND KILLED HIM.
THE GUY THAT KILLED HIM IS NOW A
HERO OF THESE NATIONALISTS.
WE SEE WHERE THIS RHETORIC IS
GOING, AND I FEAR ITS GOING TO
BE BLOODSHED, POGROMS, AND WHAT
YOU SAW THESE NIGHTS ITS GOING