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- 0:31Speaker 1: how are you doing today?
- 0:33Speaker 2: Thank god? How are you?
- 0:34Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic, looking forward to sharing a conversation with you,
- 0:37Speaker 1: because in reality, you're breaking down something that we need
- 0:40Speaker 1: to be talking about. And I mean, this is one
- 0:42Speaker 1: of those things that I get. The more and more
- 0:45Speaker 1: I dig in, the more and more I say, this
- 0:46Speaker 1: isn't lost in history. We've just not been taught this
- 0:49Speaker 1: in history. And then along you come, and I'm going
- 0:52Speaker 1: my eyes are wide open, my heart is wide open.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Please share with me even more.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's so kind of you. Thank you
- 1:03Speaker 2: so much for having me and for those really lovely words. Yeah.
- 1:06Speaker 2: I do feel that we sort of have lost the
- 1:09Speaker 2: first three hundred years of American Jewish history. And I
- 1:12Speaker 2: really wanted to write this book to reclaim it because
- 1:15Speaker 2: I think a lot of people think of Jews as
- 1:19Speaker 2: a minority and a pressed minority, but actually the founding
- 1:22Speaker 2: fathers never saw Jews that way. They saw us as
- 1:26Speaker 2: sort of founding partners in the creation of this great nation,
- 1:30Speaker 2: which explains why America has always had this love affair
- 1:35Speaker 2: with its Jews, has always treated its Jews so well,
- 1:38Speaker 2: uniquely in the history of humanity, and I think especially
- 1:41Speaker 2: American Christians sort of organized their religion around the idea
- 1:45Speaker 2: that Jews are precious again, uniquely in the history of humanity,
- 1:50Speaker 2: and I wanted to really uncover all of that lost
- 1:53Speaker 2: history while also explaining why Jews ended up kind of
- 1:57Speaker 2: voting for Democrats for one hundred years.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Yeah. You know what's really interesting about this is that
- 2:02Speaker 1: this is really a very peaceful place from my heart,
- 2:04Speaker 1: because it's like the first time that someone has said,
- 2:07Speaker 1: we weren't wearing labels back in those early days to
- 2:10Speaker 1: three hundred years ago. We Okay, so we all went
- 2:13Speaker 1: into separate buildings when it came to our places of study,
- 2:15Speaker 1: but there were there were we were all working together.
- 2:18Speaker 1: And that's what I'm picking up on this is that
- 2:20Speaker 1: I feel like that we can still be this unity
- 2:23Speaker 1: if we just know the history before we get here
- 2:26Speaker 1: in this moment of now.
- 2:30Speaker 2: That is so beautifully put. I like, wow, that's so beautiful.
- 2:38Speaker 2: It's so true. Like they never saw Jews as other.
- 2:43Speaker 2: They respected their religious freedom, they protected their religious freedom,
- 2:48Speaker 2: they understood that they worshiped their God differently, but they
- 2:52Speaker 2: never saw them as other or as different. Fundamentally as Americans,
- 2:58Speaker 2: there was this real eplace rob Us Unham that they
- 3:01Speaker 2: saw Jews as kind of like the proof of concept
- 3:04Speaker 2: of what this great nation could be. And I think
- 3:07Speaker 2: you're so right. Today obviously so much more unites us
- 3:11Speaker 2: and divides us as Americans, but we really don't see
- 3:14Speaker 2: that reflected in the media and in our politics. So
- 3:18Speaker 2: I think the people telling the great American story are
- 3:21Speaker 2: often trying to divide us when you're so right that
- 3:23Speaker 2: most of the history really kind of flies in the
- 3:26Speaker 2: face of that.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Well, this is to me a part of our two
- 3:29Speaker 1: hundred and fifty year anniversary, because this is a part
- 3:31Speaker 1: of our history. And the thing is those you know,
- 3:34Speaker 1: it's I'm not asking anybody to drop their guard. What
- 3:36Speaker 1: I'm trying to do is get people to understand the
- 3:38Speaker 1: path and the process of how it is that we
- 3:41Speaker 1: became this great nation, or as they all say, this
- 3:44Speaker 1: this big pot of all these people that came from everywhere.
- 3:47Speaker 1: We are a nation of all people, and in my
- 3:50Speaker 1: heart I believe in all people. We got to live
- 3:54Speaker 1: that path.
- 3:56Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very much an America two fifty book, because
- 4:00Speaker 2: it's it's not just about this beautiful history, but it's
- 4:03Speaker 2: about the uniqueness of this nation. America was seen as
- 4:08Speaker 2: the promised land for the Christians who came here and
- 4:13Speaker 2: the Jews who came here, and to me it still is.
