Freedom Of Speech Or A Terrorist Fan Club

Zorhan Mamdani condemns a terror plot, then the same movement around him turns up waving Hamas flags and chanting threats. We’re not interested in the comforting version of that story. We dig into why this moment feels different, why it’s spreading, and why so many institutions seem afraid to draw a clear line. From New York City street politics to what’s happening in Canada, we ask what “normal” even means when extremist symbols get treated like standard protest culture. 

What do you think the line is between protest and incitement, and who should enforce it? 

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Transcript

Welcome And The New Normal

SPEAKER_00 0:04

What's up, David? Nice to see you in the chair. Yeah, nice to see you, Stuart.

SPEAKER_01 0:09

Stuart, I gotta tell you, I don't know if you caught it, but it seems to be, you know, even if you look at the comments that we get on our posts or our our our rants, or anywhere you go, and over the weekend especially, it seems like attacking Jews and condemn and doing things against Jews in Israel, it's now become cool and mainstream. And I'm sickened by it because you've got dickheads like Zorhan Mamdani, who many in like to comment that they love Mamdani. Great. All right, all right, please move to Q. No, no, Stuart. I'm gonna no, I'm gonna pitch. I'm going to T you up today because I want to get you really like into this. Because I don't think today Americans and Westerners totally understand that anti-Semitism is equated to anti-Westernism. Stuart, I don't know how you feel about this, my friend, but I fired the gun. Go.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

All right. New York City is the most Jewish city outside of Tel Aviv. They waved Hama flags in the streets in broad daylight. And the guy who wants, uh who is the next mayor and just finished, you know, condemning the plot against Jews, you know, you know, people that represented him represent the same movement. And the same day, someone explained to me exactly which part I'm supposed to believe. You know, he says he condemns it, and now they're waving, and that's freedom of speech.

The Rant Starts With Precision

SPEAKER_00 1:41

So let's get to the rant. Let's be precise about what's happening here. Because the media is going to muddy the water, like they typically always do, the second they get a chance. And and as we know, it is really murky. Zora Mandati, the Democratic Socialist, who's the mayor, the darling of the progressive left, stood up publicly and condemned the terror plot against the Jews of New York. And that's, you know, sourced, obviously, because that's all we do. But a good condemnation, terrorism on the floor, but a medal worth achieving. Okay, fine. He said the words, okay, noted. Mandami Jews get to say, but he said, then minutes later, at a protest, his own movement, his coalition, organized a political universe of inhabitants that brought Hamas flags and they went up waving. Death to Jews, death to Israel, from the river to the sea, free Palestine, and on and on and on. Let me remind you what those flags represent. Because the mayor would have you believe this is freedom of speech. However, it is called hate speech and is defined in the federal laws, right? Hamas is congressionally designated a forest terrorized organization, designated in 1997, not 2026, and still on the list today. Contrary to Mayor Mandami's wish. On October 7th, 2023, Hamas launched the deadliest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Men, women, children, babies, raped women, grandmothers, mothers, children, and twelve hundred people murdered. And let me not say it again. Babies burned, women taken hostages, elderly people dragged by their hair and limbs from their homes. Again, not something that I would put my name to, Dave. However, Mandami wants to. Hezbollah is also a designated foreign terrorists and organization since 1997. It's Iran's armed proxy in the region, responsible for hundreds of thousands, hundreds and thousands, not hundreds of thousands, of American deaths currently sitting on the Israeli northern border with over 100,000 rockets pointed at Israel, now Paris, London, and Germany. These are not political parties. They are not resistant movements. They are terrorist

Why Hamas And Hezbollah Matter

SPEAKER_00 4:46

organizations under United States law. Let's not mix words. It is not my thought, it is the law. Flying their flags in New York City is not a protest, it's a declaration of allegiance to a terrorist organization. And our good friend Zora Mandani, who's mayor, wants those flags to fly unfurled, not the US American flag. This is what the far left, the Islamic coalition, looks like this year. I need every New York voter and every Jewish voter and every Christian voter and every parent taxpayer in the city to understand what they are being asked to normalize. The Democratic Party is front-running a terrorist organization. Create an inch of actual distance between himself and the people waving the flags that killed 1200 people on a Saturday morning at a concert on a holiday. A condemnation is not distance. A press release is not a firewall. And the flags are his response. And the rest of the Democratic Party is silent except one, Pennsylvania, because they're terrified of their base on being slammed. They're most afraid of losing their primary if they offer anything other than support of the Hamas flag being rised and raised over their coalition's party. That's not a party that can govern New York City. That is not a party that can protect Jewish and Christian Americans. That's or women or transvestites or gays or lesbians or whatever letter you want to pick. But they're too cowardly to admit it. And those that believe otherwise are really just stupid people. Ignorant, to be honest. Let me drop the hammer. Here's the bottom line: you don't get to condemn a terror plot in the morning and then join the people waving the flags in the afternoon and call yourself an ally of anything other than a terrorist organization. That's not political courage, that's cover in New York City, best deserved, other than the mayor of New York City, whose condemnation expires two hours after he gives it. Let me kick the ball to my good friend David.

