Comedian & activist: Judaism isn’t Zionism

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00:00Tyke, let me put this to you.

00:02If you're a band, you're an artist,

00:05and you're going to say things that you know are provocative,

00:09and then you're going to stand by them,

00:13shouldn't it just be, well, too bad if you don't like the consequences?

00:16They said it, and they suck to it,

00:18and they just have to wear what comes their way.

00:21I'm sure they will accept the consequences.

00:24I mean, if I have a sense of Bob Villain,

00:26and I have a decent sense of kneecap because they're from my own country,

00:29and I think they're incredible artists,

00:31they will take the consequences completely.

00:34They're anti-imperialist, anti-racist acts,

00:37and I know Bob Villain has already come out today

00:38and made a statement about the fact that it means more to him

00:41to be standing up and doing the right thing,

00:44and I think history will vindicate him.

00:45I think history will look back in this period, as I say,

00:48and they talk about this story being centred at a moment where,

00:52and supposedly this is to make Jewish people feel safer.

00:56Now, I am at rallies with Jewish people.

00:58I speak to Jewish people all the time.

01:00Jewish people are some of the strongest voices

01:01in the pro-Palestinian movement, as everyone knows.

01:04So to, again, conflate Judaism and Zionism,

01:08it's the oldest trick in the book from the Zionist perspective.

01:11But again, we're not buying it.

01:12Nobody's buying it.

01:12I don't for a moment feel like,

01:15I know many fans of kneecap, for instance, who are Jewish.

01:17They don't feel unsafe by what kneecap are doing.

01:20And even if it was a sense that we have to make Jewish people feel more safe,

01:24of course, I would support that whatsoever.

01:26I don't believe it's a rule of having me to do it.

01:32I don't believe it's a rule of being brought to you.

01:44I don't believe it's a rule of being brought to you yet.