John Mearsheimer responds to accusations of antisemitism | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips 

hahaha integrity! A man that endorsed and promulgated an antisemitic book and someone loved by David Duke of all people.

There is exactly no possible economy of the reasoning. You have to go deep in the past events, from the beginning, looking at the facts and understand the reasons for these behaviors. You have to study and understand the culture of muslims from its origins. For example, the dhimmi, which imposes a tax to inferior communities like Jews and Christians, if they want to stay alive. They are convinced that inferiors must stay inferiors.

he knows the facts, and still criticizes israel. nothing to look up to.

i agree. mirshmir is an antisemite.

Who said I had answers on how to resolve such a conflict?? The only ones who can resolve this conflict are the Israeli and Palestinian people and I don't belong to either. The first step in that process has to be communication between both sides. What I hear from your statement is a lot of hate so, I would ask you. How do you think that leads to a solution?@beegdawg007

@beegdawg007?

@beegdawg007what u on about?

People want jews to leave their indigenous homeland of a united israel, only be a land for arabs making the jewish indigenous homeland completely judenfrei in the nazi context. We, the indigenous people the jews and samaritans were the last people on the land to fight for their self determination pre 1947, fought in the 600s under the byzantines for our land and independence and now that we are back will fight again against the new non indigenous people fighting against us, the arabs. Why do all other indigenous peoples get support except jews? That’s the racism against jews. If it causes the ethnic cleansing of Arabs then they shouldnt live on jewish land just like the europeans shouldnt live in america 😂😂😂😂 🤡

Why do you care what people call you? I’ve been called Ni2ger, coon, African, etc and at no point did it change anything about me. I’m starting to think growing up black in America is a blessing 😂 y’all really scared to be called a word by strangers?! 💀

True. He's also saying this type of detailed discussion is avoided by those in power because of their ugly deeds in the past. There are multiple reasons and a long history behind why the "R" word exists and is so prevalent in America today.

@@louthawriter it’s a label. Like any other. Definitely comes from the Marxist Playbook. The power isn’t in the label, but the people who think it matters. Best way to fight is to stop caring about labels in the first place. Worked for me.

@iamwillshepherd that may be true. But Lex asked a very important question about how to handle the fact that these people/problems do exist though. They use the dog whistles etc. I think that's where the disconnect comes in for us here in America as well.

This guy just said the 'interest group' is American. Why would he say that? Did he think of Evangelic Zionism, but forgot about AIPAC, or maybe he was implying AIPAC is under their control?

AIPAC is not recognized as foreign, although it clearly is. @@denissorn

Yeah great comparison 🙄

Not really. Science is an evolving, hypothesis based system that refines itself with new evidence so he was basically just saying he was acting as a scientist, not a dogmatic person - yes, he changed his mind on some things but that's how science is supposed to work. Zionism, on the other hand, is a dogma based ideology.

A tiny country continually attacked since its formation for no reason other than their Jewish heritage and even their enemies say this but people still think it’s because of Palestine….🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

you was also an antisemite and a right wing extremist if you cirique the vaccines + their producers ;) coincidence for suuuuure lmao

@@TheSeahawk206 It's not because their religion or ethnicity, it's because they occupied, displaced, and suppressed the population that lived there before.

True and some antisemites actually support the israeli lobby and some islamophobes actually support the saudi lobby

Thank the Rothschild banking dynasty for snowballing wealth and consolidating power into such a small group; their financial returns through usury sure have compounded vastly over the past few centuries.

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Yup!

Exactly! Israel is a wealthy nation. They do not need US tax payers money or a lobby. The US would be perfectly willing to sell them weapons. People get angry when they realize our communities are crumbling while giving money to foreign nations. People don't forget that Netanyahu pushed the US to war with Iraq which caused so many suicides in the US. Netanyahu was probably the one who pushed the Trump administration to take out Soleimani. Then you have the Abraham Accords which totally cut Palestinians out of negotiations. And people really think that will not stir up a hornets nest within the Iran regime? October 7th might have been a direct result of those actions.

good comment.

