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world's most powerful office? >> i'll ask the new york times, teddy schleifer to rear its ugly head in europe and america, what are you israel's envoy combating anti-semitism. mikhail kotler once tells me what can be done to stop it donald trump is inaugurated again, but his vision for his second term is becoming clearer, especially after he announced a slew of cabinet picks this week. >> the people he wants on his diplomacy slash national security team includes senator marco rubio as secretary of state. defense secretary, congressman mike waltz as national security advisor and former congresswoman tulsi gabbard as director of national intelligence. joining me to discuss the worldview of trump 2.0 is elbridge colby. he was a high level pentagon official in the first trump term. he's also

the author of the strategy of denial american defense in an age of great power conflict. elbridge welcome to the program. for the sake of time let's just focus on one of these picks. and that is pete hegseth for defense secretary. he's a current fox news host. you praised this decision. he is a decorated combat veteran and ivy league graduate, but he has never run an organization. the size and scale of the largest bureaucracy in the world given its significance. what gives you assurance that that he is the right man for this job? >> i think what's really important to bear in mind and what's a bit different than eight years ago, is i think these people are being appointed to carry through on president trump's very clear of american america. first, common sense, foreign policy, peace through strength. this is something senator rubio emphasized in his tweet thanking the president elect for his his nomination. i think in the case of pete hegseth, he you know, he's a very compelling pick for this really important job. as president trump pointed out he's very aligned with the america first foreign policy. he's a combat

decorated combat veteran he's a very good sort of proponent or exponent of of the vision. he has a real concern for america's veterans and the families of america's service members. so i think it's a very compelling case. i think i'd also stress something really important, bianna, which is that the traditional credentialed establishment most of it they have a lot of experience, but they've driven our foreign policy into the ditch. so in order to have change, like, if you will president trump, who had never served in elected office before 2016, you're going to need people who are more going to come from the outside let's turn to china, which you view as one of the greatest threats facing the united states. >> china, as you know, has invested a lot of resources and funding into building up its military especially its naval capabilities. it's deployed weapons such as hypersonic missiles which the u.s. is still testing. is the u.s. prepared to take on an emboldened chinese military? >> well, i would say it's clearly the greatest challenge

to the united states, and that was something that came out of president trump's term that the biden administration carried along. the problem is is that despite a lot of rhetoric, the biden administration did not follow up on that despite saying it was going to prioritize the challenge from china. the biden administration, especially in the military context, ended up using up a lot of our scarce weapons and industrial capacity in europe and the middle east without increasing defense spending or revitalizing our defense industrial base. so we are way out of position. we're really in trouble. don't take it from me, tony blinken and bill burns have said xi jinping has instructed the chinese military to be ready for a war over taiwan or the first island chain by 2027. the other day, biden's secretary of the air force frank kendall, said he believes that the chinese military will say they are ready. so the way i think about it, we're headed right to the iceberg. we're now a couple thousand yards away. we fundamentally do need change. so i'm actually encouraged, really encouraged to see people like pete hegseth who are who are clearly change agents. and that's the mandate that president trump ran on. yes. a very strong military. yes. a revitalized industrial base. but in the in the service of

peace. that's not what we've had the last few years sticking to china. >> the trump policy, though, of america first, has really alarmed not only officials here in the united states and the biden administration, but obviously allies in the region, something that president biden has invested a lot of time and resources into focusing on. and that's including japan, south korea and obviously australia. so how do you factor in an america first while trying to deter china without perhaps these alliances that president biden says is central to deterring china? >> well, let me rebut something right quick, which is that this is not an anti alliance approach. this is actually a better approach for u.s. allies. now, the first and foremost point here is that the united states, our foreign policy, and this is something the american people have clearly given president trump a mandate for, is to put our interests first, not in a aggressive or whatever way, but in a way that clearly prioritizes us instead of these vague kind of abstractions like

the rules based international order that don't do that. and here's the thing, bianna, president biden didn't do our allies, let alone the american people, but didn't do our allies any, any, any favors by promising the moon and failing to deliver. look at ukraine. look at the under preparation in places like taiwan and even japan, despite a lot of rhetoric, here's what you see since president trump's election. let's look at the china problem. it's very clear to everybody, including the biden administration, that taiwan needs to do a lot more for its own self-defense yet taiwan was being laggardly actually its defense spending as a proportion of gdp was going to decline. this year. yet after president trump's election, the financial times is reporting that taiwan is looking to make major new defense acquisitions. so the real question is what is the right policy and what's better for first and foremost, the american people, but also our allies? it's the trump foreign policy, which, by the way, the record speaks for itself. look at the last three years versus trump's policy before that. his administration, any reasonable observer obviously sees the record of president trump as superior.

