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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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