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0:00 Intro
0:39 The spirit in The Spirited Man
1:31 An idea long in the making
2:47 The root of anti-Semitism
3:52 The polio vaccine
5:04 Nobel prize winners
5:33 My biography
7:16 Some of the names
8:20 My neighbor Sam
9:15 Teachers
9:33 Why I make videos
11:21 Spielberg's most important film
12:26 The story of Schindler's List
14:30 Redemption of sins
15:37 Righteous gentile
17:02 An admirable quality
18:18 The judgment of Solomon
20:05 What we must remember before we pass judgment
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ABOUT VAN NEISTAT:
A pioneer in digital filmmaking, Van Neistat made his first internet video, The Holland Tunnel, in 2000. He went on to collaborate with New York City artist Tom Sachs, directing a series of short films shown at the Guggenheim Museum in Berlin. Van has since directed dozens more films for the Tom Sachs Studio. In 2010 HBO aired The Neistat Brothers, an 8-episode series of short videos made entirely by Van and his brother Casey Neistat. Van Neistat’s directorial debut feature, A SPACE PROGRAM, co-written by Tom Sachs, premiered at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival and opened in theaters nation-wide in spring, 2016. In 2018 Neistat Directed the short film Paradox Bullets, co-written with Tom Sachs, narrated by Werner Herzog, and starring Ed Rushca. Neistat has written and directed commercial projects for Nike, Hurley, Kate Spade, Tory Burch, J. Crew, Twitter, Sleepy Jones and Frances Valentine. His work has been exhibited in museums throughout the world. He lives in Topanga, California.
Criticism of Israeli government and politics ≠ anti-semitism
Criticizing Israel for self-defense is anti-semitic
Hey Van, I'm Palestinian. I appreciate the perspective you shared and honor all the points you brought up about the immense contributions Jewish people have made for progress throughout human history. Watching Anti-semitism rise is always terrifying as someone who experienced a great deal of racism and prejudice for being Muslim growing up. I do not want to take anything away from the valuable information you shared in this video, but I do want to bring your attention to one point that deeply hurt me. It's incredibly damaging to show footage of large Muslim groups with Palestinian flags without truly knowing if those people are Anti-semitic but stating "rallying against Jews". Saying something like "why do people hate Jews" right after showing only one person with a hijab on creates a visual tie with a person like that being the root of these hateful acts. I wonder if she was Anti-semitic. I know that's not what you think and I know there is a genuine danger from people who are anti-semitic, but that's how I received those board statements of "kids" and "people" paired with the images you chose together of a Muslim woman seems twisted to me. This troubles me because I've been seeing hate crimes, murders of Muslims in this country these past few weeks.
Regardless of whether or not the people you've shown are antisemitic, the way you phrase your statement points viewers' anger directly at someone wearing a hijab and anyone holding a Palestinian flag as hating Jews. These generalizations can result in more violence. I am by no means claiming that the intention of that sequence was to incite hatred, I want to be clear. But I hope you can see how pairing that face with those broad statements without acknowledging the people who are protesting for reasons they feel strongly about because of their own upbringing and cultural background is unfair to that person you show and so many other people protesting the occupation and a ceasefire who are not antisemitic.
Facts, great points
hamas is not palestine and they just committed a 9/11 against israel. unreal that anyone would defend hamas.
Someone was tooting his own horn lol!
I can say, given that I am admittedly rather uninformed on this topic, your statement reigns true. I immediately wondered if the groups he showed, and related protests I have witnessed, were related to the words he used.
Well written, thanks for bringing it up.
The clip he showed of protesters in Australia were chanting “gas the j3ws”. I’m sure his point was not to frame all Muslims as anti-Semitic but the unfortunate truth is that there are so many Muslims in the world that even if just a very small percentage of them are anti-semetic then they are in the tens of millions. Again I don’t think most Muslims are bad but the minority blends into the majority and soils it for the good ones.
The idea that criticizing Israel is anti-semitic perpetuates the conversation from driving into a circle.
wait what?
i can say f israel without hating jews. that’s what this means.
100% yes. Van / TSM are slowly revealing their (right wing) politics, and its weirding me out.
itsnot right wing to be for isreal, isreal is the DEFINITION of identity politics, somehting right wingers actually despise...@@cvlbenton
@@sunnyvegas2778Right wingers are actually deep in love with identity politics, when the identities in question are nationalist.
The problem is that simply recognizing the humanity of Palestinians is being labeled anti-semitic. I don't hate anybody, but I do hate bombs
This is a huge chunk of the issue. There is clearly an imbalance when it comes to the humanity we place on the two populations. It feels like the genocide happening as we speak holds less weight to some people compared to the recent attack in Israel. It's frustrating.
@@lc360it absolutely means different things, Palestinians dying right now are unfortunate casualties of war, Jews were killed knowingly while looking them right in the eyes. One is by-product of war, other is deliberate attack. There is absolutely no moral equivalence between the two.
@@propellergarage you just proved your moral compass is completely broken. thousands of children being killed, to you, are just 'unfortunate casualties of war'. you are more of a terrorist than hamas.
@@propellergarageThe Palestinians now are dying in a deliberate attack, as the Israelis killed by Hamas were. We should value their lives equally. Devaluing either set of lives relative to the other is bigotry, plain and simple.
@@propellergarage this is textbook cognitive dissonance. Ask the simple question of why Oct 7 happened. It was certainly an act of terrible violence, but to treat it as unprovoked is to ignore decades of apparent violence.
E. No, I am not saying the actions of Hamas are good, I am saying that this person is falsely classifying the deaths of Palestinians as an acceptable consequence of war, but classifies the actions of Palestinians under constant siege and apartheid to be unprovoked violence. Look at the history and you can see it's a lot more complicated than that. This didn't start on Oct 7. Stop acting like it did. You ar erasing acts of genocide.
Dear Van,
I’m a long-time subscriber and patreon member, and I’m proud to say that. Your art has inspired me in many ways. I’ve shared your videos with my family, friends, and even strangers. As an 18 year old girl, I’ve learned much from you even though we have little in common. Every time a new video comes out, I know it will be well-made, detailed, and meaningful. This video wasn’t short of any of those traits. Your perspective as a man who honors his Jewish heart is admirable and important. All of the Jewish people you mentioned and their impacts always need to be brought to light and I commend you for doing so. The rise of antisemitism and Islamophobia is terrifying and ever growing, and it’s in times like this it’s important to learn from others from unique perspectives. However, the first few minutes of this video made me rethink the respect that I have for your art. When you show a clip of pro-Palestinian protests saying they are ‘rallying against Jews’, and asking ‘why do people hate Jews’ right after showing a clip of a hijabi college student brings a very damaging narrative to light. The narrative that gives rise to Islamophobia, the idea that being Pro-Palestinian means being Anti-Semitic. Growing up I had tons of Jewish friends at school. I went to all of the bar and bat mitzvahs, was close friends with the president of the Jewish Students Association (I was president of the Muslim Students Associaton), and over time grew an immense respect and admiration for the Jewish religion and culture. When I go to a Pro-Palestinian protest, I’m not protesting in favor of terrorism, or against Jewish people, I’m protesting against the government that forced my grandmother out of her childhood home in 1948. With nothing but the clothes on her back. I acknowledge that there may be anti-Semitic people at those protests. I acknowledge that anti-semitism is wrong and has been shown at some of these protests. But the generalizations your video makes are hurtful, wrong, and will only lead to more violence and anger against a people for simply their religious beliefs or heritage. Van, your videos have shown me that you are a knowledgeable, empathetic, and well-read man that is capable of understanding multiple sides of a conflict. I want you to understand that you have likely lost a large part of your Arab/Palestinian/even Muslim audience because of the generalizations you made, even when the rest of the video is valid, important, and beautiful.
Very well said, thanks for this comment
Lost not just "Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim" audiences, but any caring people that value humanity over tribal identity.
Very well said. Thank you for your wisdom here!
Fully agree, incredibly disappointing to see that in the video
You may be showing up at pro Palestinian protests to support innocent civilians, but the clip Van showed was of a mob in Sydney changing "gas the Jews." That kind of thing really happens too, and is what I thought his video was a response to. I don't think it was meant as an indictment of well intentioned demonstrators. If praising a culture he admired and has a personal connection with alienates some viewers I think it says more about them than him.
