They're not "getting it wrong", they're just lying, knowingly.

@donjindra

2 ай бұрын

They are being too kind to the protesters. That's their only wrong.

@OscarLangleySoryu

Ай бұрын

@@donjindraok Adolf

@eypu999

Ай бұрын

@@donjindrathe media? Too kind? Bro watching a different media

@donjindra

Ай бұрын

@@eypu999 We're probably watching similar media. More likely we have different perspectives on moral judgment and civil behavior.

@waltonsmith7210

Ай бұрын

​@@donjindraIf you think their behavior is uncivil, you're an absolute psychopath. They're standing up against institutions funding a brutal militaristic apartheid state, and you're criticizing them for being "uncivil"? Are you kidding me?

Criticizing Israel, the nation-state, is not Antisemetic. Equating all Jewish people with Israel sure is though! It flattens an entire group of people with their own individual thoughts and feelings into a lockstep monolith. It dehumanizes all Jewish people.

@aliasibrahim8539

2 ай бұрын

Israel equates all Jewish people with Israel. Get that right.

@EasyWater

2 ай бұрын

​@@aliasibrahim8539 oh definitely. Israel is fascist, which is why they are also often antisemitic.

@UsenameTakenWasTaken

2 ай бұрын

​@@aliasibrahim8539 Yes, we are, indeed, calling Israel anti-semitic in that specific way. They are doing an anti-semitism by engaging in that philosophy.

@Val17282

Ай бұрын

​@@UsenameTakenWasTaken Even Zionism itself needs antisemitism to push the narrative that the only "safe" place Jews live at is Israel, in order to further justify colonizing Palestine. That goes without mentioning that Palestinian jews coexisted relatively peacefully with Palestinian muslims and christians, which completely destroys Israel's narrative and exposes it as the white supremacist colony it is.

@NotInMYName_AntiZionistJew

Ай бұрын

💯 👏 👏 👏 👍 👍

"Do you think Stonewall was an email?" 💀💀💀💀

@weatheranddarkness

Ай бұрын

hahaha so succint!

The NYU Professors comment about young people not having sex gives off such major creepy uncle vibes what the hell

@ville__

Ай бұрын

WHO‎ ASKED‎ +‎ MY‎ CONTENT‎ IS‎ WAY‎ BETTER‎ UTTP‎ IS‎ WAY‎ BETTER‎ THAN‎ PENGUINZ0

@pissfather6798

Ай бұрын

imagine genuinely sitting on live television and then saying something so utterly bizarre with a straight face...just baffling frankly

@user-mk4kz1lp4j

Ай бұрын

Dude was definitely projecting 😂

@HeilIsrael

Ай бұрын

@@user-mk4kz1lp4jnah actually the rates of sex and relationship are a major sign of mental and physical health. So Im not gonna watch to the creepy uncle guy, and I believe you some, but we do know that sexual health is one of the best ways to measure health of people. Low or even medium sexual desire is 99.99% of the time related to mental health and physical health. If you really think about it, the desire to have sex is the most selected for trait in humans. It also is the least likely to show up as mutation or a recessive trait because of how it’s essentially the most selected for trait. Therefore, young people 18-30 not having lots of sex is not only unhealthy relationships/sexual experience, it’s also basically a guarantee that the person has a pretty serious mental/physical health issue. The only exception is those that are extremely horny but they follow religious, spiritual (saving sex for marriage or special people) or health related pressure. Even the spiritual factor is still a sign of at least a failure of having a relationship, as a normal person would seek and find a healthy partner to be with for sex. Sure in that case that person may not have problems but everyone else does. But anyways lower sex drives and sexual activity are one of the best ways to determine health, and it is one of the absolute last things to go wrong. The other truth is that very very few people could have a congenital or genetic cause or asexuality. Because it’s an absolute selected for trait, as you can’t have kids without sex, even the most recessive traits will be weeded out over time.

@actualgoblin

Ай бұрын

​@@HeilIsraelPersonally I think it's mature and responsible for college students to abstain

Airing photos of encampments immediately after police raids as evidence that encampments are disorderly is giving very 'child bully taunting 'stop hitting yourself!' after smacking you with your own hand' energy

@levibee9451

2 ай бұрын

These police departments train with Israeli forces including instruction in manufacturing public narratives. Insisting that whatever they do to arrestees is the arrestees' own fault is reflexive to them at this point. Very "look what you made me do!"

@weatheranddarkness

Ай бұрын

YUUUUP!!!

