
Israel has always operated a powerful and effective propaganda system - they even have a name for it, “Hasbara.” But in the age of social media the Jewish state finds itself falling behind in the propaganda battle as the ongoing genocide in Gaza...
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Douglas Murray
Yes, hello, this is Douglas Murray calling.
Jimmy Dore
Oh, Douglas Murray. Pleasure to hear from you. What have you been? What have you been up to?
Douglas Murray
Oh, you know, a lot of staring at the wall, pontificating. When your mind is as keen and brilliant as the one I am personally burdened with, you find that sometimes you have to just silently contemplate your own brilliance and how right you are about everything. Or you just go mad.
Jimmy Dore
I see.
Douglas Murray
Yes, it's quite the situation.
Jimmy Dore
So why are you calling us today?
Douglas Murray
Well, I felt I had a moral obligation to call you and correct your thinking about several matters.
Jimmy Dore
I can't say I care for your condescending tone.
Douglas Murray
Well then you are not going to enjoy the rest of this phone call. That much is quite clear.
Jimmy Dore
Clear? A definite possibility. What do you want? What do you want to correct me on, Jagoff?
Douglas Murray
Well, primarily the stridently anti Israel tone of your rhetoric and this insistence on labeling what is happening in Gaza as a genocide, a scurriously offensive claim, when in reality, Israel, a sovereign nation, is simply defending itself, as is its right to do so.
Jimmy Dore
Here we go again. Well, Douglas.
Douglas Murray
Before you attempt to debate me, I must warn you, I am extremely brilliant. I have been studied by scientists.
Jimmy Dore
I'll keep that in mind.
Douglas Murray
Scientists?
Jimmy Dore
Yeah. Look, I'm not even gonna fall for your trap and attack the statement head, so let's just look back at the past few days. The other day, over 50 starving Palestinians were shot and killed while trying to access aid. Taking this alone, doesn't that sound like ethnic cleansing?
Douglas Murray
Well, this one's easy. Hamas is the one killing these Palestinians, not the idf. Israel has said so.
Jimmy Dore
And so you just believe Israel? Why would Hamas be killing Palestinians trying to access food?
Douglas Murray
One question at a time, please. I am easily confused.
Jimmy Dore
I thought you just said how brilliant you are.
Douglas Murray
I am so brilliant that sometimes it circles all the way back around to incredibly stupid. Only the world's greatest intellects could possibly understand this. But yes, I take the word of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle east that has illegally obtained a nuclear weapon and gotten away with with it over the world, of Hamas, which is a death cult, as I've asserted many times previously, which would explain the otherwise inexplicable murder of their own kin. Describing them as a death cult allows us to explain any such assertion. Who knows, maybe most of Gaza is destroyed because Hamas detonated the buildings themselves. Yeah, they're a death cult. Who knows why they do what they do? Devilishly clever, wouldn't you say?
Jimmy Dore
No, it sounds actually stupid.
Douglas Murray
Oh dear.
Jimmy Dore
Just for argument's sake, what would you say if it were the IDF that had shot all those starving unarmed civilians?
Douglas Murray
Well, I would say that Israel, our only ally in the region, would have been wholly 100% justified in doing so.
Jimmy Dore
Uh huh. Unbelievable. How do you justify that?
Douglas Murray
Watch this. So you say these are starving Palestinians, innocent civilians, going up to an aid organization in order to obtain food. How do I know? Or the IDF if any of that is actually true?
Jimmy Dore
What do you mean?
Douglas Murray
Suppose these quote unquote starving Palestinians obtain some sort of package that appears to be Food. But what's in there?
Jimmy Dore
Jesus, for real?
Douglas Murray
What's actually in there?
Jimmy Dore
Food.
Douglas Murray
You don't know that for sure, so you have to shoot them in order to defend yourself. Turns out it was food after all. Not my problem. I was defending myself. Therefore I am on the moral side of things, which makes what I'm doing not a genocide by definition. Isn't this brilliant? Can't you see that this is the more sophisticated way, this intellectually disingenuous sophistry to look at this issue? Isn't it more intelligent than looking at photos and videos of things that are happening and making your mind up based on that?
Jimmy Dore
No. No, I don't think it is. Actually, I'd like to rely on my own two eyes.
Douglas Murray
Your own two eyes are your first deceiver.
Jimmy Dore
Yes.
Douglas Murray
The author of all the lies that you've ever entertained.
Jimmy Dore
Okay, again, that sounds smart, but it's actually a very dumb thing to think or say. Do you see that?
Douglas Murray
I choose not to. Which in itself is a powerful act of creation, a statement of pure will.
Jimmy Dore
I can see how you're a useful idiot. People. People don't want to believe that there is a genocide in Gaza happening, understandably, and will turn to anybody who can convince them that it's not. Since you are good at appearing intelligent and thoughtful, even though you aren't, you are capable of convincing simpletons that Israel are the good guys.
Douglas Murray
No.
Jimmy Dore
Yes.
Douglas Murray
No.
Jimmy Dore
Yes.
Douglas Murray
This simply cannot be what I'm used for, is it?
Jimmy Dore
Yep.
Douglas Murray
Am I merely a useful idiot, as you say, for fascists?
Jimmy Dore
Uh huh.
Douglas Murray
100% running cover for mass murder.
Jimmy Dore
Ding ding.
Douglas Murray
Have I myself been duped? Can I be duped? Could my intellectual endeavors be worth it if used to serve evil? What's that? My phone's going off. Direct deposit in the amount of. Oh yes, it's worth it. Well worth it.
Jimmy Dore
Oh brother.
Douglas Murray
Definitely not a genocide. What else? You're an anti Semite, you do not belong in good company, blah blah, blah. Thank you however, for restating my purpose for existence so I can refocus. Small minded peons like yourself may say I sold my soul, but I sold it for a lot of money.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, haters gonna hate.
Douglas Murray
Au revoir.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah, au revoir.
Zoe Saldana
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Jimmy Dore
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Zoe Saldana
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Jimmy Dore
And hits him head on. It's the chimney door show. Our special guest is Yumna El Said. She's an award winning Egyptian Palestinian journalist who has been reporting from the Gaza Strip since 2015. She currently works as a correspondent for Al Jazeera English where she has covered the ongoing conflict and its impact on civilians. Her work has also appeared in various international news outlets such as TRT Digital, TRT World, RT and the Associated Press. Last year she received the Maria Grazia Coutilli Award for International Journalism. Welcome to the show, Yumna El Said.