As someone of Jewish descent who is also a member of Jewish Voices for Peace, we can be anti-Israel government and policy without being antisemitic, or even anti Israeli people. I think it is high time to stop equating opposition to Israeli Apartheid-like policies and the oppression of the Palestinian people and nation with antisemitism.
Well said
JVP claims that Israel trains American police specifically to kill blacks, it's an anti-Semitic group. Our people have always suffered collaborators, and "as a Jew" just means that this is the part you've chosen to play during this tragic episode of our history.
@@LearnedHand2008 America made the sraelian jews, like many coutries create the population they want to get rid of through emigration. I've seen south american soldiers in idf....no mercenary of course, but they didn't look arabs nor Polish or Ukrainian....uhm...
Having an opinion that is not government endorsed is brave.
JVP isn't even a Jewish majority group.
I have empathy and compassion for all civilian victims of conflict regardless of race, colour or creed.
Pray for peace.
great quality to have but when you examine the history of the territory & the human cost of the conflicts since 1947, you find who is truly the victim. the Nakba never ended.
@@vin2620 if you’re making this complex situation a good vs evil childish thing, then You know shit about anything. To pretend that terrorists groups like hamas, fatah and many others early groups does not or never existed or to call the victim, is a manor state that you dont know wtf youre talking about
@@vin2620he said civilians (people not in the military) so.
A reminder that there are many Jewish voices speaking out against the atrocious acts of Israel and in fact many people in the Pro-Palestinian rallies are jewish.
There needs to come a time where we do not need reiterate that the criticism of Israel is NOT a criticism of Jewish people.
When your shield for saying horrific thing is "some Jews are also saying them", perhaps you're not able to defend the things being said in any capacity. Jews aren't magical creatures, they can be blind or misinformed as much as non-Jews.
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Absolutely
THIS! 100%
Plenty of the Jewish diaspora opposes the militarized, genocidal, apartheid-based ethnostate that is Israel, and plenty of the Jewish diaspora opposed the establishment of Israel in the first place. It’s disgusting that Van ignores the role of anti-Zionist jews.
Hi van, i keep seeing the atrocities continue and i cant help but wonder if you stand by your closing statement. Have you allowed yourself to question why a country so sacred and beloved is doing this to thousands upon thousands of innocent humans? Do you care?
Anti-sionist is different from anti-semitism
sincere and honest question, what other countries do you think are illegitimate?
Ya I am curious too, which countries were formed legally/nonviolently with all of the receipts? @@yoyopg123
@@yoyopg123Jew here. A couple of points to understand.
1.) Zionism no longer means what it meant 30-50 years ago. Zionism today means supporting extreme right wing authoritarian apartheid.
As a Jew, I do not.
Being anti-Zionist does not typically mean wanting Israel destroyed/dissolved.
2.) I typically don’t support ethnostates of any kind. Jews need a safe haven. But not one where other ethnicities are second-class citizens.
(Same reason I would’ve opposed Jim Crow, had I been alive.)
@@charliekowittmusic hi Charlie, do Jews think that you are less of a Jew for not thinking yourself superior to people of other faiths/cultures? How do Jews balance that with the fact that Jews are genetically Arab too, and that Palestinians (both Muslim and Christian) look identical to Jews? I appreciate your comment above and agree about how Zionism has shifted, along with the administrative practice of the Israeli Government in that time. This period feels different to wars in the past Israeli History.
@@charliekowittmusicjew here yes being anti zionist is being anti semitic i dont think that zionism means supporting a right wing government and being that i lived in israel for 4 years i also know that i had arabs work with me in jerusalem. This notion of apartheid is as offensive as your ignorance on what israel was before 1948
Came back to this video because things are getting worse and i guess i wanted to see if you had acknowledged any of the responses.
I hope the many people reaching out and explaining the history and reality of the situation have gotten through in sone capacity. I really really hope it's not all brushed off as hate or antisemitism. It's right to mourn the atrocities committed against those Israeli citizens. It's also right to condemn apartheid and genocide.
I think you're an incredibly insightful compassionate person and I really truly wish Gazans were granted some of that compassion.
I can't imagine what it must be like to live under brutality like they do while people like us can say with confidence that Israel isn't goliath.
There's a lot of conflation happening here. Hamas and the innocent people of Palestine are not one in the same. Supporting the freedom of Palestinians does not attempt to justify the horrible actions of Hamas. Any support for Hamas IS antisemitic, but supporting Palestine is not equivalent (I am referencing the Palestine protest footage being used as an example of antisemitism). The exact same is true of Israel. Israel does not represent all jewish people, and opposing the horrible actions of Israel is not antisemitic. It is important to support and uplift the Jewish community, and you can do so while disagreeing with Israels occupation in Gaza and their treatment of the innocent Palestinian people. You can simultaneously denounce the act of genocide committed by Hamas, and also support the freedom of Palestine. It is a complex and nuanced issue that doesn't have one black and white solution.
Exactly. that’s what people in this comment section are struggling with. Any reasonable person should support Palestine and Palestinians right to live in peace and with dignity. what can’t be tolerated is what happened on October 7. at the same time, the choices and actions of the Jewish state over the past few decades have contributed to this current situation. You are able to condemn the first without condoning the second. not even just able to, we should all be obligated to. peace is the only option.
@@benfelps I also think it is worth adding that I am not brushing aside the antisemitism that is still happening to this day. There are many terrible people that are using this ongoing war as a justification for antisemitism, and are blaming jewish people as a whole for this conflict. This is entirely unacceptable, and I have a hunch that is what Van is referencing. But to group the people exploiting the current situation to spread jewish hate, with the people who are rallying for the freedom of innocent Palestinians, shows an underdeveloped understanding of what is happening right now, and is not fair to the innocent Palestinians that are ALSO facing genocide.
Israel doesn’t occupy Gaza. But anyway, what does freeing Gaza mean to you? I mean you just saw why there is a blockade in the first place
@@eyalcohen175 The UN and a number of human rights organizations continue to consider Israel as the occupying power of the Gaza Strip due to its blockade of the territory, but I guess if Israel rejects this categorization it must be true right
Very well, and opposing Hamas and Jihadism isn't the same as being pro zionist. One can be opposed to both zionism and islamism.
I feel the need to create a distinction between the state of Isreal and the Jewish people. I pray for an end to the violence and do not approve of killing by any nation with very few exceptions. I love the Jewish people, and have been greatly impacted by many in my life. Sometimes the people I love do things I don’t agree with.
I am an atheist, and I was a scrawny kid who was picked on and tormented in my school days, so I can empathize with any persecuted person or people which is why I understand Jewish need to feel safe and protected given what has happened to them, historically. But history, while it informs us, and can motivate us, it does not exist in a vacuum to alone dictate future actions and reactions.
We must endeavour, as a human collective, to search for peace and harmony for all peoples, even those who would not want it for us, and that includes a dozen Muslim countries that would throw me in jail or kill me for simple non-belief/apostasy. That point is not lost on me. Israel, as a country, is also a weird place where modern secularism clashes with very traditional following of Judaism, of socialism and ultra-nationalism.
Let me be clear, Israel has a fundamental right to protect itself and it's people. What it does not have is carte-blanche to treat other non-combatant civilians, regardless of background, as less than human. It must deal with the millions of Arabs/Palestinians within it's borders, while also dealing with the terror organizations of Hamas and Hezbollah. An eye for an eye leaves the world blind. I hope for peace even when it seems hopeless.
Which countries would throw you in jail for disbelief/apostasy? Do they have zero number of athiests?
@@MathraManiacan't post links. RUclips doesn't let you, but there's a whole wiki page "apostasy in Islam by country" and I'm sure they do, but they have to hide in great for their safety. Not joking.
Just like what happened to Jews during the the six years of the WWII has been happening to the Palestinians for the past 75 years. It’s time for the world to recognize that a genocide is a genocide, after all we are all humans
I went to a march for the freedom of Palestine yesterday in Bristol, UK and I didn't see or hear anything antisemitic. There was a couple of more indirect things regarding the Israeli state from some individuals that concerned me, but to make a blanket statement that people in the west are rallying against Jewish people is misleading. I'm sure there are some people that hold antisemitic views but the over powering message was that the UK government should stop supporting the carpet bombing of not only Gaza but other areas in the region that is leading to a genocide.
