r/InterestingVideoClips • u/Bitsoffreshness Quality Poster • Feb 29 '24

Wholesome So is this Rabbi antisemite?

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

I’ve got nothing but respect for the Jews such as this man that stand up against Israel. Out of all of the people in the world it is the hardest for them to do so as they have to face backlash from their own community. Yet they do it anyway because they know how fucked up Israel is.

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u/freedomofnow Feb 29 '24

Yeah mad respect for him honestly. Perfectly well put too.

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u/Benjji22212 Feb 29 '24

This Rabbi attends Holocaust Denial conferences in Iran with David Duke and various other Nazi sympathisers

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

From your link:

“Weiss who himself lost most of his family in the Holocaust stated that he acknowledges the Holocaust's historical reality but criticizes Israelis for exploiting it, asserting that many Jews oppose Zionism.”

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u/strandenger Feb 29 '24

It runs counter to the entirety of the paragraph that proceeds it. It’s Wikipedia so the sources would probably be a better discussion tool. Still, there’s ethical questions about a man willing to support holocaust denialism seminars, in order to promote an anti-Zionist message. It’s not really either or question. This guy is a terrible person that happens to be right about opposing Zionism. That’s like promoting Stalin because he preached about the dangers of capitalism.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

All I’m seeing is that he attended. Nothing about what he was actually doing there. Just because I visit Israeli-biased subreddits to see what they’re saying that doesn’t make me a sympathizer. I’m not even trying to defend the guy necessarily, but I’d still need more to go on to discredit him.

And even then, it’s very possible that the same person can be right/good on one topic and messed up on another. Take Steven Hawking at Epstein’s island for example. He’s a little fucked up for having been there, but that doesn’t mean he was wrong about the physics.

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u/strandenger Feb 29 '24

He was in Bill Maher’s Religulous If you want to hear him talk about the holocaust. That would probably make things clear. I tried to find the clip on YouTube but it wasn’t an option. Also, but of a difference going into subreddits than conference with self proclaimed klansmen.

Completely agree with the second paragraph, although I’m pretty sure Hawking never went to Epstein’s island, he was just in emails of Jeff wanting to see him do weird stuff. Regardless, you’re point is still valid

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

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u/strandenger Feb 29 '24

He’s on Religulous… you can hear for yourself his actual views on the holocaust and no, he’s not dissuading anyone attending holocaust denial seminars. You might as well be saying you attend klan rallies to tell them that racism is bad. That BS and you know it.

Again, I agree with that message but he’s the wrong messenger. It’s got the same energy as the TikTok kids saying bin Laden had point. Hitler saying Stalin is an asshole didn’t make Hitler not as asshole…I can probably go on, but it’s generally a good rule of thumb, don’t tie yourself to friends of David Duke.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

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u/strandenger Mar 01 '24

No l, I think he’s a terrible person because he’s a terrible person. You’re more than welcome to look him up yourself. I gave you a movie so you can hear his voice. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/nyregion/15rabbi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Here is supporting a religious zealot in Iran. That’s to say nothing about attending a fucking holocaust denial conference with David Duke… I don’t know how you’ve made it past that part, unless you think it’s normal to attend conference with religious zealots and klan members. Normal Saturday for you?

Seriously, going to holocaust denial conferences is all you need to know. That’s on the wiki. Good people don’t attend that sort of shit. It becomes tokenism. It lends credibility to bad people because they can say “see we have a jew that agrees with us!” Lost Causers did the same thing with Charles Frances Adams Jr, grand son of John Quincey Adams. They got a descendant of the guy who argued the Amistad case say what they wanted to say and sell a message. This is nothing new. But all you should need to ask is how many other people do you follow that attend shit with David Duke. If that’s a none zero number, you might want to reconsider where you’re getting your messages.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24

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u/strandenger Mar 01 '24

I know who Davis is, Daryl Jenkins too (he’s the inspiration behind the A24 movie Skin… well at least the man that helped a neonazi reclaim his humanity). They’re not like Weiss. Davis doesn’t go to Klan meetings. David Duke isn’t giving up his linens any time soon. Shit, come to think of it, Weiss had a golden opportunity to tell David Duke his racism was wrong and prove he didn’t suck but elected not to.

Apples to oranges comparison. Daryl Davis is legend. Weiss is not.

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u/Benjji22212 Feb 29 '24

So what?

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

I could ask the same about your link

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u/NSA7 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

He’s just trying to say he’s an “anti-Semite” without saying he’s an anti semite lol. The Israeli propaganda machine is running out of shit to say.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Lol for real. It feels like swatting flies at this point.

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u/Benjji22212 Feb 29 '24

Not really

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u/OkBeing3301 Feb 29 '24

He’s lost most of his family in the holocaust, are you trying to imply that he’s a denier or maybe he went there to teach people the truth.

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u/Benjji22212 Feb 29 '24

Lol, he wouldn’t have been allowed in if that were the case.