Yumna El Said
Thank you, Jimmy, for hosting me on your show. It's a pleasure.
Jimmy Dore
You know, being a journalist in Palestine is very dangerous. It's something like over 200 journalists have been killed and a lot of them have been targeted, correct?
Yumna El Said
Yes. That's about 223 journalists have already been killed. Many have been injured. And unfortunately, as long as this genocide is still ongoing, we can't know the exact number of journalists that will still be targeted.
Jimmy Dore
And so it hasn't always been this dangerous in Gaza, right? Correct. This, this is a, I mean it's never been safe, but this is kind of really exploded, correct?
Yumna El Said
Well, for years there has always been a targeting towards Palestinian journalists in Gaza. I mean, Gaza is a place or a territory that has seen numerous wars and military escalations. But this has been different from any other time and basically because this time it has been a genocide, not a war. And the targeting of journalists, which has been going on for many years. I mean, Jimmy, when we used to cover the Great March of Return and it used to be by the borders where there is a separation fence, a security separation fence and a buffer zone of 300 meters on the Palestinian side and 300 meters on the Israeli side, that's a total of 600 meters. Palestinian journalists were shot by sniper bullets, covering the protests of unarmed civilians, protesting for the breakage of the siege, a long lasting Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. We were targeted by gas grenades that were carried by drones and they would fly all the way to where we're standing and drop the gas grenades over our heads. We were targeted by sniper bullets. Many journalists were injured and others were killed. So that's the sequence of the targeting of journalists. Only this time the targeting has not just been on the journalists themselves, but it has even surpassed that it has become on their families, their neighbors.
Jimmy Dore
And so aren't you surprised at the lack of outrage and outcry and universal condemnation by the international press associations and I mean just journalists everywhere. Or maybe there has been and I just missed it. What's your take on that?
Yumna El Said
At the beginning of this genocide there was a very weird silence and not Just silence. There was a very weird adoption to the Israeli narrative if you followed how the events were unfolding. And the fact that all mainstream media was basically just parroting what the Israeli propaganda was saying, just out there loud and clear, with no actual journalistic integrity, in fact, taking in, providing evidence, proof, seeing those real footage, images, you know, facts, realities on the ground, but just repeating, parroting everything that Israel was saying at that time. The real and only investigations that were first conducted, the initial investigations that were conducted were actually conducted by Harrods, the Israeli leftist newspaper in Israel. How shocking is that? When you find mainstream media, international mainstream media around the world, not even just adopting one side of the story and not investigating the real work of journalists is investigating to put their hands on the realities and facts of what's happening on the ground. How shocking is that? Now I see that this narrative is this, this whole flow is changing, and I see it, and I'm glad that it is. And I'm glad that journalists are finally doing their job like they're supposed to do. But isn't it too far, hasn't it taken them many months to reach to that point where they're actually not just adopting one side of the story or one narrative of the story? It has been, it has been, it has been too long for them to take this, this move and this shift, to make this shift now.
Jimmy Dore
So. So you do see signs of journalists and journalistic organizations en masse now turning against the Israeli narrative and starting to actually tell the truth or the Palestinian side of this conflict?
Yumna El Said
Yes, I do. Although the change and the shift isn't great, but I do see it, it's visible. And I think this has been because of the effect of the public. You know, people around the world are taking their news through social media platforms other than mainstream media now because they don't trust, they lost their trust in mainstream media because of how different the, and how different the news is on the mainstream media and how different it is from what they see on social media platforms, from the videos and footage that is coming out of Gaza, from the Palestinian journalists themselves on the ground in Gaza, and then the headlines, the manipulative headlines, and how much they dehumanize the Palestinians and the Palestinian victims when communicating a certain news about an event that's in unfolding, and it's a brutal killing or targeting of children or civilians or forced displacement. All that has caused the public to be aware and to shift their views from these news outlets, international news outlets. And that's why I think, and I believe that this shift has started to happen. And I believe that how they actually, or their strategy or how journalism was politicized according to certain agendas at the beginning of this genocide and for many months is why they have actually lost their. And that losing of integrity of journalism is why they have lost the trust of the audience, the trust of the people.
Jimmy Dore
So speaking of alternative media, here is someone we feature on the show a lot, IM Blakely is her account. She says that the propaganda isn't hitting like it did before. And let's just watch this. It's just a few minutes long and then I'll get your response to it.
Douglas Murray
So apparently the Israeli regime, which has long been known for its incredibly effective hasbara propaganda, is struggling because it's not working as well anymore. They see support collapsing all over the world and they're trying to understand why. They really think that. The problem is, is that they're not giving enough of a counter narrative. No, you guys are giving a counter narrative. It just sounds like this.
Jimmy Dore
I just like how they always use the term counternarrative and never the truth. They never say it's the truth. Okay, here we go.
Zoe Saldana
These children are dying of hunger because you have not been allowing aid in this.
Jimmy Dore
They are not dying of hunger and in any conflict.
Yumna El Said
Mr. Smutrich, your leader has said that the people of Gaza should lead.
Zoe Saldana
I've got an idea. Why don't you let them come over the border into Israel? Why don't they flee into Israel?
Yumna El Said
Because they are.
Zoe Saldana
Children are your enemies. They are our enemies. Children are your enemies.
Jimmy Dore
They are. They are our enemies.
Douglas Murray
I love that the reporter asked him that about, like, why not just let them into the Israeli regime? Because so often when you ask them a direct question, the answer will be psychotic. But Western media never asks. I never hear anyone in the west ask, why not let them in Israel? But honestly, we don't really need him to tell us because we can see it in his eyes. Just look at the way he looks at her when he's talking about how the children of Gaza are his enemies. If that's not hate, I don't know what is. Bro, this guy's an elected official of the Israeli Knesset, which is kind of like our congress. That's terrifying. Or, I don't know, maybe if you don't want to look bad in the eyes of the world, maybe you should stop filming yourself blocking aid to starving children. Or, I don't know, maybe don't post about how you're having a barbecue on the border of a concentration camp. While children are dying of starvation every single day. I got news for you guys. The call is coming from inside the house. If you guys were that worried about your pr, you should probably take everyone's phone away. You guys are sitting around trying to figure out how to do PR about the fact that that this doctor, you killed nine of her children, charred all of them in an airstrike and you think that PR is your biggest problem? You could stop bombing people. Did you guys know that the regime has dropped the equivalent of six nuclear bombs on Gaza? Please, just try to sit with that for a second. Six nuclear bomb equivalents on a strip that is roughly the size of Las Vegas. And then that guy goes out there and says that babies are an enemy. The guy from the religious party. No.
