The Lie That Taught the World to Hate Israel | Melanie Phillips — Transcript

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1. 0:04Jews in Australia, Canada, North
2. 0:07America, Britain are under this
3. 0:10tremendous onslaught of uh being held
4. 0:13personally responsible for what is
5. 0:16perceived to be the crimes of Israel.
6. 0:18So, they have a double kind of assault.
7. 0:19It's including an enormous amount of
8. 0:22gaslighting, in which they are bombarded
9. 0:25with
10. 0:26fabricated falsehoods and defamatory
11. 0:30lies about Israel designed to
12. 0:32delegitimize it as a prelude to its
13. 0:34destruction. I mean, I've had it to my
14. 0:36face. People in Australia have certainly
15. 0:38had it to their face. "You have killed
16. 0:41thousands of Gazan children. Why are you
17. 0:43killing Palestinian babies?" Like,
18. 0:45personally. I mean, this is, by any
19. 0:47standards, deranged.
20. 0:50So, we now have a situation where um I
21. 0:53mean, I think, quite rightly, people are
22. 0:54very very concerned about anti-Semitism.
23. 0:57The oldest hatred has come out, you
24. 0:59know, to a degree of brazenness
25. 1:02and threat in both its scale and its
26. 1:05nature. People did not ever think they
27. 1:07would see this in the so-called
28. 1:09civilized West. But, this rather
29. 1:12obscures the more immediate source of
30. 1:14the undermining, which is anti-Zionism,
31. 1:18singling out Israel as being uniquely
32. 1:21demonic. Now, a moment's thought would
33. 1:24tell anybody that even if you can't
34. 1:26stand Israel, you know, does it really,
35. 1:29you know, is it really it worse than the
36. 1:32actual tyrannies, murderous tyrannies of
37. 1:35the Middle East, of Russia, of China? I
38. 1:39mean,
39. 1:40but what are people talking about? So,
40. 1:42that has kind of taken over the Western
41. 1:44mind. And I believe it was a kind of
42. 1:47Trojan horse. The hatred of Israel, the
43. 1:49demonization and delegitimization of
44. 1:52Israel went hand in hand with the
45. 1:54promotion of what I call Palestinianism,
46. 1:58which is the Palestine cause. Countless
47. 2:01numbers of very decent,
48. 2:03conscience-driven, well-meaning people
49. 2:06in the West have supported the
50. 2:08Palestinian cause on the basis that in
51. 2:11their view they are supporting people
52. 2:13who are oppressed, people who have been
53. 2:15deprived of their own land, who are
54. 2:19being uh persecuted, oppressed, and
55. 2:21humiliated by the uh Israelis. Now,
56. 2:24every single part of that is a lie. The
57. 2:26opposite is the case. But, the espousal
58. 2:29of this cause has been so great that it
59. 2:33has become synonymous with conscience
60. 2:36itself.
61. 2:36>> Yes.
