Colin Jost Applauds “Decency” Of “Genocide Joe Biden” At White House Correspondents Dinner
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This is Russell Dobular sitting in for Jimmy Dore, who will be in Denver on May 11th. Go to JimmyDore.com for tickets. We just had the royal event of royal events in America, the White House Correspondents Dinner. Oh, Jesus H. Now, the journalists in Gaza asked us,

The journalists of the West to in solidarity boycott this event. Max, maybe you know better than I do. I've done some research on this. I cannot find one person who boycotted. Do you know of any person who boycotted in response to their request? Well, there was a letter.

I know, I know Palestinian journalists who boycotted, I don't know how many would have been let in through the doors. Right. They requested a boycott, but I'm not aware of a single Western journalist who responded to that positively. So it's actually called a, they caught now, by the way. No. Uh,

So they were greeted quite warmly by the crowd. And as you can see, they gave two shits about the protesters. They could give two shits. This is like Paris 1789 stuff.

Oh, the peasants. Can't someone shut them up? Too much volume. Gotta lower the volume. I couldn't hear you. Oh, oh, oh. Can you hear me now?

Yeah, yeah. Not not only did nobody, as far as I can discern, at least out of Western reporters, boycott this event. They completely snubbed them on stage during the event.

So protesters attempted to shame journalists and politicos heading to the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday. Good luck into skipping the event in solidarity with the many journalists who have lost their lives in Gaza since Israel began its war on the territory.

For some attendees, the protests on the way in may have been the only time they heard about those journalists killed in Gaza unless they were listening very closely.

The slain journalists in Gaza were mentioned one time on stage, according to transcripts of the event, when NBC News senior White House correspondent Kelly O'Donnell said, quote, Since October, about 100 journalists have been killed, most of those deaths in Gaza, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That's blood libel. Yes, it's blood libel. That was it.

Since Hamas's October 7th attack, Israel has laid siege to Gaza, killing 34,000, displacing millions, and leaving the population at imminent risk of famine. At least 97 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, the Committee to Protect Journalists wrote on Friday.

President Joe Biden, who has steadfastly supported Israel's war, did at one point acknowledge the dangers journalists face. Quote, you literally risk your lives doing the job you do, covering everything from national disasters to pandemics to wars and so much more. And some of your colleagues have given their life and many have suffered grievous injuries. Other reporters have lost their freedom. So this being Rolling Stone, they're not even going to mention it.

that this is the president who's prosecuting Julian Assange. They're not even going to mention that. We'll let him get out, man. Come on, we got to keep him in there, man. We call him Crocodile Dundee around the Oval Office.

The White House Correspondents Dinner is Washington, D.C.'s event of the year. The night where the Beltway's top journalists, politicians, celebrities, and clingers on party with White House staff. The president attends every year, except Donald Trump, to make jokes and also submit to a roast. The only boycott ever was actually Trump? I believe so. It was only Trump. It was only Trump.

That role was performed Saturday by Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost, who did not mention Gaza. They didn't mention it. Okay. He didn't come up. That's a real comedian. He didn't even come up. Assange, not at all. Can I guess he went to Harvard? I'm going to guess he went to Harvard, right? That guy? Well, Jost, I'm actually going to play that. I'm actually going to play that because it was so disgustingly crowded. Oh, God. Have you seen any of that, Jimmy? I haven't seen it. Oh, yeah.

You're going to vomit. Jimmy's going to lose it. Get Jimmy a barf bag. So this Code Pink, while this political protest was no issue at the WHCD, multiple Code Pink attendees were violently removed for signs advocating for journalists in Gaza, so much for free speech. Oh, my God. Okay, so...

Let's take a look at Colin Jost. I mean, this was really disgusting. We were touching on this a little bit earlier with Ryan and corporate comedians. This is Craven at a level that's almost inconceivable. Now, I saw him do two good jokes on something, which was I pretend to be a journalist, too, or something. And he didn't bring Mike Che because like Biden, he was losing all his black support.

Did you hear those? No. No, but I saw him thanking Biden for making his grandfather happy, which is the clip we're going to take a look at. He voted for you, and the reason that he voted for you is because you're a decent man. Oh, Jesus. Thank you.

What is decent about Joe Biden? My grandpa voted for decency, and decency is why we're all here tonight. Decency is how we're able to be here tonight. What? What? Decency? I think his grandpa is also probably not supposed to make this job. Did his grandpa also used to shower with his daughter when he was a little girl? Decency is how we're able to make jokes about each other, and one of us doesn't go to prison after. We go to the Newsmax after party.

And when you look at the levels of freedom throughout history and even around the world today, this is the exception. This freedom is incredibly rare. And the journalists in this room help protect that freedom, and we cannot ever take that for granted. Oh my God.

And they all applauded. It is just fucking unbelievable. All right, so hang on. Before we really dive into it, I put together a couple of short clips just to remind people of how we got here. Okay? So...

You might remember there was some controversy a couple years back. Let's go back before that first. So this is the kind of thing that really cracks up this crowd. You might remember George Bush's hilarious prop comedy bit about WMDs. Let's take a quick look at that to review what really appeals to you. Let the decency wash over you. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Those weapons of mass destruction gotta be somewhere. They loved it. They loved it. Nope, no weapons over there. Maybe under here. Wow.