Jimmy Dore
Boo.
Douglas Murray
The problem is not you guys not doing enough pr. The problem is that you keep opening your fucking mouth and showing everybody exactly who you are. Because I've said it before and I'll say it again. I don't care how many black, queer, transgender influencers you bring over from the west to do propaganda for you. You can't seem to get your own politicians to stop going on TV and announcing what monsters they are. Your elected government officials like Smotrich keep getting on TV and braggin about the destruction of the Gaza Strip and bragging about the horrors visited amongst the civilians as though we can't translate Hebrew. Your IOF soldiers can't stop, won't stop violating women and then posing in their lingerie. Maybe if you guys are worried about the pr, you should tell your officers to stop making it their dating profile pics. And I don't know, maybe stop posting your war crimes on TikTok. These were the mild ones by the way. I couldn't show most of them the sheer amount of times, by the way that they have been documented dressing in dead women's lingerie needs to be fucking studied. When you think about all the amount of war crimes they have posted themselves, bragged about themselves, gone on TV themselves, the instagramable crimes against humanity and the TikTok ification of genocide, you would think that since the majority of their population, 80% of them, support ethnic cleansing of Gaza, that maybe they would start to realize that this is more than just a PR problem. But at the very least, if you're really that concerned about the PR aspect, you should probably stop live streaming the war crimes.
Jimmy Dore
So do you think it's finally you mentioned that journalism is finally starting to crack and start to tell the truth about what's happening in Israel? Gaza. Do you feel like their propaganda is over and people are no longer falling for it? In general.
Yumna El Said
I'm sure the people are no more falling for it because they have not been falling for it for quite some time now. It has taken Palestinian journalists quite a long time, a number of months to reach the worldwide audience, to actually get people from the United States, Canada, that other side of the world, to follow Palestinian journalists to know what's happening in a territory like Gaza that they never hear about, to start following the daily events and how this genocide is unfolding and these genocidal crimes committed by the Israeli army against Abyss population every single day, Regardless and despite of the complete complicity of Western media in adopting the Israeli narrative since the beginning, since the 7 October attack and how much it was all portrayed that the only catastrophe that has happened worldwide was the 7th of October attack and the killing of, the attacking of Palestinian groups into Israeli towns and the killing of Israeli civilians. Nobody should be against the killing of civilians, regardless of their race, of their nationality, of their religion. But you can't just conclude every single thing that is happening. Just the first three months of this genocide, over 40,000 children were already killed. Look at the number, look at the number. We're talking about 40,000 children in three months. And on the other side, the entire world was standing on one foot for almost 2,000 Israelis that have been killed. This is how much worse the Palestinian blood is compared to the Israeli blood.
Jimmy Dore
Well, also on October 7th, lots of those Israeli civilians were killed by the Hannibal directive, which is the IDF themselves. The Israeli army killed their own people and blamed it on Hamas, isn't that correct?
Yumna El Said
Who investigated that? Other than Harris, an Israeli newspaper? Where are the dozens of international Western media organizations and news outlets to investigate why in the first place a very heavily security fence was breached and how it was allowed to be breached? A security fence that is 24 hours under surveillance with deployed soldiers along that security fence across the border with Israeli tanks and military vehicles. 24 hours. Where did they disappear and how was that fence allowed to be breached? Who investigated this? Who investigated the fact that an Israeli helicopter came and opened fire on each and everyone in the field in that area, including Israeli civilians who were killed? No news outlet, no Western news outlet investigated that, except for Harrod, the Israeli news outlet.
Jimmy Dore
Don't you find it? We've made this point on the show many times that you get more truth about what's happening in Gaza from Israeli news outlets than you do in the United States or the West. Why is that?
Yumna El Said
It's because of the strong Israeli influence, influence in the United States and the west. And because living in that region, living in that region, in the occupied territories, in Israel, you come to understand the reality on the ground. I mean, people in the U.S. jimmy, who say, oh, there's no apartheid in the occupied territories and in Israel and, and everything that the Palestinians are saying that they're suffering off and all these challenges, oh, they're not true. These are just Palestinian, this is just Palestinian propaganda to bring out Israel in this image and everything. They have the privilege of booking a ticket and going to the occupied territories and to Israel and to witnessing it firsthand. They have that privilege and like a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip or from the west bank, but they wouldn't do the effort. And then they call themselves journalists on the ground, International journalists. What does international journalists mean? If you're not willing to take, to make that effort, to go, to investigate and to be a witness, a firsthand witness on the ground to bring real fact and evidence of what you hear before you report it. Before you report it. And, and you're not even attributing it to who you're reporting it on, on, on whose tongue you're. You're reporting it. No, you're attributing it to yourself as if you've been there and you've seen it firsthand.
