JESSE ASK WHAT CAUSES PEOPLE TO H*T* ISRAEL! .

[00:00:00]But what I didn't know, what I didn't hear growing up, I didn't know that people hated Israel.

[00:00:05]>> Mhm.

[00:00:05]>> I did not know that seemed like it's something new.

[00:00:08]Because when I was growing up, and I for some reason I didn't think of the Jewish people cuz I thought all people were the same anyway, but I love Israel because of what I read about it and I knew the relationship we had. And so for what I knew, all Christians and all people love Israel. I was surprised to find out that they hated. What caused people to hate Israel?

[00:00:32]>> It's a great question.

[00:00:33]>> It's so amazing. What caused Oh, one of the When I first heard people put down Israel, I first heard it from Jesse Jackson and those kind of guys, Louis Farrakhan and others.

[00:00:47]Prior to that, I never heard it before and I only heard that once I moved to LA.

[00:00:51]Uh what caused people to hate Israel? It doesn't make sense to me.

[00:00:55]>> Right. So, I'll make it make sense to you.

[00:00:57]>> Okay.

[00:00:57]>> Um and I think your experience, if you look at the black South for since they've were brought into the Americas, they've had a very good relationship with the idea of Israel, right? Israel existed post that experience, but even the idea of Israel, they read it in the Bible, they have their songs, they identify with the stories of slavery, they identify with the stories of King David. So, the the black American experience overall always had a very positive relationship with Israel until the Farrakhans and the later movements that came much after. But historically, there's always been anti-Semitism. I mean, you can look at the Inquisition in Spain and the Holocaust uh that happened >> I mean, how about America? Surely have they always had.

[00:01:37]>> Before America got involved with World War II, there was a huge Nazi movement that was happening in America. And you had signs that said no black people, no Jews, right? We were right next to each other in terms of segregation and pushing people away and that's why there was a lot of alliances that existed between black people and Jews during the Civil Rights Movement. But your fundamental question is I think one of the most important questions on this topic is why.

[00:01:58]>> Yeah.

[00:01:59]>> Because we talk about what's going on.

[00:02:00]Okay, we get it, but why is it happening? If we don't understand why, we're not going to be able to play a role to be able to fix it, right? And so, if you look at I'm going to first break down the reality for maybe some of your viewers that don't understand. If you look at the far left, they say that the Jews are the right. You look at the far right, they say the Jews are the left. You look at the black supremacists like the Farrakhans, the Jews are enemy number one.

[00:02:20]>> Yeah.

[00:02:20]>> You look at the white supremacists, the KKK members and neo-Nazis, Jews are enemy number one. You look at the ultra-religious people, Jews are enemy number one. Ultra-secular people, the feminists, Jews are enemies. The every single side that you go that's on an extreme, they all agree on one thing.

[00:02:35]One thing only, that the Jews are the problem. How they're the problem, they'll disagree on how.

[00:02:40]>> Right.

[00:02:40]>> But that they are the problem, they're all on the same page, which is amazing, right?

[00:02:43]>> That is amazing.

[00:02:44]>> It's pretty crazy. And now >> I've never asked anyone this question, so interesting in it.

[00:02:49]>> So, the answers I got growing up when I was asking my community, why are we constantly hated, you know, all of my grandparents were born in different countries, all of them were persecuted because they were Jews. All of their families were exterminated because they were Jews. And so, I asked myself, why historically do we constantly be persecuted by wherever we're having an experience? And we're always blamed for all problems, right? The economy has to be the Jews. The weather has to be the Jews. The government has to be the Jews.

[00:03:13]Uh Charlie Kirk died, must be his Literally anything that happens, like someone is finding a way to flip it and reverse it. And blame it on Jews. And you know enough Jews to know that we're not behind things. I mean, there are some individual bad Jews who are not so good, like you have any population. And if you look on average, the the output that the Jewish people have is usually positive. So, why are you assuming all the Jews are behind these things? And so, the three excuses I would often hear is, well, people are jealous of us because we tend to be successful. And I kind of reject that because there were times in Europe where we weren't successful, we're living in poverty, and they were still blaming us for all problems and hating on us.

[00:03:51]>> Yeah.

[00:03:51]>> There are countries like Singapore that's a new country and ultra successful. No one's boycotting Singapore. If you look at the three minority groups who are recent immigrants in America that have the most success, it's Nigerians, Koreans, and Indians. And I don't see any boycotts and protests and campus movements against these communities. And you look into New York City, right, where you have a large percentage of the population that's Jewish, 13%, right?

