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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why More People Are Talking About Israel's Influence on America' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-29. Transcript available.

I mean, I saw this list, and I'm like, well, first of all, Miss Rachel's on it.
That's when they lost me.
I was like, what are you guys doing?
If Miss Rachel has to come out, because she was obviously anti the war in Gaza,
anti the genocide, and we've spoken up about it.
I mean, there's no doubt in my heart and mind that it's a genocide.
People can have other thoughts that they want, and that's fine.
If you have your thoughts, that's great.
I'm glad that you do.
It just seems like that is a wrong thing.
There was not a lot of question about it for me.
Like, I learned about the history of the land, and then I was like, well, this
is just wrong.
There's no reason that these children have to be getting killed, that they're
experimenting with different weapons and different tactics on this kind of like
basically this imprisoned group over there.
And then when I saw this in Miss Rachel, I was like, what are we doing?
Like, would you need Bert and Ernie to come out and say that it's a genocide?
Like, at what point do people not trust what they're seeing anymore?
I think I'm kind of amazed.
That's the part that's made me think sometimes like I'm in this weird blender
or aquarium.
It's like, should more people speak up?
Have not an – like, it almost – like, why do you feel crazy for speaking up?
Like, it just should feel like there's more.
But then it's not my place to think that somebody else should feel the same way
or should feel okay about sharing stuff.
And it gets kind of scary.
You know, it definitely gets super scary.
Why?
I think because – I think because, you know, I think you don't know the –
you don't really know what's going on.
I think that's what it is.
And if they would just say, hey, America is a country that's owned by Israel or
that it's always been just this outpost or it's this LLC of Israel or it's this
– or of this – or maybe not even of Israel.
It could just be of corporate entities.
I'm not really sure exactly.
But if they would just tell us, then you can operate from a place of knowing
what's going on.
But for some reason, there's this weird secretiveness about stuff.
And when things are a secret, it feels evil because it feels like it's in the
dark, right?
And then when you see like we're watching people dying and kids dying and it's
supposed to feel like it's just in with the next reel and the next trend dance
or whatever, it's just – it all becomes confusing.
And so those are moments where you do have to lock in, you know, just prayer,
asking God, what am I supposed to do?
Just trusting like the part inside of yourself that you feel like you've
developed over time that's honest, I guess, or just trying to trust your heart,
you know?
I don't know.
Does that make any sense even?
Not only does it make sense, it's so beautifully expressed.
Yes, it makes perfect sense.
And I think a lot of people watch – I'll speak for myself.
I've been brooding on this because my whole job is to try and find out what's
happening and then explain it.
And it's just an endless series of frustrating cul-de-sacs where you're like,
why can't we know this, that, the other thing?
I mean, whatever the story is.
And in the last two weeks, I feel like I've gotten closer to understanding what's
actually going on.
And of course, I could be completely wrong, but I'm not.
And it's made me so much happier because the conclusion – I've sort of let go
of a lot of my frustration and fear because I've realized that we already know
exactly what this is.
We don't know a lot of the details, you know, could be wrong about this or that,
you know?
But big picture, we know exactly what's going on.
In five years, what is – what am I a citizen of?
Am I a citizen of a country that does genocides?
Am I a citizen – you know, who am I?
You know, like I think I was watching some of the Gaza stuff and I kept
thinking like, well, surely America will come in at some point and help.
And stop this.
Right.
That was like my thought.
Especially since we're not – when you say genocide, you're not guessing.
It's not like some propaganda term.
It's the definition.
And we know that not just from the video of its victims but from the testimony
of the people perpetrating it.
Members of the current government, hot cabinet secretaries in the current
Israeli government are on tape, including this week, saying we kill them
because of how they were born.
Is that true?
Oh, my – yeah.
Like what's an example of that?
Smotrich, Smotrich, Ben-Kavir.
Oh, many – look, we need to get them out.
Let me see that, man.
These are people who were born there.
I just want to see if that's –
Oh, it's insane.
It is?
Because look, people – you know, you often hear apologists for what's
happening there, for the atrocities say, well, look, it's war.
People die.
Okay.
One of the reasons I'm not that enthusiastic about war because innocents die.
We always have to oppose the murder of innocents or else we're not civilized.
What is civilization?
We're on the good side.
We're civilized.
