Hebrew Voices #246 - Jewish Professor Says Nick Fuentes is Right

In this episode of Hebrew Voices #236 - Jewish Professor Says Nick Fuentes Is Right: Part 1, Nehemia brings on Political Science Professor Michael S. Kochin to discuss what Nick Fuentes gets right, what he gets wrong, and the resulting ideological battle for the heart & soul of America.

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Hebrew Voices #236 – Jewish Professor Says Nick Fuentes is Right: Part 1

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Michael: What Fuentes wants to do, what these people who are dropping the Judeo from the Christian, what the people preaching against Christian Zionism, what Tucker Carlson wants to do, is bring in notions of Christianity, of white identity, of Europeanism, of Western culture, which are foreign to American civilization. They think that America has failed, that America has failed them, and they want to do something else.

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Nehemia: Shalom and welcome to Hebrew Voices. I’m here today with Prof. Michael Kochin, who is a professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University in Israel, although this year, he’s on sabbatical at the Catholic University of America and Hillsdale College, both in Washington D.C. Welcome to the program, Prof. Michael Kochin. We’ve had you on before…

Michael: Thank you.

Nehemia: …and we’ve had some amazing conversations about Jewish freedom in America. Today I asked you to come on to talk about this new anti-Semitism, which the most, I would say the most famous, or maybe the most eloquent proponent of, is Nick Fuentes. And I want to summarize at least my perspective on what Nick Fuentes is saying. And this is, people… you might’ve heard of the Groypers, but you’ll hear somewhat similar things, I think, from others as well. And I sent you a clip. I was going to play it, but then he kind of drones on for… he goes on. I mean, look, he’s a very good speaker. He’s very eloquent.

So, I identified three themes in what he says. And you tell me if you agree with these, because I sent you like a 15-minute clip. You know, and here’s the thing about Nick Fuentes; he can go on for two hours and sound very reasonable. And then the mask slips, and he’s like, “Well, the Jews control society!” And so, he says, “Jews are not Europeans. They are not white. They are foreign enemies of European civilization and hate European Christians.” That’s point number one. Point number two… maybe that’s several points, but I’m calling that number one.

There’s “Organized world Jewry wants to eradicate white European civilization because they hate white European Christians.” These are Nick Fuentes’ points.

And number three, “There’s a deliberate and centrally orchestrated Jewish strategy to carry out,” what he calls, “white genocide, and the strategy is to flood white countries with non-white people through unrestricted immigration.” And he says, “This will lead to whites being a minority in their own countries and, hence, losing power. It will also lead to whites mixing with non-whites, resulting in an end of the white race.”

And one of the things that actually propelled him, I would say, to infamy, is that he was speaking to these Republican people he thought were his allies, and they were secretly recording him. And one of these young girls, this is when he was like 18 or 19 or something, said, “Well, what if I had relations with an African American man?” He said, “That would be degenerate, like having sex with a dog.” And ever since, I think his strategy has been, “Well, I can’t pretend I’m not a racist, so I’m just going to embrace it and say I’m a racist.”

So, all right, so, that’s who Nick Fuentes is and what he argues. And although he denies being an anti-Semite, if you say, I don’t know… Is that a fair appraisal of his positions, at least as you’ve encountered them? Maybe it’s not; you’re the professor of political science.

Michael: You know, I’m not so interested in giving a fair appraisal of Fuentes’ positions. I think it’s more important to think about what he’s saying. What is he right about? What is he wrong about? Why does he have such popularity? I think those are more helpful questions than, you know… Because some of the stuff, like the miscegenation comment… you know, I haven’t seen that source, but I assume you have a good source for that.

Nehemia: Oh, it’s a recording of him.

Michael: Right, so, I don’t think it…

Nehemia: And look, he was 19, and it was like two in the morning, and he was chatting with people he thought were his friends.

Michael: And anyway, you know, people say a lot of stupid things all the time. And it’s true that we can play this ...