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Yehuda Kaploun | U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Details Trips to Columbia & D.R. · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: My friend, Yehuda Kaploon, Ambassador Kaploon, once again, President Trump's
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  Speaker 1: special envoy for combating global anti-Semitism. And Yehuda, congratulations. You
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  Speaker 1: come off this amazing trip to both Colombia and the
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  Speaker 1: Dominican Republic. You guys were educating people against hate. Willie, congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Tell my listeners all about those trips.
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  Speaker 2: Just an amazing trip, and you see the leadership. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, before I begin, let me give you congratulations
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  Speaker 2: on a well, well, well-deserved honor on the Broadcaster Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame. You lead by example. You've been a strong
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  Speaker 2: voice for the years that I know you, and just
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  Speaker 2: so proud for you. It's a statement to who you
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  Speaker 2: are as an individual.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I love you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. The trip was an amazing trip. We went to
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  Speaker 2: the Dominican Republic where they announced that they're joining the
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  Speaker 2: International Holocaust Remembrance Groups and also the Battle of Combating Antisemitism,
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  Speaker 2: adopting the regulations of what defines antisemitism for their education process.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a big deal. And it's something that says
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  Speaker 2: the testament of the president's leadership and the secretary of
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  Speaker 2: state's leadership that these countries in Latin America have had
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  Speaker 2: this transformation that they are now actively standing with the
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  Speaker 2: Jewish community, combating the hate, working on educating and curriculums
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  Speaker 2: to fight hate. And because of that, it was an
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  Speaker 2: incredible trip to hear the Dominican Republic join the nations
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  Speaker 2: that have adopted these guidelines to how to combat anti-Semitism.
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  Speaker 2: That was wonderful. And then from there, we went to Colombia,
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  Speaker 2: and we met with the foreign minister and the interior
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  Speaker 2: minister there, and really incredible individuals, the police as well,
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  Speaker 2: And they have announced that in the last month and
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  Speaker 2: a half since the election in Colombia, really you've watched
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  Speaker 2: the country transform. And you had had people who said
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  Speaker 2: that the Jews were causing the forest fires, the Jews
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  Speaker 2: were burying people in the earthquakes. And the interior minister
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  Speaker 2: put out a statement saying, you know, this is ignorance
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  Speaker 2: and this is hatred and this is anti-Semitism. And that
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  Speaker 2: was even addressed to the former leader of Colombia. that
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  Speaker 2: you can't hate. And he said, we're going to stand
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  Speaker 2: with the Jewish community, and we're going to take a
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  Speaker 2: stand against hate, and we're going to rejoin and be
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  Speaker 2: active participants in the IRA Accords. And it's a testament
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  Speaker 2: to the leadership of our government that we are showing
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  Speaker 2: people that you have to stand up, you have to
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  Speaker 2: fight the axis of evil, and you have to fight hate.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned President Trump and our great Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State, who I love too. In fact, we just
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  Speaker 1: texted each other two days ago, Marco Rubio, But you
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  Speaker 1: didn't mention the vice president. And I know that you're
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  Speaker 1: in the administration and members of the administration tend to
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  Speaker 1: stay away from infighting.
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  Speaker 3: I get all that.
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  Speaker 1: And I actually said in Las Vegas, give Vance a chance,
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  Speaker 1: even though I'm well aware of his relationship with Tucker Carlson.
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  Speaker 1: And you can talk to your blue in the face.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson is an anti-Semite. Now, maybe he became that way.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't like that when he was pro-Israel on Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: But whether it's Arab money, I don't know what it is, okay?
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  Speaker 3: The guy's an anti-Semite. And J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance has to live with that. So, off the record,
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  Speaker 1: but on the record, one of these days, very, very soon.
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  Speaker 3: Next couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: My intention is to sit down with the vice president
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  Speaker 1: because he wants to sit down with me. Because I
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  Speaker 1: do think it's going to hurt him if he does
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  Speaker 1: decide to run for president this very public friendship with
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson.
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  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on all that?
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  Speaker 2: I think anybody that runs for office is going to
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  Speaker 2: have to take a stand against Tucker Carlson and his hate.
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  Speaker 2: It's not okay, the lies that he spews. And I
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  Speaker 2: think for the Republican Party, and again, I'm not... the
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  Speaker 2: the the person who is the political expert here but
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  Speaker 2: i do think that being having a tucker carlson endorsing
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  Speaker 2: el sayed and men and men uh... in the race
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  Speaker 2: in michigan is a terrible thing a man that spews
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  Speaker 2: hatred you cannot be affiliated with people that spew hatred period.