Its more wrong when one side has total domination of the situation on two continents and have been running this propaganda campaign for almost a 100 years through films/media..

@@chiefenumclaw7960 Many thanks my friend. BTW, I just had to respond to your comment because I noticed your name and I happen to live in your town. I'm by the big park off of Porter. Small world after all

LMAO. One of the biggest bullshit cliches saturating our culture right now. You will pick and choose how you apply this according to fashion...

I love that we live in a world where we have to intentionally misspell certain words so that our AI overlords don't shadow ban our comment.

They were offered lands that could have been much more peaceful settlements but the Zionists had their eyes on Palestine for a millennia. It was the worst option possible. Why would one empathize over the holocaust when the victims of the holocaust themselves are now causing the same treatment to palestinians/arabs.

Israel are build for those zealot Jews that becoming problem in western nation(yes for me a non westerner that connotation incl. Russia), this notion are strengthened by castration mandate to many colored Jews(i.e those Jews that used to live outside of western nations), and many should notice native Jews that live on Palestine territory are also have a lot of hate toward Zionism. Western prop up and support of zionism and subsequent Israel state as experiment on Jews. Why they choose Palestine territory at the time a British Mandate?there are at least 3 reason, 1. As many zealot are easy to turn toward zionism when holy land are mentioned;2. Gave some sort of outpost into Middle East that its trade route and resources are very important to western nation added bonus to rein in the Arabs;3. To gave western nation excuse of their wrongdoing by saying ‘looks i gave u a chance in turn you are no better than us’ toward those zealot. The last reason is why Israel doesn’t abide any western advice and second ones are the reason why seemingly unwavering support of Israel’s conduct by western nations. Western used Zionism as their tools, vice versa knowing that Zionist used western supports to gain more and more leverages. And those kind of sick relationship are maintained by sacrificing Palestinian rights to determination. All Jews should be able to live peacefully all around the world, like all people should, and ofc having all the rights and responsibilities as all people should also.

The European world agreed and the Arab world didn't. So instead of taking a piece of land in Europe they forced the Jewish people into the middle east against Arab wishes. Makes no sense

Funny to realise that jews always fled to islamic countries in the middle ages when they got persecuted in europe

Makes you wonder why so many different groups disliked them in the past

Trite comment...you are jealous

An example please?

Isreal has Gaza under blockade since 2006.

Nobody would have cared if you had just got land that was not already occupied, but the Jewish people Cannot establish their "home land" at the expense of a whole group, it will never be accepted nor morally correct .

And before that? Also, most of Israelis are eastern European. They actually have a bigger claim to any country in Eastern Europe than palastine.

@@davidclayton.1511 that is completely false. They are not mostly from Eastern Europe.

@Evulnation am talking about the first colonizers. The zionists. They're the source of the problem. If everyone wanted to go back to the land of their ancestry, the world would burn! Imagine someone trys to kick me out of my house because his ancestors owned the land it was built on. They'll literally be thrown into a mental asylum. Also, do zionists not realize power doesn't last. What will happen to them if a strong Muslim nation rises up? The surrounding countries have all the time in the world, israel doesn't. It's on them to try and figure a peaceful solution. I'd suggest starting by changing that damn flag that implies "from the river to the sea"

@@Evulnation Then where are they from?

@@davidclayton.1511 Most Israelis are Middle Eastern Jews.

Hey Genius, expelling people from their land is a war crime. Your questions/suggestions are either stupid or deceitful.

@@moujalbahr7688 Just like you treated Jews in your Islamic countries and made them leave same applies to you. You think you can do things to Jews and we won't fight back? Well you'll be surprised.

yea i agree we never look at the faults of the jews but only the faults of the nazis

No point discussing history with someone who doesn't know it

@@etiketiran5073 What did David Irving say that “denies” the Holocaust?