A war that cost the nation trillions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. If that is not a dissolute aristocracy, I don't know what is. But, so Colbert very famously kind of ribbed George Bush. Ah,

But, you know, they took it in stride because, let's face it, what is it, at the New York Times, 93% of their readers are Democrats. So that didn't bother anybody. I think it was outrageous when he did that. When Colbert did that, they acted like it was fucking outrageous what he said. Yes, but not like what Michelle Wolf did. Okay. Because he didn't go after them. He went after Bush. Okay. She went after them.

And this is how you wound up with Colin Jost sucking Biden off about his his beloved grandfather because they will never let this happen again. This was, I believe, because she was 2017. I think that she knows his date most. No. Yeah. So she's sympathetic. You guys are obsessed with Trump. Did you used to date him because you pretend like you hate him? But I think you love him.

I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you. He couldn't sell steaks or vodka or water or college or ties or Eric. But he has helped you. He's helped you sell your papers and your books and your TV.

You helped create this monster and now you're profiting off of him. And if you're gonna profit off of Trump, you should at least give him some money because he doesn't have any. Trump is so broke, he grabs pussy and loses change in them. Alright, like an immigrant who was brought here by his parents and didn't do anything wrong. Good night!

Our final line of the night was, Flint still doesn't have clean water, actually. So that's how you wound up with Colin Jost. I'm not sure if it was the very next year. I think it was. Which little? Well, they had a historian read. They were talking about getting rid of comedians altogether because they were so terrified that somebody might go up there and tell the truth again.

But now they just get comedians who have their minds right. So as a journalist, Max, you have any comment on this event? Well, I spent the night, that night up till like 2 a.m. just watching on replay the journalist going, the so-called journalist going and being heckled by protesters, anti-genocide protesters online.

I just couldn't stop watching it. It was so satisfying. I wanted to put it on like VR on like an Oculus. It was like watching VR porn. It was just incredible. Um, Ty Berry from code pink dropped a massive Palestine flag banner from a room at the Hilton. Ah, okay. Um, after getting a room, the, the protests outside were absolutely massive. Um,

Medea and Tigre were then brutally assaulted by regime security forces on hand. Medea was injured badly in her leg. You can see in the video of that,

And correspondents are walking in in their tuxedos and evening gowns, just walking right by two protesters being brutally assaulted. And they just casually ignore them because that kind of stuff doesn't happen in our country. We need to go free. Yeah.

Evan Gershkovich in Russia. And who's Julian Assange? He wasn't even mentioned the entire time. I think about when I watch those, I mean, you see the pure function of the Washington press corps there as complete stenographers for power, courtiers who are careerists and don't really care. Whatever it takes to get close to power, they're going to do it. And you contrast them with someone like Wael Dadu,

who was Al Jazeera's chief correspondent for its Arabic network in Gaza. At the beginning of Israel's assault on Gaza, I think in the first or second week,

His home was bombed. Most of his family was killed. His wife was killed. His daughter was killed. One of his sons was killed, who was a budding journalist. And he went back to work two days later. He's still working, right? None of those people would have been able to take that. And then Israel assassinated his only surviving son after killing Wael Dadu's cameraman and badly wounding Wael.

So that really contrasts with the mentality of those journalists there who showed no solidarity to Dadu or any of the 140 Palestinian journalists who were killed. And many of them were just killed in targeted assassinations, bombed while they were sleeping at home with their families. I mean, I just don't know how you can walk in there if you have a conscience, but none of those people do. They don't, like the demons don't come to them at night. Really care about journalists who are actually spies for the...

Like free the one that's probably a spy because most of them are probably assets. Well, I mean, he should be out. A hundred percent. I think he is a spy. If you look up his background, that's who the CIA picks out to do spy work almost exclusively. They know the language very well. Their parents came, you know, like how Cubans come here and then they're like, we'll help kill Kennedy. Those kind of loyal people. That's what he calls. He's what comes from max boot people. Well, this is what he was doing when he was arrested.

He was posted outside Russian metallurgical factories making artillery shells, trying to interview workers on their way out about Russia's capacity for manufacturing artillery and delivering it to the Ukrainian battlefield.

Can you imagine? That's literally what he was doing. I'm just reporting. Well, that's, I mean, that's a normal man on the street question. Spying is a kind of reporting. How many shells are coming out per hour? And I mean, I, whoever his editor is should be jailed for sending him on that assignment. Unless the assignment was crafted by the CIA. Now I would like to see him out. He's a person, you know, I feel sorry for his family.

But no Russian reporter from a Russian state media organization or major Russian media organization would be allowed to get away with going to a arms manufacturing plant in the U.S. doing the same thing. Of course. Black Uhuru can't even talk about it a little bit. They're a Russian asset. They all got to be arrested. Like a reporter, that'd be crazy. Yeah, but I think that's why they admire him so much in the Washington press corps because all of them want to be assets.