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  Speaker 4: And there has to be a very clear definition of
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  Speaker 4: what's right and wrong and i believe this administration has
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  Speaker 4: made it very very clear And I think the vice
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  Speaker 4: president is a part of this administration and our policies
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  Speaker 4: to fight hate.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm hoping that, you know, as this moves along,
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  Speaker 2: the Tucker Carlson move will be repudiated in many, many ways.
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  Speaker 3: I do too, but maybe tougher to.
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  Speaker 1: Do than actually say, you know, You talk about people
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  Speaker 1: repudiating hate, and we've got this mayor in New York City,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody talks about him. I don't care if you're
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Washington. I don't care if you're
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  Speaker 1: in La Crosse, Wisconsin, or Tel Aviv.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody knows that this mayor here is a terrible person.
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  Speaker 4: Terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody outside, of.
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  Speaker 1: Course, of the DSA and Democrats running for office and
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  Speaker 1: the Jew haters, they love him, and America haters and
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  Speaker 1: all those folks. But every sane, rational person in this country...
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  Speaker 1: hates this guy, and they should hate this guy. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think, Rabbi Kaplun, Ambassador Kaplun, that the Jewish groups
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  Speaker 1: out there are doing enough, are doing enough to combat hate?
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about, you know, the old-timers. I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the famous legacy Jewish groups.
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  Speaker 3: Are they doing enough?
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  Speaker 2: I think the legacy Jewish groups haven't merged with the
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  Speaker 2: times and are set in a lot of old ways
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  Speaker 2: and haven't reached out to the younger communities. and the
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  Speaker 2: people who are up and coming, and I think they
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  Speaker 2: haven't educated the world better against hatred. So, for example,
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  Speaker 2: when 30% of Jewish kids who are college kids are
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  Speaker 2: voting for Mamdani, there's a problem. And the young Jewish groups,
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  Speaker 2: the people who have taken this battle, the new NGOs,
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  Speaker 2: the new groups, the CAM, Combating Anti-Semitism Movement, the Stand
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  Speaker 2: Up Against Antisemitism. There are so many groups, the Brandeis Center.
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  Speaker 2: You have groups that are now fighting antisemitism in creative manners.
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  Speaker 2: The young people that are using the AIs and the
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  Speaker 2: ability to use that technology to fight antisemitism are The
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  Speaker 2: legacy groups haven't merged with that.
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  Speaker 4: They haven't done that. And because of that, they've become ineffective.
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  Speaker 4: And if you get into how you deal with the mayor,
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  Speaker 4: you don't have to confront him. I wish that all
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  Speaker 4: the Jewish groups would take five minutes and not be
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  Speaker 4: involved with this man. This man doesn't need anybody to involve.
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  Speaker 4: He should be focused on New York City. The fact
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  Speaker 4: that he's focused on everything else but New York City...
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  Speaker 4: Shows were his priority.
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  Speaker 3: It's not everything else. He's focused on Israel and Bibi.
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  Speaker 3: He's obsessed. That's all he talks about. So my friend
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  Speaker 3: Carol Markowitz, I like her a lot. She's a writer
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  Speaker 3: for the New York Post. She moved from New York
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  Speaker 3: to Florida. Okay. During COVID. So she was tweeting yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: That Robert Kraft, I'll get your opinion on Robert Kraft,
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  Speaker 1: Kraft did a great job to make sure that Macklemore
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  Speaker 1: would no longer perform at the Ed Sheeran concert.
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  Speaker 3: And he got it done.
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  Speaker 1: Macklemore has now been removed from that concert. But at
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  Speaker 1: the very end of his statement, Robert Kraft said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I want to sit down with the guy. Now look, okay, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sit down with Vance, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: But he's the vice president, okay? He may be president
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  Speaker 3: one day. He's not some cockamamie singer anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Why do Jews feel the need, like these influencers sitting
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  Speaker 1: down with Calvicular and wanting to have conversations with people
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  Speaker 1: like Nick Fuentes?
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  Speaker 3: Why do Jews feel the need to do that? Even
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  Speaker 3: the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: What is the Satmar community, these rabbis, this Tidal Bomb
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  Speaker 1: and Indig, these two idiots, why do they feel this
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  Speaker 1: need to be with these people? The only thought is,
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  Speaker 1: and it's bad for the stereotypes, is money.
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  Speaker 2: It's money.
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise, why? Why would they do that, Ambassador?
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know why they do that, but I
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  Speaker 2: would say this, and I'm not about sitting down and
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  Speaker 2: having Robert Kraft say that he would sit with Macklemore.
