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>> It's not clear from what you just saw right there, those are mourners
carrying the coffin of the recently slain journalist Shereen Abu Akleh,
who are being charged by Israeli forces being like knocked into by them and
nearly losing control of the coffin.
We're gonna explain the rationale that's been given by Israel as to why
what you just saw it had to happen.
But first I want you to see more of the footage.
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>> If you're only listening,
you might have heard what sounds like
multiple flash bangs going off and
you wouldn't then have seen a massive
crowd of full riot gear equipped security forces.
Running around and wildly having
at the Mourners who had gathered
to take the coffin from a hospital
in east Jerusalem to a church for
Abu Akleh's, funeral, that's all it was.
And I personally cannot conceive of what possible rationale you could have for
what we just saw, but they're going to try to justify it.
They said that the crowd was chanting nationalist incitement.
Okay, the officers had given them a warning, so
if you give them a warning then it is justified to do what they did.
They said they were forced to act because rioters began throwing stones towards
the policeman.
Now, wanted to demonstrate that that is being presented as evidence.
So they distributed videos showing an empty plastic bottle and
two other bottle shaped objects being thrown in the direction of officers.
They had undated video showing several stones on the ground so I'm convinced.
No, but seriously like the issue that the forces had was that they could
not take the fact that these mourners were chanting nationalist incitement.
They thought that well we just can't abide that.
But they're in a situation where the incident you just saw could have
gone one of a couple different ways.
They could have chanted the national incitement at you and
then there was no violence and everybody goes on about their day dealing
with this incredibly difficult situation as the best they can.
Now imagine if you just had that play out for years and
years where you actually used restraint and you didn't brutalize these people.
Is it possible that there would be less nationalist incitement being
chanted at you?
No, Instead there was a chance and they immediately began to beat people,
masses of people, dozens of people, knocking a coffin to the ground.
Is it possible that that will lead to more nationalist incitement?
This is all incredibly simple.
Nobody should have to explain this and nobody should have to demonstrate it.
Considering that we are many, many decades into this same cycle
being played out on a daily basis, but what do I know?
I didn't have a bottle thrown at me, I guess.
So, maybe I don't understand the situation.
>> Yeah, so there's the short term problems here in the long term problems in
terms of short term issues.
So are right wing will of course say Israel's right about everything forgetting
all theoretical principles that they have.
Now Israel is a different country, they have different laws on freedom of speech,
but our right wing says freedom of speech is the most important thing in the world.
They were beaten for a chant, It was a nationalistic chamt.
Wait, I thought the right wing loved nationalism.
Nationalism for you, but not for anyone else, Right?
And so that was right to beat them over.
So, to be fair, there was an empty plastic bottle.
And by the way, the right wing would say that's self defense, Kyle Rittenhouse
killed someone over because they threw an empty plastic bag at him.
So to the right wing,
they're like,why didn't they just kill everybody at the funeral?
I would maybe the easier way to go.
And so look, the journalist herself was killed and
it looks like likely Israeli terrorism.
Wait, I just called it terrorism, you're not allowed to do that.
No, when random people kill civilians, we call that terrorism, or
a non state actor killed someone, we call that terrorism.
But when a state killed someone, that's awesome,
that's just that's called freedom, is it?
No, it's still terrorism, right?
Killing a civilian?
And why did they do it?
Well, because we have to imprison all the Palestinians, we have to keep them in
occupied territories and never give them a stake, that's your justification?
But why?
Well, they're savages if we gave them a state, they're so violent by nature,
they would definitely attack us.
Is that right?
I mean, is that your real ideology?
No, no, but seriously, I've heard this my entire life as if it wasn't racist.
Well, the Palestinians would attack Israel, why would they attack Israel?
Muslims, you know how they are in this case, by the way,
the reporters christian, but it doesn't matter.
Palestinian savages, know the people actually doing the violence,
the state violence, which is much more significant,
kills much more civilians and has held millions of people hostage, for
now what over 50 years are we past 60 years now?