>> should president trump publicly commit to defending taiwan if they are attacked by china, which president biden has done? a number of memy own w is that the traditional policy of strategic ambiguity, which president trump, in keeping with the preceding democrat and republican presidents, have hewed to, is the right policy. >> while we prepare the american military to be able to defend taiwan. now, this is an issue of what's called declaratory policy. what do we say publicly president biden radically broke with that policy without backing it up and then had it walked back by his staff. that's kind of like the worst thing to do. the main problem of the biden-harris foreign policy was they talked a lot and and carried a small stick. what we need is actually the reverse, which is more military power, not only in our part but on the part of our allies and economic flexibility and a kind of attuned ness, a sort of, if you will, almost like a sensitivity to our adversaries and our willingness to engage with them. i don't mean to be just

nice for its own sake but why are we going around stepping on things like strategic ambiguity? why do you have people calling xi jinping evil and foreclosing the negotiating space? that's not good sense. that's not an old democratic way. and that's also not an old republican way. that's not how we got through the cold war. >> robert colby, we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you up next on gps. >> we'll drill down on another aspect of trump's foreign policy, the middle east. that's when we come back you by fisher investments. >> clearly different money management we just want to have enough money for retirement and travel to visit our grandchildren. i understand that's why at fisher investments, we start by getting to know each other so i can learn about your family, lifestyle, goals and needs, allowing us to tailor your portfolio. >> what about commission based products? >> we don't sell those. >> we're a fiduciary obligated

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arkansas governor mike huckabee as u.s. ambassador to israel. huckabee is a pro-settlement, self-proclaimed zionist who opposes a two state solution and has said, quote there's really no such thing as a palestinian. unquote. on the iran front, observers expect trump to reinstate his maximum pressure policy against the islamic strategies play out in a region that looks quite different from trump's first term? joining me now to discuss is mark dubowitz ceo of the foundation for defense of democracies. mark, welcome to the program so i was going to begin just there where it's largely expected that donald trump will resume his maximum pressure policy. that's only reinforced by the security team and foreign policy team that he's assembled but just this week, the new york times is reporting that elon musk met with iran's ambassador to the un in new york last week on ways to defuze tensions between the two. what do you make of that

so, bianna, thanks for having me on the show. >> i think president trump is very concerned that during the lame duck period between the election and january 20th, when he takes office, that iran may move to develop a at least a crude nuclear device and establish itself as a nuclear weapons power. so i think there's an attempt now to defuze tensions and try to suggest to the iranians that there is a pathway for diplomacy and a potential nuclear deal, but also if they continue to defy the united states and the international community that maximum pressure is on its way right. >> because trump withdrew from the iran nuclear deal in his first term, an international monitors say that iran has only capable of developing a nuclear weapon in its nuclear program. interesting to note axios was reporting that israel, during its retaliatory strike in late october, actually destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility. this, according to three u.s. officials and an israeli official as well. you're in

israel right now. what more yeah, i mean, first of all, it's important to understand that most of iran's nuclear expansion, including this weaponization work occurred under president biden's watch because i think the iranians understood that there was really no consequences if they were to expand their nuclear program. >> the site is a very sensitive site called parchin it's known to international inspectors, and it seems as if iran is engaged in at least an initial weaponization work, which is a blockbuster revelation because the u.s. intelligence community, since is that iran never engaged in weaponization work. and and certainly the israelis have discovered that that indeed is not true, bombed the site. and iran has denied ever engaging in weaponization work. so certainly the israelis did not defy president biden's command to them, not to touch nuclear sites. >> prime minister netanyahu has been very transparent that israel will not allow for iran

to develop a bomb, but how do you envision a trump administration in response to that? if if the trump administration has made it very clear. >> and president elect himself, that they will do everything to support israel, to for the israeli military to use military force to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. i think he said that he immediately is going to greenlight all of the weapons systems and ammunition that have been delayed in the past number of months, and so that all will be expedited. and as well give the israelis the kind of perhaps massive ordnance penetrators and strategic systems that they need to really destroy iran's deeply buried enrichment facilities. >> would the u.s. itself be involved militarily though well, it's certainly us presidents. >> since president clinton have