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So I'll read it and then it's about two minutes long and I'll get your response to it. This is truly mind blowing. And then this, by the way, this is from in 2024. So it's. So what do you say? Here, let me just kind of read it to you. It says, I don't sleep well unless I see houses collapsing in Gaza. That's. This is what's being said on their, on their television. What, What, What? He says, he says, hang on, what am I going to do? More, more. More houses, more towers. This is from November 2, 2023. They had. They shouldn't have anywhere to return to. So he's. So that's right out in the open. He's basically cheering on ethnic cleansing. That's what. The definition of what it is. Did we need this disaster to happen in order to understand that the Palestinians are an unnecessary group? You understand that it could, it could be that what they need is a second nakba. Wow. So what should they do? You see civilians open fire, Open fire, Shoot civilians? Of course, of course they're not civilians. So they're just advocating for slaughtering civilians right on television. And I says, I think that the first time we see the images from God. Turn it down a little. The images from Gaza of the bombings of the buildings and the bodies. The first time, at least we say, who cares? He says, who cares? It's not enough. It's not interesting. It needs to be much stronger. With God's help, Gaza will become the Riviera of the Middle East. This is from this year. I mean, last year, did you see the article in Haaretz that they were setting houses on fire? In Gaza. It's true, by the way. Wonderful excitement. And you see how happy they are that they're committing war crimes. And they're not even like trying to cover them up. They're bragging about it and they're cheering on more. It keeps going. It says it as if we were it, as if it was a bad thing. So they're saying the things that the rest of the world. It would shock our conscience to see. The mentality of the Israeli people is the exact opposite. It's like they're almost not even. Well, they're not normal human beings. Right? It's not as if they're not normal human beings because the rest of the world is shocked by this. It's what they call shocks our conscience. And not only are they not shocked by it, they're pleased by it and they cheer it on. There's a little more. It's. It's very simple. Take a crop duster, fill them with gas, spray them all over Gaza and tell them if you don't release the hostages within an hour, all of Gaza will go up in flames. I don't take pity on these Gazans, this guy says. I don't think that there's anyone in the United States of Israel in who should take pity on these Gazans. I mean, these people look normal. They look, they're welcome, they're well groomed, they're in suits, they're educated. They don't seem like raving, you know, they don't appear, they don't look. If he just looked at them, they looked like normal humans. But when they talk and you hear what they're saying, they're the most depraved, you know, psychopathic, bloodthirsty killers I've ever come across. I mean, that includes World War II for sure. I don't remember videos of Nazis sitting around and cheering on more and more. The German people or the German people sitting around cheering this stuff on. Maybe they exist. I haven't seen it. This is crazy. I'll show just a little bit more. Not on adults, not on the elderly, not on young people and not on children. As far as I'm concerned, they should starve to death. They should starve to death, which, why do I care about them? So just like the opposite of what it means to be a human being. We know that there is a legal process underwire underway in the Hagen soldiers. Songs of may your village be burned don't exactly help us. So this guy saying, hey, why don't you. Quiet. Quit being so vocal. In your support of the war crimes you're doing because it doesn't help us internationally in an international criminal court or in the Hague. And what's this response? He said, I don't know if you're following the news. We are burning their villages. And it's good that we are burning their villages. And he's laughing and. And everybody in the crowd applauds. I will say this everywhere. It's not just me saying this, by the way. All the soldiers think like, I do too, like my dear friend Saeed, we're not burning their villages. We're erasing their village and we need to burn their village. So, I mean, it goes on and on. So, I mean, that is such a peek into the depravity of their psyche. And has that been your experience when you've interacted with Israelis? And how exactly do they get that way? I mean, that's Nazi stuff.
Yumna El Said
Jimmy. This has been the life of Palestinians for years and years. For over 77 years, since the Nakba, the first catastrophe, Jimmy. This is the reality that we've been trying to tell the world about and Israel has been trying to hide. But we've been living this suffering each and every day. If these Israelis were not this brutal, if they did not hate Palestinians this much, they would not have taken all over Palestinian lands, confiscated them so brutally and viciously like that. The Gaza Strip wouldn't have been under a lasting Israeli siege for the past 18 years. While the international world, the international community is watching in silence for the first time, Israelis are being vocal about their genocidal intent. Since the first day, Jimmy, you remember Israeli officials coming out in statements saying, these are human animals. We will starve them. We will cut the water supply, the electricity supply, and we will force a complete and total blockade on the Gaza Strip. If their politicians and government people are saying this out loud in front of the entire world, wouldn't minimum the population feel the same way? They find it okay if their own politicians are bragging about this. We're talking about a two state solution, Jimmy. Who are we kidding? The international community, the UN Council, everyone is talking about a two state solution. When each and every Israeli prime minister comes out and brags and says, I'm glad that I have been successful in not allowing a two state solution to be implemented. Do you know how many times this exact sentence has been repeated? It has been repeated by each and every Israeli prime minister that has been in power. And yet the international community, the US Government, let's not go too far. Will come out and say, oh, we support a two state solution. Who are you kidding? If Israel itself is bragging about not allowing a two state solution? How many times, how many times has any Western news outlet reported this? Whether newspaper or TV or radio has reported these genocidal statements that have come out either by Israeli officials or people, just lawmakers or even just politicians like that? How many times have you seen it on headlines and news headlines, Western news headlines? None. In which talk show have you seen it? Have you seen them saying, oh, this politician, this Israeli politician or this Israeli governmental official came out and said this and this is hate speech or hate statements or genocidal intent? Not one time, if this was by any Palestinian official or resident, how is that going to be published in each and every talk show, in each and every headline, in each and every news outlet? It would be circulated, it would be talked about about how vicious these Palestinians are, how brutal they are. We've seen pictures of Israeli children destroying humanitarian aid, entering to Palestinian children, starving children. Nobody has even reported it or thought about reporting it. Who are you protecting? Because these videos and images are out there. The entire world sees them.
Zoe Saldana
If you.
Yumna El Said
Bury your head into the sand, it does not mean that you don't see them. You do see them. And the world sees that you see them. And the world sees your hypocrisy and your double standards. This is what the world acknowledges.
Jimmy Dore
And so let me ask you our final question before we say goodbye. What do you think it's going to take to stop this genocide?
Yumna El Said
I mean, Jimmy, just today, imagine the amount of despair and devastation today. The UN Council today, 14 states out of 15 voted for the end of this genocide for an instant ceasefire. And the United States used a veto against that decision. While the United States is mediating for this past month as it has been allegedly claiming to end this war and to end this genocide. How is that even possible? How is that even possible? How can that be a reality when 14 states vote for the end of this war and the United States uses a veto against this decision? When it is seeing all these war crimes being committed day after day against civilians, against a population? Regardless of what Israel is saying, regardless of what Israel is trying to claim, the entire world, including the United States, knows the reality of what is happening. Matthew Miller, just two days ago on the show, everybody knows what he said. He himself, as an individual, believes that Israel is committing genocidal acts in Gaza. Each and every individual human being, even the Israelis themselves, they know for sure that Israel is committing war crimes. The only difference is that the Israelis are proud of the war crimes that. And the genocidal acts that Israel is committing deliberately on or against the Palestinians. And the entire world knows and acknowledges these war crimes and is calling out for the end of the war, for the end of this genocide. Now it's the governments. If the governments have voted for the end, for the. For the instant ending of this genocide, and the United States has opposed such a decision. It's a decision for humanity. You are saving humanity. What's left of the Palestinian humanity in Gaza. The despair, the devastation. I can't find words. I swear to God, I can't find adequate words to describe and to express the amount of devastation and despair that the people are living within. In Gaza. I can't. These words have not yet been even invented because we have not lived in our. In our humanity, in our modern history or even in the past. Such a genocide as brutal and as vicious as this genocide that we are living in today and that we see documented before our eyes each and every single day, every single person, an official that is silent about it, that is not doing what they can to end it and to end this devastation against this innocent population and these innocent children being slaughtered, each and every single hour of every single day is complicit in it.