If there's anything hopeful here, I would say the heyday of this event was the Obama years. Nobody was really questioning this weird incestuous thing where a lot you didn't really see a lot of Hollywood celebrities anymore. But wait a minute. I got to interrupt. I got to interrupt. Remember Larry Wilmore's? Yes, I was on that show.

Larry Wilmore destroyed Obama and Obama was seething. He, he, so his whole sense of inviolability had been penetrated and then Larry Wilmore like disappeared. Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, you also messed up. He made like a joke about women at the, when the height of when,

you know 2015 and then he never took a chance again on any jokes like well and then you can't be funny anymore i was on with reed zakaria were you on larry one more yeah and it was reed zakaria i was on with reed zakaria and somebody else are you serious wow dead serious that was like a successor to the daily show yeah yeah and we were arguing about if a liberal college education was worth the money

That was the argument. And Freed said, yeah, it is. Because if you look statistically, that's who does the best. Statistically, weren't they going to do the best anyway, though, Freed? The people who were being pushed to that? Like, generally, I bet you added them up. They were going to be all right, whether they went or not. You're already coming from that class. Yeah, because they went to better high schools. Of course.

So I did. Did you see any video of Ryan Grimm walking past the protesters on his way into there? Because, you know, he had to be in there and I'm sure he just had to let the decency wash all over him. Am I right? You didn't see any. My question is, you didn't see it. I don't think he attended, but I don't know.

Okay. I do think this is... My reporting is that he did. I think... People are saying that he did. People are saying that. People are saying. People are saying. I think at this point, people are so... Very much like the Academy Awards. People are so disgusted by their elites that they just don't want to embrace them anymore. I think the change has been...

People don't see them as our elites anymore. They see them as the elites. So the last time I paid any attention to the White House Correspondents Center, it was when I sponsored Randy Credico to go there and report back for our show. And he did a protest for Julian Assange in the middle of it. He wore a tuxedo. He got invited. Somehow he got invited. And so...

And we bankrolled him to go there. And he got kicked out because he said something about Julian Assange. And so they immediately had the security knock him, cuff him and throw him out. And guess what? Nobody reported about it.

Room full of fucking reporters. Not one news article written about it. Not one tweet about it. Not anything. They all acted like it didn't happen. Well, it's a big party where they celebrate that they're all in on it. That's what they're doing. Why does it exist at all? It's literally where they all acknowledge the conspiracy in one room and have a good chuckle about it. And then you're an asshole if you think there's a conspiracy. That's right.

Yeah, and that's why no protesters were probably able to get inside, right? Because most of these high-profile Biden events this year have had protesters heckle him from in the room. But I guess that's so tightly controlled who gets in that they just couldn't get somebody in. Have you ever been invited, Max? No.

No, I mean, I mean, you get into places I would not think they'd let you in. That's why I ask. Hey, Max, let me have the party and bring your adrenochrome. Bring a body with adrenochrome. I was kind of wondering what would happen if I if I just walked up to it with a tuxedo on. Maybe they would just let me in because why not?

I mean, well, I'm going to give it a try. I got into, uh, in 2001, I guess it was right after the nine 11 attacks. I was living in LA and I got into the Academy awards by just walking up there. Like I belonged. And I went, I was like in the auditorium. I went to the governor's ball. I walked out on the red carpet. They just let me in. Cause I just walked up to the rope line with confidence. So, um,

I don't know. Yeah, I think that works. If you walk with purpose like you belong somewhere, that'll work probably most of the time. Yeah. I was like, I'm a white man owning this. Sashay work. Only a Planet Fitness. That only works there. All right, Max, where can people find you? People know where to find me. Don't rat out Max. That's right.

But Max, you want to get me wherever the Mossad is looking. You know, seriously, before I let you go, do you ever worry about that? Do you ever worry about the Mossad agent? You know, you're having an accident, that kind of thing. Not, you know, knock on wood and all that, because honestly, you know, I'm not as visible as you are. And it definitely occurs to me like not now, but maybe down the line.

After that happens, someone will clip this out and it'll go viral. Are you, are you, are you and Aaron are still around is an inspiration to anti-Zionist Jewish podcasters everywhere. What if they capture you and make you stop hating yourself? I keep trying to get Jimmy to join Bohemian Grove. I don't know what happens if he keeps turning them down. Um, you know, you can't live your life in fear and, uh,

You can't be swinging at shadows. So I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. And I'm finding a lot of hope in what's happening across this country on campuses, in cities where people are protesting against the Biden-backed genocide.

And I'm, you know, I'm just glad to be alive right now. So I'm going to get up every day. This is my philosophy and just be the biggest bastard I can be. And whatever happens, happens. Now, those are words to live by from Mr. Max Blumenthal. All right, Max. And I'll be opening for Jimmy in June. What's that? We're doing a show together in June.

uh oh yeah that's right uh we're doing a show at the uh what's it called the uh it's rutherford new jersey yeah the icarus festival i think it's like june 10th or something like that max and i'll be doing a stand-up show together so everybody oh nice should uh i think there's a link for tickets have my website no yeah so there's a link for tickets over at jimmy door.com and uh go get them there uh

Don't buy tickets from resellers. And someone pay $100 per ticket to see me in San Antonio. You know, tickets are only $35. I don't know why. Anyway, so, yeah, so we'll see you. I think it's June 10th in Rutherford, New Jersey at the Icarus Festival. Max will be there. There's a couple other comedians, too. It's going to be a great time. See you there. Yeah. So something to live for. June 7th. June 7th. It's a Friday night.