committed to use all the instruments of national power to prevent iran from acquiring or developing nuclear weapons, president biden made that written declaration in 2022, and president trump has made it clear that he'll do everything in his power to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons so multiple us presidents have committed to this. all instruments of national power certainly imply a military power but i think there is some skepticism here in israel that the united states will actually do that directly and instead will just provide israel with everything israel needs in order for israel to do it. >> yeah, that skepticism only reinforced by some comments recently made by j.d. vance, who said it would not be u.s. policy to engage in war with iran. trump's signature mideast achievement in his first term was the abraham accords. president biden, of course, tried to expand that to include saudi arabia. that was upended after the october seventh attacks and then the subsequent war in gaza. interesting to note that mbs just this week called that war a genocide how can a trump

administration attempt to revive what's being dubbed abraham 2.0? >> look, i think there was certainly in riyadh they were probably high fiving in the royal court on election night with president trump coming back in. i think the saudis believe that, you know, the trump administration will have their back in the confrontation that riyadh is engaged in with iran. so i think they'll be with that kind of us assurance. i think it'll be more likely that mbs will move towards not only a security agreement and a defense agreement with the united states, but normalization with israel certainly doesn't help for mbs to to be making the false claim that israel is engaged in genocide. i think there are a lot of pro-israel supporters in washington very upset by those comments. and i know mbs certainly has a number of priorities, including security and defense treaties, a huge i treaty that he's negotiating with the biden administration. i think those comments are going to undermine support for the saudis in washington. so he's going to need to make a bold move on the on the

normalization front with israel and cool the rhetoric. i think that's probably an important message that the trump administration will be sending to riyadh in the coming days and months. >> yeah, and of course, there are many in the region that hope that president trump could convince prime minister netanyahu to agree to a cease fire hostage deal as well. mark dubowitz great to see you. thanks so much. >> thanks, brianna. appreciate it. >> next on gps, many in the foreign policy establishment fear what will become of ukraine under a trump presidency. i'll talk to the former commanding general of the u.s. army europe, when we come back political analysis. >> we have questions how biden set the right answer stayed awake. >> why did trump pull out of 60 minutes? >> i love pulling out. >> this is a news network. >> have i got news for you? saturday at nine, the oil business effects everything in a town like this. >> i wouldn't want to have your job this week. >> you wouldn't want to have

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that stands to lose more from a trump presidency than ukraine. >> trump has repeatedly criticized the biden administration's aid to ukraine and promised a speedy end to the conflict, suggesting that he will push a negotiated settlement with russia that says ukraine has lost about 20% of its 1991 territory to russia russia's kursk region faces a massive challenge as 50,000 russian and north korean troops massed to retake the land. joining me now to talk about the situation in ukraine and the prospects for peace is retired lieutenant general ben hodges the former commanding general of the u.s. army europe. lieutenant general, thank you so much for taking the time. before we get to what a trump administration may mean for the war in ukraine, let's talk about the current battlefield situation. russia has been advancing faster since this summer. ukrainian forces are steadily losing in the east. does it even make sense at this point to talk about a ukrainian victory?

>> well, i think that the way you've characterized it, that russia is steadily advancing and that russia and that ukraine is losing is not necessarily accurate. after 11 years, russia still only controls about 20% of ukraine with every single advantage. that's the best that they can do. and that's without the united states or other western countries doing everything necessary to help ukraine win. we've never even committed to that as an objective. in fact, i would say we actually haven't even tried. we haven't used all of the economic tools, for example, to cut off russia's ability to export oil and gas to india and china. so it really is up to the west. do we have the political will to defend the so-called international rules based order which benefits the united states that means stopping russia as well as deterring china. >> well, it appears that's not the policies and the

see a specific one from president trump, other than saying that he plans to end this war on day one. and there's a lot of talk now, given the losses that ukraine has recently faced, that they may at some point have to go to the negotiating table ready to agree to give up land in return to some sort of security guarantees. what are the security guarantees that you think ukraine could say yes to at this point, to bring this war to an end? >> well, look you are correct, bianna, that if the west does not do more than what we have been doing, if we don't commit to helping ukraine win, then the best that ukraine will be able to hope for is some sort of negotiated outcome the problem is the the person on the other side of the negotiating table is vladimir putin. and there's zero evidence that they will ever live up to any agreement that they've ever made unless they are forced to. so this will be an important thing to consider going forward. if there are going to be any kind of negotiations. our allies in

