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| Alright, there's a lot going on in terms of American public opinion with regard to Israel as well as a new Homeland Security program that the government released today about using social media to detect who has wrong views on Israel and anti-Semitism that make them a danger. | |
| I'm just going to show you... | |
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| But I did want to just show everybody this, what's called the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, which is part of DHS, that they announced today. | |
| Homeland Security, they begin screening alien social media activity for anti-Semitism. | |
| So they're screening either people who want to come to the country or who are already in the country on green cards, student visas, work visas. | |
| And it says, And the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests. | |
| This will immediately affect aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status, foreign students, and aliens affiliated with educational institutions linked to anti-Semitic activity. | |
| Consistent with President Trump's executive orders on combating anti-Semitism, additional measures to combat anti-Semitism and protecting the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public safety threats, DHS will enforce all relevant immigration laws to the maximum degree to protect the homeland from extremists and terrorist aliens, | |
| including those who support anti-Semitic terrorism, violent anti-Semitic ideologies, and anti-Semitic terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, or Ansar al-Salaam. | |
| There is no room in the United States for the rest of the world's terrorist sympathizers and we are under no obligation to admit them or let them stay here, said DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Trish McLaughlin. | |
| Secretary Noem has made it clear that anyone who thinks they can come to America and hide behind the First Amendment to advocate for anti-Semitic violence and terrorism think again. | |
| are not welcome here. | |
| Under this guideline, USCIS will consider social media content that indicates an alien endorsing, espousing, promoting, or supporting anti-Semitic terrorism, anti-Semitic terrorist organizations, or other anti-Semitic activity as a negative factor in any discretionary analysis when adjudicating immigration. | |
| Now, let me just say a couple things. | |
| In general, you don't want the government scrutinizing and monitoring People's social media to understand what their ideas and opinions are, to judge their worth? | |
| That's like the kind of social criticism that exists in China that I thought, especially all conservatives, were opposed to, find horrifying. | |
| We want Homeland Security now scrubbing the internet and social media to see what people's views are? | |
| Additionally, why is it only anti-Semitism they're concerned about? | |
| Like, is it okay if people are spewing virulent anti-black racism? | |
| I think black people are genetically inferior. | |
| They should be killed. | |
| That's okay. | |
| Or like, I think LGBTs are morally decadent. | |
| They should be put in camps. | |
| That's totally okay. | |
| Talking about American citizens here, American black people, American LGBTs. | |
| I think Muslims are a menace. | |
| They should all be murdered and killed. | |
| Let's bomb them all. | |
| Let's kill them all. | |
| That's totally fine. | |
| The one group that you're not allowed to speak ill of is American Jews or Israel. | |
| And if you're going to have a system that does this, that scrutinizes people's social media for bad ideas, for wrong think, for dangerous thought, why is it only this one issue, Israel and American Jews, yet again, over and over and over and over and over, that are the sole beneficiaries of these protective programs? | |
| I mean, isn't that odd? | |
| Isn't that like the exact kind of DEI-type thinking? | |
| Like, oh, there's this one minority group that... | |
| Somehow is the most endangered and vulnerable, and they're the only ones who need government protection. | |
| We're going to create program after program after program after program to protect just these people and nobody else. | |
| It just happened to be the group that thrives most prosperously, economically, in power centers. | |
| Somehow that became the group that is the most vulnerable, according to their... | |
| Maybe there's a relationship between those two. | |
| Like, if you actually have power, you can depict yourself as a vulnerable minority group. | |
| But either way, do we want the government... | |
| Spying on social media and judging people based on their opinions? | |