Yeah, the Icarus Festival, it's great. I mean, really cool people. I think that's my favorite thing about it is just everyone there is woke in the good way. Also, May 15th, since I got a platform now, May 15th, I'll be in New York. I'll announce it on Twitter with Anya Parampil, my very close colleague, for the launch of her book, Corporate Coup, which you can order right now.

Is it May 15th? Isn't that the Nakba? I imagine there's going to be massive demonstrations. That's May 15th, right? I know it's mid-May, right? It's Israel Independence Day. What are you talking about? I imagine there's going to be massive protests that day, obviously. There has to be. Do they have a Nakba? So you're doing like a book launch? Yeah, we'll be at the OR Books headquarters offices in...

The East Village in New York, and it's a book launch discussion. It'll be cool. Might even have some stand-up there. I don't know. We're trying to figure out the contours of the event. But if you're in New York and you're watching, look out for that, and I'll definitely be there. Who's published that book? Who's publishing it? It's called OR. Okay. They have some...

Have them send me a copy. I'd love to see it. And I'd love to have her on the show to talk about it. If she wants to, if she's not embarrassed to come on the show with me, I know I'm a, no, definitely. She, she would love that. And, uh, I think they're going to do two titles with Aaron Mate as well. So we're hoping he finishes his books.

Yeah, I don't think Aaron's going to finish his book. But good luck to him on that. Anyway, he's not really good with deadlines. He's not pushing himself. Anyway, but I'm glad he comes out to Los Angeles. I get to see him every once in a while. Anyway, all right, Max. Great to talk to you, pal. Tell Anya we said hello. Give your baby a kiss for us. Sure. And we'll see you soon. Thank you very much, Max.

Peace. Thanks for having me on.

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This is Russell Dobular sitting in for Jimmy Dore, who will be in Denver on May 11th. Go to JimmyDore.com for tickets. I have my partner there, Mr. Keaton Weiss, sitting in. Right there.

And joining us is the man, the legend, Max Blumenthal, is an award-winning journalist as well as the editor-in-chief and founder of the independent investigative news website, The Gray Zone. He's also the best-selling author of several books, including Goliath, The 51-Day War, and The Management of Savagery. Please welcome Mr. Max Blumenthal. Welcome, Max.

Good to see you guys. Good seeing you. You know, every day you don't get garroted by the Mossad makes me feel more confident they're never going to come for me. So when they do, it'll be like they'll hire a gay Puerto Rican guy named Richie Torres to do it. Oh, yeah. Well, we're working with his opponent. We're working with his opponent, Jose Vega, who's challenging him as an independent.

That'll be fun. So this was something you chimed in on this week. Police clear 100 protesters from pro-Palestinian encampment at Northeastern University. And this is another one of these stories we're seeing this week. I call it attack of the cry bullies. You had the woman who went and made a fool out of herself with her. I am a Jew T-shirt that everyone promptly ignored. We had the woman who claimed to be stabbed in the eye.

And this week you had basically a false flag operation. So we'll just read a little bit of this. In the second dramatic sweep of a college campus in Boston this week, police cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at Northeastern University early Saturday, detaining around 100 people.

But the police operation gave way to a roiling debate over the origin of an anti-Semitic statement that was shouted among the gathering, which included at least two counter demonstrators holding a flag of Israel before officers moved in and dismantled the encampment.

In a statement released at 8.30 a.m. Saturday, Northeastern said the professional organizers with no affiliation to the university had co-opted the demonstration. Northeastern also said virulent anti-Semitic slurs, including kill the Jews, were heard.

Student groups involved in the encampment at a peace activist organization said one of the counter protesters who was not involved in the demonstration had shouted, kill the Jews, and that Northeastern had incorrectly blamed the pro-Palestinian demonstrators for the statement to justify the police action. All right, so this is Max here.

Northeastern University crushed an anti-genocide protest because someone was heard shouting, kill the Jews. At 10 seconds, it is clear a pro-Israel counter-protester holding an Israeli flag was the one who uttered that phrase. Yet another Zionist hate crime hoax. So let's see. Watch closely. You can see the person shout those words. My check!

Okay, so for anyone who's never been to one of these protests, if you don't understand what's happening here.

A lot of times they're not allowed to have amplification. So what they do is the speaker speaks and everyone repeats their words. That's why she's saying mic check. That's to get everybody unified to repeat their words. So the word will go out to everybody. So what they were trying to do is insert kill the Jews into that as if that had come from her. You want to say anything, Max? Well, you could even tell from the voice. It was just the unmistakable.

quintessential voice of a Jewish. Well, well, you two, this one is like, kill the Jews. Yeah.

Well, you and Aaron, we covered that on Friday, actually. You covered these guys in cafeas who are clearly Jews. Yes, it's going to be October 7th a thousand times over. No, they said never forget the 7th of October. Yeah. The 7th of October. He's like, oh, my God.