They're savages.
There are a lot of savages in this world.
I know some.
And what separates the savage from the civilized person is the civilized person
will never accept the murder of innocents.
You didn't do anything wrong.
We can't kill you.
It's that simple.
Well, just I don't like if it's unfair.
That's the definition of unfair.
You didn't do anything.
A child didn't do anything.
Yeah.
Or an unarmed woman did not deserve to be murdered.
And who is this?
That's the finance minister of Israel.
The truth is, until the last hostage returns, we shouldn't even give water to
the Gaza Strip.
For a year and a half, we've been beating the hell out of Hamas.
We're breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble with total
unprecedented destruction in the world.
And the world still hasn't stopped us.
The aim is to achieve the one and only required outcome, the conquest of Gaza,
the annihilation of Hamas, and the return of all the hostages.
In one word, victory.
So that's their view on it right there, you know, he's saying we're killing
people and leveling the country in order to move the population out.
So how is that different from saying there are certain people in my capital
city I don't want here.
I'm going to put them on trains and move them east.
There's no difference.
People are being killed and expelled from the place where they were born
because of their bloodline.
That, in the world that I grew up in, which is the United States of America,
the main lesson, the lesson of World War II, the reason we fought against fascism
was we reject that.
Yeah, that's the thing.
We do not kill people or expel them or put them on trains or put them in internment
camps or move them to, quote, third countries, as Smoshas just said, because of
how they were born.
Exactly, because of their bloodline.
Because we don't accept that because we're Christians.
We think that every person was created as an individual and judged as an
individual, period.
And this to me has—
We don't believe in this shit.
That's the enemy of civilization right there.
The Israelis, to be clear, are not the only people who think this way.
Plenty of people think this way.
But we are better than all of them because we don't think this way.
And all of a sudden, you've got people in the United States, current United
States government.
You've got people in our media class.
They're all defending this because they agree with it.
And then you see people jumping up and being like, Muslims shouldn't have jobs
in the United States or in the U.S. government.
It's like, how is that better than saying Jews shouldn't have jobs or
Christians or Buddhists?
It's all the same.
That kind of thinking is genocidal.
It leads to the genocide we're watching right now in Gaza and to many other genocides.
For the fifth time, it's not just Israel.
It does this, okay?
But this is what we're fighting against.
This is why we're better.
Why are we better?
Because we have more and better shopping?
Or because we have, you know, Mount Shasta and Key West?
No.
Because we have some moral compass.
Exactly.
And we're able to also take care of ourselves at the same time, I think.
But our moral compass is what?
It's based on what's north of our moral compass.
We don't kill innocents.
And yes, we have, and we regret it, and we grieve over it because it's wrong.
That's our moral compass right there.
If you didn't do anything wrong, we don't get to kill you or expel you from
your home because you're innocent.
Because we believe in justice, also called fairness.
That's the whole fucking point of this country.
And so when I see people arguing against that or calling me a Nazi when they're
literally wholesale adopting the Nazi mindset,
But then I think, you know what?
I'm not mad.
This is the state of play in life.
It's always been this way.
And my job is what?
To love the people around me and to tell the truth no matter what.
And I think that's freeing.
Yeah.
Well, I think, I do think once you say like, yeah, if I get to a point where I
can just share what I think or what I feel,
whether I'm right or wrong.
Yes.
If I can speak up for my feelings.
But then also if you look at our history, we kind of, America did that to other
people when it started.
Yes.
And you would think that we'd learn that it was wrong.
And that's where we are now.
Well, we've acknowledged that it's wrong, I think.
I mean, look, there's a, you can acknowledge something is wrong without, you
know, self-flagellating to the point where you're incapable of like going
forward.
Right.
That's the problem.
It's like you can't do it to the point where you're incapable of going forward.
Like, oh, well, we also, this, this mistake was made not by us.
This mistake was made by people in the past or at that time who believed that
colonialism was fine and that was a different, people were playing by a
different set of rules.
But that's the whole point of America is that we have like standards of decency,
fairness.
I love that you use that word because that is the core of it.
It's fairness.
With TikTok, right?
With social media, with trying to own the companies, right?
Did you see that video with Yet and Yahoo for the TikTok ownership?
This is wild, bro.
This is a fun.
You can't fight today with swords.
That doesn't work very well.