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  Speaker 2: I think that people, a lot of people, are anti-Semites
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  Speaker 2: because they're ignorant and they don't know the facts. And
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you that the people, and you're on
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  Speaker 2: the board of the Holocaust Museum, how many people have
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  Speaker 2: changed after they realized when they walked through the museum
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  Speaker 2: what actually occurred? You have General Eisenhower who put on
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  Speaker 2: the wall of the museum, the reason I've recorded all
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  Speaker 2: the atrocities is because there are people that are going
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  Speaker 2: to stand up one day and say that the Holocaust
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  Speaker 2: never happened, that these Jews deserved it. Here's the difference.
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  Speaker 2: If you're uneducated and you're ignorant, you're going to hate.
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  Speaker 2: If you can take someone like Macklemore and have him
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  Speaker 2: come to the Holocaust Museum and That's an amazing thing.
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  Speaker 2: We have had, in the last three years, from the
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  Speaker 2: Gulf states, numerous imams, numerous muftis have come now to
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  Speaker 2: see what happened at Auschwitz. And because of that, they
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  Speaker 2: are now educating people in some of the Gulf regions
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  Speaker 2: that the Holocaust happened. And it was not okay. But
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  Speaker 2: the only way you do that is through education. And
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  Speaker 2: you do it through dealing with people in a decent,
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  Speaker 2: respectful manner, which has not happened. So when Robert Kraft
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  Speaker 2: is reaching out to McLemore, let's see what happens. If
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  Speaker 2: McLemore is willing to go to the Holocaust Museum with
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  Speaker 2: Robert Kraft and meet with the board of the Holocaust
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  Speaker 2: Museum and the people who work there and see and
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  Speaker 2: hear the stories from survivors... and yet he still would
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  Speaker 2: go back and do what he's doing, then there you
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  Speaker 2: have a case where you shouldn't be talking to him again.
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  Speaker 2: Then he's anti-Semitic 100%. You have to give people... the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to be able to be educated to not hate.
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  Speaker 2: People don't know.
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  Speaker 4: They really don't know, and they're only getting their information
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  Speaker 4: from the internet, which is totally incorrect and false 90%
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  Speaker 4: of the time right now.
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  Speaker 1: The Holocaust Museum invited Mamdani, and not only did he
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  Speaker 1: not go... He did not even have enough respect to answer.
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  Speaker 1: They're still waiting for an answer from the mayor, that creep.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one more, you mentioned imams and the Gulf States. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've got a lot of friends in common,
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  Speaker 1: from Laura Loomer to Siggy Flicker to Stella, all these people.
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  Speaker 3: And we're on this text chain every day, Mr. Ambassador.
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  Speaker 3: And all they really talk about is radical Islam and
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  Speaker 3: the Muslims. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, basically, that's what our chain is about every day.
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  Speaker 1: And I was even invited to a Shabbat dinner.
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  Speaker 3: At the State.
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  Speaker 1: Department a couple of months ago, and there were reports,
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  Speaker 1: Loomer tweeted this, that there were some Muslims there that
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  Speaker 1: in the past have not exactly been big friends of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews. So their fear is that the Islam, the
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  Speaker 1: radical Muslims, radical Islam, they're kind of taken over.
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  Speaker 3: And the Jews are all too willing, and the administration,
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  Speaker 3: let's do both, the administration and the Jews are all
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  Speaker 3: too willing to let it happen. I know this is
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  Speaker 3: a tough one, but I'm telling you, Rabbi, that that
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  Speaker 3: is a feeling that is out there today.