- 4:16Speaker 2: And you know, of course, there is rising anti Semitism,
- 4:18Speaker 2: especially on the left, there's a lot of that. I
- 4:20Speaker 2: talk about it a lot in the book. It's also
- 4:22Speaker 2: a little bit on the right. Sadly, there's you know,
- 4:25Speaker 2: just this kind of tendency now to blame Jews, blame
- 4:29Speaker 2: Israel for whatever is going wrong, and that is definitely there.
- 4:33Speaker 2: But I still feel so utterly optimistic about our future
- 4:37Speaker 2: as American Jews and our future as Americans, because from
- 4:40Speaker 2: the minute the first Jew stepped foot on American soil
- 4:43Speaker 2: in sixteen fifty four, it was like the soil itself
- 4:47Speaker 2: rejected Jew hate because you would have people like Peter Stuyvesant,
- 4:52Speaker 2: the first official that they encountered, a rank anti semit
- 4:56Speaker 2: He tried to force the Jews to leave, and they
- 4:59Speaker 2: sued in and one and again and again and again.
- 5:02Speaker 2: He would try to inflict on them indignities and oppression
- 5:06Speaker 2: and deprive them of the rights that the Christians had here.
- 5:09Speaker 2: And again and again they would take him to court,
- 5:11Speaker 2: and they would win. And we're talking about less than
- 5:14Speaker 2: a decade after fifty thousand Jews were murdered by Cossacks
- 5:17Speaker 2: in the Khmelnitsky Massacre. Less than a decade later, Aser Levy,
- 5:22Speaker 2: the Jewish founding father, was suing Peter Stuyvesant for equal
- 5:26Speaker 2: rights and winning in a court of law. I mean,
- 5:29Speaker 2: the soil itself rejected jew hate. And when you're living
- 5:33Speaker 2: on soil like that today, it's a betrayal of that history.
- 5:39Speaker 2: To not feel utterly optimistic and hopeful and confident about
- 5:44Speaker 2: the future.
- 5:44Speaker 1: You got to understand how much this hurts my heart
- 5:46Speaker 1: to hear this about this country. And the reason why
- 5:48Speaker 1: is because I live in a forest where there is
- 5:50Speaker 1: living proof that people were here in the fourteen hundreds,
- 5:53Speaker 1: and so to hear the story like this and I'm going,
- 5:55Speaker 1: oh my god, what else do I need to learn
- 5:57Speaker 1: about this soil that which I stand on right now?
- 6:01Speaker 1: That I need to know? And things like this open
- 6:03Speaker 1: up my eyes to dig in deeper their dude, and
- 6:06Speaker 1: find out what really happened, and what happened before you
- 6:09Speaker 1: even planted your feet in this forest, because that is
- 6:12Speaker 1: so important to me to understand that. And you're you've
- 6:16Speaker 1: got the guts to make this happen.
- 6:19Speaker 2: That's so kind. I felt the same way when I
- 6:22Speaker 2: read this. There's a story that, uh, it's hard for
- 6:26Speaker 2: me to get through without crying. But the first Jews
- 6:30Speaker 2: who came here, they were twenty three refugees from Recife
- 6:32Speaker 2: in Brazil, and they had been blown off course. They'd
- 6:36Speaker 2: been intending to go back to Amsterdam, and they'd been
- 6:38Speaker 2: beset on by pirates and then rescued by a front captain,
- 6:44Speaker 2: Captain Delamotte, who brought them to New Amsterdam because that's
- 6:48Speaker 2: where he was going. But when they got here, he
- 6:50Speaker 2: refused to give them back all of their belongings because
- 6:52Speaker 2: he said that they owed him money for the true
- 6:55Speaker 2: and they had no money because the pirates had taken
- 6:57Speaker 2: it all. And so what happened was. There was a
- 7:00Speaker 2: lengthy court battle, and you know, they kind of went
- 7:04Speaker 2: back and forth because on the one hand, the colony
- 7:07Speaker 2: their policy was to embrace and welcome new immigrants, but
- 7:11Speaker 2: on the other hand, they felt that they couldn't just
- 7:12Speaker 2: ignore the claim of Delamotte. So what was decided was
- 7:16Speaker 2: that the Jewish, the Jews furniture and belongings would be
- 7:19Speaker 2: sold at auction and the money that was raised would
- 7:22Speaker 2: be used to pay off Delamotte. And when the Jews
- 7:26Speaker 2: walked out of the courthouse, they found their new Christian
- 7:29Speaker 2: neighbors had bought up all their furniture and all of
- 7:32Speaker 2: their belongings and just handed it back over to them
- 7:36Speaker 2: in what was the first act of you know, Christian
- 7:39Speaker 2: charity to Jews in the United States of America. It's
- 7:42Speaker 2: just like an utterly incredible, incredible story. They were so shocked,
- 7:46Speaker 2: these refugees who had never known anything of persecution, to
- 7:50Speaker 2: be greeted with such kindness. And I think this was
- 7:54Speaker 2: sort of the building blocks fund. This laid the foundation
- 7:57Speaker 2: of American Jewish life and our friendship with our Christian
- 8:01Speaker 2: neighbors going forward.
