Rabbi David shares a story from his very first week in Israel as a 19-year-old Jewish man that changed his life forever: when he brought a bleeding Palestinian boy to Israeli police for help, they responded with “What are you talking about? He’s an Arab — just get rid of him.” That moment set him on a journey that led him to become one of the most vocal Jewish voices against the occupation. Meanwhile, former Congresswoman Michele Bachman has called for Gaza to be ended entirely, revealing the genocidal logic behind mainstream political rhetoric.
Replace “Arab” with Any Other Slur
Rabbi David makes a devastating point: replace the word “Arab” with any racial slur and the horror becomes immediately clear to Western audiences. A bleeding child is denied medical help because of his ethnicity — this is the daily reality of Palestinian life under occupation. But he goes further: replace “Arab” with “Jew” and go back 80 years to when Nazis were rounding up Jewish people into tiny areas with no food, no water, and the intention to exterminate them. What is happening in Gaza right now mirrors the very history that the Jewish people swore would never be repeated.
I said to the policeman in Hebrew, help this boy. And they said to me: what are you talking about? He’s an Arab. Just get rid of him. That was my first experience in Israel.
Messages from Gaza in Real Time
- While sitting for the interview, Rabbi David’s phone kept buzzing with messages from people in Gaza — a 24-year-old mother of two he has supported for years, and another woman with four children, both trapped in the horror
- The propaganda claim that Muslim mothers teach their children to hate Jews for a thousand years is “completely untrue” according to this Jewish rabbi who knows the history
- Jews thrived under Muslim rule — the Jewish community itself calls the period of Muslim Andalusia the “Golden Age” of Jewish civilization
- Kyrie Irving was highlighted as a rare celebrity who put his money where his mouth is, standing up for Palestinian rights when most were too afraid of being cancelled
No School Shooting Logic Can Justify This
The episode closes with a powerful analogy: if a school shooter took over an American elementary school, no one would accept bombing the entire building to eliminate the threat. Yet this is exactly the logic being applied to Gaza, where 2 million civilians are being collectively punished. Rabbi David’s presence on the show, receiving messages from Gazan mothers in real time, is a living testament that the bond between people of conscience transcends religion — and that the occupation is the enemy, not any faith.
We each need to do our part. There’s something greater going on here — it’s not just us. God willing, justice will prevail.