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  Speaker 2: So allow me to answer that, because I was one
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  Speaker 2: of the hosts of that event, together with the Undersecretary,
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Helberg, who's doing an incredible job, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: packed silica and minerals. Diplomacy is what the State Department does,
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  Speaker 2: number one. We talk to people. And because you talk
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  Speaker 2: to people, you get to effect change. You have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to be able to have a conversation in respectful manners.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, what better place to have a
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  Speaker 2: conversation about Jews' religion at a Shabbat table celebrating America's
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  Speaker 2: 250th birthday and celebrating 250 of the greatest Jewish contributors
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  Speaker 2: to America. And for those people who can criticize, and
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  Speaker 2: everyone has a right to criticize, this country is based
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  Speaker 2: on freedom of speech. However, these things that are going
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  Speaker 2: on and being discussed... and it's done in a respectful manner,
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  Speaker 2: is what allows the ability to have an Abraham Accords,
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  Speaker 2: what allows the president to take adversaries, put them around
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  Speaker 2: the table and come up to things, and come up
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  Speaker 2: with results that are practical. And because this administration prides
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  Speaker 2: itself on on fighting the accesses of evil, sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: have tough discussions. And I can tell you that I
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  Speaker 2: was one of those people that had some of those
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  Speaker 2: tough discussions that Friday evening with some of the leaders
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  Speaker 2: in the Gulf countries who were there, who had probably
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  Speaker 2: never seen a Shabbat before. In fact, I'm sure I
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  Speaker 2: know that they hadn't seen a Shabbat dinner before. and
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  Speaker 2: they were appreciative that the criticism that they received from
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  Speaker 2: many of the people who were there was done in
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  Speaker 2: a respectful manner. And there were very, very tangible results
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  Speaker 2: that I can't get into, but there were tangible results
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  Speaker 2: and strides taken that will make the Jewish community safer
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  Speaker 2: worldwide in the long run. I'm not saying you have
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  Speaker 2: to deal with your enemies every day, and you have
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  Speaker 2: to sit there. But I think that if you can
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  Speaker 2: educate people to be better human beings, which is what
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  Speaker 2: this administration and what the goal of my office is, educate, educate, educate.
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  Speaker 2: Teach people to not hate. Teach people to be respectful.
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  Speaker 2: Teach people that the Jewish community, their contributions and the
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  Speaker 2: history that they've done, and that's why there's an initiative
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  Speaker 2: called the J250, which is 250 of the greatest American
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  Speaker 2: contributors for America's 250 years. And we could probably, Sid,
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  Speaker 2: you and I together, come up with 2,500 or 25,000. However,
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  Speaker 2: when children are educated to know what this country has
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  Speaker 2: given to the Jewish community and what the Jewish community
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  Speaker 2: has given back to this country, Chaim Solomon, this country,
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  Speaker 2: George Washington, did not have funds for his soldiers without
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  Speaker 2: Chaim Solomon, who died penniless because he gave everything to
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  Speaker 2: the revolution. That's a lesson that needs to be taught.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's missing in our classrooms today, the education of
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  Speaker 2: the history of the Jewish community, and all communities, by
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  Speaker 2: the way. Kids aren't being taught history. We just passed 9-11,
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  Speaker 2: 25 years. There are kids that don't know the story.
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  Speaker 2: My sister passed away from 9-11 related cancers. I was
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  Speaker 2: there when the buildings came down. And I just saw
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  Speaker 2: yesterday people from fire department, people in Washington who were there,
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  Speaker 2: who I know for 25 years. And kids don't know
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  Speaker 2: the story. That's a failure on us.
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  Speaker 3: It's worse than that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a failure on us.
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  Speaker 1: Not only do they not know the story, but they're
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  Speaker 1: actually distorting the story.
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  Speaker 3: Because they aren't telling it in some schools. They're blaming
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  Speaker 3: it on Israel. They're blaming it on the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: You had Nazi protesters standing outside 9-11?
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  Speaker 3: Yep, we did.
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  Speaker 2: This is what's important to people? On a day that
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  Speaker 2: we're supposed to treasure America's People sacrificed by just going
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  Speaker 2: to work and being Americans. We saw America come together
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  Speaker 2: in a way that had never happened before, since probably
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  Speaker 2: Pearl Harbor. And yet people are there to be divisive
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  Speaker 2: about it. We have to learn to be better Americans
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  Speaker 2: and better human beings. And Jews have to do one
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  Speaker 2: thing that we have to do better is educate the
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  Speaker 2: people about our rich history and who we are as individuals.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is to be respected, and that's one thing the
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  Speaker 2: president has made it very, very clear. The secretary has
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  Speaker 2: made it clear. If you're coming to this country and
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  Speaker 2: you want to sow hatred, you're not welcome here.
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  Speaker 3: Get out.
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  Speaker 2: Not as a student. Get out.
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  Speaker 3: Get out.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want you here. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: We don't.
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  Speaker 1: Yehuda Kaplan is the ambassador, the ambassador Kaplan, special envoy.
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  Speaker 1: for combating global anti-Semitism. He's a beautiful man.
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  Speaker 3: I love him. President Trump loves him. So do I.
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  Speaker 1: Yehuda, great job this morning. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: coming on. You are really great.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, and have an easy fast on
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  Speaker 2: Yom Kippur.
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  Speaker 3: You too.
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  Speaker 1: Easy fast to you too. Yom Kippur coming up Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night into Monday. That's my friend Kaplum.
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  Speaker 3: What the heck is going on here?