eastern europe, as well as the ukrainians, are not confused about the threat that russia represents. they know what happens when the red army shows up in a town or a village they know that there will be millions of ukrainian refugees that will pour into central and western europe as a result of this. and they know that nobody was serious. money is going to invest in the reconstruction of ukraine after russia is allowed to keep the 20% that it has already taken. so it's bad economic impact for the united states. and for europe. it's bad potential, increased risk of a fight, direct fight between nato and russia. and it sends a signal united states and our allies do not have the political will to defend sovereignty, freedom of navigation, respect for international agreements. that's the problem with the negotiated outcome. >> well, as you know, we're hearing more and more voices suggest that perhaps the united states should work to rectify its relationship with russia to

isolate china. so that seems to oppose the points you've been making and obviously, the policy of the biden administration thus far in this war. but going back to what security guarantees do you think ukraine could agree to the option of joining nato was never really on the table in the imminent future. it appears to be even further put on the back burner with an incoming trump administration. so what are the security guarantees that you think would be acceptable to ukraine stability and sovereignty. even if they do have to give up the land, the 20% or so land that russia currently occupies. >> well obviously, the only real security guarantee is nato membership. that's that's the one guarantee that russia respects, which is why they didn't want ukraine to ever be a part of nato because then it would limit their ability to try and influence what happens on their frontier countries around russia short of that, i

think that you're going to see some european countries that realize that they are not able to help protect ukraine from further russian aggression. and i've already mentioned the refugees, the disruption of food and energy shipments. and so on. and of course, the russian army will absorb thousands of ukrainian troops into the red army if they are successful in this conflict. so i can imagine a scenario where some european countries agree to put troops along some sort of demilitarized area, but again, the the russians have never respected anything like that. they would have to agree to some sort of line that would be imposed and to be honest, i think without u.s. participation of some sort, i don't know how successful something like this will be. >> going back and no doubt europe will have to step up here in terms of its support. and i think they're pretty

aware of that. as the trump administration begins. but let me ask you about the developments that we've seen over the last few months. and that is this mutual defense agreement between russia and north korea. we've seen north korean troops now on the battlefield. short term, this does help the issue of the manpower concern among russian troops. longer term, what are the implications of this alliance? >> well it's a great question. north korea is providing it looks like between 10 and 12,000 troops as far as i can tell. they bring no combat experience with them. so you've got thousands of troops that will be used by the russian side either as additional fodder pushed into the meat grinder like russian troops are, or maybe they'll be used in a separate area. they've been referred to a couple of times as north korean special forces, but i don't think that they are special forces in the way that

the uk. they probably are super fit, motivated, but they don't bring combat experience. so i'm anxious to see how that turns out. and then also i think about this experiment. i mean, north korean troops that have never been outside of north korea, they're being exposed to not only different cultures and opportunities. even in russia where already reports of north korean soldiers consuming online and industrial scale, i don't know what it's going to be like when these guys are they actually going to go home? are they going to be allowed back in north korea assuming that they survive or do these guys start surrendering in hopes of getting out of there? so there's a lot of >> ukraine are already confirming that they are on the battlefield in kursk there as well lieutenant general ben hodges, thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> next on gps. what can we expect when the world's richest man, elon musk has

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seen in and around mar-a-lago ever since the election and traveled to washington this week with the president elect, trump announced tuesday that musk would co-lead a new entity called the department of government efficiency, the details of which remain murky. so what can we expect from the trump? musk alliance? teddy schleifer of the new york times writes about billionaires and their impacts on american politics, and he joins me now. teddy, great to see you. so you describe elon musk as the most powerful private citizen he's played an outside role throughout the campaign, and now he's involved in the staffing and policy decisions as well. he sits in on calls with world leaders. as we noted, he traveled with the president elect to washington to meet with congressional republicans. just walk us through how unusual this is and give us some of more of your reporting on their relationship. >> sure. i mean, it is definitely unusual. look it's not unusual for there to be billionaires who have, you know, an imprint on american politics or even to spend, you