Jimmy Dore
Yumna Al Said, I really appreciate you coming on. I appreciate the work you're doing, the courage you showed, and thanks for sharing it with our audience. I appreciate it.
Yumna El Said
Thank you so much for having me on your show, Jim. I really appreciate.
Jimmy Dore
Here's Speaker Johnson, who is responding to Elon Musk, and he does such a bad job of it. He's such a consummate liar and such a corrupt piece of it, which is what he is. But Mike Johnson's corrupt. He doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about his constituency. He only cares about the donor class and Israel, the people who actually control him. And so he did such a bad job of pushing back against Elon Musk that he got community noted over it. And I'm so. Let me show you what he said. Yeah, let me. Let me say this. It's very disappointing.
Zoe Saldana
Okay.
Jimmy Dore
I've come to consider Elon a good friend. He's obviously a very intelligent person and he's done a lot of great work.
Zoe Saldana
With all due respect, my friend, Elon is terribly wrong about the one big beautiful bill.
Jimmy Dore
So, Elon. Okay, so in case you're not aware, Elon Musk went on a tirade, scorched earth on Twitter and in interviews against the budget bill that he and Trump are pushing through Congress, that passed Congress, and now it's on its way to the Senate and it explodes the deficit. It cuts health care, it cuts food stamps, it gives tax breaks to billionaires. It's the same old story. And so Elon Musk went crazy over it. Right. He's going scorched earth, ripping them. Called it disgusting. What they're doing. That's what Elon Musk's actual word was, disgusting. What they're doing. And here's Speaker Johnson trying to defend it. And this is how he defends it. Yeah, Let me, let me say this.
Zoe Saldana
It's.
Jimmy Dore
It's very disappointing.
Zoe Saldana
Okay.
Jimmy Dore
I've come to consider either Elon a good friend. He's obviously a very intelligent person, and he's done a lot of great work.
Zoe Saldana
With all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big, beautiful bill.
Jimmy Dore
So here's what Mike Johnson actually says about. So Elon. Turns out Elon's not. He's not wrong. He's not terribly wrong. He's not even a little bit wrong. Elon Musk, 100% right about the big, beautiful bill, the budget bill. It explodes the deficit, which is going to tank our economy, which will make the dollar, you know, it'll cause hyperinflation and it'll cause interest rates to skyrocket.
Zoe Saldana
Central bank digital currency, after all, is what we're going to get.
Jimmy Dore
So he says, yes, you're correct. I count Elon Musk as a good friend in a Congressional. Republicans appreciate everything he has done to put a spotlight on waste, fraud and abuse in government. Yeah, he put a spotlight on it, and then you went ahead and didn't cut it. Is that ironic? He put his. So he didn't say. You notice the words? He didn't say everything he's done to cut spending? No, he didn't say that. He said he did. He put a spotlight on waste, fraud and abuse. And guess what? We did. We kept funding that waste, fraud and abuse. Mike Johnson and the Republicans kept funding. In fact, they're increasing the spending on waste, fraud and abuse. Isn't that interesting?
Zoe Saldana
Look at the next line that he says.
Jimmy Dore
The next line is, now that Doge has identified wasteful spending, it is being quantified by the administration. Okay.
Zoe Saldana
So it's being quantified. It. What do you mean it's being quantified? It's already been quantified.
Jimmy Dore
So he's using every word here except cut. It's actually being implemented. Quantified, Codified you're not doing any of this.
Zoe Saldana
Codified. You know how good that works?
Jimmy Dore
Oh, I hope it gets codified.
Zoe Saldana
You're. You're.
Jimmy Dore
Our legislation comprehensively delivers on every major campaign promise. And the American first agenda. No, it doesn't. No, it's the American first agenda.
Douglas Murray
To corporations.
Jimmy Dore
It's corporations first and Israel first agenda, okay? While also securing historic savings of more than 1.6 trillion. Now that's a flat out lie. And that's such a flat out lie that he got community noted on it. The one beautiful bill will add 5 trillion to the debt, which is what Elon Musk is disagreeing with. So that's what how bad these liars are.
Zoe Saldana
He. He's a better liar. I'll give him this because when Keaton said this. But when Harold and Kumar went to the Justice Department and didn't deliver the Epstein stuff, their lie they were aren't as good at their lie faces aren't as good as Mike Johnson's dead cold.
Jimmy Dore
That's right.
Zoe Saldana
Harry Potter back from the grave. Look.
Jimmy Dore
So our friend Blakely asks Grok to explain why this one big beautiful bill is going to explode the debt and how is it going to hurt working people. According to Grok, which is Elon Musk's AI tool, the one big beautiful bill could add 3.1 trillion to the national debt over a decade. It's more like a 5 trillion, just to let you know. Per the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, risking higher interest, higher interest rates and inflation. So that's what they're doing right now. Instead of putting in fiscal policies that take the risk of inflation and higher interest rates away, they're guaranteeing that that's what's going to happen. This could raise borrowing costs hitting working people's wallets. Tax cuts like doubling the child tax credit and no tax on tips may favor high earners more. I don't know how that could be, but that's according to Grok. I'll have to look more into that. Cuts to Medicaid. Oh, maybe because. Okay, I'll talk about it in a second. Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP could reduce benefits for low income workers with millions potentially losing coverage. Eliminating clean energy credits might also cut jobs. While it offers short term tax relief. The long term debt and program cuts could harm working families. So.