I did watch the rest of the video though to which I mostly enjoyed...
You guys understand, that if hamas wont be destroyed now, just like you want, the situation will repeat itself. And it sounds like that’s what you guys want.
@@Patriccist If Israel does not at least stop taking territory away from Palestine and empower Hamas in order to capitalize on its own victimhood that would also be cool right?
@@Patriccist what does the destruction of Hamas look like? Is it a group of people? A leader in particular? Or perhaps an ideology, that is now being stoked by the bombs that fall on Gaza.
@@Patriccist it’s really strange that you believe a majority people with this position want hamas to succeed. We just will not accept the murder of innocent civilians through the justification of the safety of Israel, which as we’ve learned from the response from 9/11 will only recruit more radicals to the banner of terrorism
source: dude just trust me
I'm sympathetic to the spirit of this video, but to claim, as you do at 2:38 "...[students] are rallying against jews" is at best a mischaracterization and at worst maliciously insincere. Many of these people, likely the majority, are rallying FOR Palestinians and not against the average Jewish civilian. To be pro-Palestine does not necessary mean you are an anti-semite. We should be capable of more nuance than this. Are there likely some anti-semetic people in those crowds? Of course, and they should be condemned. But I can't engage sincerely with your content if you start off with such an ignorant tone, this kind of black-and-white, us-versus-them thinking is exactly what is wrong with online discourse today.
Yeah, I was kind of shocked. He says "rallying against jews" and then just shows pictures of people supporting Palestine. What a crazy false equivalence.
Do you watch the news? There's is some of the protesters says "Gas the Jews", you know what that mean right?
Yeah, crazy false equivalences are a common thing among this tribe. "the jew cries out in pain as he strikes you"
@@FK-we1dp I don't think making harmful generalizations like that is fair or helpful in this situation
@@11Hand1e11 Clearly, their intent wasn't to be "fair or helpful".
Van, I love your channel, everything about it, it's intelligent, it's quirky, it's thoughtful .I agree there is anti-Semitism .
I think if I was Jewish I would be paranoid and alert , I'm not Jewish, I'm an Irish Catholic from Dublin Ireland , brought up a Catholic anyway, no so much a catholic now :) but it doesn't take much imagination to think what it would be like to be Jewish and have half your family wiped out in the holocaust , what that would do to your mental health , to think on many occasions in History there were pogroms , and then the final solution , I think I would be extremely alert and extremely paranoid .
The problem we have with the Palestinian issue is that it's not simple , to be anti a right wing Israeli government is not anti-Semitism , to be anti-Israeli government policy in the West Bank is not anti-Semitism . The Palestinians were welcoming to Jewish refugees in the 1940's , that changed post 1948 when the state of Israel was formed and the indigenous population the Arabs/Christians were forcibly moved from their land/farms /houses /villages into surrounding countries and into Gaza and when they were gone the villages were bulldozed into the ground so they could not return .
The narrative /history that is told in America is that after the State of Israel was formed the surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel and that's true but what they fail to tell you is that there was an invasion of Palestine in 1948 backed by the UN and USA and the UK .The land was gifted to the Jewish people post the holocaust but it was something that was agreed back in the 1920's , the British basically gave the land to the Zionists to stop a guerilla war that was going on in Palestine .They gifted lands that didn't belong to them and without consultation with the local population .
So we are where we are , the settlements in the West Bank are still expanding , local Arabs are still losing land to settlers , Palestinian children are still being arrested and sent to prison, over a thousand underaged children are in prison , 26 children were shot dead by heavily armed militant settlers this year alone in the West Bank , regularly children throwing stones are shot dead with live ammunition by IDF snipers.
As I said I understand the why Jewish people are on high alert and they should be , but critizing Israeli policy is not anti-Semitic , I read Israeli newspapers , Harretz is very moderate newspaper , they say for example that they have evidence that Netanyahu's government was supporting HAMAS in order to undermine the moderate Palestinian Authority ,as I said it's complicated !
Bottom line is the ordinary Palestinians that live in Gaza did nothing to any Israeli , most of them still hold the legal deeds to property they lost post 1948, handed down from father to son .I don't know what the solution is , the last Israeli prime Minister to try for a Two State solution, Yitzhak Rabin( a good man), was murdered by Israeli settlers.
The Palestinians deserve a state of their own , if they got that I think the whole world would breath a sigh of relief , a safe Israel and a solution for the children of Gaza and the future children of Israel.
I think you are right ,what matters is that we do the right thing in the end , Please, a homeland for the unfortunate Palestinian people , so we can all sleep well at night , wouldn't it be great a safe and prosperous Israel and a safe and prosperous Palestine , a movie with a happy ending at last !
I know it's a difficult subject for anyone , keep up the great work you do.
Fantastic comment. if he had mentioned any of what you just said in this video, i'd have a lot of respect for him. but he focuses way too much on apparent "antisemitism" (which im sure is a real issue, but not even relevant to the situation of israel and palestine), there is clear and true islamaphobia and war crimes being commited against Palestine every day
Thank you , It is a very difficult subject to cover properly , I think Van was really talking about the Jewish people he knows and how that really doesn't fit with what we are hearing from Gaza, their culture of forgiveness and not being judgmental, the whole situation is heartbreaking. @@hamthehottie
Right, Antisemitism isn’t relevant at all when in Hamas’s Manifesto it is written that their goal is to exterminate all Jews.
The Palestinians were offered a homeland. Many times. Reject it each time. They don’t want a homeland. They want the whole of Israel “from the river to the sea” clean of Jews. Where do we go from here?
If the middle east became peaceful. Then where will western countries sell their weapons?
Supporting the people of Palestine is not antisemitism, supporting a far right zionist government is not Jewish.
Please, what did happen on october 7th has nothing, nothing to do with "supporting people of palestne". It was the pure evil, pure antisemitism. People all over thew orld, ALLL OVER THE WORLD, no condem Jews (!!!) for what happende. Some already got killed, some are not even safe in their own homes (here in germay, people broke into someonews Home for hanging a israel flag on their balkony - what the f.. is going on?!).
So next time, you write stuff like this, think about the history of antisemitism, think about the jewish people, born in europe, russia, all over america, how are blamed for everything that happens between israel and arabs, and how deeply connected the wish for jewish independece, for safety is with anti-jewish-hatred coverd as "anti-zionism".
I really thought Van would have a more nuanced opinion on such a longstanding and bloody conflict
Can we get something straight so your critiquing a right wing government of a country that you are not apart of which was voted in democratically which most jews in israel voted for.. yes supporting it is very much Jewish as a jew its jewish to want your nation to prosper
@@vin2620 Why? He's Jewish so of course he's going to pull out the victim card.
Supporting the people that are behind the attacks in Oct and claiming to not being anti-Semitic. You sleep at night using that logic.
I have been absolutely loving your videos but this take was pretty thin. I know you feel strongly about Judaism -- but this is not about Jews, it's about an apartheid state. I suggest you learn more about the history of Israel and the displacement of Palestinians. This conflict didn't start this month. Furthermore, your statement about David and Goliath made me cringe, hard. Israel literally receives billions of dollars of aid every year from the U.S. If that isn't Goliath, I'm not sure what is.
Edit: ***military aid*** if there was confusion lol
Amen
your take is thin..
Alright bro, if Israel is an apartheid state why is there an Arab Supreme Court justice and why do the 2 million Arab Israelis have equal rights (and even affirmative action) compared to jews?
To your second point about displacement of Palestinians, this stuff has and does happen all the time. With the turks kicking out the Greeks in the 40s, the Arabs kicking out their jews after Israel became independent. (this doesn't make it OK, I'm using this to show that displacement isn't unique to Palestinians)
And lastly, if Israel was on a level playing field with Hamas or hezbollah, do you think that any country would accept being surrounded by such existential threats that actively and vocally express the will to eliminate that country?
A thing to consider is why and where Israel was created in the first place. It was a manipulative move from the West. By your logic, because there was previous displacement, its cool now? Wouldn't previous displacement be a great reason NOT to create a new state in the region? Claims to an ancestral homeland are not sufficient enough to ignore the political context of a region.
The issue here is that Israel refuses to come to terms with the fact that the nation was founded on a brutal genocide of Palestinians. Point blank, that is a fact. @@boatfloat1412
Big brain comment. Impossible that this guy doesn't understand this and doesn't know what he's doing which makes this video all the more disgusting.