@ville__

Ай бұрын

WHO‎ ASKED‎ +‎ MY‎ CONTENT‎ IS‎ WAY‎ BETTER‎ UTTP‎ IS‎ WAY‎ BETTER‎ THAN‎ PENGUINZ0

@cringegaming1237

Ай бұрын

You don’t get to break into Hamilton hall

'Buuuuut WHHHHHHHYYY won't they come over to talk to me anymore???!' cried the hungry lion to the antelopes. Gives a whole new level to victimhood mentality 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Doubtlessly

Ай бұрын

I laughed out loud at the crocodile tears. I couldn’t believe anyone older than 10 would do that. Jeez

You're on the right side of history. I'm a 62-year-old wyte woman and largely disgusted by my cohort's take on this topic. Never occurred to me over the years that I needed to ask potential friends "What's your take on genocide? Never acceptable? Or okay as long as it's poorish, brownish people waaaay over there, where we don't have to hear and see their suffering, and they have some land our friends really want?" White phosphorus burning children's flesh to the bone, healthcare workers buried alive, journalists targeted and murdered, infrastructure obliterated, deliberate famine ... and okay, the world did blink for a minnit when WCK aid workers were "accidentally" slaughtered because those victims felt like real people or something, I guess. But now untidiness rises on our streets and campuses and it's so uncomfortable, let's clutch our pearls. I have no fucking pearls to clutch.

@dandelion3391

2 ай бұрын

I have no fucking pearls to clutch is a bar

@magnetronmaaltijden

2 ай бұрын

THIS TAKE OMG

@matei4964

2 ай бұрын

white*

@MossTunic

2 ай бұрын

i really appreciate hearing this from someone your age. my mom is a bit older than you, & she encourages israel's actions but she didn't even know Palestine has (had...) hospitals & universities. i continuely try to appeal to any humanity in her but it's not there. i don't know why i expected more from the same woman who made me & my mentally ill little sister & her emotional support dog houseless after we lost our jobs in 2020. she didn't need us to help with rent money or nothing, she's a landlord for two properties. sorry for going on a little bit of a ramble. thank you for speaking up & having strong empathy & love. wishing nothing but the best for you 🫂🧡

@cathyn7640

2 ай бұрын

@@MossTunic Sending you love, honey.

As someone who was tangentially involved in student organizing over a decade ago, I have to say that I find it wild how people are acting like student protests having designated media liaisons is somehow new or unusual. Like, I'm sorry that these people have apparently never interacted with student organizing before but this isn't some sinister conspiracy, this is literally well-established organizing practice-and for good reason!

@brookiegremlin6660

Ай бұрын

what kind of movements did you organize for?

I’m a student at the university of Michigan; I actually know the student featured in the thumbnail. I just want to say that all this talk about college students not knowing what we’re getting ourselves into or not knowing about the issue is projection, in my experience. I got involved in pro-Palestine activism for a pretty dramatic reason (I was friends with Aaron Bushnell), and I feel ashamed that I didn’t before-and I didn’t before precisely because I was uneducated on the topic and felt uncomfortable with it. So now that I’m involved, and a whole lot more educated on the topic, I ask everyone I meet, “What got you involved in this activism?” Many friends are Muslim and grew up hearing about the plight of the Palestinians and caring about them, but this is the first time they’ve gotten involved in any organizing. Many are Jewish leftists and got involved after October, out of a frustration with people continually trying to speak for them. Most white non-Jews I meet are deeply involved in labor organizing or leftist student groups, and this is a natural continuation of their intersectional activism. I have personally not met a single person who is involved in this just because it’s fun or that’s what everyone else is doing. (Probably because it’s not fun, it’s pretty depressing, and it’s not what everyone else is doing by a long shot.)

@kelliwhite9794

2 ай бұрын

I got involved because of this podcast, honestly. This is embarrassing, but before hearing this breakdown at the beginning of the ep I found it difficult to follow the media coverage because it felt like I had to keep up with lots of countries/nationalities I knew nothing about. Obviously I cared that there was a genocide happening, but this episode sparked my own research. Thanks, Matt! 💜

@carlyhughes3290

2 ай бұрын

❤️🫂🇵🇸

@Gurinette

2 ай бұрын

I am so sorry for your loss, may he rest in peace. And thank you for sharing your story and perspective with us!

@tofunmiolowu

Ай бұрын

long live Aaron! He lives forever in the hearts of millions. We are canceling the apocalypse. #GenZ

@ville__

Ай бұрын

WHO‎ ASKED‎ +‎ MY‎ CONTENT‎ IS‎ WAY‎ BETTER‎ UTTP‎ IS‎ WAY‎ BETTER‎ THAN‎ PENGUINZ0

Any time ANYONE equates so-called "violence" done to a building to violence enacted over a human being, I tune out. One cannot equate a broken window with beating a student. That is making an object and a human life the same, objectifying people, providing personhood to objects.

@AchiorJacobs

Ай бұрын

Yeah, same. “Private property” is the greater U.S. value.