That's a huge stretch you're making. What Mearsheimer is saying is that condemning slavery in the USA, genocide of aboriginal Aussies, the holocaust, apartheid is SA... should not be considered racism against white people.

geezus christ, you listen to all that and that was all you left with. also you conflate the two issues. he NEVER said isarel should NEVER exist. he said he supports the 2 state solution. you're the problem. just like those lobbist and pro zionist. you conflate different issues into one, so that you can justify any opposing criticism as antisemitism. what you said is very dishonest and bad faith. and is the very talking points these lobbyist and pro zionist use to justify calling anyone antisemetic in order to silence them. a 2 state solution is NOT antisemetic. obviously saying "isarel shouldnt exist" would be antisemetic, especially at this point. its too late. israel is an established country, trying to solve the palestinian problem by reversing and sayinh isarel shouldnt exist is NOT a solution. you dont solve one genocidal problem by enacting another genocide. THAT said. all that said. truthfully, i wouldnt have cared about this conflict had it been countries with no relations to the US. in the sense that, obviously i support any countries right and its citizen to self defense. just like i how i can understand the palestinian plight and why some would bear arms to resist as terrorist (hamas); AS WELL AS israel's right to self defense after oct 7. its FOOKIN war people. it will be messy, it will be ugly, and it will be bloody. nothing is perfect in war. so im not against israel doing the thing they do in gaza as well as not against palestinian having anger and resistance against israel. BUT WHAT IM AGAINST, and this irks soo much. is that isral does so on behalf of the US taxpayers. our fookin money. the US taxpayer funds israel with weapons and $$$. any by doing so, the arab world and muslim world broader logically view the US as responsible to this. its gotten so bad, the US dont have the will to tell israel to stop because of their strong lobbyist group because they hold so much influence with politicians. which makes me worried because i cant help but think maybe this is what led to 9/11. had the US not chosen to fund israel's expansion and growth post ww2, had the US been able to have these discussion without being shut and silence. maybe the US couldve avoided 9/11 in an alternate timeline, and avoid the war on terror, the iraq war, financialy in debt, etc. in that alternate timeline, maybe the middle east would be in the palms of the US (figuretively, in terms of friendly relations), the US would be the leader of OPEC, gas would be fookin cheap, solving the shiite-sunni problem would be much easier problem to resolute then the jew israel vs muslim problem.

​@@rockyoussef Naive interpretation. The Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel, which Mearsheimer seems to deny. The only colonoization and ethnic cleansing that has taken place in the region is the ethnic cleansing of the Jews. Also forgot to mention that. Islam is a religion of colonization and ethnic cleansing. You'd think so-called historians like Mearsheimer would be able to understand more than just a few decades of history.

@@gsurtos6588 as if a two-state solution hasn't been on the table numerous times. He talks as if the failure of a two-state solution was all Israel's fault. He never talks about the multiple times Palestine rejected this and what their motive to reject was. The whole Middle East has cleansed itself of the Jews with the exception of Israel. The Palestinians don't want a two-state solution. They don't want Jews there at all. The Hamas charter says so. And you hear them in the streets: "From the River to the Sea." Mearsheimer couldn't be more disingenous in his analysis of this conflict.

How did people stand up against Nazi atrocities?

No, but you are in fact a coward for using that term where it doesn’t belong.

@@Greenskies321 nah I was right on the money.

A rabbi? Seriously? Link please. WTF

What a stupid metric

There was less than 12k people. Google this news. And not all of them were jews. Most of them were zionist christians. Some of them paid actors.

It’s very normal to be anti-Zionist just like being anti-nazi .

Can America become a Chirstian nation? Or must it be secular?

How many other colonial apartheid states exist other than Israel in 2023?

