Jon Stewart does an enormous disservice to
his audience when he conflates anti-Zionism
with anti-Semitism.
It really is unpleasant to watch Jon Stewart
when he conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
I think his main hobby was reading was reading
anti-Zionist and anti-American books.
Oh, you can't go wrong with those, those are
just – is there enough of those for 6 years?
that's just like … that seems like a lot
of rereading – you want to go Protocols
again?
Yeah, why not, let's go Protocols.
Uh.
The guest is talking about anti-Zionism and
then Stewart brings up a book known as an
example of anti-Semitism and doing so conflates
anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
As Noam Chomsky points out in his classic
Necessary Illusions: There have long been
efforts to identify anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
in an effort to exploit anti-racist sentiment
for political ends; “one of the chief tasks
of any dialogue with the Gentile world is
to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism
and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all,”
Israeli diplomat Abba Eban argued, in a typical
expression of this intellectually and morally
disreputable position.
And it's interesting that this guest plays
the game too.
He could have said, "no, no Jon, I said ZIONISM,
don't try to equate Zionism with Judaism.
This is part of a pattern with Jon Stewart.
I talked about this kind of thing in a previous
video which you an see hear.
And you can read Necessary Illusions, the
whole book is available for free online.
So I put a link to that in the video description.
There are powerful people that are manipulating
the general public and that's why I think
we have to change the playing field.
We can't continue like this, being dominated
by media outlets that continue to misrepresent
one of the most traumatic events in American
history: the attacks on 9/11.
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