Love and blessings!
Small correction: Schindler's factory was in Kraków, not Warsaw. The building is still there and has an amazing permanent exhibition on WWII.
The intro of this video so badly portrays the conversation and protests happening around the world in defense of Palestine and it's majority non-antisemitic (not to mention child) population. I hope you read the comments here and talk to with more people outside your circle about what's happening in the world. It's possible to condemn the act of terrorism and also condemn the acts of genocide the Israeli government has been carrying out against Palestinians.
He's living in a echo-chamber
He's reffering to the images of 'Pro-Palestianian rallys' at the Sydney opera house chanting "Gas The Jews". These are pro hamas antisemtic rallys. Not to be confused with Pro-Palestianian rallys - however they do look alike visually and context would've been good to distinguish.
Hey Chris. Please, if you have no idea what you're talking about, and you just want to virtue signal, pick another population, e.g. Chinese vs the Uighurs and talk about that topic out of your own incredible ignorance and blindness.
I believe this will be among the last videos of his I will watch. I’m interested to see if he responds to any criticism, but I have a feeling that is unlikely to occur
He won’t realize it because his generation is mostly brainwashed. They all believed in covid propaganda and they believe in the antisemitism propaganda.
Saying "people in Australia are rallying against jews" whilst showing people waving Palestinian flags just hurts man.
Palestinians are humans and their children are being murdered every day aswel...
And people can also be anti-zionsts without being an anti-semite. Isreal shouldn't be equal to the jewish belief. Nor should jewish people want that.
Isreal is an apartheid state which colonizes large parts on the West Bank and their leaders are conservative nationalists who suppress the Palestinians
Still interested in hearing a response from the comments we (your fans) have made on this video.
Dear Van, this was an interesting watch. I understand wholly that people can be good and that people can be bad. I understand and have witnessed true generosity, spiritually and the generosity of creativity, and have seen documented the horrors of war through creativity. Jake and Dinos Chapman, Goya, Peter Howson and Picasso help frame that particular horror in a manner that burns the retina for tomorrow. I understand that America has a particular relationship with Israel, after all its where a lot of Nazi's fled too - technically they were invited - a land that was receptive to that particular ideology. When you're speaking of spirit and resilience, when you illicit the feeling and the story of Schindler, and especially when you state towards the end of the video that Israel is our "Wests" safe hub in that region, it almost sounds like you are dismissing the evil that is taking place to others, who just happen to not be Jews. It is perhaps symptomatic that people seem to think, today, that as long as Israel do what they want, without recourse, then it is a job well done. When you build up a country and never hold them to account then what does the future hold, are you saying that killing innocents is worth it because the return will be greater. The roll call of Nobel prize winners will be greater, etc?
Why are Israeli's vociferous in their appeal to stop the bombing and wonton destruction of gazans? Perhaps the average Israeli understands that the thing Spielberg retold in the List is what people need to stand up to irrespective of who the purveyor of such misery was/is. That wrong, is wrong, irrespective of what the past held.
Apologies, but this is what is missing from the discussion about this place called Israel and Palestine. Its not a convenience store.
Thank you for articulating my thoughts for me. Beautifully said.
What Nazis fled to Israel? The only death penalty israel ever issued was to a Nazi.
As an Israeli I can tell you why we don’t want a ceasefire. Because every person has a friend or a family member who has been killed in the most heinous way imaginable or knows someone who has been kidnapped. And the people responsible are still out there and are committed to the death of every Jewish person on the planet. Why should Israel ceasefire if Hamas broke the last ceasefire once they built the stockpile to kill more people? Why should israel ceasefire if our children are still in Gaza?
@@TheCrazydude56 Hi, it would be beneficial to factcheck yourself before lecturing others on this platform. Oslo Accords were a failure mostly because the prime minister of Israel (Yitzhak Rabin) was assassinated by an Israeli ultranationalist, opposed to the peace initiative originally.
@@TheCrazydude56 your awareness is lacking and steeped in personal bias. The idea that you can use logic and rationale to justify and rationalise ethnically cleansing a group of people from an area is such dangerous territory and frankly sad and pathetic to see a Jewish person fall for it. To hold a group of people TODAY collectively responsible for the actions from hundreds of years ago of countries around them is frankly EVIL. By that logic every black person in america should be allowed to torture and maim and kill white people today coz their ancestors engaged in slave trading. Think about your logic. You are trading human life and actual horrifying stuff over "um actually they drove us out hundreds of years ago so I guess 17 year olds today can die as collateral damage". Kindly remember that the need for a Jewish state only arose because of what the European caucasian population did to y'all much more recently than what the Arabs did to you. Hmmmm so your logic of someone did something to me ages ago is only applicable to Arabs it seems and not to Julien living in Germany in an area that probably lot of Jewish people were only recently driven out of. Hmmm interesting.
Well said.
I still don't understand how or why intelligent people can conflate: people against an apartheid state with people who are legitimately anti-semitic.
I haven't felt this rampant lack of nuance since post-9/11. Smh.
Apartheid? Why u lie like ? Eo u even know what are u saying ?
the lack of nuance is running rampant on both sides. Both Israelis and Palestinians have a right to exist in peace, and both have a right to not be attacked and slaughtered. the correct response to this is to push for peace, not continue to spread hate
@@po5631 dawg have you never followed this conflict
@@benfelpsI'd argue the "push for peace" angle is the least nuanced of all, because yeah, duh. Of course peace. The issue is: how? The root causes of the conflict are not merely a fundamental disagreement on whether "peace" is desirable. It is a pretty position, but ultimately not a very helpful or informative one. We can't kumbaya our way out of a colonialist apartheid state.
@@chronicfishpls enlighten me. So are u saying arabs can’t vote in Israel? Are u saying arab-israelis do ko have the same roghts as Jews israelis ?
Ironically the irish blood would be on side of palestine
This video has aged badly. Suprised its still up.
Van, the rallies were for a free palestine which any humane and moral person should support. Of course the rallies inckuded some pockets of anti semitism the same way any large gathering will brong together all kinds of people with all kinds of views. I was at the protest in London and there were lots of Jews standing in solidarity with their muslim friends for a free palestine.
Anti semitism exists and i am not denying that but dont just disregard some of the largest protests the UK has seen because of a minority of bigots. The world is waking up to what Israel is and how it conducts itself
"The world is waking up to what Israel is and how it conducts itself" so tell me, what is it?
Arabic is taught to ALL students, as well as common history, every citizen has the SAME rights. Israel was formed by jewish people to protect them self from 4000years of pogroms, hate, annihilation and from the HOLOCAUST. So when the formed a state, this was BECAUSE NO OTHER STATE OR PEOPLE WHAT PROTECT THEM. Now, TODAY, arabs, muslims and christians live along side jews in israel, making the best they can. That the Palestinians live such a sad live is not only to blame to the people (arabs and jews!) how funded the state, but to ALLE ARAB NATIONS WHO HATED JEWS SO MUCH THAT THEY WAGED SEVERAL WARS ON THE NEWBORN STATE INSTAT OF CHOOSING A DIPLOMATIC WAY and first and foremost make sure that the then called Palestinian arabs could live a normal live
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well, how about waking up to what Hamas is?
Im a Jew myself, and Im quite fed up of this kind of tropes like "jews did so much good for the world" that I hear in the mouth of my own parents. Essentisalism wether postive or negative remain essentialism which at its core is a form of racism. This is just reproducing the same BS that lead to the Shoah in the first place, except this time we put ourselves on top of the pyramid. As a Jew, my parents put a strong emphasis on fighting racism, facism and nationalism. With the recent increase of violence in Israel, I came to realize that what they wanted to teach me in that only antisemitism is not ok. Other forms of racism get a green light. Jews are not amazing people in of themselve, good people make good things because they are good people, period. No to all essentialism, no to all racism, no to all supremacism.
Yes, this is precisely what I thought while watching this. The problem is the grouping of the Jews into a specific homogenic category. If you can say all Jews are good just because they are Jewish, you have a problem. This is because it can be turned around quickly if some Jews do something terrible. Jews are people just like the rest of us. There are good Jews, and there are bad Jews, just like there are good Christians and bad Christians.
What is a Jew
Your parents are wrong.