- 8:02Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you started this off by talking
- 8:04Speaker 1: about them. Being from Brazil because my wife is Jewish,
- 8:07Speaker 1: I am Christian. And one of the strong things that
- 8:09Speaker 1: she is really kind of really shared with me and
- 8:12Speaker 1: helped me understand is that because she'll sit there, she
- 8:14Speaker 1: has the guts to say this, what you think we
- 8:16Speaker 1: all came from juwvil, That is not true.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Dude.
- 8:19Speaker 1: You need to sit there and look at world history
- 8:21Speaker 1: and start looking at what really goes on. And then
- 8:23Speaker 1: to hear that you're talking about Brazil. You warm my
- 8:26Speaker 1: soul when you talk like that, because you're she's right,
- 8:28Speaker 1: and you're right. It didn't just happen. Oh this little
- 8:31Speaker 1: dot on the on the wall over here, that's causing war.
- 8:33Speaker 1: It's not causing war. We just got to work together.
- 8:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree with that. Yeah. It's funny because
- 8:43Speaker 2: a lot of people will say, well, well, I don't
- 8:44Speaker 2: hate Jews, I just hate Israel, or I just have
- 8:46Speaker 2: a problem with Israel. And the problem with that is
- 8:49Speaker 2: that you know, most American Jews, most Jews worldwide, are
- 8:54Speaker 2: not very religious people. Right, their religion, their spirituality is
- 8:59Speaker 2: their cannet to other Jews into the land of Israel.
- 9:02Speaker 2: So if you're saying to me, well, I have room
- 9:05Speaker 2: in my movement for Jews but not Zionists. You're basically saying,
- 9:10Speaker 2: you know, eighty five percent, ninety percent of Jews take
- 9:12Speaker 2: a hike. There's no room for you here. And I
- 9:15Speaker 2: think that's really important for people to understand. You know,
- 9:17Speaker 2: why Jews take Israel personally. Obviously, we're Americans. You know,
- 9:21Speaker 2: our loyalties are to the United States of America, and
- 9:24Speaker 2: I feel that very strongly. But the idea that somebody
- 9:27Speaker 2: could say, well, I don't think Israel has a right
- 9:29Speaker 2: to exist, you have to co sign that if you
- 9:33Speaker 2: want to be part of this movement. You know, that's
- 9:35Speaker 2: not something that any Jew with any dignity is going
- 9:38Speaker 2: to accept.
- 9:39Speaker 1: Please do not move. There is more on the way
- 9:41Speaker 1: from Batia from News Nation the name of the book,
- 9:46Speaker 1: The Jews and the Left we are back. I hope
- 9:50Speaker 1: your PR department is allowing you to speak with other
- 9:52Speaker 1: people such as the you know, likely the Tony Katz
- 9:55Speaker 1: of the world and the Mark Levans, because I want
- 9:57Speaker 1: to hear everybody's points of direction, because these two guys
- 10:01Speaker 1: are the ones that said, go go listen to everybody else,
- 10:04Speaker 1: go listen and and then and then come up with
- 10:06Speaker 1: with the story and then and then to to have
- 10:09Speaker 1: a conversation with you and to hold your book and
- 10:11Speaker 1: to read your book. You're you're opening up so many
- 10:14Speaker 1: different paths here, especially when it comes to our current
- 10:16Speaker 1: situations in this country where a New York City mayor
- 10:20Speaker 1: is saying things and you're going, whoa, WHOA hold on, everybody,
- 10:22Speaker 1: take a picture, but but you know, use a wide lens.
- 10:25Speaker 1: I want the full picture, not a one man's opinion.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Yeah. It is so interesting because they'll kind of try
- 10:33Speaker 2: to cloak what are very anti Jewish views in the
- 10:36Speaker 2: language of you know, social justice, and they'll make up
- 10:44Speaker 2: smears about Jews, Jews who support Israel, Israel apac you know.