@OscarLangleySoryu

Ай бұрын

Do you expect better from the people supporting Holocaust 2

@weatheranddarkness

Ай бұрын

@@AchiorJacobs BY FAR the greatest evil trend of our time. It really is the sort of thing that leads to genoçides. The zionist entity has been actively dehumanizing all palestinians for decades.

@boatbutch

Ай бұрын

how bout the custodial workers trapped inside with an angry mob?

@OscarLangleySoryu

Ай бұрын

@@boatbutch lol wut

6:08 "Israel has been globally condemned except by the US" - unfortunately that's not true. Europe is being really weird about it too, eg Austria's bundeskanzler said openly that they stand with Israel. Doesnt represent all Austrians ofc but the news coverage is really biased and social media discussions about it are really gross, constantly equating the palestinians with the hamas

@berlinorama

2 ай бұрын

Germany is at least as extreme as Austria in being in lockstep with Israel, sadly. The media is only beginning to question the government line.

@Themarshmellow-mf4lr

2 ай бұрын

I’m sorry to hear that Austria is dealing with terrible bias. Hopefully the communications over there will see justice soon.

@ruxxey

2 ай бұрын

In Germany it's the same. My university (Freie Universität Berlin) was "evacuated" a couple of days ago because police broke up a completely peaceful sit-in protest, carrying away protesters. Later the uni's president gave a public statement condemning "this form of protest".

@TheWerewolf5

2 ай бұрын

Yep, in Lithuania most of the presidential candidates for the upcoming election stand with Israel, as do most of the current parliament members. Makes it really tough to vote for anyone this year...

@EasyWater

2 ай бұрын

It's the same for most of Europe. People being more pro-Palestine while the state and other institutions are utterly pro-Israel.

I hate the ahistorical claim that Civil Rights were achieved via non violent demonstration. Not only is it an insult to the protestors of that movement, but is belittling of campus protestors today. People seem to forget that desegregation happened basically at gun point in Little Rock.

@summerbummer1930

Ай бұрын

I'd bet a million bucks if Rosa Parks refusal to move had happened in recent years, right wing media would call that an act of violence too. Funny how the definition of "violence" expands conveniently when they want to push their agenda but refrain from using the word when actually applicable. 🙄

@faynuus2967

Ай бұрын

They are also whitewashing the brutal police force that was unleashed against the civil rights and anti-war movement; similar to what the police is doing today. Shame on you, America!

I’m a student at George Washington university, and the way the university as a whole has been addressing the encampments has been absolutely ridiculous and one-sided. Swarming police cars all over campus and detaining (with force, mind you) any students engaging with it despite no indicated source of violence aside from the police THEMSELVES. And the nerve of them to lose their absolute sanity over a Palestinian flag being wrapped around a statue is actually laughable.

@brookiegremlin6660

Ай бұрын

why is that laughable?

@whatcolorjunebug

Ай бұрын

​@joewhoa1759They said it was one sided, not that it was two sided.

I go to UCLA. all our classes have gone remote and campus is pretty much on police lockdown. police have fully taken over our space. I’m angry. thank u for this.

@maffytaffy1231

2 ай бұрын

….what do you honestly expect

@UsenameTakenWasTaken

2 ай бұрын

​@@maffytaffy1231 Should poor expectations of your oppressors' reactions prevent action in these circumstances? Sorry if that's not what you're trying to imply, that's why I'm asking.

@spectre5307

Ай бұрын

For america to respect the 1st ammendment? Yes? ​@@maffytaffy1231

@m-nk2ne

Ай бұрын

@@maffytaffy1231 that in the 21st century our first amendment rights to assembly would not be impeded by law enforcement. This is a demonstration, let the people demonstrate.

The utter manipulativeness of the media twisting their words and then judging them for not talking to the media.

@katiedunlop2290

Ай бұрын

Its honestly so concerning how deceptive the news is when its in the interest of the government

the police response is actually crazy i’m not a student so i wasn’t protesting at the encampment in my city but during a police raid someone called 911 because there was an unconscious student and i was one of the paramedics that responded to it and i got by a rubber bullet while trying to help someone that had passed out

@brookiegremlin6660

Ай бұрын

well you've got quite a lawsuit on your hands! congrats!

For-profit education will always be a detriment to us. More power to the students 🇵🇸

thank you! my friends and i were at the protests at asu and two of my friends were arrested. these peaceful protests are being vilified in the media very unfairly.

@thicccorgi6187

2 ай бұрын

Its what they always do! Its what they did to auto workers in the 30s and 40s. Its what they did to Civil Rights protestors in the 50 and 60s. Its what they did to Vietnam protestors and Iraq war protesters. Somehow someway, the people who are advocating for a better world are always smeared as the bad guys.