I'm going to sneeze. I need some Claritin. Where's my allergy medicine? I need my inhaler. I'm yelling too much. They're not the only Jews who are not funny. They're some of the only Jews who are not smart. Like, they're dumb, too. They're not just unfunny. They're stupid. Like, all they have is their violence.

That's the only tool they have. Zionists destroy the stereotype of superior Jewish intelligence and sense of humor. Exactly. They're undermining the chosen people trope. Israelis, their humor is like, the Palestinian baby is under three floors of a building. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.

Like they don't even understand Seinfeld jokes. Right. No, no, no. When he goes to Israel, he has to be like, what is the deal with Palestinian civilians? They're just always there whenever the bomb falls. Why don't they go somewhere else? Got to really dumb down the act. Yeah.

All right. So let's start humor is that's forget it way too much. Another hate crime hoax got 100 people arrested. And I don't know. Do you have the university administration statement at hand? I a little bit of it. All right. So let's just watch. I mean, they just they acknowledge that it was like a hoax and they still justified arresting. Well, well, and they yeah. And they said it was a crazy state. Well, we'll get to it. So it was a separating joke. My God.

I like that! When these people cry, that means you repeat to me what I say to you, got it? Got it!

Kill the Jews. Anybody on board? Anybody on board? You just chanted. You just chanted. You just chanted. I am safe for them. And the actual protesters are booing. We're going to let them leave. We're going to let them leave. We're going to give them a pass. We're going to give them a pass. We're going to let them leave. We're going to let them leave. Everybody got it? Everybody got it?

What do we want?

So, so, and this is something else. This fucking genius starts talking about how they're funded by Qatar when there are stories everywhere about how Qatar was actually acting as the bag man go-between for Netanyahu and Hamas.

They're trying to scapegoat. It was the Israeli finance minister who was on Morning Joe who started trying to deflect to Qatar when he was being confronted. So this is one of their talking points right now. Yeah, well, the head of the ADL has accused them of being funded by Iran. Nancy Pelosi has accused them of being funded by Russia and China. It's basically the whole axis of evil.

Right. They can't decide who is behind all this. Whatever's convenient that day. But, you know, obviously they're not kicking in a lot of money because, I mean, look at that. There's like a few tents and, you know, they would have fancier masks. They should have like, you know, like high level gas masks. Yeah. Where's all that oil money going? Shortly after 11 a.m., Northeastern issued another statement addressing the remark.

The statement didn't address who was responsible for shouting the phrase and cited the Boston Globe as reporting that a person yelled the remark on campus. Okay, so this is what you're referring to, and it's insane. It's an insane formulation. Quote, the fact that the phrase killed the Jews was shouted on our campus is not in dispute.

The Boston Globe, a trusted news organization, reported it as fact. There is also substantial video evidence. Any suggestion that repulsive anti-Semitic comments are sometimes acceptable, depending on the context, is reprehensible. That language has no place on any university campus. Thank you, Renata." So this is the VP of Communications.

Um, so this is a Cole Moran. Uh, this is an insane way to admit your final straw for arresting protesters was something they didn't do like that. That is just nuts. So yeah, somebody said it as a false flag to get you to do exactly what you did. Max. Yeah. The fact, the fact that somebody said it is all we need to shut this down. Right. Is a pretty crazy.

insane PR maneuver. I've never seen anything like that, to be honest. And it just shows how craven and dishonest these university administrators are. Northeastern University rakes in tons of money from pro-Israel funders. Trying to think of the guy's name, there's a statue honoring him on campus. He funds a lot of Islamophobic groups.

Anti-Palestinian groups, some of the most extremist groups. And I mean, that's really what this all comes down to. That's why that statement had to be made. They were looking for some pretext to arrest all the students. They're arresting them for speech, even if they were they had someone had said kill the Jews that would not provide sufficient grounds for arresting them under the Constitution because hate speech is protected. Right, right. And the person they didn't arrest was the person who said it.

That person's actually not been arrested. So this, it just seems like this is really exposing a generation of

to the reality of the system that they're a part of. I keep making the comparison, as many people do, to the Vietnam era. I think there was a similar cognitive dissonance between this post-war vision that the boomers had been fed of America's on the side of the right, and then they see peasants being bombed in Vietnam, they see segregated lunch counters in the south,

And the divide between what they've been told America is is just too great. Do you feel like that's what's happening now? You know, the parallel to the Vietnam War is...

It brings up some interesting issues. The donor, by the way, that I had mentioned before is on the board of trustees at Northeastern University. His name is Robert Shillman. He's funded the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He's funded AIPAC, the Zionist Organization of America. He runs the gamut of major Israel funders. He is on the board of trustees and he is calling the shots. The police answer to him and he

is a cutout of the Israeli government. That's essentially what's going on here. I mean, one of the key differences here between what we saw during the Vietnam era protests and what these students are doing, which actually speaks to the kind of ideological or political purity of these students' motives, is that none of them are being drafted. None of them have any real skin in the game. They're just doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

During the Vietnam era, we saw middle class American youth organized partly because it was their asses on the line. A lot of them, when they went into positions of influence, wound up aligning themselves against these students, supporting the pro-war Democratic Party, and turning on everything they professed to believe during the Vietnam era. That's why the Democratic Party is the party of war.

under the control of the baby boom generation that opposed the Vietnam War. So what we're seeing here is a lot different. But we're going to see some of the same political divisions play out with the youthful base of the Democratic Party or what the Democrats take for granted as their progressive base, refusing to just go along with Genocide Joe

In about two weeks, all these protests are going to end no matter what the police do because the semester ends. Summer begins. There's no point in holding your ground there. So everything's going to have to go to Chicago to the Democratic Convention. And the symbolism of 1968 in Chicago and 2024 in Chicago is unmistakable.