David Responds And Raises Canada

SPEAKER_00 7:26

You know, I always frame it like this. I got a few things I want to ask you.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

And I'm going to start bring up Canada again and Carney. Go ahead, do it.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

You know, Mandani's camp will say he can't control everyone at a protest. That he personally condemns the terror plot, and that's what matters. David, I'm calling that a cop-out.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

It's a barf.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

But Steel Man, it's for me. Is there a version of this argument that holds any water? No. And if not, what should the political standard be to actually holding him to it? And that's not a Canadian question, but stay tuned. I appreciate that. And once you leave Canada. Canada has watched the same coalition on the far left Hamas march together in Toronto and Montreal since October 7th. Carney, little Mark Carney, has been largely silent about it. Canadian Parliament has debates about banning Hamas flags, displaying nothing that has stuck. Now, David, is Canada further gone than the United States? Because where I'm seeing, it looks like Ottawa doesn't even want to issue a press release on a Canadian nation. Because the big picture doesn't end there. Normalization of terrorist iconography in westerns absorbed by mainstream leftists, whether what a country doesn't matter. 10 years ago, flying Hamas flag was a political rally would end a candidate's campaign by sundown. Today it barely makes the news. At what point are politics gonna look in the mirror?

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Okay, Stuart, you threw a lot at me, and once again you threw Canada in there. And so, like I I know you like to throw Canada in there because you think Canada's the bitch, but the United States is the leader in the Western world right now because Europe is sunk, Canada is sunk. I'm telling you, it's sunk. Forget it. All right, the turt the way to turn these around right now, brutal. The US is on its way. Look at states like Michigan and Minnesota. Look what you're doing. Look at the candidates that you're pulling out of your ass. Bombdani in New York is one, but look at the candidates, whether they're Republican or whether they're Democrat. You've got a dick in the Republicans on in Florida who wants to annihilate Jews. And all he gives a shit about is you know being shown that he's a real manly person, but that he's also, and I forgot his name, forgive me, you'll have to look it up. But he's also all about exterminating Jews. You've got that same situation in Maine, you've got that same situation in Michigan. But what you brought up in Canada as well as in the United States is if you don't accept extremism of like this, someone's gonna come after you and look at all these primary candidates that are popping up all over the US, they're more and more and more extreme. But let's bring it back to New York City.

Free Speech Versus Incitement

SPEAKER_01 10:32

You ask the question, what is free speech? Well, let me ask you, Stuart. When you have a Jewish girls' school in Brooklyn, a religious Jewish girl school, and Muslims are praying at their walls, is this not incitement? Is this trying to not create a deliberate deliberate provocation? The answer is yes, it is. And Mamdani's applauding because if a Mamdani would go out there like a good leader and put police there to protect it, secure it. He cut the budget. He cut the budget because he wants this anarchy. He wants this anarchy. And I said at the beginning of my when I tried to tee you up story, it was anti-Semitism is anti-Westernism. The values the Jews have in the United States, in Canada, in the West, simply put, match and are in total alignment with Western values, and yet it's ignored. So if you're gonna allow Mamdani to to promote this, you know, mass Muslim mass prayer outside of a Brooklyn Jewish school, or allow Hamas flags, which is and and and Hezbollah flags and all the rest of them. If you're gonna permit that, then you don't believe in Westernism, you don't believe in the West, you believe in its destruction. Wake up, people. That is exactly what's happening. Now, let me give you a little bit more of a parallel, Stuart, and why this attempt is gonna create a roadblock.