know, 100 or $200 million. but i think you know, the elon musk imprint on the transition effort outstrips even what the trump team and even somewhat elon's friends expected. you know, they knew that he cared a lot about the stakes of the election. obviously, they knew that he controlled twitter and you know, obviously that wasn't going to end after election day. but elon musk has involved himself in a way that he frequently does, meaning rolling up his sleeves, getting personally involved, no detail is too minute. and you know musk, who runs, you know, 3 or 4 other companies at the same time is investing his time in this. i mean, elon musk has been at mar-a-lago basically nonstop since election night, and that just tells you just how in the weeds he's getting. he's in every meeting. he's weighing in on every decision. um, you know, he's not even technically on the transition committee. there is a transition committee of 5 or 6 people, including jd vance, uh, donald trump jr., people like that. uh, elon is not on that yet in some ways, that's

because he outstrips the entire committee itself. >> trump announced that elon musk will now co-lead a new government body. we don't know much detail about it, but it's called the department of government efficiency. and some of the knives are already out for him in washington dc. if he follows through on his pledge to cut some $2 trillion in government spending can we expect some backlash in retaliation from washington? >> he'll make enemies. but i think he also is going to have a lot of fans that he didn't have before, too. so yeah, there will be knives out, but there's also this whole kind of world of of of conservative, um, uh online figures and also just people in the trump inner circle who are deeply appreciative of elon's commitment. and he, you know, he really has chosen a team here, right? i mean, it's funny that when elon musk, uh, less than a year ago, really was, you know, describing himself as this proud moderate, how he off the right and the left, as he puts it equally, um um, and that's no longer the case he's clearly fairly or not coded as a right wing figure.

um, his like a moderate super pac. >> um obviously spent $200 million for trump. um so he is a um, a republican period. um, and that's okay but, um, you know, he is going to be attacked by lots of democrats, you know i do think that, um, you know, you've already seen the course of the campaign, lots of liberals, including the harris campaign, have really uh, sunk their teeth into him. and i think it's only going to continue. plus, you know who's to say what happens four years from now or eight years from now when republicans are no longer in power? elon has taken this big brand risk and really aligned himself with a party that, um, likes him for now, and a president that likes him for now but we'll see. >> it is quite stunning to read some of the details in the reporting about their relationship, and elon musk's style of just throwing out ideas left, right and center that some of them not realistic at best, but donald trump seems to be receptive to them now.

>> yeah. you know when you talk with the trump team um, and you can kind of see it honestly in some of trump's public remarks about elon musk. um trump seems almost mesmerized by him um, you know, i'm thinking about his speech on election night where trump was going on and on about elon and the rockets and, you know, spent like, you know, 3 or 4 minutes kind of going on this uh, you know speech that really had nothing to do with his election night victory um, uh in part because he doesn't really know that much about, you know, elon's industry. >> he doesn't know about electric vehicles. he doesn't know about heavy manufacturing. um so trump is impressed by him and elon is very impressed by trump. >> how long do you see this relationship lasting because there are those that know both men and say there's not room for two stars in this relationship well, i mean trump's not going anywhere, obviously. >> um um, over the next four years, um you know, look, i

think look during during the first trump term, you know, people forget elon was on some of those government business coalitions that, you know eventually imploded. you know elon did have a lot of pressure from people who are liberals in his life to not get too close to trump. but i think elon is in a much different position than he was during the first trump term. he's moved to texas. his social circle is more conservative. >> um i don't think there's going to be really any external pressure on elon to, um, to, to drop trump. >> but i think what you're getting at is more of the, uh more of the egos involved here. and, look, i mean obviously you don't need to be elon musk to be dropped by donald trump. we saw during the first term, um, a number of people get dropped every, every couple of minutes um, it seems like. so, um it seems like a safe prediction that this could be the best of times for the two of them were the richest men in the world who wield enormous influence around the world. and we shall see. it's a fascinating aspect. teddy schleifer thank you so much. >> you bet. >> well up next on gps riots in amsterdam have sparked concerns