But we have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields with which
we're engaged.
And the most important ones are on social media.
And the most important purchase that is going on right now is class.
Somebody said by followers.
How hilarious is that, dude?
That's the best.
TikTok.
TikTok.
Number one.
Number one.
And I hope it goes through because it's going to be consequential.
Imagine saying that.
What is that?
Why did he say that, do you think?
Why did he just confirm every crazed anti-Semitic conspiracy online?
Jews control everything.
And there's literally the prime minister of Israel being like, yes, we control
everything.
Why would he say something?
First of all, he, like Barry Weiss, is kind of stupid, clever, ruthless, but
stupid, not creative at all.
There's that.
But there's a deeper reason.
Because he's trying to inspire hatred.
He's trying to inspire hatred.
Yes, we control everything.
And I'm not falling for it.
I'm not going to be a hater.
I don't care what they do.
Well, I mean, we're being a hater in the sense where, like, if you hate against
him, but I guess if you're saying it's evil, then, yeah, hating evil isn't
wrong, right?
But here's what I'm wondering, it's like, if you teach me, like, growing up,
like, about the Holocaust, you teach me about Nazis, you teach me about evil,
and then I take what I've learned, right?
And I apply it to the world, and I see it.
I see it point blank.
I see it in Gaza.
I see it in the Middle East.
I see it in Palestine.
And it's the first one where you see these things happening.
Like, it's almost like, well, if I had seen slavery on my phone, I'd be like,
this is fucked up.
If I had seen, you know, it's like, it's the first thing you see, and—
Did you see that chick who was at some conference recently?
I think she was, like, Carmela Harris's speechwriter, former speechwriter, and
she's like, you know, we made a huge mistake, like, talking too much about the
Holocaust, because now people are comparing what's happening in Gaza to the
Holocaust.
But it's like, don't come and gaslight me to think now I'm wrong for seeing
this, and then, and then, imagine if—
Shit, we never should have mentioned the Nazis, because we set absolute
standards of behavior that we're now failing to meet, and we're being blamed.
It's like, are you—
And then now when this guy says they want to buy TikTok so that the influence
is different, like, it's just like, I don't understand why are we the only
people that feel—or why aren't more people activated about this?
It's like watching—
Okay, but can I just make you feel better?
It's like watching something horrible happen, and we can't even ask our own
country for help.
That's the crazy part.
I can't believe that half of our representatives aren't speaking up and saying
something like, hey, we're going to shut this down.
This is wrong.
We're not going to let—because wasn't he condemned by the ICC for—
Yeah.
They don't care.
He was a condemned war criminal, right?
Is that right?
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah.
And I just don't understand how regular people, comedians, and, you know, a guy
who loves Johnson and Murphy from Maine are the ones who are fucking having to
speak up about that.
Like, what is going on?
Thank you.

Why More People Are Talking About Israel's Influence on America

I mean, I saw this list, and I'm like, well, first of all, Miss Rachel's on it.
That's when they lost me.
I was like, what are you guys doing?
If Miss Rachel has to come out, because she was obviously anti the war in Gaza,
anti the genocide, and we've spoken up about it.
I mean, there's no doubt in my heart and mind that it's a genocide.
People can have other thoughts that they want, and that's fine.
If you have your thoughts, that's great.
I'm glad that you do.
It just seems like that is a wrong thing.
There was not a lot of question about it for me.
Like, I learned about the history of the land, and then I was like, well, this
is just wrong.
There's no reason that these children have to be getting killed, that they're
experimenting with different weapons and different tactics on this kind of like
basically this imprisoned group over there.
And then when I saw this in Miss Rachel, I was like, what are we doing?
Like, would you need Bert and Ernie to come out and say that it's a genocide?
Like, at what point do people not trust what they're seeing anymore?
I think I'm kind of amazed.
That's the part that's made me think sometimes like I'm in this weird blender
or aquarium.
It's like, should more people speak up?
Have not an – like, it almost – like, why do you feel crazy for speaking up?
Like, it just should feel like there's more.
But then it's not my place to think that somebody else should feel the same way
or should feel okay about sharing stuff.
And it gets kind of scary.
You know, it definitely gets super scary.
Why?
I think because – I think because, you know, I think you don't know the –
you don't really know what's going on.
I think that's what it is.
