 So did you hear about that hostage situation at the reform temple in Texas where rabbi and three congregants were taken hostage by a guy protesting about a Muslim in prison and wanting wanting a Muslim take you know taken out out of prison and so the rabbi was quite a lefty so Reform rabbi is about 99% are on the left Conservative quote-unquote can the conservative denomination in Judaism about 95% of Quite-unquote conservative rabbis are on the left Probably reform Jews 90% are on the left Conservative Jews probably 85% on the left. Anyway, this this reform rabbi is quite the leftist who's taken hostage in Texas He regards the Jewish state of Israel as an apartheid state And I actually don't have any problem with that I think that there is you know some accuracy to that that accusation, but He thought it was an apartheid state that against Islam. So he was He was quite the lefty and what I'm struck on Twitter is all these Jewish lefties are saying that armed gods at synagogue are not the answer. I mean, that's insane Why would you like unilaterally disarm in the face of violent aggression? So there are plenty of rabbis who don't want any armed guards at their synagogue and don't want any of their congregants You know carrying guns and so there are accusations about this particular rabbi that he was you know very much against having armed congregants or armed guards and This is just craziness All right, if the founders of the state of Israel the modern state of Israel being pacifist There'd be no modern state of Israel. So So On the alt right, there's a lot of conception about Jews that they're you know duplicitous and they're you know recommending You know one thing for non-Jews and the very opposite thing for Jews, but it's not generally true Right left-wing Jews promote left-wing policies for both Jews and for non-Jews for both the Jewish state and non-Jewish states and so Jews who believe in gun control, you know Jews who believe in pacifism They feel the same way for their synagogues and for the Jewish state and for Jewish communities It's not just something where they want to impose something entirely different on non-Jews that they want for their own groups So generally speaking right-wing Jews Pro-nationalists both for the Jewish state and for other states and left-wing Jews are anti nationalism and anti guns Whether it's for the Jewish state or for the non-Jewish state, but it's just amazing to me that on twitter There are all these Jewish reactions that having armed guards is not the answer To hostage situations that the gun control is the answer Now I think you can support both gun control And having armed guards at at certain institutions Right, you can support gun control and recognize that gun control is not going to be perfect. It's it's never going to You know dominate every single person so that no bad guys get guns And therefore because bad guys will still sometimes get guns and want to do bad things you need to have professionals Who are armed? So I am not a big supporter overall of gun control But you can support both gun control and having armed guards at synagogue that I just see this dominant reaction among many Jewish leftists on twitter In their reaction to this hostage situation in texas that Armed guards is not the answer. Well armed guards is the answer Armed guards are absolutely essential for any institution like Jewish institutions that might well be under attack