[00:04:13]One of the largest Jewish communities in the world is in New York, but we are 13% 1 3 of the population in New York City as Jews. If you look at the total hate crimes, you look at hate crimes against black people, women, whatever group it is, the total hate crimes against the Jewish people is over 60% of that total.

[00:04:30]So, how are we 13% and yet over 60% of hate crimes are targeted against Jews?

[00:04:34]It cannot be success. The next argument used is that we other ourselves. We have our own Jewish day schools and cemeteries and hospitals. And so, because we have like this separation, then people hate us. But, look at the Amish. The Amish separate themselves. No one's going and blaming the Amish for running the economy. The Muslims separate themselves. The Indians separate themselves. The Armenians separate themselves. No one's going to those communities and blaming them for all world problems because they have a separation. The last excuse often given that I heard growing up is there's this dual loyalty clause, which I think you were alluding to when you asked me like, "Are you American or not?" And I think I think we need to be very honest as Jews.

[00:05:10]You know, Judaism is not a religion.

[00:05:11]It's a civilization from Judea {slash} Israel {slash} the Hebrews. And I'm honest. I'm not against America, but I'm not American. I'm an Israelite. I'm I'm a visitor here. This is not my ancestral homeland. My homeland is in Israel, which is where I live. Now, people say that there's this dual loyalty because Jews are first allied with or loyal to the greater Jewish collective or to Israel, then people are going to think that they're traitors. But, I grew up a large percentage of my early childhood life in Miami. And in Miami, everyone's from somewhere else. Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, like everyone's from somewhere else. And so, the question is not why do they hate them?

[00:05:50]>> that caused the world to hate us. The question is what we didn't do.

[00:05:54]Now, in order to understand what we didn't do, we need to remember what we're supposed to do as a collective.

[00:05:58]The mission statement of the Jewish people is to do tikkun olam, to heal the world, and to be or lagoim, a light to the nations. This is what it says in the Torah.

[00:06:06]>> Right.

[00:06:06]>> Now, what does it mean to heal the world? Wherever there's hatred, jealousy, materialism, famine, idolatry, we as a nation chose the responsibility to elevate this world. Wherever there is darkness, uh all kinds of problems, we're supposed to turn on the light for people to see, to activate and achieve their greatest potential.

[00:06:23]>> So, if the world is a body, and every nation has a function, there's a reason that we're all created. God created all of us for a reason. And every nation has a function within the human body. The only thing in the human body that fulfills the healing of the world, healing the body, and empowering the other nations, so empowering the rest of the organs, the only thing that does that is the immune system. Now, when the immune system does not work, the body becomes sick. It's not the immune system that created the diseases, but it was the immune system's responsibility to correct it. It's not the Jewish people that created the world's problems, but it's the Jewish people's responsibility to prevent or to correct them. And anti-Semitism, fundamentally, is a rejection and reaction of all these extreme groups who are suffering, who are looking to the Jews and blaming us for creating those problems. Now, they're right and they're wrong. We didn't create those problems, but the reason they're experiencing us as being the source of those problems is because we're supposed to be the source of the solution. And until the Jewish people do their job, and actually elevate this world, and do the job that we chose that we have the ability to do, we will continuously be rejected and blamed for our problems, even though we didn't create them.

[00:07:23]>> But, that's never going to happen.

[00:07:25]>> It will.

[00:07:26]>> Oh, I was about to have you come in. I wanted you to hear this there.

[00:07:29]That's my producer for the radio show.

[00:07:32]He black.

[00:07:33]>> I can see.

[00:07:35]>> [laughter] >> Um so [clears throat] so people hate the Jews because the Jews are not helping to heal the lands.

[00:07:47]>> Yeah.

[00:07:47]>> They're not healing.

[00:07:48]>> They don't hate us because they ain't us. They hate us because we ain't us.

[00:07:52]>> Because you hate >> Because we ain't us.

[00:07:54]>> Oh, you're not >> We aren't who we are supposed to be.

[00:07:56]>> never going to happen.

[00:07:57]>> It will.

[00:07:58]>> It will?

[00:07:58]>> Yeah.

[00:07:58]>> Meaning what?