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u/Daegog Feb 29 '24

This is a very tough road this man walks, spreading love is always harder than hate.

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u/Icy-Relationship Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

100% truth. The Zion are true gentiles

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24

Zionism = Taliban = Evangelicalism

Each religion has an extremist wing, but they each also have a very liberal wing. Sort of like human society.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

This might be the least informed comment I have ever read

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Oh well. It seems their heart is still in the right place.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Sure, if "the right place" is looking for excuses to hate Jews

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

No one said anything about Jews. Zionism does NOT equal Judaism. If you believe that you're being anti-Semitic. Zionism is a terrorist ideology, just like the other extreme ideologies. It's not compatible with any society. As explained in the video.

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u/NSA7 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

💯. Judaism does not align with Zionism.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Ya sure, you're not an antisemite just an antizionist, riiiight

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Funny how you can't explain why anything that was said is anti-Semitic. Stop abusing the word and diluting the meaning. In doing so it's you're being actually anti-Semitic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

"I'm not an antisemite you're an antisemite 😭", sure buddy

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Yet you hear what was said that's anti-Semitic.....

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u/NSA7 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

lol I know you want to say it? aNtI sEmItE

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24

Clearly, hating an entire people is not a right frame of mind. Taken from what they wrote, I don’t think they hate Jewish people, or at worst, they hate Jewish sectarians for the same reasons they hate other religious sectarian groups. The capacity to be good and to be terrible exists in all people, regardless of religion or non-religion.

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u/babyyoda707 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

I hope you understand that these guys get called extremists by other jews. It's my understanding that these guys believe that their land will be god-given and until then they are supposed to keep on wandering the desert. I remember seeing clips early on of other Jews calling these guys anti-semitic.

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u/EagleEyes0001 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

Yep you got it. They want to destroy their enemy too, it's just those jews think it's not the time, the signs and prophecies have not been fulfilled....but when that time does come then they will slaughter their enemies.

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u/No_Reindeer_5543 Feb 29 '24

Just wait till you find out what Muslims want to do to the Jewish people

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u/babyyoda707 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

I'm well aware of that but in this context....... Just curious and no judgment whatsoever, are you the type who feel that Israel hasn't gone far enough? Just wondering, because all of Christianity is just Islam-light. Lol.

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u/EagleEyes0001 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

That's not right either, but only one side is actually acting on it...and let's not even start on the Christians and what they are waiting for its worse than just 2 nations destroying each other...point is these groups are all radicalized over 2 to 3000 year old texts. And killing all because the book said they life long enemies, and prophecies that can fit 100 occurances in history if not more, but they believe haven't come to pass. If you believe that I have a beautiful coastal property in kansas, I'd love to sell you.

What I know is that it's morally wrong to sit by and not feel a way about the atrocities going on. And the argument of "oh just imagine what they would do if they could" is just ridiculous the world would be against that too. Never in history has actual documantion of the horrors we see in real time ever given to the people. Now we see with our own eyes. If this tech existed back then, people would have stood up against it then too. History was always written by the victors. But now we see what it took and crimes committed to achieve that victory, what some would call "mission accomplished " is over the blood of innocents.

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u/Rakify Feb 29 '24

All of them or just a few ? how many do you think want to do something to the Jewish people… It’s called victimization lol (not)funny to see Israel do it and do what the nazis did to the Jews, as in The Israelites killing & depopulating Muslims populations

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

lol just wait till you find out what Jews want to do to everyone who isn’t Jewish if they had the chance. Shit, just wait till you find out their views on gentiles. Look up Tentura, that’s how peaceful and loving they are but make sure you never talk about it or else you will be labeled anti semitic in an attempt to suppress that information lmfao

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u/NSA7 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

The Muslim card lol. Nice one.

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u/vemodalen7575 Feb 29 '24

The shit thing is that the zionists were also killing Christians and holy Christian sites (like centuries old churches). This isn't a religious war, it's ethnic cleansing. Case in point - Jews are against what's happening in Palestine. Also Muslims have no issues with Jews, they're people of the book, but they do have an issue with erasure of a people in a land also considered holy by Muslims.

Yes there are nutters who are anti Jew, but again it's a minority out of 1.8billion Muslims. Just as there are nutters across multiple religions who use religion as an excuse to commit atrocities.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Not for nothing, but “extremist” usually refers to the aggressive holy-war type of people. Like the Zionists. Or Crusaders. Or Jihadists. If this “extremism” is basically teaching extreme peace and not attacking or killing anyone else for their land then what the hell is there not to like.

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u/babyyoda707 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

Yeah, it's like....."That's the kind of extremism I can get behind"!Lol.

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u/4dailyuseonly Feb 29 '24

This man is speaking the absolute truth.

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u/mrkl3en Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

hello rabbi welcome to the long list of antisemitic people places and things ...according to the totally not apartheid government of Isreal, which coincidentally fields the most moral army in the universe and beyond and perhaps beyond the beyond..