Zoe Saldana
That'S the idea.
Jimmy Dore
That's the idea.
Zoe Saldana
Fuck you working family. And it's going to harm. Wait till it hits the white collar people. All the laptop liberals, your jobs are going. All the entertainment dipshits your jobs are going. So wait till that. That unity stuff, you know, where you just figured out. But she's maga. People didn't want this. Wait till these other people that haven't had to learn that yet figure it out. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun. Better tool up.
Jimmy Dore
So the Donald Trump administration is turning out to be a dis. A huge, colossal, catastrophic disappointment. And that's an understatement. When you lost Elon Musk, they've lost Piers Morgan on Israel. You've lost people who are for free speech and anti censorship and you're deported and you lost people who are for immigration reform because you're deporting the last people in the world that anybody wants deported, which is people who are coming here to go to our colleges. The brightest people from around the world who go to our colleges. And, and then right op eds, you're kicking them out of the country. Nobody. You do. You've. So you've. It's. They blew their mandate. They blew their mandate and they're doing a horrible job. It's. It's. It's kind of stunning how bad of a job they're doing. It's kind of stunning. It all started, you know, we should have saw it coming with the H1B visa thing. We should have saw that coming. We should have saw coming with Peter Thiel completely owning, you know, J.D. vance and everybody else. But, you know, I had to have hope. I had hope that JD Vance meant what he said and things like that. I had hope.
Zoe Saldana
I thought at least a few. I thought he would at least clean out the part of the deep state that was trying to kill him.
Jimmy Dore
You thought.
Zoe Saldana
Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, I didn't know he was going to let bygones be bygones again, which he has done. But good news. Harold and Kamar just opened an investigation. That bag of coke they found.
Jimmy Dore
Ha ha. Yep.
Zoe Saldana
Oh, I wonder who's that could have been. Who gives a. I mean, what a collection of idiots.
Jimmy Dore
I know. So now Dan Bongino and Cash Patel are going to try to figure out where that bag of cocaine came from in the White House.
Zoe Saldana
Thanks, guys.
Jimmy Dore
But they're not going to try to figure out who killed Jeffrey Epstein. They're not going to try to figure out what that assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania was all about. They're not. They're not doing that. They're not making shooter, it turns out. Turns out as a lone shooter, that blah, blah. And that's it. We're all done. So that was a scam. So that I'm going to guess now both of those assassination attempts were scams that Donald Trump was in on.
Zoe Saldana
Well, he is now because he didn't punish the criminals. Like how Obama was in on torture, because he didn't punish the torturers. I mean, this is all theoretical because the president literally can't. Now you've seen there's no such thing as that. Your vote counting, like on that kind of level, why would that be allowed to count?
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Zoe Saldana
And, you know, it couldn't be more clear. And I don't. The thing that, that should shock everybody, though is I hope now everybody's watching all the PPC on YouTube and rumble and all that. All the people are still shilling for the establishment. Because right now is the point. You should be calling it out right now.
Jimmy Dore
Right now.
Zoe Saldana
Even if you didn't before Elon figured it out. So now you should have figured it out. You know.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Zoe Saldana
Even Spurg could do it.
Jimmy Dore
When Elon Musk, the pretend richest guy in the world, has figured it out and has separated himself from Donald Trump and the Republicans. I think it's time for you to figure it out.
Zoe Saldana
Piers Morgan figured out Israel might be up, might not be above board in their dealings.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah. Figured out Piers Morgan figured out that, oh, my God, the, the Israelis are actually psychotic murdering genociders and they don't actually want a solution to this problem. And that they're actually the thing that they claim to hate.
Zoe Saldana
It only took them saying it to his face over and over again.
Jimmy Dore
It only took it. Yeah. For two years.
Zoe Saldana
That's all it took is two years and say we're gonna kill them and starve them.
Jimmy Dore
And now we're gonna jump over to Rumble and we have a guest coming on that's going to tell us all about the Palantir, which is. Which is actually just the CIA, which is Peter Thiel, which.
Zoe Saldana
The other guy.
Jimmy Dore
Which, which all the people from the PayPal mafia are the ones that. So, you know, remember when Steve Bannon came on and he said they want a techno feudalism.
Zoe Saldana
Why had you bring it up about? Doge is the name of the leader of that. In the Vienna. Vienna. Vienna city states.
Jimmy Dore
Yeah.
Zoe Saldana
Oligarchs. That, you know, and that's what we're people.
Jimmy Dore
That's what we're living on. And then. And then that it was. What. What was the other. The other name was Podesta. No. Yeah.
Zoe Saldana
Oh, well. Oh, the Podesta is the guy under the Doge.
Jimmy Dore
The Podesta is the guy under the.
Zoe Saldana
Thousand year old city state system. This has been going on, this plan. Reagan, Ford was in on it. Reagan, they say it, the new world order, a thousand points of light. All that gibberish that they were saying, that's what it is. We're gonna get everybody and we're gonna get everybody under this, like a few oligarchs running things. No more of this commie stuff.
Jimmy Dore
Right?
Zoe Saldana
We're gonna divide you against each other at a whim. Now, the way we want to divide you used to be with nations. But that's not useful to us anymore.
Jimmy Dore
Right.
Zoe Saldana
You know, because we've all come together as a big conspiracy, you know, and that's why Putin can't join NATO, because they're not broken up.
Jimmy Dore
Okay?
Zoe Saldana
Dave Portnoy is the founder of the very popular website Barstool Sports, also known.
Jimmy Dore
For his reviews of pizza places around.
Zoe Saldana
The country, and also a passionate support supporter of the Israeli government. And watch what happens during a live stream with some colleagues when one of his colleagues at Barstool made the argument that people should not be imprisoned for making jokes about Jewish people. And watch Dave Portnoy's reaction about kicking them out. I'm talking about, you want to go to jail?
Jimmy Dore
Like, what do you want? Like, you guys offending this guy Mick for what he said right after that happened. He's not.
Zoe Saldana
No, your brain goes in.
Jimmy Dore
I'm not defending Dave.
Zoe Saldana
What I'm saying is you should have.
Jimmy Dore
Him on here or somebody else like.
Zoe Saldana
That and fight with them because then you have a conversation.