How long are you going to keep them hostage because of your racism?
I know that hurts a lot of people's feelings.
I do you know what hurts people's feelings more being murdered and
then as they're carrying your coffin attacking the pallbearers.
That hurts feelings a little bit more, but I know they're Palestinians,
they don't count, do they?
>> This is hard to talk about this,
I swear I'm going to connect it to what we just showed.
But Nina Turner's lost last week, had I think me and
a lot of people on the left thinking about the influence of Israel on
the mindset in the United States about the apartheid in Palestine and
the treatment of the Palestinian people by Israel.
Nina Turner's opponents, Chantelle Brown was bankrolled by the American Israel pack
in the democratic majority for Israel.
And of course keep progressives decided to endorse Chantelle Brown through the CPC
while we had AOC and Bernie Sanders endorsing Nina Turner,
of course AOC endorsed pretty last minute.
But I think this signaled that progressives were afraid to get involved,
not because they believed they were outspent,
because we've always said that we believe organized people be it's organized money.
So that can't be what was going on here.
But it is the case that progressives still don't condemn what's
happening in Palestine.
And I think a lot of this is because of the spending of groups like a pack and
because American mainstream media is so one sided.
And so pro Israel that Americans have a hard time making up their mind about this
when they're just getting one side of this.
So the type of organizing we need to do is progressives to win in races where DM FI
is bankrolling opponents is gonna have to involve a conversation around Israel and
Palestine.
And that's a really hard conversation.
But we're at the point where we have people like the president of South Africa,
Cyril Ramaphosa saying that what he sees happening in
Palestine reminds him of their own history of apartheid.
So if you think that if apartheid in South Africa was happening today and
you would be against it.
But you're not condemning what's going on in Palestine, you're probably wrong.
And that's hard to say, but it is the case that the United States never has a good
track record on this stuff.
When the United Nations was condemning apartheid in South africa or when
the United Nations did that, the United States didn't join in for 30 years later.
And so we've really been behind on a lot of international issues like this and
it's going to have to involve really tough organizing if we're gonna beat out these
packs because they're going to keep spending money.
>> Okay, I'll just clarify one thing, it sucks and I hate it, but
I know for a fact that the progressives were scared of the money.
And so Democratic Party for Israel and
a couple of other packs that are right wing Israeli packs or
it acts that support Israel didn't want to just defeat Nina Turner
because she they said she believed in Palestinian rights.
Of course not, it's how dare she, how dare she believe that Palestinians
are actually human beings like the rest of us and they say they're not racist?
But that it wasn't just to defeat her,
it was to send a message if you dare oppose, Israel are lobbyists and
our packs will come spend millions of dollars against you.
Now that's a super uncomfortable fact, especially because the history of anti
semitism connects to jews in different countries controlling the politicians and
that was not the case and that is not the case here in America today.
It wasn't true in the past, not true today,
some of the best progressives in the country are jewish and they're also and
they're battling the right wing Israeli packs.
Okay, but is it true that those pacs spent millions of dollars to send a message?
Of course it is.
What do you think?
They just did it for fun?
They just like pacs and lobbyists are not interested in there cause when
the cause is called democratic majority for Israel.
We have mainstream media that just like says absurd things like no, they're not
for Israel, then why did they call it for Israel therefore Cleveland, are they?
Because they did, it's not called that.
So it's of course the lobbyists matter, of course millions of dollars matter.
Did it intimidate progressives and other democrats in congress?
I can tell you for a fact, yes, the money did intimidate them and yes,
the money is real, no matter what Jake Tapper tells you.
No, politicians are great, pack lobbyists are great ,packs are great, ignore it,
ignore the reality, ignore the facts.
So no, nobody in America is going to do anything.
They defeated Nina turner, they're scared to death of these packs.
So now Israel has carte blanche, they could kill people and
then when they're at their funeral, they could beat the living crap
out of the people who came to mourn there'd be no consequences.
The American government has given them a blank check.
And by the way, the other countries in the world,
you idiots are politicians are for sale, you could all buy them.
