I knew personally that RFK Jr was a raging Zionist when he did an appearance on The Jimmy Dore Show about 18 months back when he was still running as a Democrat in the primary IIRC.
They talked about the COVID jab and all that good stuff, but then the conversation turned to Israel and Oct 7th.
Dore himself is pretty pro-Palestine and chums around with leftist pro-Palestine types like Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal.
The interview shifted to Israel and RFK started into all the "Israel in the world's most moral army" agitprop. He talked about how the IDF was reducing civilian casualties by warning civilians to evacuate with some sort of "door knocker" roof bombs before actually levelling everything to the ground.
He also made claims that the Israeli courts were less corrupt and more just than the American ones because their judiciary and laws respect the minority rights of their Arab subpopulation better than the US equivalents do.
Dore caught a lot of heat from the more left-leaning side of his audience for not pushing back more. During the interview, Dore admitted that he wasn't well-versed enough to push back on some of RFK's most bombastic claims, so he asked if RFK would return for a debate with Max Blumenthal of The Gray Zone. Which RFK agreed to, but never returned.
I remember being really shocked at the time that RFK Jr was such a rabid Zionist when most of his other ideologies seem more in tune with both the old classical liberals and the dissident right.
But it certainly explains why it was so easy for him to drop his Independent Presidential campaign run to join the rest of the usual MAGA & Republican Zio shills.
Edit: I think this is the clip that opened my eyes. It's RFK in Jimmy's studio Aug 2023.
I've known he's a rabid zionist for a good while, I just figured it was a fixation of his that would have a low chance of interfering with his remit in HHS. I didn't realise he would, as one of his first actions as secretary, announce that anti-semitism has 'lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues' lmao. Good to see he's focused on the real health issues of the day... measles and anti-semites!
More fool me, clown world always has more surprises.
a debate with Max Blumenthal of The Gray Zone. Which RFK agreed to, but never returned.
It's difficult to imagine he ever would have gone along with that. Blumenthal eloquently and reasonably lays out the theories and evidence that Oct 7th was mostly IDF killing of Israelis - in a way that really should be better understood by the mainstream, since Blumenthal himself is relatively mainstream as alternative voices go, hence Jimmy bringing him up. All other opinions on Israel aside, RFK would lose that debate on Oct 7 alone and the establishment would have torched him for legitimising nazi conspiracy theories. As if attacking vaxx orthodoxy wasn't bad enough... but he's apparently stopped doing that now and vaccines which he once highlighted as a danger to child health are now 'crucial' in stopping relatively benign childhood illness.
They [RFK and Dore] talked about the COVID jab and all that good stuff, but then the conversation turned to Israel and Oct 7th.
Same exact thing happened with Dave Smith. Dave had RFK on, and it got super fucking heated throughout the entire episode, as RFK tried to justify everything Israel was doing...to Dave fucking Smith. It was a glorious trainwreck. Dave loved RFK before the massive Zionism got obvious, so it was a pretty big blowup.
It will be interesting to see what Dave Smith has to say about RFK's behavior today.
I knew personally that RFK Jr was a raging Zionist when he did an appearance on The Jimmy Dore Show about 18 months back when he was still running as a Democrat in the primary IIRC.
They talked about the COVID jab and all that good stuff, but then the conversation turned to Israel and Oct 7th.
Dore himself is pretty pro-Palestine and chums around with leftist pro-Palestine types like Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal.
The interview shifted to Israel and RFK started into all the "Israel in the world's most moral army" agitprop. He talked about how the IDF was reducing civilian casualties by warning civilians to evacuate with some sort of "door knocker" roof bombs before actually levelling everything to the ground.
He also made claims that the Israeli courts were less corrupt and more just than the American ones because their judiciary and laws respect the minority rights of their Arab subpopulation better than the US equivalents do.
Dore caught a lot of heat from the more left-leaning side of his audience for not pushing back more. During the interview, Dore admitted that he wasn't well-versed enough to push back on some of RFK's most bombastic claims, so he asked if RFK would return for a debate with Max Blumenthal of The Gray Zone. Which RFK agreed to, but never returned.
I remember being really shocked at the time that RFK Jr was such a rabid Zionist when most of his other ideologies seem more in tune with both the old classical liberals and the dissident right.
But it certainly explains why it was so easy for him to drop his Independent Presidential campaign run to join the rest of the usual MAGA & Republican Zio shills.
Edit: I think this is the clip that opened my eyes. It's RFK in Jimmy's studio Aug 2023.
I've known he's a rabid zionist for a good while, I just figured it was a fixation of his that would have a low chance of interfering with his remit in HHS. I didn't realise he would, as one of his first actions as secretary, announce that anti-semitism has 'lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues' lmao. Good to see he's focused on the real health issues of the day... measles and anti-semites!
More fool me, clown world always has more surprises.
It's difficult to imagine he ever would have gone along with that. Blumenthal eloquently and reasonably lays out the theories and evidence that Oct 7th was mostly IDF killing of Israelis - in a way that really should be better understood by the mainstream, since Blumenthal himself is relatively mainstream as alternative voices go, hence Jimmy bringing him up. All other opinions on Israel aside, RFK would lose that debate on Oct 7 alone and the establishment would have torched him for legitimising nazi conspiracy theories. As if attacking vaxx orthodoxy wasn't bad enough... but he's apparently stopped doing that now and vaccines which he once highlighted as a danger to child health are now 'crucial' in stopping relatively benign childhood illness.
Rabbi Shmuley and RFK. "God bless Israel. I'm going to be a champion for Israel as president."
"The Palestinian people are arguably the most pampered people..."
Same exact thing happened with Dave Smith. Dave had RFK on, and it got super fucking heated throughout the entire episode, as RFK tried to justify everything Israel was doing...to Dave fucking Smith. It was a glorious trainwreck. Dave loved RFK before the massive Zionism got obvious, so it was a pretty big blowup.
It will be interesting to see what Dave Smith has to say about RFK's behavior today.