@Novaitidae

2 ай бұрын

Hope you guys are doing okay, keep fighting! Sending love from Boston ❤

im abt six minutes in n let me tell u as a german, the usa isn't the only place that doesn't condemn the war crimes 🤡 i go to protests regularly n i feel like im losing my mind w the general attitude of this insane country

@zofka9894

Ай бұрын

Same in the Netherlands!!! Dis gus ting

@chey7773

Ай бұрын

Do you think Palestine supports lgbtq? Because they don't under sharia law they can even kill them but Israel does support lgbtq by their laws as a protected class... As a conservative Palestine supporter, you lefties make absolutely no fukin sense on this issue...

@karlscher5170

Ай бұрын

Seek asylum in afghanistan then

@carolinebyrne9392

Ай бұрын

@@karlscher5170 U DINT THINK THIS TIGUS MAN WOULD GET THE WELVOME HE THINKS OF OUT THERE

@bentramer682

24 күн бұрын

Americans don't utilize how change is necessary and can even improve their country they're too afraid of "the libs"

i'm a recent graduate of dartmouth college and prof. orleck is a treasure who is loved by so many of her students! Our campus protest was also very peaceful, just 5 tents on the green, in a small town in the middle of the woods. But our campus admin called in the state police with swat teams, tear gas, batons, and rubber bullets to violently arrest more than 90 protestors for just standing on the green. I watched many of my friends, most of whom are queer, PoC, and low-income, get mass arrested when they were literally just standing or sitting on grass (as you put it). The president's justification? She wanted to avoid the "violence" and "chaos" seen at other universities. Students and faculty are holding a vote of no confidence now because of it- and I hope she loses. Also, I wanted to point out further hypocrisy in the media response to Hind's Hall- Hamilton Hall has been occupied by Columbia students protesting for civil rights and against the vietnam war in 1968. In 1985, students occupied the building for THREE WEEKS to protest for divestment from apartheid in south africa. These are events that Columbia posts on their website and advertises to students as part of their "culture of campus activism." Don Lemon saying that this is reminiscent of jan 6th instead of the civil rights movement is obfuscating the fact that THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OCCUPIED THIS SAME EXACT BUILDING 50 YEARS AGO

If i were approached by someone at protest shoving a mic in my faceand asking why i was protesting I'd say "if you have to ask, I'm not sure anything i could say could get through to you" Im glad its not as prevalent here in the uk because my anger-issues havin ass would play right into thier hands 😢 I have so much respect for these students and how organised they are, absolute legends

@weatheranddarkness

Ай бұрын

-besides having decades of protests being misrepresented, from Seattle in 2000, through Occupy, and XR.

I think it's important to call the anti-Semitism accusations what they are: ad hominem attacks. Instead of dealing with the substance of the protesters' argument the conversation shifts to talking about whether the accusation is valid or not. It is particularly galling that this works so well because Netanyahu's apologists have been using this same tactic for decades. And people still keep falling for it.

@brookiegremlin6660

Ай бұрын

do you think it matters whether or not this is antisemitism?

whenever people say that criticizing israel is antisemetic, I'm like ok is it discriminatory towards Chinese people to criticize the Chinese government?

I'm SO proud of my fellow college students for unanimously agreeing to have media liaisons during their protests. I'm actually surprised at how organized they are. I've seen "triggered college student" content for years now and always wondered why people even bother with engaging in these street interviews on their campuses. It's so obvious these creators cherry pick what clips to use in order to push a certain narrative. It's not worth having your face associated with that.

@FishareFriendsNotFood972

2 ай бұрын

YES! These students did not come to play, and I am so proud of them

People who treat college students like they don’t know what they’re doing are intentionally disregarding how clear minded and well organized the students are. I think these statements are just distractions from the real problem and the reasons to why there are protests in the first place.

I'm a Columbia student (a sophomore at CC), and as such I'm so glad that you've decided to make this video and correct the record. I have relatives and neighbors from my hometown spouting bizarre misinformation based on what they've seen on these enormous and reputable news networks. In particular, there has been this pervasive narrative that the occupation of Hind's Hall (Hamilton Hall) was entirely engineered and enacted by "outside agitators." Yes, it is true that there were a few people who were non-affiliates who were participating in the encampment. However, not only were they definitely in the minority, but they also were not the main organizers. It's worth noting that the Columbia campus has been closed to non-affiliates for weeks, and it would have been extremely difficult for the masses of outsiders that multiple media outlets have claimed were present to be so. The occupation was the work of determined students, and it was students who were brutalized by the police.

A couple of points (as a history major): 1. Jonathan Greenblatt should keep his mouth shut on gay rights if he wants to be so ignorant of how frequent queer people were outed by the local papers (people would literally exit the bars and have to cover their face in front of cameras). 2. People act like the civil rights movement was all people holding hands and singing. But there's a well documented history of radical college students occupying colleges. A particularly interesting example is when Samuel L Jackson got expelled after he locked a bunch of board members in a Morehouse College room including MLK's father.