It's not about jews or non jews, that's crazy dog.
Poland can come by all of our politicians, they're all for sale, it's so easy.
You just spent a couple of million dollars in one prominent race and
then all the American politicians since everything is about bribery in America,
you could be Norwegian, you could be.
I mean by the way, the Palestinians, your best shot is collect all of your money and
buy bribe American politicians.
Maybe you could bribe them more than the other side.
It doesn't matter Iran by the way, Saudi Arabia does do it.
United Arab Emirates does do it.
They bribe almost over politicians through pacs and lobbyists.
I didn't give directly.
>> They can't coordinate Jake.
>> Well they're not coordinating at all.
Nobody had any idea what happened in that Cleveland election.
Just because democratic majority for Israel spent the most amount of money,
no one has any idea who did it.
No, we know what happened and
by the way it wasn't just them guys do not get into demagoguing and anti semitism.
There was the oil lobby in there, there's the drug companies in their Chantelle
browns put up a giant sign that said for sale and everybody who wanted to buy
a politician and came and gave her cousin tons of money.
So look, coming back to Israel for one second, I know what good people who
are loved, Israel are gonna say Jake, it's not you're not being unfair.
It's not just racism, the Palestinians have done terrorism all these years.
But what do you think Israel did you don't think it's violence to
keep them occupied for 60 years?
You don't think that's funny?
Well if you cross the border, we kill you without permission.
We covered that year's a couple of years ago.
Remember when they were starting to do protest near the border,
not even up to the border, they were like a huge distance away from the border.
Anyone who came close boom murdered.
Doctors, murdered, nurses, murdered, journalists murdered.
Yes, I'm sorry, I know it hurts your feelings, but
they were murdered by the state.
And that is also terrorism, that is also mass violence.
And you know, it's true because imagine you could fill in any blanks here,
but I'm gonna go historic here.
Imagine if the Germans had kept the jews occupied for 60 years.
He said what, we're worried about the jews, we are worried about their nature.
So we're just gonna keep them occupied for 60 years.
And if the Jews ever resist, we're gonna call them terrorists.
And we're gonna see that's why we can't give the jews freedom because they're all
terrorists because they resisted.
Now that in reality of course the Germans did far worse,
they actually killed them, Okay.
So I that's why it's important to be clear, Yes, it's a historical analogy, but
the nazists were far worse.
They set up gas chambers and they killed those poor people.
But you don't want I don't know any decent person doesn't want to go 1% of the way
there.
There's not one single logical and and non racist explanation for
why you have kept the Palestinians imprisoned, beaten and
killed for this many decades.
Goddammit, let him go already.
>> Yeah, when we have videos like this, I think it's useful, but
it's so rare that we see videos like this in mainstream American media.
But you can find them online everywhere and
it's pretty easy to decide where you fall on the issue.
When it's on video, you can see the atrocities,
you can see what's going wrong.
And so a lot of people say the issue is so complicated.
That's fine, it can be complicated but
you can still clearly see when something wrong is going on.
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>> It is not at all complicated, that is nothing but an excuse.
Millions of people are imprisoned and not allowed to have their own government and
their own freedom.
It's not remotely complicated, But somebody did a bombing 17 years ago,
three years ago.
Wow, they sent a missile over three months ago, they're occupied.
How basically I swear to you, I love you guys.
But you're literally saying how dare they want their freedom.
Don't they know their place?
Their place is to be our prisoners.
Look and for the anti Semites.
No, I want there to be a wonderful, strong, healthy Israel but this ain't it.
And as long as you keep those people occupied,
you're never gonna get to feel great about Israel.
You're never gonna have the moral high ground.
You've got to change otherwise I can't believe you've become the bad guys.
And you guys not everybody thinks the same.
Do not think it's the jews, it's not, okay?
There's right wing and left wing in every country and
everybody is, and if you're not in Israel, you're not responsible for Israel.
So please, for God's sake use normal judgment and
don't counter the occupation with your own racism and your own bigotry.