| You can see how easily that's going to expand outward, not just to non-citizens, but citizens. | |
| And more to the point, when they say support for terrorist organizations like Hamas, I promise you, that is a very broad category. | |
| If you criticize Israel at all, if you question U.S. funding of Israel in support for their war, You will instantly be characterized as a terror supporter, a Hamas supporter. | |
| We've seen it over and over. | |
| If you don't believe me, just go online and post something negative about Israel and count on the seconds until you're accused of being an anti-Semite and a terrorist supporter. | |
| It's really another program, yet another one, designed to criminalize criticism of Israel, speaking critically of Jews, even though you're allowed to do that for every other country and every other group. | |
| And there's a reason for it, which is that Public opinion is collapsing when it comes to support for Israel. | |
| And oftentimes the panic response is to impose censorship as a way of suppressing the ideas that you're afraid are taking hold. | |
| And yet one of the things we've seen is oftentimes when you do that, we saw this with the liberal censorship regime, it only creates backlash and resentment and people cling even more to the prohibited ideas. | |
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| Alright, so, as I said, oftentimes what happens, and this is very, very common, is when people feel like they're losing an argument and can no longer persuade the public, they start panicking and they think, | |
| oh, well, you know, actually, the only solution left for us is to just try and silence and punish the people who are spreading these ideas. | |
| That's why the TikTok ban finally passed. | |
| We've shown you that many times. | |
| Even the sponsors of that bill said worrying about China wasn't enough. | |
| What got that TikTok ban passed was when Democrats started to believe and Biden started to believe that the reason there was so much pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel sentiment spreading was because TikTok was allowing it to spread. | |
| So they targeted this huge social media app for banning. | |
| To prevent those ideas from spreading. | |
| And for a long time, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activism were concentrated on college campuses. | |
| That's where the anti-apartheid regime against South Africa in the 1980s was. | |
| And so they targeted college campuses as well. | |
| What makes it so ironic is that conservatives, of course, have been waving the free speech banner for so long, saying how Dangerous censorship is. | |
| Here's an executive order from Donald Trump when he was president the first time in 2019. | |
| The executive order was entitled Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and Universities. | |
| And this is what the order said that he signed, Donald Trump. | |
| In America, the very heart of the university's mission is preparing students for life as citizens in a free society. | |
| But even as universities have received billions and billions of dollars from taxpayers, | |
| Many have become increasingly hostile to free speech and the First Amendment. | |
| You see it all the time. | |
| You turn on the news and you see things that are horrible. | |
| You see people being punched hard in the face, but he didn't go down. | |
| He didn't go down. | |
| I said, quote, you have a better chin than Muhammad Ali and he has a great chin. | |
| And you see the cowbell scene. | |
| You saw that horrible scene. | |
| This was a disgraceful thing at a school, at a university. | |
| This is Trump explaining the order. | |
| Under the guise of, quote, speech codes and safe spaces and trigger warnings, these universities have tried to restrict free thought, impose total conformity, and shut down the voices of great young Americans like those here today. | |
| These are great people. | |
| All of that changes starting right now. | |
| We're dealing with billions and billions of dollars. | |
| Taxpayer dollars should not subsidize anti-First Amendment institutions. | |
| And that's exactly what they are, anti-First Amendment. | |
| Universities that want taxpayer dollars should promote free speech. | |
| Not silence-free speech. | |
| Amen. I remember agreeing with conservatives when they were saying that, which is what makes it so alarming to watch them use all the federal power and federal money to force universities to outlaw criticism of Israel by calling it racist speech, | |
| which is exactly what liberals did. | |
| Oh no, this isn't speech, this is racism. | |
| This isn't speech, this is incitement to violence. | |
