Antisemitism Has Poisoned Healthcare | Melanie Phillips — Transcript

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1. 0:00I shouldn't be shocked or surprised by
2. 0:01anti-semitism, but I always am because
3. 0:05it comes out from people who are, you
4. 0:07know, you assume that people are
5. 0:09intelligent. Well, they are intelligent
6. 0:11and therefore you assume that they that
7. 0:13they that they would not come out with
8. 0:15what they come out with, which is this
9. 0:17barking mad, deranged, paranoid belief
10. 0:21that the Jews control everything. Um,
11. 0:23and you hear pe, you know, you see
12. 0:25people sort of nodding along and
13. 0:29they must be completely mad because, you
14. 0:31know, the Jews are the most persecuted
15. 0:32people on earth. If the Jews were the
16. 0:35most powerful people on earth, then um,
17. 0:37you know, they made a pretty poor fist
18. 0:39of it. Um you know the old joke um two
19. 0:42men sitting on a park bench reading each
20. 0:45reading uh the one guy is reading a
21. 0:47newspaper and uh he is chuckling to
22. 0:51himself reading the newspaper and the
23. 0:53other guy two Jews and the other Jew
24. 0:55says
25. 0:57what are you reading why why are you
26. 0:59laughing you're reading such terrible
27. 1:01things you're reading about you know
28. 1:03anti-semitism you're reading about the
29. 1:05attacks on Jews across the world and
30. 1:08you're laughing
31. 1:10And the Jews reading the paper says,
32. 1:13"I'm reading that we control the world."
33. 1:16>> Yeah. Point taken. And you know, in my
34. 1:19own country, the Jewish uh component of
35. 1:23the population would be similarly small
36. 1:26as it is in Britain. And yet, as many
37. 1:29people have pointed out, our most famous
38. 1:30general and probably one of the great
39. 1:33generals of the First World War because
40. 1:34he he was not only an effective general,
41. 1:36but he cared about his troops. He found
42. 1:38ways to advance the cause with minimum
43. 1:41bloodshed and that was General Monese
44. 1:44from Melbourne. Two of our governor
45. 1:46generals are very good governor generals
46. 1:48as it happens uh have been Jewish and
47. 1:51then in a whole range of areas they've
48. 1:53made a contribution that far outweighs
49. 1:56uh their numerical numbers and their
50. 1:59critics for example the two nurses who
51. 2:02have disgracefully been caught on camera
52. 2:05uh saying outrageous things. They both
53. 2:08happen, you know, I'm going to put this
54. 2:10on the record to be of Muslim background
55. 2:14indicating that uh, you know, they would
56. 2:17not care for people who came into the
57. 2:19health system. And it's a good thing in
58. 2:21Australia that authorities everywhere in
59. 2:23the health system have said, right, they
60. 2:24will never work in the health system.
61. 2:25>> They said they would not care for they
62. 2:26would they would kill Israelis who came
63. 2:28into
64. 2:28>> they would kill Israelis. Implied even
65. 2:30that perhaps they might have, which I
66. 2:32doubt. I hope they haven't. But at least
67. 2:35there's been a strong reaction. and
68. 2:36they'll never work again in the health
69. 2:38system. That's something. But it is
70. 2:41unbelievable. And I guess my point is
71. 2:43there's a twofold point to make out of
72. 2:45that is if you're going to criticize,
73. 2:48just ask yourself firstly what you've
74. 2:50done for your country and for your
75. 2:51community because the Jewish people in
76. 2:53Australia have done a great deal. In net
77. 2:55terms, they've made a massive
78. 2:56contribution. The second point I'd make
79. 2:58is I know a little bit about power. I've
80. 3:00been part of it. It's laughable to think
81. 3:03that Jewish people exercise control
82. 3:07in the way that is suggested. It's
83. 3:09absolutely risable. It bears no
84. 3:13relationship to truth at all.
85. 3:15>> Well, anti-semitism is a weird thing.
86. 3:18You know, we can all
87. 3:19>> You mention maybe perhaps supernatural
88. 3:20in some ways. It's almost beyond our
89. 3:22understanding.
90. 3:23>> Well, exactly. I mean we could all find
91. 3:25you know all kinds of very plausible and
92. 3:27entirely entirely I think justifiable uh
93. 3:30explanations for why it happens in a
94. 3:32particular way at a particular time for
95. 3:33particular sorts of people. Those
96. 3:36reasons are perfectly valid.
97. 3:38>> Ultimately it's a mystery.
98. 3:40>> Ultimately it's a mystery. It's the
99. 3:42longest hatred. It has existed ever
100. 3:45since the Jewish people began to be a
101. 3:47Jewish people
102. 3:48>> and it continues without end. the most
103. 3:50we can ever expect is that it's put back
104. 3:52under its stone um so that it's kept to
105. 3:55a minimum and you know restricted to the
106. 3:58what are considered to be unacceptable
107. 4:00fringes of society. That's how I That's
108. 4:02how it was when I was growing up in in
109. 4:04Britain. And now it's out from under its
110. 4:06stone and roaring around uh out of
111. 4:09control uh a absolute tsunami of it uh
112. 4:12rolling across the west and having
113. 4:15infected
114. 4:16uh countless numbers of people um who
115. 4:19are uh totally mainstream. You know,
116. 4:22they they are they are they are
117. 4:24upstanding citizens. They are they are
118. 4:26professionals. They're intellectuals in
119. 4:28the universities in in politics in in
120. 4:30the law in in in medicine a lot in
121. 4:33medicine for some reason um and the
122. 4:36health and health systems um uh the
123. 4:39official class. I mean across great
124. 4:42sades of the culture, the artistic
125. 4:44culture and I'm afraid to say the
126. 4:45Anglican church. Um and so this is the
127. 4:48terrible thing that's that that's
128. 4:49happened.