The One Country You're Allowed To Blame | David Wood

[00:00:00]There's this rule basically in a lot of people's minds and we don't apply that to any other group in the world. But it's if any Jew of any time says or does anything, you can attribute that to the group. And we understand you don't apply that anywhere else anywhere else. Like we're constantly reminded of that with Islam. Whenever there's a terrorist attack and we say, "Hey, look, Islam caused another terrorist attack." They go, "Oh, you can't blame all Muslims."

[00:00:26]Well, I don't know anyone who blames all Muslims for everything. most Muslims probably don't support uh you know that particular terrorist attack or something like that. Um so no one does that and says every Muslim is somehow responsible for this.

[00:00:38]>> We're seeing people like uh Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, people like that talking differently about uh Islam, about Israel, uh things like that. What is your assessment of of that? But you had you had basically like complete 180s like uh Tucker, Candace, basically everyone like on that side was very critical of Islam and Iran, all these all these issues for their entire careers. And then just recently after uh Tucker loses his job at Fox and Candace loses her job at the Daily Wire, suddenly they switch they switch perspectives uh complete complete opposite direction and Islam has uh has never been the problem. It's really um all these other things and Islam is just kind of the the scapegoat for other things that are going on. And um as far as understanding that complete shift, it's kind of weird because it hasn't been explained, right?

[00:01:41]It like I could have one position on something and then change my mind and then two weeks later say, "Guys, I was wrong about this. Here's the correct position." In that situation, I should be able to explain what changed my mind.

[00:01:54]Like I I was just completely wrong about this. I had terrible information. I hadn't and now I learned all this extra stuff and then I found out I was actually wrong. So guys, I'm I'm switching sides. I've done that in my life. I' I've been on one I've held to one position and then completely reversed course. And so it would be one thing if they actually explained it.

[00:02:12]Here was all the information that we didn't know before, but now we know. And so um we're we're switching sides. It's just they switch they inexplicably switch sides and now they're just saying the opposite of things that they said years ago. And so you think about, okay, if they're if there's no real explanation for why that happened, it has to be something else. And so it seems like it could be, you know, neither one of them likes Israel at all.

[00:02:39]And so it it could just be um okay, whoever's against Israel, I'm going to line up with them. And so they they could be warming up to Islam. Or I mean, it's been suggested, but I I don't have any information on this. They could be getting paid by someone. in which case, hey, when you were working for Fox, you were being paid to say Fox things, now you're not working for them, so whoever's paying you. And uh but I I don't know. I don't know enough to say that they they're being paid or not because other people can. I know that there are all kinds of people who are uh uh supporting Iran right now all of a sudden who uh who probably are not getting paid for it. So, yeah, there there are multiple possible explanations, but none of them none of them look good. It all looks it all looks uh all looks diabolical.

[00:03:23]like Tucker for example, he's speaking about how Christians are persecuted in Israel. Uh and they're flourishing in Qatar and they're flourishing in these other Islamic countries. Um it just seems like you have to be blind to say that to say that. No, I mean just just things like that that makes no sense.

[00:03:43]Open Doors. Open Doors is an organization that monitors Christian persecution around the world. And every year they come out with the uh the 50 worst places ranked uh in terms of Christian persecution. And Islam, if I recall, Muslim countries are nine out of the 10, nine out of the top 10 worst places in the world to be a Christian in terms of persecution. And most of the most of the top 50. Israel is not on that list. Israel's not on the list.

[00:04:11]Israel's Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Christianity is growing. Um there have been polls about uh two Christians, two Christians in Israel. Are you happy? Are you happy living in Israel? Most Christians say they're totally happy living in Israel.

[00:04:29]And so it's uh yeah, it's just completely out of touch with reality to say um that you know is Israel's this horrible you know persecutor of Christian. But what happens what happens is and this is a this is another this is kind of another this like a serious problem but there's this rule basically in a lot of people's minds and we don't apply that to any other group in the world but it's if you if any Jew of any time says or does anything you can attribute that to the group and we understand you don't apply that anywhere else anywhere else like we're constantly reminded of that with Islam whenever there's a terrorist attack and we say, "Hey, look, Islam caused another terrorist attack." They go, "Oh, you can't blame all Muslim." Well, I don't know anyone who blames all Muslims for everything. Tons tons of Muslims might not support. Most Muslims probably don't support uh you know that particular terrorist attack or something like that.

