Is This What 'Anti-Zionism' Sounds Like?

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I try to keep up with some of the You Tube personalities who talk about newsy topics. So, for better or worse, I know who Sneako and Asmongold and Hasan Piker are, but I've honestly never heard of these guys before. Walter Weekes and Myron Gaines co-host a podcast called Fresh & Fit. They are fans of Andew Tate and Nick Fuentes. Gaines in particular seems to make "anti-Zionism" a big part of his public persona. Here's a video he posted recently attacking Netanyahu's interview on another podcast show.

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Just today, Gaines tweeted out his agreement with lefty Ana Kasparian about Israel "because children are dying."

Gaines does in fact sound like a lot of people on the left who hate Israel. They call themselves anti-Zionist too and get offended if you suggest they are anti-Semitic. And yet, if you scratch the surface you often find something that looks a lot like anti-Semitism underneath. That was certainly true of many of the activists camping out on college campuses last year. On one hand they would say they just wanted a ceasefire to stop the bombing of Gaza. On the other hand they also liked to chant "from the river to sea" in Arabic and to openly support terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians as legitimate targets.

In Gaines' case, Canary Mission posted this clip from a recent episode of his show in which Gaines seems to really be enjoying himself after asking his guests what they thought about Hitler. A young woman suggested that maybe Hitler had a point and that the Holocaust was his only way to kill a lot of Jews at once because of something they had done or might do, it's not very clear.

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The full clip is here if you want to see it for yourself minus any edits. Just scroll to an hour and 38 minutes. The same woman (she's 19) who brought this up also says she loves to listen to Andrew Tate but that her favorite YouTuber is Candace Owens. Why am I not surprised.

As depressing as this one person's take is, the fact that no one else seems to disagree suggests they don't know any better. And as I said, Gaines just seems to be really enjoying himself. He won't say these things himself but he's happy to have someone else do it on his show and not contradict them even a little.

What Gaines does say is bad enough. He says Israel was involved in 9/11 and has a whole prepared speech about how the civilians who died in the 10/7 attack on Israel by Hamas were actually killed by the IDF.

To be clear, there is a real Hannibal Directive which was apparently used on 10/7. It allows the IDF to shoot at terrorists in the act of kidnapping Israelis, even if shooting the hostage takers might kill the hostages. But there's no evidence to support the claim that most of the 800 civilians killed by Hamas were killed by Israel. This is an attempt to cloud the issue and minimize the indiscriminate violence of the 10/7 attack by Hamas. There is plenty of video evidence and testimony from survivors that Hamas was killing civilians at random, including many young people at a music festival. They were there to murder and kidnap as many people as possible.

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The clip above suggests (not for the first time) that the blatant anti-Semitism of the left, which resulted in the celebration and defense of Hamas on many college campuses last year, has also spread to people who claim to be on the right. They claim to be anti-Zionists too, just like the campus radicals do, but their fixation on Israel and willingness to entertain every conspiracy theories involving "the Jews" is a pretty clear sign this goes beyond anger over another country's foreign policy.

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