And what do you think happens in September when they all have to go back to campus? Like, I've been thinking about this. Like, how does this not just turn you off to the whole thing? How do you even go back after something like this? Yeah, a lot of them won't be. I mean, yeah, we're witnessing. Well, they're threatening to suspend them now, right? But whether they suspend them or not, yeah. The model of the kind of neoliberal university campus that's essentially controlled by billionaires is being discredited. All the institutions...

of the kind of post-war liberal democracy created in the US, which were hollowed out after the abandonment of the New Deal and the Great Society in the 1990s. They're all being discredited, whether it's corporate media, which was consolidated in the 1990s when Bill Clinton deregulated media, to the university campus itself,

uh, to Congress, which has, which is the only institution I think with a lower approval rating than the media in America. And so these students, I mean, for why are they on campus if they're not there for pre-professional reasons, they don't want to go into business management. They're not conformists. What is the, what are they going to get out of it? Right.

Uh, why do they need to go into debt? Student debt is not going to be repaid.

Americans' debt is out of control. For the first time, we're seeing credit card debt among Americans exceed a trillion dollars. None of these students, except ones with inherited wealth, will be able to buy homes with interest rates the way they are, let alone groceries with inflation rates the way they are. Why do you want to be saddled with massive amounts of loans that you have to pay back and insane interest rates

When you're treated like crap on campus and you feel like you're being occupied by a foreign apartheid state and you're being brutalized and now students at University of Texas are being pepper sprayed for protesting a genocide. What is the point? So do you think you'll see a mass wave of withdrawals from these universities? I'm surprised they're still standing after what they did during the COVID event. Right. I think it's still, you know, we'll see some kind of alternative situation.

to the Ivy League structure and the neoliberal structure of universities where you're paying like $80,000 a year to some university and you stay on campus and you're suddenly not allowed to access your own dorm that you rented because of your political views, some alternative is going to have to be created. And we see libertarians trying to create an alternative to the university. We don't see anyone from the progressive left doing it. But I think this is

It's kind of a lesson here. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Max, who do you even Max? Just Jimmy Dore from the Jimmy Dore show. Who do you even consider on the progressive left anymore? I I honestly don't know what these labels mean anymore. I've heard people say this.

But every day it's worse and worse. What is left? People on the left. The people who I know who consider themselves on the left have been for every fucking war in my lifetime. They were for Libya, Afghanistan, Syria. They're for Ukraine. And finally, the young Turks found a war they couldn't stomach, which was Gaza.

I mean, they're they're for censorship. They're for forced medical experiments being performed on people or they can't. What the fuck makes any of those people left? What? None of those people. I'm talking, you know, Cornel West and everybody who supports them. They're not left. Yeah. I mean, I think about the left.

Like I think about something that plays in a, like on a classic rock radio. Yeah. They're going to be phased out with top 40 soon. They're the scary way to have a classic rock now is the music of my youth. So that I didn't listen to at the time. But yeah, I mean, you think about like the greatest hits of the progressive left in the U S and it's kind of like, there are people coasting on the novelty of past social struggles and,

However, this is something significant that has international credibility that's spreading across the country. You can't call it right wing.

So I don't know what you want to call it. And a lot of the right-wingers who hate what's going on on these campuses are just hating on it on the basis of aesthetics. The students are wearing masks and some of them have purple hair or whatever. They look woke. They say woke stuff. They're not even interrogating whether they're right or not. So they're playing into the same...

uh they're they're playing into the same politicization that the left did during the covet event when they branded anyone who protested mandates and lockdowns as right-wingers as fascists as nazis and then failed to even interrogate whether the vaccine actually works what the social consequences of the lockdowns would be so the hypocrisy of the right is

being exploded right now, if you want to even call it the right, I don't know what to call it. The America First movement, if you're for America First, why are you supporting giving billions and billions of dollars a year to a foreign apartheid entity 5,000 miles away, which is the country that spies on the United States more than any other country, which during the Trump administration was exposed for planting listening devices near the White House.

which is just paying off members of Congress to ship our tax dollars to this foreign entity. I don't know how that's America first. If you are for free speech, as Elon Musk claims to be, why are you removing the Twitter account of Nelson Mandela's grandson as soon as he boards the flotilla from Turkey to Gaza? Why...

Are you retweeting Benjamin Netanyahu, a foreign leader calling for the US federal government to stage a Kent State-style repression of these students? That's not free speech. We've seen so much hypocrisy from the left on COVID, on supporting the pro-war Democrats up until October 7th. Since October 7th, I feel like we're back in the Bush era, like...