The Shoa didn’t happened because Of Jews being successful.
It happened because it was easy to blame them in the problems of Europe at that time.
Hittler blamed them for the bad economy in Germany.
The Franch blamed Drifus for spying in fevor of Germany.
In Russia they were blamed for trying to make a coup.
Jews were an easy target.
And some of the Jews were very successful so it made it easier.
Fact is, Jews were hated just because their Jews and this still happing in 2023.
Jews are hated for having a country. A democratic state surrounded but hostile countries that host terror organizations.
This is facts, not opinions.
Your right about essentialism, but that’s not the reason for a antisemitism.
Agreed. I feel like it's the equivalence of saying you shouldn't hate black people cause they made basketball better, Cadillacs cooler, and brought us hip-hop. Like well-intended but still extremely ignorant.
@@mediamfilmIt's not always well-intended (that's called supremacism). Although I understand that when people talk about other people, it can be and I don't contest the sincerity. But I think there is several issues:
-It traps the ethnicity/religion/gender in a role they might not want as individuals
-It makes some of the individuals feel inadequate if they cannot/do not want to conform to the stereotype
-It allows people to take some of the credit for things they have never contributed to
-By definition, it makes other ethnicity/religion/gender/nationality less good by comparison. Importantly, it is often used by politicians as a racist dog whistle to implicitly say that another category of the population is not behaving good enough. This is often done in France by the far right, by pointing out that Jews are well-integrated, what they are really trying to imply is that Muslims are not. It's the classic tactic of spreading discord amongst minorities so that their common interests can never be defended. And it works...
I'm glad you made this video - I'm a Muslim who is deeply disappointed by the rise in anti-Semitism. It's deeply troubling how persistent it's been throughout history and I pray for a world without it. But I also think you NEED to be critical of Israel right now.
After the October 7th attacks, I had a friend message me "Dude from an optics perspective this is going to crush the Palestinian movement."
To that I say: aren't you worried that Israel's response will permanently damage the Jewish reputation?
Thoughts on the massacre happening in Rafa right now? Why so one-sided buddy?
I've been subscribed since the early days of this channel and am a genuine fan of your content and how you look at the world. I would even be willing to excuse this video based on its timing. But for you to have to not responded and clarified any of the misinformation in this video is really dissaointing to me. To be clear my grandfather is Jewish and I absolutely discredit anyone who is antisemitic in anyway. I'm also indigenous, Anishinaabe to be exact. Being anti Israeli one party system does not make you anti semetic it makes you anti colonialism. I really ask that you take the time to make a response and discuss how the last six months has changed your viewpoint because lets be honest about what we've all seen unfold in Palestine. because for the indigenous community it feels all a little to familiar to the acts of western governments over the last 200 years. It's genocide both cultural and physical. the weaponization of food the total destruction of land in an effort to destroy the lives of innocent civilians. We've seen that before. The forced evacuation of Palestinians who are forced to either leave or face certain death. We've seen that before. And even worse the many who are unable to evacuate and are trapped in a warzone because the Israeli government , their ally's Canada and America, and the bordering countries will not provide them safety. Thats not a just act of war and you being as intelligent as so many of us have come to know you to be know that. It's genocide. I. want to believe that you are capable of seeing that but each month month I've waited for a response has made it harder to support the content I love. For now at least I will be unsubscribing. To be even clearer. It's not because you support Jewish people I strongly believe that no Jewish person should be targeted or treated negatively because of their race religion or familial history. But to say that Zionists should not be critiqued and questioned for acts of genocide is just fundamentally going against the same beliefs of treating people with the respect they deserve.
Same here. I was subscribed to Casey… he announced the first video. And I was hooked. I still recommend The Fourth Turning to folks, but I no longer attach the video.
I came back today to see if he’d evolved at all, and I too just shake my head. This “topic” has been freaking wild to live through.
Every time the war machine starts rumbling, I assume everyone remembers that we didn’t like this. Last war was bad… the one before was bad. But the new one! Oh, this one is just. This country is sick and Israel is sicker.
I will never understand those who support the powerful annihilating the powerless. Truly sick.
I was genetically gifted with well above average size and strength. My parents instilled in me that as the bigger human, I should never punch down and to protect those in need. They support the genocide. Glad to see I’m not the only one taking crazy pills.
And to Van… you’ve got a stain on your soul that you’re going to need make a video on how to clean.
Peace and love.
cringe and completely disregarding the true meaning of the worldwide call to action for the defense of Palestine and its people. You’re cheerleading for the Jewish people but failed to mention the horrendous war crimes being committed by Israel. Not saying Israel and Jewish people are tied together but this video lacks the perspective of the entire picture. Can’t really say I expected better of you though.
Anti-Semitism is a horrible blight. Anti-Colonialism is humane. Empathizing with the suffering is humane. Partisan discrimination of care is a self-inflicted wound. The children of Israel and Palestine require more than this impassioned partisanship for either to enjoy the enduring peace, justice, and bounty that are their birthright, Van. I see in you depths of feeling and care that would be laudable, were it not... reserved.
" Anti-Colonialism is humane." this has absolutly nothing to do with israel? What colony? The situation there is much more complicated than this very stupid and lazy " Anti-Colonialism" take. Please, just think a little bit about the meaning of this words....
"Settler" has been a prominent feature of Israeli political vocabulary for DECADES. This entire conflict is directly, inextricably rooted in the colonization of Palestine by the Jewish diaspora following the Holocaust.
Denial of our commonly understood circumstance, history, and recourse to belligerence, casting the other as defective, less, has already featured far too prominently in this long tragedy. Jews have famously suffered the social violence of Holocaust denial; it is good that hateful indulgence is now stigmatized, given hostile reception. Any, such as yourself, sympathetic to the Jewish people should clearly see the great wrong in denying harm and history. Moreover, denial does the cause of Israel harm, as predicating support on revision of history- all the way up to the present -robs the speaker's voice of integrity and moral authority. We all need better than that, don't you think?
@@philschn5990 Israel is a country based on the forced displacement and dispossession of Arabs. Please read up on the Nakba, you will realize why anti-Zionists refer to Israel as a settler colonial state. Being anti-Zionist is being anti-colonial.
that was a beautiful closing sentence
A month later and I wonder if he still feels like this is all about hating jews...
My mothers side of the family is Jewish and we as a family aren’t really in Jewish traditions because of our whole family line on that side has been murdered in the Second World War. I’ve been watching the terror in Israel for all my life ever since I can really remember watching the news on television. I absolutely hate the people that attacked on the 7th. BUT I also hate the fact that the people in Gaza are basically treated the same way. How can we use the holocaust as an example and let the Israel government do that to the Palestinians. I understand your viewpoints but don’t say protests against bombing innocent people is antisemitism. That is low! ❤
Big brain comment. Impossible that this guy doesn't understand this and doesn't know what he's doing which makes this video all the more disgusting.
Love and blessings!
Well said!
Amazing comment, this the type of stuff he should have mentioned in this tone deaf video. Saying you want to Free Gaza
based!
that’s not what he’s talking about. there were protests on the same day of the attacks and people yelling gas the jews. those weren’t anti war pro peace protests.
Excellent vid bro
13:05 Little side-note for the Schindler's List - the place of action is Cracow (Kraków) not Warsaw. :)
I've never thought about Spielbergs decision of the main character and your explanation of this brought me to tears. I am not Jewish or Muslim but my heart broke on the 7th but then was broken again over and over floor Palestine the days following, I don't know what the solution is. People especially a small group a minority will always seek to protect their soul as a people and worry annihilation but unfortunately this FEAR is more dangerous than any virus or weapon this FEAR is the blinder to our humanity
thank you for this
hate is the problem. When a state hates another, the cycle will continue until one loves. and the other realizes. Do not make the mistake of hiding behind the veil of hate which is coated with grief.
Oh god
Thank you for this video
Thank you for making this
One sided compassion will not bring an end to this conflict. To truly fight one injustice, such as antisemitism, one must fight all injustice. You have so much compassion and feeling in this video, I can't believe it extends only towards one group of people. Don't forget the children of Palestine, Van.
Well said!
The entire world isn't tuning on Muslims. They have 2 billion people and 50 countries. He's defending Jews because this happened before and it's happening again and they're in danger like no other. If anything this has proven why Jews need their own country.
another woke idiot who cant understand because theyre too woke.