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>> late last week, amsterdam experienced what the city's mayor has called a quote, outburst of anti-semitism it happened in the wake of a soccer game between maccabi tel aviv and israeli team, and a dutch one called ajax authorities said. criminals on scooters hunted the city for supporters of the israeli team and committed hit and run attacks. >> free palestine now. >> the attacks left many maccabi supporters injured. earlier, the israeli team supporters were seen slurs and praising israel's attacks in gaza. then, this past thursday in paris, despite tight security, more tensions spilled into violence at another soccer game between france and israel. for more on what all of this means, i want to bring in mikhail kotler. she is israel's special envoy for combating anti-semitism and a former member of the knesset. mikhail, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us on this really important issue. while so many around the world were so shocked to see the

anti-semitic violence in amsterdam last week, you were not surprised. why is that so i say that devastatingly. >> of course it was a shocking event, but as you just said, bianna. indeed, i was not surprised because we would be remiss if we looked at what happened on the streets of amsterdam just last week as a single one off event. if you will. it is a part of what has been a tsunami of anti-semitism ever since the october 7th massacre, in which the state of israel was infiltrated and war crimes and crimes against humanity that murdered and butchered abducted hundreds of israelis occurred and unfathomably, in response to that attack, to those war crimes, to that those crimes against humanity, which was a kristallnacht moment of our times instead of global outrage. what we have seen systematically throughout the

more than a year is a tsunami of anti-semitism. hundreds of percentages, rise of targeting of individual jews of businesses, of anybody who self-defines or is identified as a zionist, believing that the state of israel has a right to exist. and at this moment very clear on is that what happened in amsterdam is just a part of that tsunami. >> and you're right to mention the skyrocketing skyrocketing surge in anti-semitism that we've seen since october seventh. but we've seen that trajectory even before october 7th, steadily an increase in anti-semitism over the course of the last several years. is it naive, though given the scope of what we've seen in just this last year, to assume that much of it will dissipate once this war comes to an end? and i ask you that because you have really honed in on this issue of anti-semitism, having an ability to morph into various forms. explain that

right that we saw a gradual or consistent increase in anti-semitism around the world in the 5 to 10 years before the october 7th massacre, of course. >> and indeed, i am one of about 35 special envoys for combating anti-semitism from around the world. the united states, canada the eu and so on because of that constant rise. and you are right bianna, that anti-semitism is an ever mutating viral hate. it has existed for as long as jews have existed for thousands of years and it mutates by latching onto the guiding social construct of each time. religion science. and in our case, the modern day secular religion of human rights. and so we have this new strain of anti-semitism that is anti-zionism that actually denies israel's very right to exist as an equal member state in the family of nations, so that the mechanism that demonizes and delegitimizes and applies double standards, whether it is to the individual

jew barring them from an equal place in society or demonizing delegitimizing and applying double standards to the jewish nation state. the proverbial jew among the nations, if you will, barring it from an equal place in the family of nations. now, we have seen this happening for decades. and if i had to begin with a moment in time, it is the 1975 zionism is racism. u.n. resolution, soviet propaganda passed at the un that is alive and well on 2024, university campuses and online platforms in the name of progress, just as it relates to what we saw transpire in amsterdam, tom friedman of the new york times cited the following comments by former israeli prime minister ehud olmert in an article this week. i'd like to read to you what happened in amsterdam is primarily a reflection of hatred by many muslims against the state of israel and its citizens because of what is transpiring in our region. it is not a continuation of the historical anti-semitism that swept europe in past centuries,

the sources of which are christian religious fanaticism and the lack of tolerance for the jewish people in general. what do you make of that? do you agree with his assessment so clearly? >> i beg to differ the international holocaust remembrance alliance definition the result of a very long democratic process that's actually been adopted by more than 40 countries and more than 1200 entities, actually enables us to understand that there is one definition of anti-semitism with 11 different examples that are given there from the middle ages. understanding that the jew on and so on, to the understanding that the demonization and the delegitimization and the double standards that now targets the jew among the nations the single jewish nation state is the new form, if you will, of this ever mutating virus shape shifting virus. and so not only do i beg to differ, i actually think that it disables us from being able to identify the strain of anti-semitism that is running rampant in the streets

of europe and the united states, and canada and australia, because the justification of the attack of jews, because of what it is that's happening in the state of israel, is part and parcel of that. ihra working definition of anti-semitism. only exposing and underscoring how misguided actually that notion is. anti-semitism has one definition, and it matters not if it comes from the extreme right. the radical left, or the radical islamists. they all intersect in anti-semitism at this lethal hatred that actually is. we know historically, the most reliable warning signs not just for jews, but actually for freedom and humanity and the dignity of difference. >> well, you're right to note, we've seen an alarming rise in anti-semitism in the far right and far left elements of governments around the world. michael, we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much for your time thank you very much, brianna. and really i encourage everybody watching us all the time to speak up is now and is very very often i say never again is right now as we

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