I am a student at UCSD and I greatly appreciate this video. On my campus peaceful protesters were raided by riot police and the administration’s response has been disgusting. Many students were arrested, and they were all suspended. The protests were peaceful and completely unobtrusive.

@capricornkid4681

Ай бұрын

The student health building sniper :(((

as i’m writing this, i’m sitting in a room that overlooks the pro palestine encampment in oxford. i’m writing an essay and it’s 10.30 pm and i have been sitting here for a few hours. the people at the encampment have been nothing short of peaceful and they are barely even loud-drunk people staggering home are louder. i am very proud of my fellow students in oxford and elsewhere for protesting in such a mature and brave manner!

Every night when my mom turns on the news I have to leave the room because it makes me so angry.

@m-nk2ne

Ай бұрын

don't leave, let it make you angry, let it fuel your resolve.

@bentramer682

24 күн бұрын

Once I slipped up and said "That's not anti Semitism" but thankfully my parents watched Bernie debunk their claims that the protests were harmful and I heard them agreeing.

commenting before finishing so idk if you mentioned this but FIT's encampment, the LAST STANDING IN NYC, was just raided by the nypd about two days ago, and some were in riot gear. the protest was entirely peaceful, yet still taken down. it's maddening, seeing the police "retaliate" against people exercising their rights. power to the students

I've been to one of the encampments and the peace and community there was so amazing. The only issue was pigs trying to come bother us every once in a while. People were playing soccer, rollerblading, making art together. There was free food, water, coffee and tea. For anyone who wanted or needed it in the encampment, visitor or not. People were dancing, children were rocked to sleep under the stars before being put safely to bed. Nothing about it is violent.

@bentramer682

24 күн бұрын

That's why they're so goddamn afraid of it. the community and the resources are free and then they tear it all apart before anyone realizes communities can exist like this where people look after each other and pigs have no reason to be there. When we have tax free communities they lose their funding and they can't step on us.

Well, now I don't feel bad for watching Seinfeld in sketchy online websites. There's no money of mine in there lol

@laylah150

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 I've never seen Seinfeld, but this is how I feel about so many shows in hindsight. My broke ass saved me from contributing to racists & abusers

@denkinoms

2 ай бұрын

Fun fact 38 year old seinfeld dated a 16 year old. There are pictures of him picking her up from school while the press and friends praised him for it.

@Tusisvrivhing

Ай бұрын

@@denkinomsthis should be talked about more, he fucking showed up with a 17 years old on the red carpet in the 90s. He also acted like if didn’t date her because of her age, it would be discriminatory.

a lot of my classmates got arrested at FIT literally 2 days ago, as they dismantled the last solidarity encampment. i was there in the school, not allowed to exit while it was happening. the sheer number of police for a very small amount of students was literally insane

At 22:58 you pose the question of how students *should* be protesting. The truth is conservative pundits do NOT want people protesting unless it backs their own pet causes. People like Ted Cruz, Olivia Reingold, and Philippe Lemoine want blind and docile obedience. They do not want young people, or old people for that matter, to buck the status quo. It's antithetical to conservatism to interrogate and deviate from the status quo. This is likely the fundamental issue with LGBTQ+ people and trans people in particular.

@avedic

Ай бұрын

Absolutely. I remember ages ago....Sean Hannity specifically decried the fact pro-gay legislation was being "forced" upon people like himself. His suggestion? Change the culture first....rather than the laws. Boycott, protest, etc. That was acceptable to him. And when people did precisely that? No surprise....he flipped the script and condemned such forms of protest and cultural shifts as the inherent problem. Your diagnoses is right. It's not about the "correct" way to make our voices heard....it's the fact we have voices at all. Or even the fact we _exist_ at all. That is the real problem.

My retired "blue" parents spoon feed CNN every day and they are extremely prude to all current events that are going on right now. Talking to CNN byproducts is really difficult.

i'm a student protester. the love in our encampment is palpable. muslims, jews, atheists, christians, students, faculty, etc. from all different backgrounds are all united, sharing food and other resources. it's a kind of microcosm of the world we want to build: communal, kind, strong, and built on a foundation of shared humanitarian goals and mutual respect. we will NOT let legacy media try to manufacture consent for our forcible silencing. the students united will never be defeated. ❤

@brawlinharry6461

Ай бұрын

stay strong! im rooting for you!

30:40 Matt Bernstein out here giving present day Elle Woods cracking the case wide open energy with "IT. IS. A. BIKE. CHAIN. It's a bike chain!"

@weatheranddarkness

Ай бұрын

and the answer is that none of these people ahve ever ridden a bike and NY cops don't give a single shit about stolen bikes.