- 10:51Speaker 2: And what it does is it makes Jews feel very
- 10:54Speaker 2: alienated and oftentimes from a party that they have supported
- 10:59Speaker 2: for a hundred years. So it's a it's a very
- 11:02Speaker 2: challenging moment right now. I think for a lot of
- 11:04Speaker 2: American Jews, most of them two thirds of them are Democrats,
- 11:09Speaker 2: and yet after October seventh, they were completely abandoned by
- 11:12Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. Donald Trump actually got a record number
- 11:16Speaker 2: of Jewish votes in twenty twenty four since Reagan. You
- 11:19Speaker 2: got about thirty five percent and it'll be very interesting
- 11:23Speaker 2: to see, you know, down the road, what comes next,
- 11:25Speaker 2: if there's more, you know, Jewish attrition to the right
- 11:28Speaker 2: or less. See.
- 11:29Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you brought up October seventh, because
- 11:31Speaker 1: I still think that that was a Beatles moment, a
- 11:33Speaker 1: pivotable moment where the whole world changed, everything changed, and
- 11:39Speaker 1: we need books like this that say, okay, now that
- 11:41Speaker 1: you know the change, understand the change, and understand the people,
- 11:46Speaker 1: and I just we just need the education and it
- 11:49Speaker 1: can't sit on the back burner anymore, and we need
- 11:51Speaker 1: people to bring this forward, like yourself.
- 11:56Speaker 2: I really appreciate you saying that. It's funny because when
- 11:58Speaker 2: I first wrote the book, there was so much anti
- 12:03Speaker 2: Semitism on the left, like coming up from people like
- 12:06Speaker 2: Mom Donnie, this anti Zionism. You know, Charlie Kirk was
- 12:10Speaker 2: still alive, and I was always thinking, I can't wait
- 12:13Speaker 2: to share this book with him about how Jews are
- 12:15Speaker 2: like heritage Americans and how we were here from the beginning.
- 12:18Speaker 2: And I thought about him almost every day that I
- 12:20Speaker 2: was writing it. And then he was assassinated and a
- 12:25Speaker 2: lot of the unity on the right started to fall apart,
- 12:28Speaker 2: and some far right voices including you know, Tucker Carlson
- 12:33Speaker 2: and Nick Fuentes and Candice Owens and Alex Jones started
- 12:37Speaker 2: to really promote the same kinds of anti Semitic, anti
- 12:41Speaker 2: Jewish conspiracy theories that you usually see on the left,
- 12:45Speaker 2: and I started to think, wow, did I write the
- 12:48Speaker 2: wrong book moment. What you did see, though, I think
- 12:54Speaker 2: in the intervening time, was a lot of pushback against
- 12:56Speaker 2: it on the right, starting with President Trump on My
- 12:59Speaker 2: News Nation show. I had Republican senators, Republican congressmen, Republican
- 13:03Speaker 2: members of the Cabinet really pushing back and saying, look,
- 13:06Speaker 2: if you don't like Jews, this is not the party
- 13:08Speaker 2: for you. Go to the other side. That's where you belong,
- 13:10Speaker 2: because we don't tolerate that here. And so that was
- 13:14Speaker 2: very heartening to see. I will say, in the wake
- 13:16Speaker 2: of this Iran deal situation, you're seeing a little bit
- 13:20Speaker 2: more of it. This instinct to blame Israel for all
- 13:23Speaker 2: of our problems is you know, look, obviously you have
- 13:26Speaker 2: to be able to criticize Israel. It's a sovereign nation.
- 13:29Speaker 2: It's a very powerful sovereignation. I criticize it frequently. The
- 13:34Speaker 2: problem is when you have this knee jerk feeling at
- 13:39Speaker 2: the pit of your stomach that probably if something's going wrong,
- 13:42Speaker 2: probably it's Israel's fault. That is something that you should
- 13:46Speaker 2: really if that is something that you've noticed about yourself,
- 13:49Speaker 2: you've got to take a long, hard look in the
- 13:51Speaker 2: mirror and ask yourself why you started to think that,
- 13:54Speaker 2: because it is not the case. Ever. You know, people
- 13:57Speaker 2: were trying to say, Israel force Donald Trump into the
- 14:00Speaker 2: warn Iran, as if Donald Trump is a person who
- 14:02Speaker 2: can be forced to do anything.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Wake up, you know, you really do bring up a
- 14:09Speaker 1: very interesting points. It's like, if you're going to be
- 14:11Speaker 1: on this team, you have to do this, this, and this,
- 14:13Speaker 1: and it's all of those situations. So I swear to
- 14:15Speaker 1: God that I find myself saying where's my ball? I
- 14:17Speaker 1: want to go home. I don't want to play this
- 14:19Speaker 1: game anymore. And the thing and as news continues to
- 14:22Speaker 1: spin and those oh, those accusations get inside my soul.