| This isn't speech, this is advocacy of insurrection. | |
| And that's exactly what the Trump administration and many of its supporters are now doing, too. | |
| Oh, no, that's not speech. | |
| That's support for terrorism. | |
| You can do that with any kind of idea and then justify its banishment. | |
| Here's Kristi Noem back in 2018 when she was either the governor of South Dakota or still in Congress. | |
| I think she was by now elected governor of South Dakota. | |
| But in 2018... | |
| Yeah, she was already governor. | |
| So this was 2018. | |
| This is what she said. | |
| She's now the Homeland Security Secretary, of course, that unveiled that plan today. | |
| She said, quote, Again, amen. | |
| And it's amazing. | |
| You could also, under this new Homeland Security program, say, I hate white people. | |
| I think all white people should be killed. | |
| White people are inherently violent. | |
| Totally fine. | |
| No one's going to judge you negatively for that. | |
| We don't get expelled for saying that. | |
| Just this one group. | |
| There was a Pew Research Center survey released this week. | |
| And the article that presented it by Pew was titled How Americans View Israel and the Israel-Hamas War at the Start of Trump's Second Term. | |
| Quote, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States again on April 7th for the second time since President Donald Trump took office. | |
| As Americans look at the Middle East, viewers say the Israeli-Hamas war is important to them personally or important to U.S. national interest than felt that way last year, according to a new Pew Research survey. | |
| In addition, the public's views of Israel Probably it's a combination of everybody watching every day for 15 months, | |
| Israel using American money and American weapons to blow up children and bomb schools and hospitals and mosques, but also Being told that they're not allowed to criticize Israel. | |
| Here is the Gallup poll from last month. | |
| U.S. views of Israel, Ukraine, Mexico, most divided by party. | |
| And we reported on that at the time. | |
| So let's put these Pew numbers up. | |
| Here's from the Pew Research Center. | |
| It is really quite extraordinary. | |
| I mean, honestly, this surprised me a lot. | |
| So the question is, do you have a negative view of Israel? | |
| You have an unfavorable view of Israel, and the Pew says negative views of Israel have risen in the U.S. I want you to watch how sharply negative views of Israel have risen. | |
| In 2020, this is all U.S. adults, regardless of age, race, ideology, party. | |
| In 2022, 42% of all Americans said that a negative view of Israel. | |
| That number is now up to 53%. | |
| A majority of Americans, a country that has been steadfastly pro-Israel on a bipartisan basis for as long as I can remember, a majority of Americans now say they have a negative view of Israel. | |
| And look at the breakdown. | |
| Look at Republicans ages 18 to 49. So basically the new generations of Republicans. | |
| In 2022, 35% of Republicans under 50 said they had negative view of Israel. | |
| It is now 50%. | |
| 50%, a majority, of Republicans 18 to 49 have a negative view of Israel. | |
| Honestly, that shocked me. | |
| Every Republican Party leader, with the exception of maybe one or two, is vehemently, fanatically pro-Israel. | |
| And yet 50% of their voters, 18 to 49, Have a negative view of Israel. | |
| They don't even have any leaders expressing that and yet they still develop those ideas. | |
| The only group that still remains steadfastly pro-Israel are Republicans above the age of 50. So basically like older Republican Fox News watchers. | |
| That's it. | |
| That's the only demographic group. | |
| Democrats used to have 53% a negative view of Israel. | |
| Back in 2022, that's now gone up to 69%, a 16% increase. | |
| And look at this. | |
| Democrats ages 18 to 49, it's gone from 62 to 71% have a negative view of Israel. | |
| 71% of Democrats who are younger have a negative view of Israel. | |
| 50% of 18 to 49 are Republicans. | |
| 50%. 53% overall. | |
| And then here you see older Democrats above 50. They used to always be very pro-Israel. | |
| Here only 43% back in 2022 viewed Israel negatively. | |
| Now you have 66% of even older Democrats feeding on pro-Israel consensus for their whole lives have now turned against Israel. | |
| These numbers are very alarming if you are Israel or a supporter of Israel because you depend on the United States to finance your military, finance your wars. | |
| Fight for Israel. | |
| And look what has happened here. | |
| And as I said, this is why there's so much censorship now. | |