62. 2:37>> It has been synonymous comes synonymous
63. 2:39with morality itself. And consequently,
64. 2:42a cause, the Palestinian cause, which I
65. 2:45would suggest is based entirely on the
66. 2:48desire to exterminate the Jewish
67. 2:52homeland in Israel, and which draws upon
68. 2:55some of the most obscenely terrible
69. 2:58tropes of anti-Semitic demonization of
70. 3:01Jews that one found going back into the
71. 3:04Middle Ages with the Christian world,
72. 3:06the Inquisition, the Catholic Church
73. 3:09burning Jews alive, and so on and so
74. 3:11forth, through to the Soviet Union, uh
75. 3:15from where I think much of this
76. 3:17rhetoric actually comes. And indeed,
77. 3:19Islam Islamic sources also. That is what
78. 3:22the Palestinian cause does. It demonizes
79. 3:26Jews, and it calls for the destruction
80. 3:29of Israel. And it does so, moreover, by
81. 3:32attempting to steal from the Jews their
82. 3:36own historic identity or history in the
83. 3:39land. It says, "The Jews never were
84. 3:41here. We were here first. The Jews were
85. 3:43never here. It's our land." That is all
86. 3:45a complete lie. So, they are literally
87. 3:48trying to destroy Judaism itself. That's
88. 3:51what the Palestinian cause does. It is
89. 3:54murderous. It incites not just hatred of
90. 3:57Israelis and Jews, but it actually calls
91. 4:00for them to be murdered. It is all about
92. 4:03the destruction of Israel. It's about
93. 4:04the destruction of Judaism. And millions
94. 4:07of well-meaning
95. 4:09Brits and Europeans and Americans and
96. 4:12Australians have signed up to this cause
97. 4:14as synonymous with morality and
98. 4:16conscience. Now, that hasn't just done
99. 4:18terrible things to Jews and to the the
100. 4:22sort of political reality of Israel
101. 4:25being so oppressed and and attacked in
102. 4:28the world's on the world's stage. I
103. 4:30think it's done something even greater
104. 4:32than that, worse than that. It has this
105. 4:35literally destroyed the West's whole
106. 4:38moral compass. It can It's not only that
107. 4:40it can no longer distinguish truth from
108. 4:42lies because its own universities
109. 4:44abolished objective truth decades ago.
110. 4:47It now believes that the lies are not
111. 4:50just true, but that the lies, the
112. 4:52murderous lies, stand for conscience and
113. 4:55morality. So, its whole moral compass
114. 4:58has
115. 4:59I mean, I say it's been destroyed. It's
116. 5:00been It's been turned into It's been
117. 5:02harnessed in the cause of evil. What
118. 5:05passes for conscience now in the West is
119. 5:08in the service of at the utmost evil
120. 5:11that we can find in the world. Now, this
121. 5:14is, to put it mildly, not just
122. 5:16monstrous. It is absolutely terrifying
123. 5:18because it means the West is totally
124. 5:20lost, lost in every possible conceivable
125. 5:24sense. And there are people who
126. 5:25understand this. I think people who
127. 5:27understand this more than we think. I
128. 5:29think people kind of feel it in their
129. 5:30gut that they are being told a set of
130. 5:33lies and they can see certain certain
131. 5:35things in their societies which disturb
132. 5:38them greatly. Many people feel they can
133. 5:39no longer recognize their own societies
134. 5:42in Britain, in Europe, perhaps even on
135. 5:44in Australia. But And that's why we are
136. 5:47seeing the you know, the rise of
137. 5:48populism, this desperate desire by the
138. 5:51public to to to to find politicians who
139. 5:54go against the political mainstreams.
140. 5:57The political mainstream is considered
141. 5:59to have abandoned people to having their
142. 6:02identities, their national identities,
143. 6:04their national cultures ripped up. So,
144. 6:07we have the rise of populism. I have to
145. 6:09say, looking at the populists, I'm not
146. 6:11sure whether any of them is up to this.
147. 6:13I'm not sure whether any of them fully
148. 6:15understands the full horror and the full
149. 6:19scale and nature of the calamity that
150. 6:22has now befallen the West. It requires a
151. 6:25rare statesman, a statesman of rare
152. 6:28intellect and courage, first of all to
153. 6:30see it, acknowledge it, and secondly to
154. 6:32do something about it. We may see that.
155. 6:34We may see that as this thing becomes
156. 6:36more and more apparent to more and more
157. 6:37people, situation becomes more and more
158. 6:39desperate, we may see that. But at the
159. 6:42moment, you talk about, you know, how do
160. 6:44we get to this? How did Australia get to
161. 6:46this? It's a Western mortal sickness,
162. 6:49and someone has to find the cure before
163. 6:52the West goes down completely. The
164. 6:54Islamic world is very smart. As I've
165. 6:56said, it understands the West much
166. 6:58better than the West understands itself.