[00:05:25]Um so no one does that and says every Muslim is somehow responsible for this.

[00:05:30]So, we're constantly reminded of this rule and you know, if if this were directed towards people in the U, we've we've kind of had experiences of this in in certain contexts like uh um with Black Lives Matter years ago, there were complaints about police shooting unarmed black people and that happens and that happens and that shouldn't happen and you know, you should you should not be a police officer if you uh you know, shoot at unarmed people or something like that. Um but you had people and people they would interview people they would interview people and they would walk up to people and say um how many unarmed black people are being shot by police officers every day in the United I mean every year in the United States they say thousands.

[00:06:12]They think it's thousands because every time it would happen it would just be it would just be endlessly broadcast and so on. Uh when in in reality it would be like more like 18. It would be like more like 18. Again it should be zero but it would be more like 18. wasn't thousands, but because that's thrown in people's faces, they think that it's this like ever just cops everywhere shooting unarmed black people. Um, but people eventually understood. Now, imagine someone in a in some foreign country saying, "Look at the United States.

[00:06:40]Police just shoot black people left and right." You'd say, "Well, no, that that happens. That happens and it's bad, but that's not that it's not it's not everywhere." And it's you don't want to blame all police officers. You don't want to say that's what happens in the United States or even like with u uh Christian groups. We've had we've had some weird Christian groups in the US, but uh the sort of popular one from a while back was at Westboro Baptist Church. These guys would go protest soldiers funerals and say that the reason your your Marine son died is because the United States is allowing gay marriage or something like that. And they'd be protesting people like it's a funeral, man. Get away from the funeral.

[00:07:18]What are you guys nuts, man? is mourning family and you guys are out there saying that their son died because of this or that like you know and but I mean imagine a situation with people like in a different country saying look in the United States this is what Christians do Christians in the United States go around um protesting soldiers funerals and saying it's because of this and that you'd say no that's one group that's one group that does that you don't say that's how Christians are in the United States you don't say that's how the United States is um but Jews are somehow the exception to the rule and that you you have videos and they circulate on the internet of uh you know uh uh this hyper orthodox Jews in Israel who will spit in the direction of Christians and they'll take those videos and they'll spread them everywhere and you'll have you have tons of people because of social media believe that a Christian cannot walk outside in Israel without Jews spitting at him. And so I I would respond I was like what are you talking about? I've been to I've been to Israel multiple times. I've walked all over the place. I've been walking down um the streets of the old city. You got Muslims. You got Jews, you've got Christians all walking beside each other in full gear. You've got you've got women completely uh decked out in in their uh nikabs and so on walking right by uh Jewish rabbis and so on. Uh no one's spitting at anyone else. Oh, but I've got the videos, right? It has happened. It happens. There are places it happens. But to to conclude, therefore, that that's just how it is in general is just uh it's just really it's just it it's just weird. And you should you should uh you should you should kind of understand Muslims should understand.

[00:08:52]You don't say here this happened therefore it's all the people.

[00:08:54]Christians should understand that. But uh Jews are the exception. It's not just in that way. It's like historically if someone can point to something a Jewish rabbi said in the seventh century they'll say see this is what Jews believe. Even if it's something that 99.9% of Jews have never even heard of, let alone are following as their as their uh as their beliefs. Um, and so that's kind of the weird situation. But yeah, whereas so online, what's going on online is they'll take a clip of of uh, you know, here's a Jew spitting on a Christian. You see this is what Jews do.

[00:09:24]Whereas me, I'll I'll ask while I'm over there. I'll start asking about it. And um, so I asked I I I started asking people, hey, what's up with the videos?