Like the good old Bush era. Yeah, it's coming back. You can see they're bringing it back like reversing course on an MCU movie. It's like they've burned out the fake left. And now I can already see the setup because Trump went all in on that, apparently giving money to Trump.

And a bunch of other weird shit. So what that means is the fake left, you know, the Eagle has two wings and with the fake left and right battle it out. And the powers of ego, okay, we're switching to this format. The station is switching format. So get ready for it. And after Joey Diaz said that Mario Boat left thing, because he was a guy from Cuba. Right, right. That's Venezuela. So everybody's coming here.

Remember how Miami had that problem with drugs? We're going to have that, and it's going to be an 80s boom time. I kill a cop this for fun. And that's what 2030 is going to be all about. It's going to be we had a last minute format change to like a new Reagan kind of thing. I'll bet you that's what's planned.

You mentioned that this movement now has international credibility, and I think you're absolutely right. I think it does. In terms of the left maintaining that, I think when AOC showed up to that campus...

They should have said she's not welcome there. I'm sorry. Anybody who's going to go and shill for Joe Biden this summer and this fall is not welcome on this campus right now. We don't need your help. Thank you. Go fuck yourself. That's what they should say, because otherwise the movement will be co-opted, just like every other left anti-war movement has been co-opted. She's there to make it known that it's okay to oppose genocide, but still vote for genocide, Joe. That's the purpose she serves by going there.

is to give permission to everybody who's appalled by what's going on to say, yeah, we know we're appalled by it, but we can still vote for Joe Biden in November. And I think she should have been not forcibly kicked out, but she should have been told she's not welcome there. And anybody who's going to support Joe Biden this November should not be welcome in these protests. That's my opinion. What do you think? She's so under the control of House leadership, including

Apex, Stooge, Hakeem Jeffries and Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, that there's no way she didn't go there without some kind of strategic directive from them and from the Biden White House immediately after meeting Biden and making this Faustian bargain with him to get the Climate Corps funded in exchange for supporting someone she accused of genocide two days before. Yeah.

So I completely agree. And the Democrats are masters of co-opting social movements. That's what they did with BLM. They dumped in tons of foundation money from Soros and the Ford Foundation. And they just basically paid everyone to go home after they got what they wanted out of it, which was to kind of like destabilize the country under Trump.

And that didn't lead to any real reforms that I can see. There's a new stripe on the gay flag. What are you talking about? There's a black stripe on the gay flag. That's true. It got more colorful. Okay. So I think- The flag that I see everywhere in DC where people who work for the arms industry- Yeah. Now black isn't gender. They're very oppressed. They're very oppressed at Lockheed Martin with their float in the pride parade.

This is Russell Dobular sitting in for Jimmy Dore, who will be in Denver on May 11th. Go to JimmyDore.com for tickets. So let's go to some good news. You're bringing everybody down, Max. Israeli officials believe ICC is preparing arrest warrants over war.

Israeli officials increasingly believe that the International Criminal Court is preparing to issue arrest warrants for senior government officials on charges related to the conflict with Hamas, according to five Israeli and foreign officials. The Israeli and foreign officials also believe the court is weighing arrest warrants for leaders from Hamas.

If the court proceeds, the Israeli officials could potentially be accused of preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and pursuing an excessively harsh response to the Hamas-led October 7th attacks on Israel, according to two of the five officials.

The Israeli officials, who were worried about the potential fallout from such a case, said they believe that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is among those who might be named in a warrant.

Mr. Netanyahu's office would not comment, but on Friday, the prime minister said on social media that any intervention by the ICC, quote, would set a dangerous precedent that threatens the soldiers and officials of all democracies fighting savage terrorism and wanton aggression. He also said.

Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense. The threat to seize the soldiers and officials of the Middle East's only democracy...

and the world's only Jewish state is outrageous. We will not bow to it. If the ICC does issue arrest warrants, they would come with deep stigmatization, placing those named in them in the same category as foreign leaders like Omar al-Bashir, the deposed president of Sudan,

and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, who was the subject of a warrant last year tied to his war against Ukraine. So not surprisingly, the U.S. is working to stop the ICC from issuing the arrest warrant, but their grounds are pretty funny. They're arguing that they shouldn't issue the warrants because Israel isn't a party to the Rome Statute under which the ICC operates, but neither is Russia.

Is this just for black people, the ICC? But we were very fulsome about issuing a warrant for Putin. And here's Speaker Johnson, as we call him around these parts, Mike Gloryhole of the House Johnson. The ICC should stand down on this immediately.

Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorist organizations seeking to destroy it. Note to the ICC, the real criminals are with Hamas and in Iran. So, Max, what are your thoughts about these warrants? Will they issue them, and are they meaningful if they do? Well, I don't know if they're going to issue them.

And I would be surprised, Kurt, if they indicted a white person. Although I guess Putin, Milosevic. They would consider themselves white. A white US ally. Hitler would not have considered the Russians white, but they consider themselves white. They're Asiatic. They're Asiatic, yes. The Asian hordes. Okay, so a non-Asiatic white person in Netanyahu. Although his family comes from Lithuania and his real name is Milakovsky. So I don't know where he fits in there, but-

Okay, the prosecutor of the ICC is basically under the control of British intelligence and has been. The warrant for Putin was completely based on this concocted piece of research produced by a State Department-funded operative who was working at Yale. We covered this at The Gray Zone in great detail, showed how the warrant was based on phony research.