| People who maintain a stranglehold over public opinion don't need to censor. | |
| There was always some censorship of Israel critics, people who lost their jobs in academia for a long time. | |
| Being called anti-Semitism would destroy your career, but nowhere near the kind of official, formal government programs we now have to criminalize, to outlaw, criticism of Israel, to punish people, to deport them, to strip their legal residents, to start a social media spying campaign to judge them based on their views of Israel. | |
| That's what happens when a movement starts losing out of desperation. | |
| They're like, oh my God, we can't allow people to speak against us anymore. | |
| It's convincing too many people. | |
| And as I said, what we've always seen with censorship is it does not have the effect of moving people away from the censored view of anything. | |
| It solidifies them in that. | |
| We saw that with liberal censorship on all sorts of issues, from COVID to trans issues to Ukraine to Black Lives Matter and people. | |
| Became solidified in their opposition because of that censorship. | |
| That was a factor fueling it. | |
| It doesn't work. | |
| You have to persuade people, not coerce them into believing what you think. | |
| I mean, these are incredibly interesting figures. | |
| Here's just a little bit more of a breakdown. | |
| Actually, here. | |
| It's about confidence in Benjamin Netanyahu. | |
| Here are just all Americans, just Americans, again, all adults, regardless of age or party. | |
| Do you have confidence in President Benjamin Netanyahu to do the right thing regarding world affairs? | |
| Here is the number, 52% who say, I have no confidence in him or not much. | |
| 23% say some and 9% say a lot. | |
| That's 52% of Americans who say I have no confidence or little confidence in Benjamin Netanyahu. | |
| And 32%, only 32%, who say they do. | |
| 15% they said they never heard of Benjamin Netanyahu. | |
| Sometimes that's amazing when you think about that. | |
| But anyway, that's a whole different issue. | |
| Republicans do tend to trust him more, but again, not younger Republicans under the age of 50. Almost all older Republicans, you have 43, 53, 63, 73. You have 70% of Republicans over 50 say, | |
| yeah, I do trust Netanyahu. | |
| That's where it would be way higher, way lower rather, or just trust in Netanyahu would be way higher if not for old Republicans who watch Fox News. | |
| Among young Republicans, again, ages 18 to 49, You have about 45% who say they don't trust Netanyahu, either at all or not much, and only 32% who say they trust Netanyahu. | |
| Again, that's amazing. | |
| And then all these Democratic constituencies have very little trust and faith in Netanyahu. | |
| Overwhelmingly, even these older Democrats have huge distrust for Netanyahu, 73% to 20%. | |
| So the trends in public opinion in the United States, whether you like it or not, are very clear. | |
| And I think one of the main things that's happening is that people don't understand, and other polling data demonstrates this, that they should not be paying for Israel, that it has no real relationship to their lives. | |
| Large numbers, by the way, are also opposed to... | |
| Donald Trump's plan to put troops in Gaza and clear out Gaza says the idea is broadly unpopular. | |
| 62% of Americans oppose the U.S. taking over Gaza, with 49% who strongly oppose it, while only 15% favor Trump's Gaza proposal. | |
| And among Jewish Americans, only 32% say they favor Trump's Gaza plan and 64% oppose it. | |
| So it's hard to say, oh, that's because of anti-Semitism or whatever, when you have two-thirds of Jewish Americans who are along with that ride. | |
| I'm not saying that they have a negative view of Israel or have disapproval of Israel, but clearly these are major developments in attitudes toward Israel that are not going to be solved by censorship. | |
| I think they're going to be worsened by it. | |
| And at the very least, whatever they are now, it's going to start... | |
| I mean, at some point the political class is going to start seeing this. | |
| Now maybe they're still too afraid of losing donor money or big money or being alienated from other institutions, but at some point someone's going to start looking at this and say, oh, there's actually an opportunity here now to say, why are we paying for Israel's military and their wars and diplomatically protecting them at the expense of the United States when Israelis have a higher standard of living than millions of Americans? | |
| That is the fertile ground. | |
| That all of this polling data reflects. | |
| And again, in case you're wondering why there's so much censorship to protect Israel, this is why. |