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A Case For Israel with Noa Tishby | The Tim Dillon Show #368

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show.
We have a really exciting episode today.
Noah Tishby is here.
She is the big Israel advocate.
She was just profiled in the New York Times
and we talked to her.
Some news on the book.
I am switching publishers.
We did not really get along.
These are things that happen.
I'm not a huge fan of people editing me.
So we're trying to work it out
where we can keep some of the pre-sales.
I don't know if we can.
So you all may get refunded and then just,
there'll be no other pre-sales.
You just come buy the book when it's out in the spring.
But we couldn't really hammer out an agreement on what I wanted.
So that's the way it is.
You know, it's like, hey, who cares?
So go out.
We'll see you.
I'll do a little book tour in the spring.
We'll be out talking about the book.
This is an interesting episode.
Noah knows a lot about Israel.
She's a fierce advocate of Israel
and a staunch defender of Israel.
And I'm sure there's a lot of people that will agree with her.
And there's a lot of people that will disagree with her.
It's a very good conversation, very respectful.
I appreciate her taking the time to speak with us.
So without further ado, here is Noah Tishby.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show special guest here.
Noah Tishby.
I pronounced that right.
I became aware of you a few weeks ago when you were on your Instagram page
talking about what's going on in the Middle East.
And I read a little bit about you.
You are a very accomplished person.
You worked for Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
Nope.
No?
Well, that's very briefly, but we'll get to that in a second.
Okay.
But I wasn't completely...
I'm not completely wrong.
I was appointed.
I was appointed.
So I'm an Israeli-American.
I was born and raised in Israel.
I was an actress and a producer.
At first, I brought the first television show to the United States in treatment.
Sold it to HBO.
It was the first television format to ever make it to Israel, to America from
Israel.
I have been an Israel advocate and a Jewish advocate and worked in the anti-Semitism
space
for a very long time.
I started the first online advocacy and rapid response organization in 2011.
And last year, I was appointed by Yair Lapid, actually, to be Israel's first
special envoy
for combating anti-Semitism and delegitimization.
And I worked for the Lapid Bennett government, which was the, quote-unquote,
the good government
in terms of the American kind of left and progressives.
And then the new government got in, which is much more right-wing and much more
religious.
And I still said I wanted to continue working because I feel like the space of
anti-Semitism
is more important than any politics.
And then I criticized the attempt in a judicial overhaul in Israel and was
relieved for my position.
So I can say that I worked for the Netanyahu government for a couple of months.
Briefly.
And you were dismissed.
I was dismissed, yeah.
So you were a critic of the right-wing, what you felt was right-wing overreach
of the Netanyahu government.
Yeah, which is the perfect example of how you can criticize Israeli government
policies
while acknowledging that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state,
which is what we are actually here to discuss.
In your estimation, what has the media gotten wrong about the narrative about
what has happened
since the Hamas attack?
The question is, what did the media get wrong in the past, like, 25 years or
even more?
So first of all, let's go back for a second.
On October 7th, Israel was invaded, not by, like, a couple acute terrorists,
which is when we say a terrorist attack, you kind of think, you know, 5, 6, 10,
19,
like we had here on September 11th.
What people need to understand is that Israel was invaded by nearly 3,000
terrorists, give or take.
So it's a battalion, it's essentially a military that attacked Israel from the
south, broke the border down,
and invaded cities and towns in Kibbutzim with the clear orders to murder,
slaughter, rape, torture,
and kidnap as many people as they possibly can.
The stories, the photos, the videos that are coming out of it.
So not only did they create, like, they caused the greatest slaughter and
massacre on the Jewish people
since the Holocaust in one day.
So 1,500 now people, men, women, and children were slaughtered that day.
The level of barbarism and sadism is beyond the pale, and they filmed it.
So their intention was to show the world and the Jewish community what it is
that they're capable and willing to do.
I can't, there's the beheading of babies, the burning of families up alive.
There was a, I'm sorry to be graphic, but I'm just going to have to be.
There was a 30-year-old woman who was pregnant.
They sliced her belly open.
They pulled out the fetus, and they beheaded that fetus such that they
literally, I mean,
It's inhuman and barbaric.
Torturing families next to the children.
Like, it's unbelievable.
Right.
Right?
And this is something that Israel's been dealing with in a very small scale for
a very long time.
So there's this culture of radical Islam, radical Islamic Nazism, basically,
that is not interested in what we in the West think that they're interested in.