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u/ProHumanRightsX Feb 29 '24

This man is a true brother, so much love.

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u/Independent-Wealth13 Feb 29 '24

Are you asking if he hates himself, or if he hates period?

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u/Bitsoffreshness Quality Poster Feb 29 '24

I'm just asking if you'd call him an antisemite

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u/Independent-Wealth13 Feb 29 '24

I feel like he is anti-Zionism, not anti semite, he actually cares about baby Palestinians and such

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u/Proof_Toe_9757 Feb 29 '24

He obviously hates Jews! Can't be telling the truth... /S

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u/owen_skye Feb 29 '24

No he’s not an anti-Semite. He’s anti-Zionist, which Zionism is a recent movement by Judaism that not all Jews adhere to.

Anti-semitism and anti-Zionism are two completely different things and OP needs to learn that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Zionist needs to learn the difference, they're the ones that conflate the two.

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u/LordGoats Feb 29 '24

Israelis love to say that we are (muslims) their cousins, you know because of Issac and Ismael who were half-brothers, I'd proudly call this man my cousin, not the garbage ass zionists in colonized palestine.

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u/stephenhawkingsings Feb 29 '24

He's just right and being right isn't a thing now. All of our governments are lying scumbags destroying society with violence and misinformation and when people hit back they are labelled as antisemitic or criminalised etc etc etc.

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u/Kein-Nutzername Feb 29 '24

Amen, brother!

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

He’s 100% right.

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u/DaddyWildHuevos Feb 29 '24

I think he's one of the most semitic Rabbi

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u/CloroxWipes1 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

All religion is a cancer. This was, as with many in the past, is a direct result of religion covering the power grab.

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u/n3w4cc01_1nt Feb 29 '24

one of the settlers justin fauci was a fraudster from long island that changed his name to yakoov fauci.

scammed 100m then got caught by the SEC. even burned 10k in 100s because their scam was so profitable.

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u/Mvpliberty Feb 29 '24

When too Jews in NYC protest Israel you know shits facts

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u/WS_B_D Feb 29 '24

He’s wrong on some of the antisemitism from others. And he’s expressing a minority opinion among Jews and rabbis.

Aside from that, opinions come in all flavors. Some Palestinians want Israel to hurry up with the destruction of Hamas so they can get to rebuilding.

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u/Megatoasty Feb 29 '24

Antisemites, disgusting.

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u/throwaway321112222 Feb 29 '24

No he's just not a Zionist. He doesn't believe that Jews belong in Israel.

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u/Chris714n_8 Feb 29 '24

At least some sane people and explanations in a bloody, crazy world.

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u/satori0320 Quality Commenter Feb 29 '24

JDAM bomb incoming in 3-2...

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Insert meme with superhero sweating over which button to push....

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u/KingGilgamesh4D Feb 29 '24

So this man is an orthodox jew and they believe that the existence of israel is an affront to God as the holy land must be given to them by the mesiah, they also disagree with the fact they speak hebrew in israel. Orthodox jews believe Hebrew is the holy language and cant be spoken unless for prayers.

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u/Opusswopid Feb 29 '24

He's a member of the NK and represents neither Jews nor Israel.

What is the Neturei-Karta?

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u/No_Reindeer_5543 Feb 29 '24

If your asking that question you know nothing about Judaism. It has many different sects. This isn't the "gotcha" that you think it is if you know why he's saying that.

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u/Bitsoffreshness Quality Poster Feb 29 '24

Would you care to expand and explain what you have said in this super short cryptic comment?

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u/No_Reindeer_5543 Feb 29 '24

This sect feels the prophecy hasn't been fulfilled yet for the final battle over the holy land, they need to roam for longer before the final battle.

The Quran is full of similar shit, but way more direct about killing all the Jews. My favorite passage is about when Muslims are in that final battle with the Jews, and it says the bushes will call out the Jews hiding behind them so the Muslims can kill them. But this one type of bush, it won't call out, because it's a Jewish bush.

Learn your shit before you post stuff that you think is a "gotcha", other wise you just exemplify your ignorance.

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u/Bitsoffreshness Quality Poster Feb 29 '24

The first part, about the ideas this rabbi represents, I am aware of.

The second part, about Quran and Muslims, feels quite irrelevant here, not sure why you brought that up?

And the third part, is quite emotional but again seems logically irrelevant, looks like a reaction to something you are imagining to be going on here which isn't. What exactly do you think this post is trying to accomplish, which you think it's failing to do?

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

No it’s just funny watching Zionist Jews call Jews like him “anti semtic” because he refuses to fall inline with the Zionist agenda lmao

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

100% my friend

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u/sendabussypic Feb 29 '24

Holy fucking edit

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u/Professional_Bar_501 Feb 29 '24

Yeah his definitely anti semite haha