[00:09:32]Cuz I didn't see it. I didn't see it anywhere. I didn't say no one ever like looked no one ever even gave me like a mean look or something for walking around in a cross. In fact, we uh my friend uh uh Rid Van Idmir the apostate prophet um we were kind of walking around then we were talking to Stefan from Viscrats whose news agency like hey come walk over come check this out and we walked in we're w we walked into Michael Rapaort the actor we walked into his bar mitzvah and so and it was underground outside the the western wall and so we go underground and he's having his bar mitzvah. There were like 40 or 50 IDF soldiers there. There were tons of people and I'm like, "Oh, I want to record this." So, I stand up on a pillar sort of in the middle of the crowd. And I'm sitting there, Christian, wearing a cross filming. No one ever even looked sideways at me for anything. Everyone's smiling, everyone's happy. And then we take the we walk with him through the tour uh through the excavations. And then you you start to come out and I see a door and I'm just like, "Oh, I wonder what's in here." And I walk in and there it was the room where they copy the Torah scrolls. And so you have all these uh Torah scribes in there. And I walk in, I'm wearing a cross. They all kind of look back at me and then just go back. And there didn't seem to be any hostility towards towards me. And so so I asked I asked some people over there, well, what what's up with these videos of, you know, people spitting on Christians? They say, there's one like ultraorththodox sect that does that and other groups think they're wrong and messed up. And it's like, okay, as a, you know, from the perspective of American who understands there are all kinds of different groups who do all kinds of things that other people don't approve of and so on. How do you just blame the entire group and then declare that's what everyone over there does?

[00:11:13]Everyone should understand you don't do that. But Israel's the one spot where it's perfectly legitimate to blame everyone for anything that's ever been done or said by any Jew ever. They say uh no Jews, no news. And that's um yeah, you you you have on college campuses, you have some disastrous situations where and it's it's kind of just like like what I was mentioning um before. If all you see every time you click on social media is uh videos of police officers shooting um unarmed black people. You have had videos of that. If that's all you see, then you think it's this this rampant thing that's going on. And so if if you're just bombarded all day long with uh uh certain images and certain ideas, you think that's the biggest the biggest problem in the world and then you end up ignoring other problems because people aren't as successful in putting constantly putting that in front of your faces. And so yeah, you have Iran and you have a regime that's oh you're protesting because you want some basic human rights and some basic freedoms. uh we'll just kill you until you stop protesting. And I mean you had uh Reza Pahavi just spoke to Swedish Parliament and he's pointing out he's like aren't aren't European nations supposed to be the ones who support human rights and are on the side of the people who want human rights and yet there's not a peep when people are just being flat out murdered in the streets for demanding basic human rights. And no I I'm I mean apart from Iran Iranians had protests and so on. Iranians living in the West had protest, but you didn't have these, you know, col, you know, college uh college groups and and uh let's all let's all stand out here and we're going to go on a hunger strike and all that.

[00:13:00]It's like why don't you care about these thousands of people just being brutally murdered by a a dictatorial regime. And even before that, it became an issue that it at least started and it's kind of a it's kind of good that people started using this. But Christians in Nigeria, I mean, that's an actual there you have Muslim groups trying to completely wipe out slowly. There's um it's, you know, uh Nigeria is pretty big, but there's kind of a line that runs down through it where it's Muslim majority on one side and Christian majority on the other side. The goal of of a lot of the Muslim uh terrorist groups is to just slowly move that line, you know, year after year after year, but relentlessly you never stop. You just keep pushing that line further and further and further and further and further. And guess what? If they were able to do that all the way through Nigeria, it doesn't stop there. They continue they continue south down through through Africa. And that's the ultimate goal. They're think they're thinking long term. But uh uh my friend Robert Spencer and I, we uh we used to do a show called This Week in Jihad where we would just recap in an hour the main jihad attacks that have happened throughout that week. And we realized after a while we could do we could do that show just on Nigeria because it's it's every week. Every week there's news about terrorist attacks in Nigeria uh attacking Christians, attacking churches and so on. We could we could do a show just about Nigeria and you would never hear a peep about it. Not one word about it from the media in the West. That changed recently when it was used as kind of a counterexample to the college protest. It's like how come the college protesters never talk about what happens here? I mean, Christians are getting killed left and right. No one ever says a word about it. So, yeah, that kind of anytime you have a situation like that, and I'm not someone who believes that everyone has to complain about everything, right? If you if you want to focus on one issue, that's what you study, that's what you that's what you follow, and you point out when something's wrong, I don't think, oh, well, you also have to be an expert on something that's going on in China or something like that. You don't have to.

[00:15:07]But when it's everyone on every campus and they're all targeting the same thing and no one cares at all about anything outside that thing, it seems like you guys have been indoctrinated pretty severely. And uh it's probably a combination of your professors and administration and uh other campus groups who are telling you um what to think and what will make you a cool person. If you go along with us on this, then you'll be super cool. You'll be part of our group. And then of course everything that's going on on social media.