Now, statements by Israel's far right national security minister calling for 30 to 40 people in Gaza to be killed every night have provoked condemnation in Germany and across Europe. Itamar Ben-Gvir was speaking on a podcast hosted by an Israeli who was taken hostage during the October 7th,
and that I am actually OK. worthy of not only condemnation but entire generations of their culture self-flagellating for decades.
context and more information doesn't necessarily lead to better judgments about who people might be it might just lead to Hasty condemnation and uh bad judgments about people uh and it also might enslave people to their past that if they made a mistake in the past at some point they can never ever have a
People are not aware of why they are in fear, of why they are in pain, and are nominating erroneously vulnerable portions of society as the target for their blame and condemnation . If we awaken consciousness, people will know that what they're experiencing is their own fear, their own pain, and their own anguish,
Don't we care about each other? And there was very widespread condemnation , as you'd expect of the people who had done nothing to help the child. So it's not just a sort of local thing.
Absolutely. But I think it is possible and people right thinking people are are able to recognize that there's a difference between criticism and even condemnation of Israeli political and military behavior and not think that's automatically anti-semitism. The reason I guess I want to understand what
That's one of the reasons you sometimes see people going free who may have done terrible things but because And what can you say other than it's worthy of condemnation .
that's that is a very very good point. You know, those words of condemnation were very very strong. I interpret it as um they recognize that the actions of a what what what is a small number of
And that's the wrong way. it's important that you can come truly from a place of curiosity, not condemnation , which does
- Identity politics is worshiping ancestors, right? - Yeah. - It's tagging newborn infants with either, you know, benefits or responsibilities or, you know, levels of condemnation based on who their ancestors were. The Indo-Europeans would've recognized it on sight.
would say, is early September. That's when EU foreign ministers are next due to meet. And you can be sure that this is now going to come up again in light of these latest comments, which have drawn such widespread condemnation . You briefly mentioned Germany there, and I'd like to ask you, you know, given Germany's history, it has a special
The administration, Roosevelt, was very bitter and angry when they found a an American businessman who had sold a couple of pistols to the Republic, you know violating the neutrality act, big condemnation . And meanwhile, the major oil company was breaking its contracts with the Republic and shifting them to the fascists.