@@lif0it's happening again but to Palestinians this time. Please please please open your eyes.
@@lc360 That is an all lives matter argument. Marches for Palestine could have happened months ago or months later but they're happening immediately after one of the worst atrocities directed at Jews. Why do you think the timing was so poor? It's because of anti-Semitism and it's not even up for debate. My child's school has to have police at the entrance every single day from now on because she's Jewish. Jews all over the world are under attack. They didn't even have time to mourn before people started sticking Palestinian flags in their faces. There's a time and a place for everything and the timing of the pro Palestine marches was poor. The world sticks up for Muslims at a drop of a hat and condemn all Jews no matter the timing. This is why Van made this video. Jews should have had time to mourn and process what's happening to them.
Thanks for sharing part of your story with us.
I’m from the Middle East, and I want to share something that I hope will add some sense to the news you are hearing about antisemitism.
1. Arabs do not hate Jews, their problem is with Zionism
2. Schindler’s list was heart aching for me as well, and it’s unbelievable to see it happening again to another group of people right in front of us.
Didn't the Quaran say somewhere that Allah turned Jews into Apes?
facts man, how are people still blind to the occupation and war crimes against palestinians
So in other words, Arabs don’t hate Jews but they hate Jews who think they have a right to self-determination?
LOL. Zionism is the single idea that the JEWS belong to this land!!!!!! open a history book man.
not all Arabs dont know history and uneducated like you.
Hi Yousef, I'm from the Middle East and I want to share something:
1. Muslims and Arabs hate Jews for religious reasons and also political reasons - Jews disrupted the dream of a pan-Arabic state in the Middle East, as well as the Muslim dream of all-Muslim world.
2. To pretend that Palestinian Arabs are going through a genocide is exactly the type of hyperbole that may catch ignoramuses, but to anyone familiar with the facts, it immediately signals you are simply lying (immense Arab population growth from 1948 to today).
Thank you Van.
being pro-Palestinian isn’t being anti-Semitic. asking for a ceasefire is not anti-Semitic. being against the murder of innocent people by the Israeli government is NOT anti-Semitic.
criticism of Israel is not criticism of all jewish people
At the same time a lot of 'criticism' of Israel IS actual hate of the Jewish people. So many people just hide their hate behind this idea its disgustingly deceptive.
"From the river to the sea they" chant......you know what it means?
They either don't or they lie. People were openly chanting 'Gas the Jews' at a mass pro-palestine protest in Sidney, and yet they still dare to say that this is not about simply being a Jew. Useful idiots and anti-semites go hand in hand.@@ThePhilbox
Big brain comment. Impossible that this guy doesn't understand this and doesn't know what he's doing which makes this video all the more disgusting.
Love and blessings!
And criticism of all 23 Islamic states is not criticism of all Muslim people
Thank you
Thank you!
The history I've learned about jewish experience in Portugal (where I come from), shows that my surname is of jewish family descent. Further I found that this 'family' name was prosecuted and so many/most left the country, in order to proceed life in the Netherlands (17th century).
Raised in catholic family, religion grew to be irrelevant in my existance. Along life I have had the opportunity to connect to other people in many places of this planet, being whatever origins, genotypes, fenotypes, religous or cultural identities. I care about nature, including animals and humans. We are more than passports, languages or any human inventions.
I have danced, talked, cried, argued, worked, with russians, ukranians, israeli, jews and palestianians.
Today I can only cry. For the 7th, and all days before, and all days after. Our energy, our attention, our clicks, our human existence/power is being sucked into eternal dicotomies that serve no purpose other than destruction. If I call on ceasefire anywhere in the world, it doesn't make me anti-someone. Ignorance lives well, and many online discussion touch only the surface of the challenges faced. Politicians and very ill people (with political power) manipulate masses, tagging religion to agendas.
Van, I admire your work, your story, your history, your perception.
Van, I admire humans and their beauty regardeless.
I have met people that live inspired by their feeling and interpretations of a given religion, doing 'good' and impacting theirs and others peoples life, regardless.
Hardly any life can be taken with a human logic. Or, I don't understand what human is.
"There are 2 kinds of people in the world; those who divide the world in two...and those who don't" .... I use humor to escape pain, and sometimes I just want to be with those who don't.
The way you framed this is plainly dishonest
Israel's military actions have disproportionately affected civilians, including children (more than 3000 children and women have been killed in the past week only ) you didt even mention that ! this is not against jews and has nothing to do with anti-semtism . It's crucial to approach this topic with sensitivity and to consider multiple perspectives and sources of information to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the complex and deeply rooted issues involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Zionism / occupation is the real issue . In some Muslim-majority countries, Jews and Muslims lived together relatively peacefully for centuries, sharing common languages and cultures.
Israel goes above and beyond to avoid and minimize civilian casualties. Hamas uses civilians as human shields and have no regard for life, and they especially target civilians as we've seen. Civilians will die as in all wars, and that is very sad. But what can Israel do, not attack Hamas because they are shielded by civilians? Let themselves be exterminated just to avoid some civilian casualties? Are the lives of some civilians worth more than the others?
Just think about it, letting Hamas exist will always lead to more civilian casualties, no matter what. If they manage to exterminate the Jews and end Israel as a state, who do you think is next? They won't stop at Israel, these are blood thirsty monsters. They need to be stopped at all costs to avoid greater loss of life.
@@DavidS11 "Israel goes above and beyond to avoid and minimize civilian casualties" - clearly this is not true- the point of saying so is only to declare how you've limited your perspective. You have only offered us partisan excuses for murdering children. The options are not "drops bombs on the densest city in the world" or "do nothing". Israeli's have been party to building this crisis over many decades now- pretending that a solution is to be had in indiscriminate violence is every bit as dishonest as Hamas.
@@DavidS11 hamas cannot exterminate the Jews from inside their concentration camp. Israel is currently exterminating the Palestinians. That’s the difference. But you knew that already
@@HUDZHERRELL Firstly, their conditions are what they are because of Hamas and there was no security fence until Hamas got elected and secondly, you see what happens when they breach the barrier, they prove that they can kill a whole lot of Jews outside of Gaza. That’s why the fence exists. Ask Egypt why their’s does.
Could you point to Muslim majority countries that tolerate Jews? All of the Jews were ethnically cleansed from the arab countries. They’re all in Israel…
Van, thank you from the bottom of my Jewish soul for making this video. Your upbringing and soul allow you to clearly perceive the existential crisis that Israel and Jews around the world are facing today. Which, unfortunately, many folks in the comments do not recognize or refuse to.
To my fellow commenters: One cannot separate a Jew from the land of Israel. They are intrinsically intertwined. One cannot separate anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism. And no, criticizing the Israeli government is not anti-Semitic, but neither is it anti-Zionist. Most of the population of Israel is critical of the Israeli government - does that make them anti-Zionist? Calling for the dismantling of a democratic country and society that is the homeland of Jews, however, is both anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic.
And no, recognizing the humanity of Palestinians is not anti-Semitic, just as recognizing the humanity of Israelis and Jews is not anti-Palestinian. We can hold two truths at once. However, blaming all Gazan suffering on Israel and absolving Hamas and Palestinians of any responsibility for their actions and ideologies is scapegoating and anti-Semitic. Finally, engaging in a war does not equate engaging in a genocide just because you say it does.
Again, thank you Van for your courage, clarity, and for being a righteous gentile with a Jewish soul 🇮🇱💙🙏 Am Yisrael Chai
Beautifully said.
my issue with your and casey’s videos is where is this energy for the people facing the same tragedy on the other side of the conflict. from my perspective it seems like you’re selective on who to make an outcry for and which people to celebrate
what you need to remember is that this conflict is two separate but related tragedies. The violence against Jews needs to be addressed separately from the present conflict to really understand it. It doesn’t justify the actions of the jewish state in response, and neither of them are trying to do that. We can walk and chew gum at the same time
Exactly. Those are fully one side views. I dont like it.
Really though to watch as I usually love their videos and takes on things. This just seems so out of touch with reality.