167. 7:00And it understands also something
168. 7:01different, and which the West refuses
169. 7:04now to acknowledge. It seems to me the
170. 7:06Islamic world understands that religion
171. 7:10is the scaffolding of a culture and a
172. 7:12society. It certainly is the scaffolding
173. 7:14of the Islamic world. I mean, it's all
174. 7:16about Islam. With terrible effects on
175. 7:18everybody else because it wishes to
176. 7:19impose Islam on everybody else. But
177. 7:21nevertheless, it understands that
178. 7:23religion is what a society depends upon
179. 7:26for its identity. Religion gives you
180. 7:29gives a society its moral scaffolding
181. 7:32and to a certain extent its political
182. 7:34scaffolding. Now, the West does not
183. 7:36understand this at all. The West has
184. 7:38decided, generally speaking, obviously
185. 7:40there are religious people still in the
186. 7:42West, particularly in America.
187. 7:43But, the West collectively has decided
188. 7:46that religion is bunk and that religion
189. 7:47stands in the way of all good things. It
190. 7:49stands in the way of progress, of
191. 7:51modernity, of science, of rationality,
192. 7:54of conscience. It's authoritarian, it's
193. 7:58it's antediluvian, it's anachronistic,
194. 8:01it is troglodyte. All completely wrong.
195. 8:04All the greatness of the West, its moral
196. 8:07greatness and its scientific modernity
197. 8:11achievements, greatness kind of thing,
198. 8:13and its political greatness, its
199. 8:14invention of political freedom, they all
200. 8:18come from the Hebrew Bible mediated
201. 8:21through the great religious
202. 8:22superstructure, or did I mean
203. 8:24infrastructure, of the West, which was
204. 8:26Christianity. And the West's elites have
205. 8:29taken a wrecking ball to that identity
206. 8:32and to all those values.
207. 8:33>> Done a pretty good job.
208. 8:34>> They've done a tremendously good job.
209. 8:36So, the result of that is they've
210. 8:38created a vacuum where their own core
211. 8:41values should be, where their identity
212. 8:43should be. They no longer know what
213. 8:45their identity is. They're unable to
214. 8:47identify it. They, insofar as they
215. 8:50identify it, they do so wrongly by
216. 8:52casting it as having been created
217. 8:55according to the original sins of
218. 8:57colonialism and imperialism and
219. 8:59whiteness. It's absolute nonsense.
220. 9:01Um and as a result, they have tried to
221. 9:04replace it by what they consider to be
222. 9:06liberal universalist values. But,
223. 9:08they're not universalist at all. Quite
224. 9:11clearly, most cultures don't adhere to,
225. 9:14for example, the idea that we are all
226. 9:16created equal in the image of God.
227. 9:19>> Which used the key to democratic
228. 9:21freedom.
229. 9:21>> from the Bible. It does not appear in
230. 9:24any other culture, and that is the basis
231. 9:26of everything that's good in the West.
232. 9:28And there are many, many other good
233. 9:29things. So, they created a vacuum and
234. 9:31the Islamists understood that that
235. 9:34vacuum meant that they could meant that
236. 9:35they could come in and pull at place
237. 9:37their own values in such a way that they
238. 9:40would not be resisted and that they
239. 9:42understood and they understood that the
240. 9:44West would no longer defend itself
241. 9:47properly either in cultural terms,
242. 9:50political terms, or in military terms.
243. 9:52So, it was open to them and one of the
244. 9:54ways in which they have so successfully
245. 9:57undermined the West is through
246. 9:59colonizing the Western mind which was
247. 10:01vulnerable because it had abolished the
248. 10:02idea of objective truth. It believes
249. 10:05that the West was born in the original
250. 10:07sins of colonialism, etc. It cast Israel
251. 10:10as being that and over many decades its
252. 10:13brightest and best taught themselves
253. 10:16this story about Israel and Zionism.