So what they're not interested is a two-state solution.
What they're not interested is living peacefully side by side.
What they're not interested in anything that we hold dear as our Western values.
And this is one of the things that I've been trying to warn against for a very
long time,
and a lot of us has.
Because we, you think that you can, the American, specifically like the left,
right,
is creating some sort of a projection.
They're projecting their values on the region.
And they're saying, oh, well, certainly everybody just wants to live in peace.
Right.
Like, certainly every mother just wants the children to grow up and have a
great future.
And as a liberal, living in America, when I moved from Israel to here,
it was very challenging for me to see that a lot of people don't get that.
They don't get that.
No, not everybody has the same culture.
But this is also interesting.
To answer your question about the media, I also, I wrote a book a couple of
years ago,
it came out, and it's called Israel, A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood
Country on
Earth.
And the reason I wrote that book is because I realized that there was no book
that tells
the story of Israel in a way that's easy to understand.
That's like fun, that's funny, God forbid, right?
And I literally wrote that book because the media was getting Israel wrong all
the time.
And that is, I mean, the book is selling again really well, and people are
finding it now
because everything that's happening right now, including the media, including
universities,
including all of it is written in the book because it's been something that I've
been working
on for a long time.
There has been and is an anti-Israel media bias that, as an Israeli and an
American Jew,
right, is kind of funny when people keep blaming the Jews for having a media
cabal.
Well, aren't there a lot of Jews that work in the media?
A lot of Jews working in a field doesn't equate control of the field.
No, for sure.
So here's where anti-Semitism jumps in, which is anti-Semitism is anti-Jewish
racism.
It's where you have this subconscious bias against the other people, right?
Blacks and Asians and whatever, you're kind of suspicious about them.
Gotcha.
With anti-Semitism, it's not simple racism.
So it's not, you don't just look down at something or someone, you look up at
them a
little bit.
So anti-Semitism, in essence, is a shape-shifting conspiracy theory.
And the conspiracy theory sounds like, yeah, these fucking Jews, they control
everything.
Right.
Right?
So when you think to yourself, for real, that the Jews control everything, and
a lot of
your viewers and listeners right now are like, well, don't they?
That is a conspiracy theory.
And that is what allows later on for your opinions about Israel to be
completely skewed.
Right.
And if you think that the Jews control everything, then of course Israel is the
big bad wolf,
because it's like the Jews control everything.
Right.
And we're sitting there going, we are the worst fucking cabal in the world.
Now, it was very funny to some extent, but now it's not funny anymore.
Well, no, for sure.
But is there a space, like you said, to be critical of maybe the settler
program?
Sure.
You can critic-
The expansionism of, you know, moving-
Tim, here's the thing.
Yeah.
You can be a Republican, a Democrat, a Libertarian, it doesn't matter what,
right?
Yeah.
None of us love the policies of putting kids in cages, right?
In the border.
Right.
Nobody.
Well, it was liberal Jews have been the ones who've advocated on behalf of
having a lot
of immigration.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Pause.
Pause for a second.
That's another-
Wait just a second.
Right.
Nobody is for any- There are policies in America that we don't love, right?
Sure.
Nobody's talking about dismantling America.
Right.
But I don't think any serious people are talking about dismantling Israel.
You think so?
Are you seeing what's happening in colleges?
I literally had the same argument with Bill Maher, and he's like, no.
And I'm like, yes.
The colleges have gone insane.
But that's the young American minds that are going around and saying, from the
river to
the sea, Palestine will be free.
Right.
And they're saying something like this, and this is something that I've noticed
like 10 years
ago, right?
The conversation about Israel in certain circles turned from policies, Bibi Netanyahu,
yes or no, settlements, yes or no, policies, which is totally legit to have a
conversation
about.
There's something that sounded like this, right?
Yeah.
But like, is Israel a real state, though?
Yeah.
Or is it like a colonialist settler's endeavor that needs to be dismantled?
And that is something that we can't allow to happen.
Israel's the only country that you have a debate on whether or not it should
exist.
It's insane.
I don't know of any serious person that I know of that has said Israel doesn't
have a
right to exist.
You're absolutely right.
Because the normal people that actually have education know this, but you watch
the ones
that are ripping the posters of the kidnapped kids.
Yes, they're crazy people.
But these are also the people that tell us there's 1,500 genders and I have to
learn a
new language to talk to them.
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