Jimmy Dore
That's what this idiot wants. Dave.
Zoe Saldana
See these, these guys that wrote the thing at the bar? The Jews, right? Yes. You're going to fucking fly them to Auschwitz. Some guy tweets at you something you want to. He's not.
Jimmy Dore
It was a bar I owned. It was a bar I own. They should have been kicked out.
Zoe Saldana
So. But my thing is it's not just kick out.
Yumna El Said
Kirk.
Jimmy Dore
Are you ignoring what's going on in the world? No, I'm not.
Zoe Saldana
Dave. What would you. What do you want to do? What do you want.
Jimmy Dore
What do you want to do with.
Zoe Saldana
Those guys in the bar? Put them in jail for 50 years.
Jimmy Dore
Fine. I don't. I say that you're, you're, you're. You're quite literally changing everything you say. Kirk, if you just want me to kick him out, not mention it, not care that this.
Zoe Saldana
Shut up.
Jimmy Dore
If you just want me to ignore.
Zoe Saldana
Tell me. Don't tell me to shut up.
Yumna El Said
Don't.
Jimmy Dore
Shut the. Up, you bald fuck.
Zoe Saldana
Okay? Go ahead.
Jimmy Dore
How's that?
Zoe Saldana
Oh, it's kill. I'll never recover from that, Dave. Go ahead, continue. I'll never.
Jimmy Dore
Well, you're the one who like, oh, big boss man.
Zoe Saldana
Don't tell. I'll tell.
Jimmy Dore
You work for me, okay?
Zoe Saldana
Go ahead.
Jimmy Dore
You work for me. Sure, you bet.
Zoe Saldana
For now.
Jimmy Dore
For now, quit. I don't care.
Zoe Saldana
Is this show or not a show? Like, is it a show or not a show? Like we can't have a conversation.
Jimmy Dore
You're an idiot.
Zoe Saldana
Okay, you're literally saying people should be.
Jimmy Dore
Allowed to make Jew jokes. Say whatever they want right fucking now.
Zoe Saldana
Yes, I think people should be allowed to make jokes.
Jimmy Dore
So how many motherfucking Jews have to be killed before you stop then?
Zoe Saldana
Everybody. I don't think.
Jimmy Dore
What else, where else is that happening with the religion or people?
Zoe Saldana
I don't think those, those psychopaths. I'm with you. They're scumbags. Are the worst people on the earth.
Jimmy Dore
Should.
Zoe Saldana
Should that.
Jimmy Dore
You don't think it's all related.
Zoe Saldana
But Dave, you're telling a comedian not to make a joke.
Jimmy Dore
It's not a comedian.
Zoe Saldana
I'm with you. I'm with you. Okay. Can Mel. Should Mel Brooks be executed? Yes. According to Jake. Yes. Yes. He's a. He's a feminist girl from. From 2013. That's what Dave Portnoy is. You can't joke about Jewish people, says Dave Portnoy. Yeah. You don't think it's connected? Well, no, it's connected, Dave, because, you know, people kind of resent us having to pay for a genocide that they're doing in Israel. So that now it's connected. The violence is connected from the crimes, such as having a concentration camp. Maybe you saw Inglourious Bastards. Like I did the Tarantino picture where they super violently killed Nazis and it was good because they had concentration camps. You people are programmed to think that way. And you're showing. They're showing one on TV to them now. So look what happened to his employee after he basically defended the right of free speech of people to make jokes about Jews. Especially as you said, Kurt, as the self proclaimed Jewish states committing a genocide. He got fired. He said, I've been advised by our new legal team to not participate in any barstool related content moving forward. So he's out. Comedy. What's okay? Comedy. He sounds like a porter's a chick. Yeah, all these dudes are chicks. Portnoy's complaint. It's such a patently Zionist cell phone to go on a tirade about how All Jew jokes should be outlawed for the foreseeable future. And then turn around and make a joke about how a peaceful flotilla carrying aid should be bombed in the very same segment. That's right. So in this very same live stream, Dave Portnoy called for an attack on Greta Thunberry who is the activist currently on a flotilla trying to break Israel's siege of Gaza. Watch this clip.
Douglas Murray
Gaza we can do unnamed.
Zoe Saldana
You can be live jump on Greta.
Jimmy Dore
Van the forced in or whatever that girl, she's sailing there like whoever that.
Zoe Saldana
And I hope they hit a, like.
Jimmy Dore
A, a missile on her boat.
Zoe Saldana
Well, I hope they hit.
Jimmy Dore
They hit a missile.
Zoe Saldana
So he's calling for her to be killed. He's calling for her to be attacked with a missile. But he can't take a joke about Jewish people. He's programmed. My girlfriend went to Jew camp when she was young. My ex girlfriend went they and they try to get you to breed right. And they instilling you a love of Israel. All the Jews I know went, if they had money went to those camps. What do you think they do there? They that's to get you young and instill what do Portnoy is doing. It's like he loves the Yankees. They could have been a sports fight, you know, like on Mike and the Badger. You're crazy. But he's got that baseball team mentality about Israel because that's one of the strongest programs there is. Zion programming.
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Podcast Summary: The Jimmy Dore Show
Episode Title: Israeli Propaganda Completely FAILING! w/ Gaza Journalist Yumna El Sayed
Host: Jimmy Dore
Guest: Yumna El Sayed
Release Date: June 9, 2025
The episode begins with humorous skits involving Zoe Saldana and other characters promoting T-Mobile's latest offers. These segments, while entertaining, serve as transitions into the more serious discussions that follow. The playful exchanges set a casual tone before delving into the core topics of the episode.
Timestamp Highlights:
[02:32] Douglas Murray:
“I felt I had a moral obligation to call you and correct your thinking about several matters.”
[03:28] Jimmy Dore:
“Here we go again. Well, Douglas.”
[05:33] Douglas Murray:
“...Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East that has illegally obtained a nuclear weapon...”
Summary:
Early in the episode, host Jimmy Dore receives a phone call from Douglas Murray, a British political commentator known for his conservative views. The conversation quickly turns confrontational, focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Murray challenges Dore's portrayal of Israel's actions in Gaza, arguing that Israel is merely defending itself against Hamas, which he labels a "death cult." He disputes claims of genocide, suggesting that any casualties among Palestinians are the result of Hamas's actions rather than Israel's military operations.