Eurovision And Cultural Double Standards

SPEAKER_01 12:13

Over the weekend was the Eurovision. Eurovision is the biggest competition in Europe. And to show you the depths of the hate towards Israel and Jews, Spain, Ireland, among other nations, who've decided they were gonna boycott the Israeli performance and put on pro-Palestinian propaganda-like messaging while one Israeli performer is performing. Now, let me take everybody back a long time ago. Even when the United States and the Soviet Union fought and there was the Cold War, the Soviets sent over the uh the Soviet ballet. Billy Joel went to perform in 1987 in Moscow. Arts and culture always seemed to breach and break through the political noise. Not here. No, it was condemnation and hate towards Jews. And yet, once again, despite all the attempts of boycotting, despite all the attempts of trying to disrupt the concert, and the boy and all of the hate speech that was out there promoting Intifada, the crowd in Europe voted for the Israeli singer, and he finished second. The Bulgaria, the Bulgarian singer, even before she knew she won, embraced the Israelis. Others are embracing it. They're fed up, Stuart. People are fed up of all of this because they recognize that how can you know it's funny, Stuart. I don't know if you caught this, but they were people asking, what is Israel doing in a European contest? But didn't ask the Australian singer why she's part of this concert. It's interesting, the double standard and the bullshit. But people are pushing back, Stuart. People are sick and tired of this anti-Westernism. Now let me take you to London, where over the weekend over a million Londoners marched with UK flags, English flags, Israeli flags, proudly in London, saying that they are sick and tired of what direction the country is going in. This is what's gotta happen, Stuart,

Pushback In London And Legal Lines

SPEAKER_01 14:23

in Canada and the United States. A wake-up call. This noise. I ranted on Friday, Stuart, you missed this unfortunately, about what you started with the 1200 dead, the rapes, and what have you, and the New York Times disgusting approach to how with Nicholas Christoph writing this disgusting article that that they have true information that Israelis raped Palestinian prisoners in jail and train dogs to do it. Insane in itself. But here's the catch, Stuart. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his government to sue the shit out of the New York Times. The gloves are off, Stuart. And Westerners and Americans and Canadians have to take off the gloves too. If you don't stop anti-Semitism, and Stuart, if you haven't had the time to look at Bill Morrow's video from his last rant from his Friday show, Stuart, and I'll wrap up with this. No, they're not be the party of the minorities and to claim to be part of the of rebuilding America. He is asking them where are they?

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Listen, listen, Bill Maher's statements are 100% true. You know, the Republican extreme right want to run with Christ on the ballot box, and that's not necessarily correct either. However, having the option of Judeo-Christian values and the eight, you know, you know, 1800 year-ago religion, I would take that over that.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

1800 years, Stuart. Stuart, what 1800 years? This is the thing. When you sit there and tell me Palestine has been around since Roman times, I didn't take Palestine on top.

SPEAKER_00 16:14

I'm talking about Muslim the radical Muslim faith from 1800 years.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

The Muslims, Muslims have not been around for 1600 years, not even close. So when people are telling you that they've been around since forever, this is this is what they're trying to convince you. Stuart, at the end of the day, here's the problem.

Education Gaps And A Stark Warning

SPEAKER_01 16:33

We're not teaching this in high school, we're not teaching this in university. But what you see on the streets, this call for intifada, this call for death to Jews, this call for death to America is what's going to destroy the United States. Soviet-style communism that Mamdani wants to bring in, that Bernie Sanders wants to bring in, that AOC wants to bring in, it's going to destroy the United States. It's going to turn the wealthiest and most powerful country into Cuba. You guys want to be without power like Cuba? Please keep going the way you are doing right now. You want to see people leave the United States in groves? Keep doing what you're doing right now. Because this is not the end of it. Look at, you know, look at the list of number of attacks, Stuart, on Jewish institutions. Okay. And you tell me if this is what this is the kind of country you want to be in. You want to be part of that. This is not what US and Canada was built on. Frankly put, Stuart, the Mamdani promoting is anarchy, hate, not just to Jews. Jews are the excuse, but Jews are a symbol of the what the West is really incredible about. I'll finish with this, Stuart. Do you ever hear a rabbi or a professor call for death to Muslims? Not a chance. But listen to the chants that are being coming out of imams and professors in universities and politicians. You don't hear that from Jews. You might hear other things that are not necessarily acceptable, but death, eradication, not a chance.

Where To Watch And Closing

SPEAKER_00 18:16

All right, David. That's it for today. Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, noon, Easter, noon, we play the whole broadcast. But catch our scrips, like us, see us on YouTube, Facebook, our website, whatever. We love you. Dave, time to hit the end button.