And if they would just say, hey, America is a country that's owned by Israel or
that it's always been just this outpost or it's this LLC of Israel or it's this
– or of this – or maybe not even of Israel.
It could just be of corporate entities.
I'm not really sure exactly.
But if they would just tell us, then you can operate from a place of knowing
what's going on.
But for some reason, there's this weird secretiveness about stuff.
And when things are a secret, it feels evil because it feels like it's in the
dark, right?
And then when you see like we're watching people dying and kids dying and it's
supposed to feel like it's just in with the next reel and the next trend dance
or whatever, it's just – it all becomes confusing.
And so those are moments where you do have to lock in, you know, just prayer,
asking God, what am I supposed to do?
Just trusting like the part inside of yourself that you feel like you've
developed over time that's honest, I guess, or just trying to trust your heart,
you know?
I don't know.
Does that make any sense even?
Not only does it make sense, it's so beautifully expressed.
Yes, it makes perfect sense.
And I think a lot of people watch – I'll speak for myself.
I've been brooding on this because my whole job is to try and find out what's
happening and then explain it.
And it's just an endless series of frustrating cul-de-sacs where you're like,
why can't we know this, that, the other thing?
I mean, whatever the story is.
And in the last two weeks, I feel like I've gotten closer to understanding what's
actually going on.
And of course, I could be completely wrong, but I'm not.
And it's made me so much happier because the conclusion – I've sort of let go
of a lot of my frustration and fear because I've realized that we already know
exactly what this is.
We don't know a lot of the details, you know, could be wrong about this or that,
you know?
But big picture, we know exactly what's going on.
In five years, what is – what am I a citizen of?
Am I a citizen of a country that does genocides?
Am I a citizen – you know, who am I?
You know, like I think I was watching some of the Gaza stuff and I kept
thinking like, well, surely America will come in at some point and help.
And stop this.
Right.
That was like my thought.
Especially since we're not – when you say genocide, you're not guessing.
It's not like some propaganda term.
It's the definition.
And we know that not just from the video of its victims but from the testimony
of the people perpetrating it.
Members of the current government, hot cabinet secretaries in the current
Israeli government are on tape, including this week, saying we kill them
because of how they were born.
Is that true?
Oh, my – yeah.
Like what's an example of that?
Smotrich, Smotrich, Ben-Kavir.
Oh, many – look, we need to get them out.
Let me see that, man.
These are people who were born there.
I just want to see if that's –
Oh, it's insane.
It is?
Because look, people – you know, you often hear apologists for what's
happening there, for the atrocities say, well, look, it's war.
People die.
Okay.
One of the reasons I'm not that enthusiastic about war because innocents die.
We always have to oppose the murder of innocents or else we're not civilized.
What is civilization?
We're on the good side.
We're civilized.
They're savages.
There are a lot of savages in this world.
I know some.
And what separates the savage from the civilized person is the civilized person
will never accept the murder of innocents.
You didn't do anything wrong.
We can't kill you.
It's that simple.
Well, just I don't like if it's unfair.
That's the definition of unfair.
You didn't do anything.
A child didn't do anything.
Yeah.
Or an unarmed woman did not deserve to be murdered.
And who is this?
That's the finance minister of Israel.
The truth is, until the last hostage returns, we shouldn't even give water to
the Gaza Strip.
For a year and a half, we've been beating the hell out of Hamas.
We're breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble with total
unprecedented destruction in the world.
And the world still hasn't stopped us.
The aim is to achieve the one and only required outcome, the conquest of Gaza,
the annihilation of Hamas, and the return of all the hostages.
In one word, victory.
So that's their view on it right there, you know, he's saying we're killing
people and leveling the country in order to move the population out.
So how is that different from saying there are certain people in my capital
city I don't want here.
I'm going to put them on trains and move them east.
There's no difference.
People are being killed and expelled from the place where they were born
because of their bloodline.
That, in the world that I grew up in, which is the United States of America,
the main lesson, the lesson of World War II, the reason we fought against fascism
was we reject that.
Yeah, that's the thing.
We do not kill people or expel them or put them on trains or put them in internment
camps or move them to, quote, third countries, as Smoshas just said, because of
how they were born.
Exactly, because of their bloodline.
Because we don't accept that because we're Christians.
