Jonah Platt
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Mehdi Hasan Mehdi Hasan says he can debunk Israel's defenders in under 60 seconds. His method? Reading a list of names really fast. That's not an argument. That's a filibuster with a bibliography. Fine. Start the clock. Here's the problem with his fifty sources: it's one source wearing fifty costumes. The UN cites Amnesty. Amnesty cites a different UN report. That one cites the BBC. The BBC cites UNRWA. UNRWA cites the Gaza Ministry of Health. The Gaza Ministry of Health is Hamas. Even a member of his own genocide scholars association has a name for this: "citation washing." Congratulations. You just traced fifty "independent" voices back to one terrorist press office. Now, a few of his star witnesses. The International Association of Genocide Scholars? $30 and you're in. Emperor Palpatine is a member. So is Cookie Monster. Amnesty? Their own report — page 101 — calls the established legal standard too "cramped" to reach a genocide finding. The law as written wouldn't convict Israel, so they loosened the law. B'Tselem said the quiet part louder — their report openly adopts "a broader analytical framework" than the legal definition. That's lawyer-speak for "we changed the rules." The UN? The General Assembly passed 17 resolutions against Israel in 2024. Seven against the entire rest of the planet combined. North Korea, Iran, Syria, Russia — one each. Sudan, where actual mass slaughter is happening right now? Zero. And here's a name Mehdi will never read off his list: Alice Wairimu Nderitu. The UN's own Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. Their in-house expert. The one person whose entire job was answering this exact question. She looked at the evidence, looked at the law, and refused to call Gaza a genocide. Her reward? "Hounded, day in, day out. Bullied, hounded, with protection from nobody." Her words. Then her contract quietly wasn't renewed. She said the pressure to declare a genocide "never happened for any other war. Not for Ukraine, not for Sudan, not for Democratic Republic of Congo." The UN's genocide expert said no — so the UN got a new genocide expert. Oh, and one more name he forgot: the jihadist terrorist group Hamas. The original proponent of the genocide libel — the source his fifty sources trace back to. Somehow they didn't make the list. Neither did any of the scholars, military experts, former hostages, survivors, and millions of common-sense humans united in rejecting the claim. Instead of rattling off a list of "because they said so," how about evidence? Millions of warning leaflets. Humanitarian corridors. Polio vaccines. 130 babies born a day. The Jewish birth rate during the Holocaust was statistically zero. That's what genocide looks like. Fifty sources quoting each other isn't fifty sources. It's an echo chamber with footnotes. So, Mehdi's big question: Who do I believe? Wrong question. It's not about Who. It's about What. I believe incontrovertible evidence. Population data. Millions of tons of aid. Hard casualty numbers. Weighed against the actual legal definition — not a list of people and organizations quoting each other. Because I fact-check. Time.
Jonah Platt310,941 次观看 • 2 个月前
Masterclass in demagoguery from Ms. Rachel: "Wanting kids to live isn't antisemitic." True sentence. Five words. Zero accountability. A whole community smeared. Because in that framing, the only reason Jews would object... is that they don't want kids to live. This is what modern Jew-hatred looks like dressed up as kindness.
Jonah Platt529,356 次观看 • 5 个月前
"Zionist" is just the word people use so they don't have to say "Jew" out loud before they say something hateful about Jews. Call me a Jew. Call me a proud Jew. Call me a dirty Jew if that's what you mean. Just stop hiding behind "Zionist." Scooter Braun Scott “Scooter” Braun
Jonah Platt152,214 次观看 • 1 个月前
A Zionist is someone who believes Israel should exist. But Israel has existed since 1948. I'm an American. I don't call myself a Colonial Rebel. Every time we defend the right to exist of a place that already exists, we're accepting a frame where non-existence is on the table. That's not a debate. That's a hostage negotiation we volunteered for. Zionist is our word. Ours to retire.
Jonah Platt13,858 次观看 • 15 天前
Javier Bardem, in Variety this week: "…the fun part is to really be part of a group of people that imagine things that don't exist, and they create it together based on the fact that it's all a big lie." Finally he comes clean about his antizionism obsession! Oh, wait… is he talking about acting? 🤨
Jonah Platt18,121 次观看 • 1 个月前
Imagine two cultures side by side. One glorifies suicide bombing. The other releases 1,000+ prisoners to save one life. One hides weapons in schools and hospitals. The other sends vaccines and humanitarian aid to a hostile population. And yet the accusation is reversed. That’s how a libel works: invert reality, repeat the charge, let the lie travel. Watch and decide for yourself.
Jonah Platt27,659 次观看 • 6 个月前
😂 The sound of laughter saved superstar comedian Tiffany Haddish as a kid—and became her lifelong superpower. Discover the full story of she is how she became the woman she is on this week's episode of Being Jewish with Jonah Platt. Full episode streaming now on YouTube and all podcast platforms 👇 📺 Find Being Jewish on TV! Thursday at 5 PM, 8 PM & 11 PM Friday at 7 AM & 11 AM Saturday at 2 AM & 7 PM PT Watch on Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, or your local cable provider. #TiffanyHaddish #BeingJewish #PodcastEpisode #NowStreaming #JewishVoices #ComedyPodcast #HealingThroughLaughter #JewishIdentity #InspiringStories #CelebrityInterview
Jonah Platt45,618 次观看 • 1 年前
