 Yes, I mean anti-Semitism in our culture today. So I'm going to read you something. It's from Barry Weiss's Friday kind of summary of the news always Highly recommend by the way Barry Weiss is upstack and the Friday I think kind of summary of the news is always entertaining. There's a little bit of humor And and it does give a kind of a perspective on what's going on Don't always agree with the interpretations, but it's always educational and interesting and in fun so And so here's a here's one of the stories not not particularly fun story, but here is a story This is about Dan Kolb Who is an environmentalist a I mean a real left-wing progressive environmentalist committed environmentalist but who happens to be Jewish and and He was going to be speaking at the University of California Berkeley In a in a class on environmentalism about environmentalist activism and so on and he's been disinvited from the class Because he's an active member of the Jewish community now. You might say no. No. No, it's this is all about Israel But the reality is He's a real progressive he actually voted with the City Council of Berkeley For a ceasefire But that's not good enough because he is also a member of the East Bay Jewish Community Relations Council Which as Barry Weiss right does not believe in the full destruction of the state of Israel How horrible of them? so You know so this is from the College of Natural Resources at the University of California Berkeley. This is their letter disinviting him Quote if we are to take equitable environmental action seriously The very topic you are set to speak to us about Then one cannot dismiss the environmental apartheid occurring in Palestine Environmental apartheid and notice that it's in Palestine for generations older than the state of Israel Palestinians have lived I Can't even read this without laughing For generations older than the state of Israel Palestinians have lived harmoniously with their land Maintaining long-standing indigenous practices of cultivation and goes on on and on and on So before the state of Israel When when when when this plot of what when this section of land was Barely cultivated a lot of it was swamps and well, it's not swamps. That's so politically incorrect You aren't really you should stop using the word swamp when they were when when the land was full of wetlands and mosquitoes and malaria a Lot of people dying in malaria back then in in what is today Israel and You know in deserts and in the few Palestinians you actually lived there We're actually cultivating the land the same way they'd be cultivating it for for you know I don't know a thousand years fifteen hundred years Of course, there was a Jews there, but you know, we don't have to pay any attention to them the Jews after all But once the Israelis the Jews showed up They turned this place into a hell hole toxic waste industry modern means of cultivation Genetic engineering of fruits and vegetables To make them taste better. I don't know if you've ever had a in Israeli mango or some Israeli vegetables It tastes fantastic. Not because that's how nature provide produces them it because they'll be cultivated to do that through engineering That is a sin and since you Dan called a Jew who supports the existence of the state of Israel even if you're kind of pretty pro-Palestinian You can't you can't be viewed as serious about equitable environmental action Unless you are willing to call for the destruction of the state of Israel and for Israel and the rest of the world To return to what do they call it? You know sustainable long-lasting indigenous Practices of cultivation in other words harmony with the earth and no pollution of the pre-industrial era And and what is revealing here is two things one the hatred of Jews the hatred of Israel But maybe even bigger than that right bigger than that is They hatred of progress They hatred of science they hatred of The standard of living that makes it possible for them to go to university that the standard of living that makes it Makes it possible for them to care about the environment Because they're alive and they're rich and they can afford to waste their time doing that instead of having to Engage in indigenous practices of cultivation to feed themselves. I wonder if they go, you know, you know I wonder how long these people at the Was this department the College of Natural Resources, I wonder how long they would survive if they had to rely on indigenous practices of cultivation not very long not very long and Indeed I'd say what 80 to 90 percent of the earth population Wouldn't survive What they really want is a return to the caves what they really want is the destruction of human society human civilization human progress human science human reason human beings They are fundamentally haters fundamentally haters all right Just on a little bit more in the theme of anti-semitism So there's been a poll by by Harvard Caps Harris poll right and it found that two-thirds of voters between the ages of 18 and 24 Two-thirds over 66 percent of voters Believe Jews as a class. I didn't know Jews were a class. But anyway, Jews as a class oppressors and Should be treated that way. I've been telling you this I've been telling you You're rich and successful therefore double definition. You're a presser the fact that not that long ago You were brutally you know Massacre just in October, but you you know Genocide was committed against you the fact that not that long ago. Jews were poor and had nothing But the very fact of raising yourselves out for poverty the very fact of going from being poor to successful Makes you an oppressor the fact that for 2,000 years Jews have been killed slaughtered in Wait a Tortured all over Europe and all over the world really Doesn't count because Jews have overcome that and become rich and successful and therefore they are the oppressors 18 to 24 year old. This is this is our youth. This is the future of America If you look at general population 73% of voters said this notion is false. So Once you go over 24 people don't believe this so This is this new ideology of the last 10 or so years that is Infected our schools our universities and infected our young people and that they are fully committed to it this is intersectionality at its worst at its most absurd and ridiculous and Like it's not like I want Jews to be part of the oppressed class But this idea that a they were class and be that there is such a thing as oppressors and oppressed in the world in which We live we live in America in a relatively pretty free country We're generally speaking. There are no oppressors and oppressed The people who are successful and people are not successful and you could argue about why they're successful Why they're not successful and for the most part The success and the last success is not a consequence of being labeled a Jew or Because of skin color and other things Although if there is racism in America still and it probably is and it's likely there is that needs to be dealt with But that doesn't seem to be the primary reason white people succeed and in America to date So instead of investigating the causes For white people fail continue to fail Well, of course, they're failing they are they oppressed by definition because they're failing the only reason you would have a failing life is because you were pressed I Mean on so many dimensions This is a horrific ideology an evil ugly ideology an ideology that is equivalent to the ideology of You know indigenous practices of cultivation because it is an ideology that would drive us back to that It would drive us back To poverty drive us back To death and destruction zero-sum Mentality of three hundred years ago and not just mentality reality Which was much more zero-sum in those days that were really oppressor and oppressed and what this mentality will do is get us back to that Wouldn't it be interesting if some of these people contemplated why it is the Jews disproportionately have managed to come out of poverty and do so well and maybe emulate some of the things that they did in order to achieve that that would be that would be Assuming people have free will and that would assume that it's your behavior that that gets you places And that would be a complete negation of the entire egalitarian Ideology, which is an ideology of determinism. It's an ideology of lack of free will and and and You know and also an ideology that everything you do is determined by your group Belonging by the tribe to which you belong however, they want to define the tribe in any particular given time So in a Marxist sense by the class in which you belong but in a more modern sense classes out the ethnic group the skin color the the National background whatever you wanted to find it that tribe defines your success Ono individuals and there is no achievement There's only oppressors and oppressed and their only groups