[00:07:59]>> Meaning it's going to it's going to have to happen. God positioned it in a way that no matter what it ends up happening. There's plan A and there's plan B. Plan B is World War III and from the ashes something will happen or plan A is we get it together. Now, my opinion, the way that we can activate it and get it together is by bringing back all the tribes of Israel. Right now, if you look at the Jewish people around the world, we're about 16 million, 1 6, right? That's the descendants of two and a half out of 12 tribes. The tribe of Judah, Benjamin, and half of Levi. Nine and a half of the tribes of Israel are missing. And so, how do you have a car move forward if the majority of the pieces in the car aren't even in the car? It might look like a car from the outside. You have the body, but the majority of the pieces inside aren't.

[00:08:40]Therefore, it's to be able to move. So, my opinion, in order for us to activate our potential and to be able to start to doing our job, we have to first bring back the rest of the tribes of Israel back home.

[00:08:50]>> That's not going to happen.

[00:08:51]>> It is. And I'm working on it.

[00:08:53]>> Well, let me ask. Um so, you are a Zionist.

[00:08:57]>> Mhm.

[00:08:57]>> Right?

[00:08:58]>> Right.

[00:08:58]>> And so, what is a Zionist?

[00:09:01]>> I think it's very important we define the terms that we use cuz a lot of people have different definitions or wrong definitions. And at the end of the day, the words that we use it's not about the sound that we make, it's about what they mean.

[00:09:12]>> Right.

[00:09:12]>> Right. And so, Zionism comes from the word Zion, which means Jerusalem. And so, someone who is a Zionist believes in the concept of Zionism, which is the right for the Jewish people to self-determine on their ancestral homeland. The Jews are an ancient people who come from the land of Israel/Judea.

[00:09:29]That's where we're indigenous to. That's where civilization was founded. We were displaced by the Roman Empire and different empires who came. And the idea of us having the rights to come back home is the idea of Zionism and anyone who believes in that right for the Jews to return is a Zionist.

[00:09:45]>> And so is uh a Zionist Jew is that a religion or culture?

[00:09:54]>> The Zionist aspect is the ideology that you agree that the Jews should have a right to return back home. So a non-Jew yourself, if you believe the Jews should have a right to self-determine on their ancestral homeland, you yourself would be a Zionist. Now there's right-wing Zionist, left-wing Zionist, Christian Zionist, Jewish Zionist. So there's all kinds of different views when it comes to this idea, but the core idea is that the Jews should be able to come back and it has nothing to do with another people who live there or conflicts with them.

[00:10:21]It's purely the idea that Jews have a to right to come back.

[00:10:24]>> Oh, so it's not a religion either. It's just that Jews should come back to their land.

[00:10:29]>> Right. When it comes to Zionism. Now Judaism, a lot of people in my opinion misdefine it as religion.

[00:10:35]>> Right.

[00:10:35]>> reason I say they misdefine it is because the word religion is defined as a belief system in a god, deity, book, or prophet. So if one doesn't believe in the god, deity, book, or prophet of said religion, by the very definition, they're not a part of it, which is why a Christian that rejects Jesus is no longer a Christian. A Muslim that rejects Muhammad or the Quran is no longer a Muslim. A Buddhist that rejects the philosophies of Buddha is no longer a Buddhist. Right? You have to believe in this ideology to be a part of that religion. Now a Jew that doesn't believe in Torah, which is our book, or doesn't believe in the law of Moses or in God, they're still a Jew. So it's not a wandering ideology that one is a part of it if in the moment they believe in it or not. It is a portable suitcase that when we were kicked out of our ancient civilization, in order to preserve who we were, we packed in our ancestry, our culture, our spirituality, our language, our laws, our customs, our values, our morals, everything inside and we labeled this suitcase Judaism and we passed it down generation to generation with the aspiration of one year we'll come back home to Jerusalem and revive that civilization. So, I don't look at Judaism as a religion, I look at it as a portable version of an ancient civilization.

[00:11:42]>> And and is that's how all of the Zionists sees it? They see it the same way?

[00:11:47]>> I think a lot of Jews use the term religion, but they mean different things than the way the world uses the word religion. The way I described Judaism, I would say the majority of Jews would agree with my definition, but they would still use the word religion cuz they don't quite understand that the way the world is using it is differently than how we're misusing it.

[00:12:06]>> So, are you a religious person?

[00:12:08]>> Yes.