"What we have seen on the video so far is actually the most organized and calmest and most professional..........POLICE intervention we've ever seen on a college campus." Not going to lie, he had me with that first half. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

22:00 the reporter complaining that college students are having fun camping out sounds so much like my past self being a bitter fuddy-duddy about how i had no friends, causing me to criticize how others socialized or had fun, haha

"The media liaison wouldn't talk to me" THEN YOU HAVE YOUR ANSWER

Not in our name indeed. The conflation of Jewish people and the atrocities being committed by the IDF and individual bad actors is such a blistering slap in the face. Thank you for putting this together. I’ve been enjoying the privilege of avoiding the news for my mental health, but feel compelled to learn a tad more about this topic 🇵🇸

@levibee9451

2 ай бұрын

Even with all the hasbara I was exposed to growing up as an American Jewish kid, including being given an IDF tee shirt (by a group that did an event at my synagogue to promote militarism) when I was a pre-teen, the Israeli narrative has never sat right with me and when I was 13 (back in the late 90s) I tore up my IDF tee shirt and used it as cleaning rags.

even with bronchitis you still sound so calm as always! that was a very concise intro about what student protests are asking for and rly appreciated it

"Sister... why are you crying?" at 44:53 just truly made me cackle. We're living in the strangest of times.

@MossTunic

2 ай бұрын

conservative white woman weaponizing her tears, & she knows it. insidious. it's all a game to white conservatives to keep their imaginary status while millions suffer.

Happening in my city too, govt saying 'you have a right to protest but you're going too far'. Same in my home country with the govt saying 'you've made your point'. Well excuse me sir, your continued failure to acknowledge the demands of the protesters suggests that the point has not, in fact, been made.

Wow, I completely believed the media narrative that the students involved in these protests were violent and disingenuous. Thank you for helping me realize that I was being misled! I really appreciate your content ❤

I’ve been a NYTimes subscriber for a few years and felt that they did a decent job of giving me unbiased news. There were always enough opinion pieces to counter the prevailing narrative so I felt like I was getting both sides. But now, when it comes to the war in Gaza, anti-semitism and the college protests, it is very clear what side they’re on. It’s extremely disappointing. The journalistic integrity is not there. Great video.

thank fuck for you and this video. been feeling like i’m going crazy. i live near new haven + have had friends arrested in protest. it’s terrible, and the media is straight up misrepresenting everything

I'm from an Eastern European country that saw large anti-government protests a few years ago and all the rhetoric used against those kids (who behave very admirably btw and don't generally get provoked by all those manipulations and gaslighting) is hauntingly similar to what was said by the state media about us, it's actually scary

I can’t believe the police would just drag off a defenseless unconscious person like that to arrest them. The job of the police in the US since the beginning has been to arrest us, not to defend us. This is why we desperately need police reform. Hope you’re feeling better gurl! Praying for you! 🥰

Matt I can't stress enough how valuable your work is

@24:33 protests aren't always a monolith either. There are likely some students who've cared passionately about the issue for years, and others who are just trendy. And the question has to become, what is wrong with showing up in support of something that you might not be perfectly educated about? If you don't have breast cancer, no one in your family has ever had it and you truly have never met anyone affected by it, should you not be able to donate to breast cancer research? Should you not show up ti fundraisers or events for breast cancer?

Matt, please, the bike chain situation is worse than that!! that’s literally the bike chain that columbia literally advised their students to buy in an email in like 2021, there is a screenshot!!! look it up Matty 💖🙌🏼🇵🇸

I have never been more prouder of my generation, i know this isn’t a new thing but still well on these smart and educated individuals

my cousin is at the encampments at his college, and i'm worried for his safety. i do not want him to be hit with fireworks because he doesn't want his school funding atrocious war crimes. this is beyond fucked, i seriously hope people will start seeing reason soon. free palestine

As a "near boomer" ( older end of Gen X) I think too many have forgotten history. For example, I recently had to cut ties with an "elder millenial" because, on Holocaust Remembrance day, they were calling me antisemitic, because I would not agree to their classification of BDS as antisemitic. Not a "self hating Jew", antisemitic. My Dad is a holocaust survivor. Now, how did they come to this? Given they have been spouting Kahanist crap for months, without knowing it was straight from Meir Kahane, I attribute it to the burying of history. Those, like me, who were there, recognize how much of the "pro-Israel" stuff is coming from Kahane and the JDL, but younger? I bet many have no idea.

@Itsstuff7328

2 ай бұрын

You know... This is interesting to me, because I look at a lot of the post- colonialist/"Israel is an apartheid state" rhetoric as a continuation of the stuff I studied in college in the '90s. I read Edward Said and even came home one winter break and told my dad that the Israelis were "the new Nazis". I'm ashamed of that now because I DON'T think a lot of the pro-palestine take on history is correct and I think there are some REAL problems with the way 'zionism' is described. You don't think so?