@@Sangre3000its not an apartheid state ya idjit

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'''how dare those islamophobes to criticize Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iran'' that's how ridiculous you sound

I completely agree with your perspective. There are plenty (if not most!) Jews who are critical of the Israeli government. But that certainly does not mean Israel has no right to exist (as is the Hamas and PA charters). As a mediator, I would say both parties likely have legitimate complaints and the truth is probably somewhere in between. a two state solution with both parties being 70% happy with the outcome is probably a realistic scenario

Okay then, would you prefer the term "blockade"?

@tr3der The ship has sailed on a 2 state solution. Israel has been trying that since 1948, only to be repeatedly attacked. October 7 was beyond was any human can tolerate.

Thanks for responding. Yes. I think the word "blockade" is a lot more accurate. I had a look at the law and it said there is a blockade 12 nautical miles out from shore. What is Israel's motive and do you know what is the thinking behind allowing inside/ outside this 12 nm radius?@@Pine_Gap_Island

He’s talking truth, you do realize that right ?

@@funkyflights😂

@@funkyflights No.

@@untilvalhalla7854 … Do your research, you might find he’s right

@@funkyflights This guy is a typical academic who likes nothing better than the sound of his own intellectual awesomeness. The simple truth is that Islam has been at war with everything that isn’t since its inception (622 AD is a little late to the party) in Arabia. The Palestinians are basically Islam’s “brown shirts.” This guy is an educated idiot.

if he is telling bull*t and is 90% wrong, why the people need to debate him and not to silence him?

​@@megustofication Classic yahudi tactics, straight to ad hominem and silencing rather than accepting criticism. Just as they have done for millenia, going so far as to murder Prophets of God and alter God's revelations.

if its bullshit they should have no problem in a debate then@@megustofication

@@megustoficationsounds like what a nazi would say to silence the opposition

He is an author and professor, who is silencing him? He is a RABID Jew hater and liar. If the First amendment still stands I can see it and say it. If he wants to convince anyone besides Israel to accept a 2 state solution he should go and try with his "powerful arguments" 🙄 btw Elders of Zion is not "literature" - fool gives himself away with every word.

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I’ve been horrified for a long time

Horrified for years!!

People who said this about Funding Ukraine were also silenced

No they wont

@@robertgriffin6668 … Yes, history will frown on it, massively

Marketplace of ideas are all zionists and against any free speech that criticizes Israel.

Non sequitur

if he walks likke a duck and quacks like a duck.... maybe he shouldn't be so reflexive in responding to anti-semitic tropes. musk is his own worst enemy. Money and huibris aren't good bedfellows

Musk only brings up valid points and if you do that, they'll smear you with everything they can. Truth hurts.

No and that is exactly what turns people.

No, how dare you criticize God’s chosen ones!

That’s a pretty absurd claim. Pretty much everyone I’ve heard who would be considered “pro-Israel” couches their support in heavy caveats regarding civilian casualties and the political excesses of people like Netanyahu. I don’t know who is making the claim that it’s antisemitic to criticize Israel. At most I’ve seen claims that it’s antisemitic to be anti Zionist because the dissolution of Israel as a state would result in a genocide of the Jews within the area of what is now Israel. The more sensible antisemitism claims, by my estimation, are towards those who support Hamas given that Hamas has explicitly genocidal language _still_ in their charter (despite the update).

@@purplemonkeydishwasher9818 I don't understand why many people who support the Palestinians don't condemn Hamas and their character.

The problem is that the us, the uk, china, Russia etc do not come under as much criticism as Israel and they have committed far more war crimes on a longer time line. Israel is criticized because it is Jewish, it has become evident. On top of that every minority group is given the benefit of the doubt in western society except for the jews. African Americans can burn down entire cities, loot, destroy and assault, nobody will say a word and they don't dare to, because they will be silenced. Trans people, the LGBTIQA+, hispanics, blacks etc are not allowed to be scruinized or cititzed at all...period. People can openly be prejudice against jews, attack jews, hurl hate speech etc and nobody bats an eye.