Van, I connect with your videos and messages. In essence, and just like you express, your heart. This video and its message are an oversimplification of a very complicated war. Yes, there is no place for antisemitism. Yes, Jews have birthed so many gifts into this world and have made wonderous contributions. Does this mean we should blindly support Israel’s government and the decades of violence perpetrated on the innocent people of Palestine? Hamas should be eliminated, but at what cost? What is a proportionate response to the “actual” brutality, and are we able to weigh it all against the history of violence between these two? Israel is actively committing war crimes and killing innocent people! How someone who understands Judaism and does not call for peace and an immediate cease fire is a head scratcher.
Israel has a long history of oppressing the Palestinian people. Historically, things like this do come to a head. One might even opine that Israel was counting on this attack, and I’ll go one step further, knew about it. What we are seeing now is the greenlighting and misrepresentation of this conflict’s history by only telling one side and allowing the Israeli government to finally eliminate the state of Palestine - a cleansing if you will. Your video sadly only serves to promote sympathy for one side without telling the whole story. Perhaps you could use your voice for peace. We need more of it today more than ever.
What’s happening now in history is no different then how the “side” of Germany’s story has been completely buried or removed from the history books. Nothing is as it seems or as we were told. There’s a reason why we still get non stop propaganda movies about WW2. They don’t make these movies because they are showing what happened they make these movies to indoctrinate people to believe what they say happened.
The amount of Topanga Canyon entitlement in this video. 🙄 Nothing "spirited" about demoralizing one group of people for another.
Thank you 💙🤍
While it is worrying what we see from some political sectors, I still believe good people can see through it all and are able to tell good from bad. Most of good people will avoid trouble and are remaining silent. But if we were to reach a point where the anti-Semitism gets really out of hand, good people won't look the other way. They will stand against evil. I am confident of that.
I would like to believe that but the problem is people form they opinions without a second thought. "Is my political party (team) thinking this way? Yes? Then so am I. Unapologetically." I don't support the death of civilians or soldiers honestly but these machines are so massive and complex all you can do is hope it reaches peace as quickly as possible. Israel/Palestine is so convoluted and people like to claim it's simple but it's really hard to unpack. There are already real antisemites trickling into the pro Palestine movement and it's a little alarming and they are being accepted, again, without a second thought.
I love your videos Van, I’m 26, I must say you are the father I wish I will become one day… I think you have a beautiful heart and I truly know you say things because you believe them. I too have lots of Jewish people I admire, Safdies and Grey Gersten are some you know personally. The first film director I ever knew about was also Steven Spielberg.
My family comes from the Netherlands and during the war they hid a Jewish woman underneath their floors. My great grandfather’s brother was imprisoned by the gestapo for this and luckily escaped a prisoners camp.
I know Schindler was compassionate to the Jewish people that worked for him because he saw himself in them, he was able to understand we are all human and that no one should be killed for ideological reasons. No little girl in red should be killed.
I wanted to say that I feel its dangerous to miss in this video that not only the people in Israel are suffering, but that the people in Gaza are suffering too, truly in greater quantities than we can ever imagine. Death toll has reached 8000 people. (But its not a matter of comparison)
Just as the Jewish during WWII, the Palestinians are being killed for ideological reasons. This ideology is called Zionism. If we want to be as compassionate as Schindler we would also have empathy for the people of Gaza. No little girl in red living in Gaza should be killed, just as no little girl in Israel should be killed either.
Van, from the Jewish people you know you have learnt anyone who supports war is just evil, anyone who tries to impose their ideology over others is evil. Love is the only thing that can heal and unite us.
It is truly painful to see that the west (US) is just financing more and more violence, just like putting more logs into the fire. I was raised in El Salvador, a country that suffered a war in the 80s financed by the United States and Soviet Union, more than 65,000 people died because of ideologies they probably didn’t even understand. I hope you understand your responsibility as a figure that many young spirited men admire… just like I do admire you, please continue to give love to everyone equally…
Marvin Gaye said “War is not the answer, Only love can conquer hate” and I’m sure you agree…
Such a well written comment. I really wish his video touched on things of this nature, because ignoring the Palestinian's plight and pretending like there isn't generational oppression is not solving anything. This whole video is kind of a mess and missed the point imo, but reading comments has given me faith in people
Where in the Zionism ideology does it say that their goal is to kill Palestinians? Hamas is the one responsible for the deaths of civilians, as it is against international law to deliberately put military resources near civilians and disguising fighters as civilians are both violations of the laws of war.
Thankyou for sharing Van, a moving message that I think needs to be out there in the world.
Keep up your work, I'm inspired by your journey, your craft and your passion.
Such a shame when people can’t look beyond themselves when analysing an issue. If you wanted to use your identity as a precursor, the Irish are extremely supportive of the Palestinian plight. As are Jews all over the world. As is pretty evident from this comment section alone. You’re so well read. Why did you stop reading when it comes to this issue?
when an echo chamber wakes up decides to make a video.
An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind.
Israel does not go eye for an eye, it is trying to get the 200 who got kidnapped back home safely.
simple and true. I used to reel at 9/11, now I see it as one of the thousands of wars that have happened since the beginning of time. It might seem simplistic, but War is a never-ending cycle of retaliation and taking for the position of world power.
Bro this is such a bad take on the situation
he just can't help himself.
Make a lovingly crafted video about the Palestinian spirit
The world needs more LOVE ❤ and less hate.
The Israeli government does not represent all Jewish people and they have done some really awful stuff recently and have been for awhile. Palestine needs support as they are being crushed by a giant fist
The way you ended this video brought instant tears to my eyes. Thank you. ❤
Same here, immediately burst into tears
Van, you are a beautiful person. I am a British citizen living in England, though I was born in Poland. My parents met by chance in Gdynia, a town in the north of Poland, and moved to a working-class town in Northeast England near Durham. We didn't have much growing up, but my house was full of love, fun, and debates. I was often subject to racist comments in school due to being an Eastern European child in an unfamiliar place.
However, I have been blessed with the ability to never judge people based on their background or ethnicity. Despite growing up in a northern working-class town in the UK, I never judged anyone based on their beliefs, ethnicity, colour, or creed. I owe this to my parents' love and open-mindedness, which was a result of their coming from two different worlds and raising me. I am now 46 years old and have achieved success, as a wedding photographer () 1000 wedding deep !) marrying a wonderful woman with no so different values from my own. She is a middle-class girl who was raised as a Quaker and is the least judgmental person I know. We have two sons who are gloriously curious about everything.
Van, your videos have been a source of solace and inspiration for me as a wedding photographer in the northeast of the UK. I often find it hard to connect with people, but I resonate with you and your message, and I'm sure many men across the world do too. You reminded me of the importance of being a good husband and father, and inquisitive person for that, I thank you. My wife bought me a "Die trying" shirt for my birthday, and I wear it often as a reminder to keep striving to improve myself.
Thank you for making a difference to me, Van. You are a great person, and your videos mean a lot. All the best, Sean.
As a long time enjoyer of your videos, I really agree with others here in the comments that you've missed the mark on this one. I too have many close friends who are Jewish and those friends are largely pro Palestine. Even the word anti semite here is technically incorrect as both Jews and Palestinians are technically "semites".
My friends going to these protests do not hate jews, I wrote emails to my representative for a ceasefire. I don't hate jews. I don't hate Palestinians either. I hate needless violence. I feel like others here in the comments have said it better, but I wanted to contribute too because I feel like it's important to hear the same thing from a myriad of folks to give it credibility.
as a long time supporter it’s very important. i read your message and really hope Van does too as he’s displayed a terrible and dangerous disregard of history
dude, love your's and casie's stuff, but why you both didn't mention a single thing about palestinian civilians being bombed, you both made a nothing-statements
cause Van is a zionist shill doing propaganda.
Big brain comment. Impossible that this guy doesn't understand this and doesn't know what he's doing which makes this video all the more disgusting.
At least Casey's video had immediacy on his side, this one is uploaded after 2 weeks of bombings and almost 10k casualties on the Palestinian side, and not one mention.
@@billypilgrim1 That's why this one hurts even more. These guys were my role models.
@@midnightoil4339 he can still be your rolemodel, nobody is perfect. Van is clearly someone who is lead a lot by his raw emotions, and that's fine. Maybe he will see the comments and that gets him to reflect on what's happening.
Thank you.
I’m a Christian and I don’t like violence so I pray for peace. Peace for both sides and the end of suffering on both sides for so many innocent people.
I don't even have any words to comment on this one Van but I'm really glad that you made it.
My Man, I have so much respect for you. I love you and your art, your videos, and as a human being.