Putin was accused of stealing children from Ukraine, thousands of children. He's Jeffrey Epstein or something. He's running around in a white van stealing children. The reality is he was evacuating children in areas controlled by the Russian military where people were ethnically Russian, wanted to be evacuated from the war zone to the Russian Federation. And a lot of the children were given, young people were put in

free schools and camps where they got classical music instruction. Actually, our reporter, Jeremy Lafredo, visited one of those camps. The U.S. was encouraging this all the way, even though Russia was not a party to the Rome Statute. Now we have the U.S. declaring that it's going to block this potential ICC warrant. But I would be surprised if Kareem Khan, someone like him who owes his career to

to the British government would actually do this. It would show that the situation is so severe and that the warrant, the indictment was so airtight that he simply had to do it. I would agree. This seems like the easiest indictment for the ICC to issue because not only do you have evidence of war crimes on the ground, almost the entire Gaza Strip outside of Rafah is destroyed. You have over 40,000 dead.

more children killed in any conflict in such a short period of time than any conflict I think in the last 20, 30 years. Certainly in the last four years.

You also have intent. You have clear intent to commit war crimes. They're not even trying to prove genocide. To commit war crimes expressed by the leadership, by Netanyahu, referred to the Palestinians as Amalek. Look up the biblical resonance of that term. You have Gallant, the defense minister, who called them human animals and announcing that he would commit the war crime of turning off their water and their heat and their electricity.

And, you know, Amihai Eliyahu, the housing minister, I think, he called for dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza. I could just go on and on. Yeah, smart. That'll end it. In a place the size of New Jersey, use nuclear weapons. That's a brilliant answer. Yes, when you're right next door. They keep Jews safe there. Yeah. They're smart nukes. They only kill Arabs. Well, there have been, this rumor has been pretty persistent. Yeah.

So, I mean, I'm hopeful that there is something to it, that these, the crimes that Israel is committing in broad daylight are just a bit much. I mean, it seems like you wouldn't be hearing this again and again if it wasn't going to happen. Again, maybe that's naive, but yeah, it's, it's. I mean, Netanyahu issued a statement about it, warning against it, um,

So it is possible the ICJ, which is obviously different from the ICC and Israel as a party to the ICJ, has already issued a provisional ruling that Israel must cease committing genocide. Right. Yes. And the judge, the chief justice, the chief judge there was an American judge.

who I was actually shocked that she went along with the decision. Israel's in hot water. Netanyahu could face an actual warrant, and it would mean that he would have to simply be careful about where he travels. It would certainly not affect

his ability to rule in Israel, the Israeli public. It would mean nothing to them except that the whole world is against them, that everyone's anti-Semitic. Everyone's anti-Semitic, yes. But I feel like history is being made right now. In these past weeks and coming weeks, we're experiencing years of history that I've been waiting for for a long time and never thought I would actually get to witness.

where we're starting to see the underpinnings of Zionism be unraveled. And very quickly, very quickly, you're seeing a lot of people who really didn't know very much about this being exposed to it. And once they're exposed to the facts...

It's not very hard to make the case that by definition, a Jewish state in an Arab neighborhood is an apartheid state by definition. That's not a hard concept for people to grasp. Yeah, I mean, I think this is all coming apart pretty quickly in like the public mind worldwide.

The question, though, and this kind of is just kind of builds on what you were saying, Max, is, you know, how quickly do we see the world start to look like it is reconsidering the underpinnings of Zionism? Because as you guys were just saying, you know.

If Netanyahu does have a warrant written out for him at the ICC, the response will no doubt be, well, the ICC is anti-Semitic. The world has it in for the Jews. This is proof of that. That will not only take hold in Israel, obviously.

But certainly our government here and our media here will do everything they can to make sure that that is the dominant view here. And even if it isn't the dominant view here at the rank and file, meaning amongst we the people, that will almost certainly be the dominant view amongst the people in power who decide whether or not to continue to support Israel. So what do you think –

I mean, this is a tough one, but what do you think the lag time is, if you will, in between a potential arrest warrant, these formal declarations of Israel as a criminal state, and the world to start looking like that? Well, let's just consider who is behind Netanyahu. Can you think of anyone else who could potentially lead Israel through a crisis like this other than Netanyahu, as odious as he is?

I mean, think of any names come to mind. Any faces? No, no, no, no one. No one knows who they are. Most of them can't even. Right. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe they can like nationalize. I don't know. Seinfeld. I mean, like Gavir. Harvey Weinstein. Once he gets out of here. Successor. Harvey Weinstein gets out. I'm just there. There aren't that many people who speak English.

They don't really have many people who can speak English behind Netanyahu that have national appeal. He's sort of a unique figure. They call him King Bibi in Israel. He might be hated by most of the population, but the segment of the population that loves him, loves him intensely and is out in the street defending him. There's no other figure in Israel like that. I mean, Osama bin Laden had that kind of appeal.

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