- 14:26Speaker 1: I can hear my heart beating in my throat when
- 14:28Speaker 1: I read these stories or I experience these stories. And
- 14:31Speaker 1: that's why, because I'm even my own church, we are
- 14:33Speaker 1: a people church. We are for every person. So when
- 14:36Speaker 1: I hear of this division, It just and I sit
- 14:38Speaker 1: there and I go, please, please help me, help me
- 14:40Speaker 1: understand why there's division, and what can we do as
- 14:43Speaker 1: peacemakers and activators.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Completely completely? And that's the exact question I'm always asking myself,
- 14:50Speaker 2: is like, what can I do to be a unite
- 14:53Speaker 2: or and not a divide or how can I speak
- 14:55Speaker 2: the truth so that it both gives comfort to the
- 14:59Speaker 2: people who are already agree with me, but also could
- 15:02Speaker 2: potentially convince somebody who doesn't already agree with me. I
- 15:05Speaker 2: think that for us as media figures and communicators is
- 15:09Speaker 2: really important because I think it's very easy to go,
- 15:12Speaker 2: you know, like Defcon five and to really blast the
- 15:16Speaker 2: people that you think are wrong. But when you do that,
- 15:19Speaker 2: you kind of alienate everybody who's not already in agreement
- 15:22Speaker 2: with you. And we can't control anybody except ourselves. That's
- 15:27Speaker 2: what I pray for in the morning is for God to,
- 15:30Speaker 2: you know, when I speak, to open my mouth and
- 15:32Speaker 2: to make me speak in a way that can be
- 15:36Speaker 2: heard by people who don't agree with me, because I
- 15:39Speaker 2: so totally agree with what you said before that more
- 15:42Speaker 2: unites us than divides us as Americans, and like that
- 15:45Speaker 2: is what my heart beats for. That is the purpose
- 15:47Speaker 2: of everything that I do.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Well, you know, and I know I'm running out of
- 15:51Speaker 1: time here, but it's one of those things. And like
- 15:53Speaker 1: I said in the very beginning, it's that we all
- 15:55Speaker 1: have this assumption that we think we know when in fact, okay,
- 15:58Speaker 1: have you been to the other side?
- 15:59Speaker 2: Do you know?
- 16:00Speaker 1: And it was a preacher that once said to me
- 16:02Speaker 1: he was in my studio at iHeart and he and
- 16:04Speaker 1: he goes, I have to read that book about the Atheist.
- 16:06Speaker 1: And I said why because I have to know what
- 16:08Speaker 1: the other side is doing, and and and and I
- 16:11Speaker 1: feel like that this is where we are in history.
- 16:13Speaker 1: We have to know. Why do we have this strong opinion?
- 16:16Speaker 1: And it's like, go see the other side. Now, come
- 16:19Speaker 1: back to me in a year or so and tell
- 16:20Speaker 1: me what you learned.
- 16:23Speaker 2: It's so true. I think a lot of the negative
- 16:28Speaker 2: politics are coming from a kind of hopelessness that young
- 16:31Speaker 2: people feel, where they don't see themselves as sort of,
- 16:37Speaker 2: you know, woven into the fabric of American society. They
- 16:39Speaker 2: feel rejected, they don't see a pathway to the American dream.
- 16:45Speaker 2: And I think whether they're on the left or on
- 16:47Speaker 2: the far right. That leads them to look for a scapegoat,
- 16:50Speaker 2: which I think is extremely natural, and I think that's
- 16:53Speaker 2: kind of the thing to fight because that's despair, right,
- 16:56Speaker 2: and that is the thing we need to be fighting against,
- 16:58Speaker 2: is the despair and just doubling down on this idea
- 17:02Speaker 2: that you know, you have agency, You have choices in
- 17:06Speaker 2: every moment of every day, no matter what your struggle is,
- 17:09Speaker 2: you have choices. You're an American, you are one of
- 17:13Speaker 2: the freest people to ever walk planet Earth, you know,
- 17:18Speaker 2: and like to give into despair when you've been given
- 17:21Speaker 2: that privilege, the greatest privilege on God's green Earth. Yes,
- 17:25Speaker 2: I think is a real mistake, and I think but
- 17:27Speaker 2: the only way to really convince them of this is
- 17:29Speaker 2: with a lot of love.
- 17:30Speaker 1: In my view, I love where your heart is. You
- 17:32Speaker 1: got to come back to this show anytime in the future.
- 17:34Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for you anytime.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much, God bless and protect you.
- 17:40Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
- 17:43Speaker 2: Okay, okay, thank you so much.