@mattvanmantgem8600

2 ай бұрын

@@Itsstuff7328 I think we're playing out a history of nearly a century of "Zionist" being a dogwhistle for "Jew"- from the Protocols to ZOG, various antisemitic groups conflated Zionism with Judaism for so long that it's become part of a culture, outside explicitly antisemitic groups, including even some conservative Jews. I think such plays out exactly Edwin Montagu's argument against the Balfour Declaration.

@Itsstuff7328

2 ай бұрын

​@@mattvanmantgem8600I agree that most descriptions of zionism sound like medieval conspiracies or straight from the protocols... But I don't know Edwin Montagu. I think most people think the current casualties are horrific, with varying degrees of opposition v. acceptance to full support of Israel's actions. I find it alarming how normal it's become to talk about dissolving a whole country of 9m people. The chants alone would be bad enough, but add the characterization of zionism is what keeps me away.

@mattvanmantgem8600

Ай бұрын

@@Itsstuff7328 Montagu was a Jewish/British politician and diplomat who opposed the kind of political Zionism in the Balfour Declaration- he argued that setting aside a separate "Jewish" state would create more antisemitism, in that it would make Jews elsewhere more suspect, and would make Jews the enemy of those already there, wherever that state was created. If interested- the full memo is available on the Wikipedia entry under his name.

@Itsstuff7328

Ай бұрын

@@mattvanmantgem8600 I don't think not establishing a country would have saved anybody. I honestly think we'd have blended into the rest of the world long ago except for antisemitism.

This is such a good episode. Thank you for everything that you do. It makes me so angry that the media has been fully co-opted by corporate interests that only want to protect their bottom line instead of providing honest information.

So well articulated! And with BRONCHITIS???? You're a true gem thank you

Also, “antisemitism” doesn’t exclusively refer to those who are Jewish. Palestinians are, by definition, people of Semitic descent, and their genocide needs to be referred to as one founded in antisemitism. Islamaphobia is antisemitism.

@whatcolorjunebug

Ай бұрын

It's a little bit weirder than that. The word antisemitism invented by a man who hated Jews, specifically to refer to opposition to Jews. So, historically, that term has only been used as a synonym for judenhass, as that was what it was invented for. The history of that term is separate from the use of the term semitic to refer to Semitic languages and Semitic peoples as a whole. Palestinians are absolutely semitic, but antisemitism is a weird word with a weird history. I think it would make more sense to just stop using the term rather than to start applying it to everyone who comes from a Semitic culture. It's a word that was invented specifically to sanitize and scientifically legitimize a type of bigotry. I get what you're saying, but I just wanted to share.

Thank you for going through this in such a detailed manner! When i was still drinking the "land of milk and honey" propaganda i was raised on, everything was a trigger because everything was a threat. And i didn't have the critical thinking skills to actively educate myself. I'm so grateful to the people who challenged me and helped me grow. None of us are free, until all of us are free. Free Palestine! ❤🇵🇸

I was watching piers and I actually thought she got hurt until i googled the video the pro palestinian student passed by looking straight ahead waving the flag and had no idea there was anyone there. the flag clearly only grazed her if it even touched her at all. I can't believe she went on a whole "flag stab" press tour after that.

Thank you, matt

I guess we should’ve called the Holocaust protesters “anti-Germany” protesters, or “pro-Judaism” protesters. It’s not like they were anti-genocide protesters or anything like that.

I can't believe that professor is actually laying the blame on a lack of sex (wtf?) and 'imaginary' threats. What exactly is imaginary about 30 000 deaths?

I too am a young Jewish guy who is whole heartedly against the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but I would like to say that saying there have been 'few' instances of hate against Jewish people, particularly on college campuses is gross underestimation to the immense rise in hate crimes against Jewish people in America. It is really really bad for Jews in America (not nearly as bad as Palestinians) but it shouldn't be minimized or downplayed.

@itzelouise8714

Ай бұрын

same anti black, Muslim, latino, what’s the difference?

The encampment where i live and went to my course keeps being attacked by fireworks too and we don't live in a big city in america. We live on the other side of the world. It's everywhere

I’m so sorry that you have bronchitis! Ain’t nobody got time for that. Get well soon ❤

I’ve honestly never seen anything like the massive disinformation from most of the news in this country right now. It was very bad after 9/11 too, with the panic over WMD, and we started a deeply destructive war partly due to that misinformation, despite so many of us opposing it and protesting. Not coincidentally, a massive level of unexamined Islamophobia was at play then too. Thank you for doing this work. ♥

I feel like it’s so hard to find real news these days. I really appreciate you Matt for being SO well educated on these topics.

