Macklemore FORGOT Who Throws Gays Off Rooftops

Somebody asks, oh, hey Ami, I'll I'll go to a question here. I'll go to more questions and Q&A's at the end. Somebody asks, hey Ami, what are your thoughts on Macklemore's vile anti-Semitic performance at MetLife? Look, it's just the most ironic thing. >> [snorts] >> You know, I mean, I think Macklemore literally supports Hamas and is probably thrilled by October 7th. He won't hide it. I don't think so. I don't think he could prop defend a position in which he actually could properly condemn those actors who want war, perpetual war and terrorism in the Middle East. But, uh you know, he gets up there spouting all these Western democratic principles and values. We just want a world of equality where everyone lives in dignity. Okay. Does Hamas agree with you? Macklemore, does the majority of Palestinian society in Gaza or the West Bank agree with you? Is that the world they want? Is that the world they want? Ask them because Israel has a state. Israel exists and demonstrates what it stands for and the values that it stands for and wishes to protect and preserve the society it built. What is that society like? It's very much in line with the world you're describing. 20% Arab population, Muslims, Christians. And yes, it's a Jewish state with minorities in it that are protected with civil rights, gay rights. Remember your song Same Love? Come from the same love. Guy who writes these anthems for marginalized communities, celebrating the protection of marginalized communities, comes out against Israel while providing evasion cover and apologetics. Is an apologist for the terrorist regimes that are against all those values? Channel your message at the right people. You're manufacturing this narrative to feel virtuous. I don't know if I'm taking him at his word at his best that he's an empath. Yeah, but also spineless cowardice and morally blind. Do you think the regimes and entities that Israel's fighting stand for the values that you espouse, Macklemore? What would a free Palestine look like? I tour the world and I come to these stages to say one word, free Palestine. Would a free Palestine be free? Would the people living in it have rights? Would the women living in a free Palestine have rights? Would the homosexuals living in it have rights? Did they have rights in Gaza as they were thrown from rooftops? Or as women are oppressed or collaborators or free speech advocates or journalists, are they protected in Gaza by their Hamas leadership? Or are they gagged, tied up, with their feet broken by bricks, shot in the streets, and you say nothing? Nothing. Nothing is easier than pointing to the imperfections of free societies. Nothing is easier than pointing out that free societies are imperfect or have fallen short of certain ideals and principles, but they hold those ideals and principles. The societies and states and cultures you're protecting and speaking out for, Macklemore, don't even have those principles or ideals. They're not trying to do those things. They don't care about human life, civilian life. They don't make distinctions. They don't build societies and they're not working towards building societies and cultures that respect the very rights you're out there advocating for. Israel does. And the proof is in the pudding. >> [sighs] >> And so that's what I have to say about that. That's all I have to say about that. >> [clears throat and snorts] >> There's one place you'd be able to perform freely, Macklemore, in the Middle East. Say what you want, speak your mind, say controversial things. The only place you could really do that in the Middle East for the most part is Israel. You try doing that against Hamas leadership in Gaza. Try doing it in the West Bank. Try. Then they may use you as a Western pawn for a cause [clears throat] that seeks the total destruction of Israel. The annihilation of Israel, dismantling of the only Jewish state. There's like over 20 Arab countries, 50 somewhat Muslim countries, one Jewish state, and you have the gall, the nerve to call the the Jewish one the expansionist one? Zoom out on the Middle East. Jordan next door to Israel is 60% Palestinian. So, it's just insane. Yes, are there issues on the West Bank? Are there issues with Israel trying to grapple with security issues, demographic issues, trying to secure a Jewish state to make sure that Jews have protection in this one area of the Middle East so they don't want to live under as a minority, an unprotected minority in the Arab world as they did historically. Sure, there's issues. But why? What ultimately perpetuates it? What keeps it going? >> [snorts] >> And it's not the nonexistence of a Palestinian state. It's the existence of a Jewish one. Everyone on the free Palestine cause, on that bandwagon, doesn't want a Palestinian state. They don't want a Jewish state. They'd rather [snorts] not have a Jewish state than have a Palestinian state. That's evidenced by the years and decades and decades of offers to create one, always rejected because it's provided that a Jewish state exists alongside it. They don't want a Jewish state. They don't want a Jewish state more than they want a Palestinian state. You've heard these points before between 48 and 67 no effort to create a Palestinian state every offer given rejected because it had one condition. >> [snorts] >> There gets to be a Jewish state. And that's not acceptable. And that's what animates this movement. It is in effect genocidal. It is in effect underlying it anti-Semitic. It's the only state in the world that really they object to. The Jewish one. Every other state far worse states far more tyrannical authoritarian states that have far worse human rights records they don't give a about. They have nothing to say about it. Nothing. Absolute silence. Even amongst the people they claim to advocate for Palestinians who are oppressed by the people that rule them by Hamas leadership. When you hear about that you see footage of that of when you see footage of Druze in Syria getting massacred thrown off of rooftops by whether it's Jolani guys ISIS they don't care. Nothing to say. Thousands upon thousands tens of thousands of protesters in Iran intentionally murdered by the Iranian regime nothing to say doesn't serve the narrative of destroying the only Jewish state. [music] >> [music]