We think that every person was created as an individual and judged as an
individual, period.
And this to me has—
We don't believe in this shit.
That's the enemy of civilization right there.
The Israelis, to be clear, are not the only people who think this way.
Plenty of people think this way.
But we are better than all of them because we don't think this way.
And all of a sudden, you've got people in the United States, current United
States government.
You've got people in our media class.
They're all defending this because they agree with it.
And then you see people jumping up and being like, Muslims shouldn't have jobs
in the United States or in the U.S. government.
It's like, how is that better than saying Jews shouldn't have jobs or
Christians or Buddhists?
It's all the same.
That kind of thinking is genocidal.
It leads to the genocide we're watching right now in Gaza and to many other genocides.
For the fifth time, it's not just Israel.
It does this, okay?
But this is what we're fighting against.
This is why we're better.
Why are we better?
Because we have more and better shopping?
Or because we have, you know, Mount Shasta and Key West?
No.
Because we have some moral compass.
Exactly.
And we're able to also take care of ourselves at the same time, I think.
But our moral compass is what?
It's based on what's north of our moral compass.
We don't kill innocents.
And yes, we have, and we regret it, and we grieve over it because it's wrong.
That's our moral compass right there.
If you didn't do anything wrong, we don't get to kill you or expel you from
your home because you're innocent.
Because we believe in justice, also called fairness.
That's the whole fucking point of this country.
And so when I see people arguing against that or calling me a Nazi when they're
literally wholesale adopting the Nazi mindset,
But then I think, you know what?
I'm not mad.
This is the state of play in life.
It's always been this way.
And my job is what?
To love the people around me and to tell the truth no matter what.
And I think that's freeing.
Yeah.
Well, I think, I do think once you say like, yeah, if I get to a point where I
can just share what I think or what I feel,
whether I'm right or wrong.
Yes.
If I can speak up for my feelings.
But then also if you look at our history, we kind of, America did that to other
people when it started.
Yes.
And you would think that we'd learn that it was wrong.
And that's where we are now.
Well, we've acknowledged that it's wrong, I think.
I mean, look, there's a, you can acknowledge something is wrong without, you
know, self-flagellating to the point where you're incapable of like going
forward.
Right.
That's the problem.
It's like you can't do it to the point where you're incapable of going forward.
Like, oh, well, we also, this, this mistake was made not by us.
This mistake was made by people in the past or at that time who believed that
colonialism was fine and that was a different, people were playing by a
different set of rules.
But that's the whole point of America is that we have like standards of decency,
fairness.
I love that you use that word because that is the core of it.
It's fairness.
With TikTok, right?
With social media, with trying to own the companies, right?
Did you see that video with Yet and Yahoo for the TikTok ownership?
This is wild, bro.
This is a fun.
You can't fight today with swords.
That doesn't work very well.
But we have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields with which
we're engaged.
And the most important ones are on social media.
And the most important purchase that is going on right now is class.
Somebody said by followers.
How hilarious is that, dude?
That's the best.
TikTok.
TikTok.
Number one.
Number one.
And I hope it goes through because it's going to be consequential.
Imagine saying that.
What is that?
Why did he say that, do you think?
Why did he just confirm every crazed anti-Semitic conspiracy online?
Jews control everything.
And there's literally the prime minister of Israel being like, yes, we control
everything.
Why would he say something?
First of all, he, like Barry Weiss, is kind of stupid, clever, ruthless, but
stupid, not creative at all.
There's that.
But there's a deeper reason.
Because he's trying to inspire hatred.
He's trying to inspire hatred.
Yes, we control everything.
And I'm not falling for it.
I'm not going to be a hater.
I don't care what they do.
Well, I mean, we're being a hater in the sense where, like, if you hate against
him, but I guess if you're saying it's evil, then, yeah, hating evil isn't
wrong, right?
But here's what I'm wondering, it's like, if you teach me, like, growing up,
like, about the Holocaust, you teach me about Nazis, you teach me about evil,
and then I take what I've learned, right?
And I apply it to the world, and I see it.
I see it point blank.
I see it in Gaza.
I see it in the Middle East.
I see it in Palestine.
And it's the first one where you see these things happening.
Like, it's almost like, well, if I had seen slavery on my phone, I'd be like,
this is fucked up.
If I had seen, you know, it's li