Matt, this might be your best episode yet. Truly phenomenal the way you so effortlessly tie points together and give a clearer picture of the events, people, and state of modern media. I mean fucking Dr. Phil just interviewed Netanyahu. It's absolutely insane out there and it's so nice to have a voice of reason in you. You are so talented and I'm always so excited when I see a new episode, especially when you tackle these things that are happening in the moment with a sort of concise and measured passion. I don't know how you do it, but thank you.

Oh Matt, you angel ! Bronchitis is no joke, I appreciate you so much for pulling through, but please, mind yourself and stay warm, stay hydrated, medicated, I am sending all the healthy vibes your way ❤

It went like this in chronological order: 1) Before Oct 7: Protests about the West Bank occupation (complex issue not know by many) 2) Oct 7 terrorist attack: Put a light on the whole Palestine-Israel issue for newer generations. 3) REALLY weird statements from several progressive/leftists intellectuals validating the attack by Hamas. 4) Division within the progressive movements around Europe and North America due to the mixture of genuine pledges for the liberation of Palestine AND clearly anti semitic dog whistles. 5) The last issue has lasted until now, hence the good faith protests encountered on universities campuses (and other places) are encountered with mixed reactions. 6) Now/Current day: We are in a genuine lack of control from Israel on their combat against the Hamas organization which results in HEAVY civilian casualties. But because of the quite clear antisemitic messages that arise on the Oct7 massacre you have a lot of progressives watching this issue with caution. Hence the lack of full support by general public. A recommendation from a progressive latin american: Just remove you ego and start the video/discussion/protests about this issue by condemning ALL types of antisemitism. Then, you can continue and your audience will hear your arguments with a good faith. And lastly, as a Mexican born gay progressive man, I want to be all the way with you BUT this still just seems very hypocritical for many. No protests about the hundreds of thousands of deads that the US (government and citizens) has helped to cause by empowering the cartel drug trade. Countries which are more closer to yours and with way more violent examples of human right abuses are nowhere in this protests. In summary, this issue will still be niche until other issues around the world are also represented on this protests.

coming from Chile, a country where student protest happen so often, for free education, feminist reason, social equality like in 2019, being someone who has been a part of them, media liaisons are so common. And the reaction of media and the cops are the same here, and in the States and everywhere else, its honestly appalling.

I don’t even know where to start talking to my boomer dad about things when he’s being fed the news daily. We can’t even agree that bombing civilians is wrong… even if “Hamas is in there”

Matt, this was so well said and put together. I am going to share it with people I know. Thank you.

Literally bringing me to tears

This is the best culmination of data I've seen so far on the protests. Thank you for thoughtfully arranging this content. ❤️

Thank you for talking about this, and please get well soon!

Thank you for your videos Matt! Despite the the heavy topics I'm always so happy to see you've uploaded

There were other fraternity members who defended a flag, even the fraternity members admitted they didn’t know what the protest was about they just wanted the publicity to raise money for a frat party 🙄

My biggest pet peeve is the shouting of anti-semitism and pointing at the holocaust every single time there is any sort of criticism aimed towards Israel. The loss of 6 million jews doesn't justify treating others the way they are.

thank you for all that you do matt!!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to create this episode in spite of your health. You're amazing, and these resources and reportage is highly appreciated ❤

Matt, I love listening to your thoughts. Thanks for pushing through to share!

Holy shit the first girl is so eloquent.

watching from the ucsc encampment. UNTIL LIBERATION AND RETURN 🇵🇸

Thanks for covering this. Get well soon!

Thank you for talking about this, I am a college student who has been taking part in peaceful(!!!) protests and our university called state riot police on us (less than 50 peaceful protesters) than proceeded to actively lie about what they did and it’s so frustrating. This kind of questioning of major (and minor) media is something that so lacks. People need to be able to question what they’re being told and their own beliefs and it’s something being lost in this conflict right now.

Thank you for doing this despite being so unwell, Matt! Wishing you a speedy recovery, and all the more power to the students!

Thanks for this, its good to see more and more platforms steering into this lane to say what needs to be heard.

This was so informative, thank you for your work

Thanks for your time and labour making this, even while you're sick

Thank you so much for this!!!

Thank you for covering this, Matt. Your efforts, as always, are invaluable

Thank you for this video as a teenager who is outraged by what’s happening in Gaza but doesn’t know where to get accurately educated this video is exactly what I’ve been looking for.

Thank you for the video!

The nice thing is I haven’t seen much leftist infighting in a minute which is fucking refreshing

Get well soon, Matt, and thank you for your good work done under stress and sickness

Thank you so much for making this video it makes it a lot easier for me to grasp what exactly is happening since there's so many different outlets reporting on what's happening and so much misinformation a video like this makes it a lot easier to fully understand what the hell is going on

Looking forward to this vid, the reactions to the protest are insane. It's the same here in europe