Why are the media so hostile to Israel and so sympathetic to pro-Hamas activists? Why should America stick with Israel as an ally in global geopolitics? MRC Business editor Joseph Vazquez and I asked Josh Hammer, author of the new book Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West. On his Fox show, Mark Levin called the new book a "tour de force."
We begin with pro-Hamas protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, as the media pretend he's not a radical Islamist who supports killing all the Jews, starting with Israel. Hammer wrote a column lamenting "the media's incessant focus on the Khalil saga" underlines why they've lost trust with the public. Margaret Brennan suggested there wasn't any evidence linking Khalil to radical causes like, say, being devoted to the end of Western civilization -- which Khalil's group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), openly advocated. It's no wonder that Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested she should watch the news.
In the land of DEI and CRT, the Left has applied its oppressor/oppressed lens to Israel (the white oppressor) and the Palestinians (the brown oppressed). This ignores the fact that Israel's Jewish population is not majority-Ashkenazi (European). Hammer jokes that Israeli Jews aren't all Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, but a diverse array of ethnicities, including Arab and Ethiopian.
Hammer argues the future prosperity and ultimate fate of Western civilization is dependent upon the security and thriving of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel. If Western civilization begins in the Bible, than the people of the Bible are its natural guardians.
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