This is a defensive video.
You just need to get this: People are rallying against violence. Nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
Equating rallying against violence with anti-Semitism is an insult to my intelligence.
"defensive" implies an offender.
Rallying against violence? The same people that said nothing after the 7/10 massacre? Maybe some people are. Too many are not. They’re rallying against jews.
It implies that someone felt offended by something and that’s in this case the rallies.
Shouting "from the river to the see" and many other chants are literally calls for jenocide.
People tearing down posters of kidnapped children, calling it propoganda. This has gone way further than just ralleys for peace weather you like it or not, when Jewish people need to take down their mezuzahs and kids are afraid to go to school.
People twisting history and spreading misinformation in social networks are to blame for all the acts of violence against Jews you can see now around the world.
No, these sudden (read: preplanned) "ceasefire" rallies are anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. If you refuse to see or understand that, then you are part of the problem.
rallying against zionism is not rallying against jews.
Hi Van, I really like you and respect your take but you are excluding an important piece of this complicated puzzle. What Israel has been doing in Palestine, to the Palestinians, is not nice to say the least. Benjamin Netanyahu is not a benevolent figure. Check what Gabor Mate or Norman Finkelstein, who are jews, say on the matter. I hope peace can eventually win and we can all be friends. Take care!
Big brain comment. Impossible that this guy doesn't understand this and doesn't know what he's doing which makes this video all the more disgusting.
they'll never acknowledge that this conflict started with THEIR invasion and genocide, and of course they play the victims. this is the story of the jews for a thousand years.
Van the simple reality is humans are violently envious creatures and always attack upwards. Jews have faced more hardship historically than any group of people yet they succeed despite the odds over and over again. The average Ashkenazi I.Q is 120. This inconvenient truth (and I.Q red pill for that matter) explains the great disparities in success amongst different ethnicities. Feel free to Google what the average Palestinian I.Q is.
As ever the case, the mean will always attack the outlier for a perceived slight, when in reality it is such a disparity that any nation or people could only be so lucky to have.
This is the same reason South Africa is nearly a failed state. You cannot have unity when such a gross disparity exists in a free society where you see the mean results of such hardwired attributes.
It's a truly hopeless situation.
All over the world they are not rallying against jew but against zionism.
The comments have been made.
I will do say, that Van's perspective have made me realize two things.
regardless of his masterpiece creativity on ART .. he is still a human. with human flaws that in this case walked away from the boundaries of ART into political territory. Unfortunately my FAN level diminish after this video content.....
a viewer with Palestinian ancestry.
Amazing video, Van! I’m a gentile and my wife is Jewish - they’re great people!
Supporting people is one thing, supporting apartheid is another. You claim to be righteous in the end, righteousness in this case is also condemning what's happening to the Palestinians, I hope you will be righteous in the end.
Big brain comment. Impossible that this guy doesn't understand this and doesn't know what he's doing which makes this video all the more disgusting.
You are right. Palestinian children are dying because of hamas every single day and no one is talking about it.
Your description of the Jewish community through love is beautiful! I hope to emulate this level of love within my community
Hey Van,
Completely agree that a rise in anti-Semitism would be a terrible thing. But to label all people who are against the cruel war crimes being committed against Israel as anti-Semitic is a bit simplistic. In a way the current plight of the Palestinians mirrors past plights of the Jewish community. There are millions trapped in Gaza similar to how the Jews were forced into ghettos in cities such as Warsaw during the second world war. Their food and medical supplies are restricted by the Israeli government and they are being bombed regularly. The death tolls on either side mirror this as a vast number more Palestinians lie dead(men, women and children). The actions of Hamas are absolutely deplorable and should not be celebrated, however a far more more powerful government using this as an excuse to starve and bomb a population that they have long been attempting to eradicate is also not something which the world should allow much less support.
Of course I don't believe that Israeli people themselves are to blame, much less the extended Jewish community. It is clear to me that this is the fault of both an extremist government and western powers who divided up the land in the first place and have continued to invest in this region for the sake of power(America in particular who have invested massively in military defence for israel). The fact that any criticism of the Israeli government is currently labelled anti-Semitism and results in the loss of jobs etc is insane and deeply saddening to me.
Thoughts and prayers for your family,
I hope you haven't received any anti-Semitic hate during this time
Ruairi
Van. The actions of Israel and Israelis must be evaluated independently on the general reputation of Jews.
Yea but many aren’t doing that.
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I guess another frustrating thing about this video is the (extremely valid and necessary) call to protect jews (very true, antisemitism is disgusting) but in the wake of a literal genocide of muslim arabs in Palestine... Where is this urgency? I'm not lashing out when i ask this, I'm genuinely curious. Millions of children fleeing their homes with nowhere to go. Thousands of children blown to pieces. Are we going to celebrate their spirit and hardships? This is not "finger pointing", it is a genuine plea for compassion. I love your work but this is kind of hard to watch when Israel is commiting genocide.
Well said, and agreed.
Big brain comment. Impossible that this guy doesn't understand this and doesn't know what he's doing which makes this video all the more disgusting.
I'd disagree with your use of the word genocide. What's happening in Gaza would probably be defined as the worst attempted genocide in history, with humanitarian corridors, leaflets dropped warning civilians, and large scale use of precise targeting (can't deny that it isn't hermetic). With Israel's capabilites, actually performing a genocide would be relatively trivial. That's not what Israel wants though and if it is, then why would Israel go to these lengths?
Can't even watch this because of the green strips. Reloaded many times but just won't play properly. It usually only happens on shorts but this is also doing it. I have no idea if I support the content because it won't play properly.
Thank you for your video!
Thanks Van
Van, as careful as you were in words chosen and images shown, I know you're still going to get a certain amount of negativity for this post. I applaud your bravery, your eloquence, your deep thoughtfulness, and your desire to share it with your audience. This is a brilliant piece of work and I sit here with tears of gratitude for you and this post.
Absolutely, VIDJACK. In a way, I thought it was enlightening because Van didn't mention the state of Israel once. All he did was enumerate and acknowledge the ways American Jews have made a huge impact in his personal life. But loads of people in the comments here took that as their cue to lash out against Israel's actions in the current crisis against Hamas. The irony being these very same people qualify their statements with - being "anti-Israel" does not mean you are anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish) - but they are the ones responsible for making that link, not Van. They are the ones substituting "Jews" for Israelis - which is exactly what most Arabs (especially Hamas) in the region do. They let their mask slip. They can try and explain how their linkage is so drastically different from the linkage that spurred mobs into chasing American Jews at U.S. college campuses away from Kosher dining facilities and into locked libraries, telling them to "hide in the attic", chanting "From the river to the sea". The only thing I didn't like about the video is the title. I think I know why he chose it but, man, I really dislike that book.
@@yoyopg123you’re wrong. Because if you’re an American Jew then why are you so upset when people go against what Israel is doing. When people go against Israel why do you take it so personally if you’re American? If I have family that originally come from England am I gonna go start waving a UK flag and want to protest if the UK started a war? No I’m not. If someone said I hate the queen did it hurt me? No it didn’t. But as soon as someone says something about Israel every Jew in the world takes it as a attack against them when it’s a written fact that Israel is doing absolutely terrible things. You can’t accept the fact that your beloved Israel is the bad guy in this situation and throwing out words like Antisemitism won’t save you from the repercussions of this war. This is not Germany killing Jews. This is Israel killing Palestinians. Israel is made up of basically 75% Jews and its them that are doing the killing. You won’t find Palestinians in the IDF. Israel Jews won’t be remembered as the good guys in this war just Germany isn’t remembered as the good guys in WW2. The world is not going to sympathize for what Israel is doing just because of WW2. If Israel continues they will in modern history be remembered like Germany was in the past.
Okay this was a great video that took an insane left turn in about the last thirty seconds, and it definitely merited more discussion. And this is coming from someone who doesn't consider themselves very informed on the Palestinian conflict at all, but this just felt like a loving deep dive into jewish culture all to say "I stand with Israel" without speaking about any actions. No hate, just trying to think critically here.
I think you need to think about this a bit more.
Anti Zionism is different to anti semitisim
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Me too
Chills! Thank you for that video
Saying Free Palestine is NEVER anti-sematic
Thank you for sharing your story❤ I personally think no one is right and no one wins this war