Key Points:
Defense of Israel: Murray asserts that Israel is justified in its military actions, characterizing Hamas as the primary aggressor.
Dismissal of Palestinian Casualties: He argues that incidents where Palestinians are killed are either directly caused by Hamas or unjustifiably exaggerated by opponents of Israel.
Critique of Dore's Rhetoric: Murray challenges Dore's labeling of Israel's actions as genocide, deeming it an offensive and inaccurate characterization.
Notable Quote:
Dore counters Murray's points by citing instances where Palestinians were killed while accessing aid, questioning the narrative that Hamas is solely responsible. He accuses Murray of using "intellectually disingenuous sophistry" to downplay Israel's actions and protect its image.
The exchange becomes increasingly heated, with Dore calling Murray a "useful idiot" for his stance, implying that Murray's defense of Israel serves to legitimize its aggressive policies. Murray attempts to maintain composure, but the tension escalates until the call ends abruptly.
Timestamp Highlights:
[10:29] Yumna El Sayed:
“Gaza is a place or a territory that has seen numerous wars and military escalations. But this has been different from any other time and basically because this time it has been a genocide, not a war.”
[13:24] Yumna El Sayed:
“Mainstream media was basically just parroting what the Israeli propaganda was saying...”
[22:52] Yumna El Sayed:
“We're talking about a two-state solution, Jimmy. Who are we kidding?”
Summary:
Following the intense interaction with Douglas Murray, Jimmy Dore welcomes Yumna El Sayed, an award-winning Egyptian-Palestinian journalist who has been reporting from the Gaza Strip since 2015. Yumna provides an in-depth analysis of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, emphasizing the targeting of journalists and the role of media in shaping public perception.
Key Points:
Targeting of Journalists in Gaza:
Media Bias and Propaganda:
Shift in Media Narratives:
Public Influence on Media:
International Response:
Calls for Ceasefire and International Action:
Disproportionate Casualties:
Critique of Western Media and Governments:
Notable Quotes:
Yumna El Sayed [10:29]:
“This time it has been a genocide, not a war.”
Yumna El Sayed [13:24]:
“Mainstream media was basically just parroting what the Israeli propaganda was saying...”
Yumna El Sayed [42:14]:
“14 states out of 15 voted for the end of this genocide for an instant ceasefire. And the United States used a veto against that decision.”
Discussion Highlights:
Media Integrity: Yumna underscores the critical role of independent journalism in uncovering the truth behind conflicts, warning against media's tendency to adopt powerful nations' narratives without scrutiny.
Public Engagement: She encourages listeners to seek information beyond mainstream channels, emphasizing the importance of social media and firsthand reports in understanding the real situation in Gaza.
Political Accountability: Yumna criticizes the international community, especially the United States, for its failure to act decisively against what she describes as systemic atrocities committed by Israel.
Summary:
After the interview, the episode transitions back to lighter content, including humorous interactions involving Zoe Saldana and promotional segments for various products and services. Jimmy Dore addresses additional topics, such as Elon Musk's criticism of a budget bill and Speaker Mike Johnson's responses. These segments are interspersed with satirical commentary on political figures and policies.
Key Points:
Elon Musk vs. Budget Bill: Dore discusses Elon Musk's vehement opposition to a proposed budget bill, highlighting discrepancies between political promises and actual legislative outcomes.
Speaker Mike Johnson's Defense: The conversation critiques Speaker Johnson's defense of the budget bill, pointing out inaccuracies and misleading claims about fiscal responsibility.
Satirical Takes: The episode employs satire to comment on political dynamics, including references to conspiracy theories, the influence of oligarchs, and critiques of free speech limitations.
Notable Quotes:
Jimmy Dore [48:07]:
“Elon Musk, 100% right about the big, beautiful bill... it explodes the deficit, which is going to tank our economy...”
Jimmy Dore [49:16]:
“It's corporations first and Israel first agenda, okay? While also securing historic savings of more than 1.6 trillion. Now that's a flat out lie.”
Discussion Highlights:
Political Disillusionment: Dore expresses frustration with the perceived failures of political leaders to deliver on promises, highlighting the gap between rhetoric and reality.
Media Critique: The host continues to criticize mainstream media and political narratives, advocating for alternative media sources that align more closely with his perspectives.
The episode wraps up with a return to the initial T-Mobile promotional skit, creating a full-circle experience from start to finish. The final moments reinforce the episode's structure, blending humor with pointed political commentary.
Media Bias and Responsibility: The episode underscores the significant role media plays in shaping public perception, particularly in conflict zones. Yumna El Sayed emphasizes the importance of journalistic integrity and the dangers of uncritical media support for powerful narratives.
Political Accountability: Both the interaction with Douglas Murray and the interview with Yumna El Sayed highlight the need for political leaders and media outlets to be held accountable for their roles in conflicts and humanitarian crises.
Public Awareness and Action: The discussions advocate for increased public awareness and engagement with independent media sources to challenge mainstream narratives and promote a more nuanced understanding of complex geopolitical issues.
Humor as a Tool: Throughout the episode, humor and satire are employed to critique political figures and policies, making the content more accessible while delivering substantive critiques.
Notable Quotes with Timestamps:
Douglas Murray [05:30]:
“Describing them as a death cult allows us to explain any such assertion.”
Yumna El Sayed [10:29]:
“This time it has been a genocide, not a war.”
Yumna El Sayed [13:24]:
“Mainstream media was basically just parroting what the Israeli propaganda was saying...”
Yumna El Sayed [16:05]:
“People around the world are taking their news through social media platforms...”
Yumna El Sayed [25:13]:
“Over 40,000 children were already killed...”
Yumna El Sayed [42:14]:
“14 states out of 15 voted for the end of this genocide for an instant ceasefire. And the United States used a veto against that decision.”
Jimmy Dore [48:07]:
“Elon Musk, 100% right about the big, beautiful bill...”
This episode of "The Jimmy Dore Show" delves deep into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, media bias, and political accountability, offering listeners a critical perspective on contemporary geopolitical issues. Through confrontational exchanges and insightful interviews, Jimmy Dore encourages a reevaluation of mainstream narratives and advocates for greater transparency and integrity in media reporting.