Jon Stewart Reveals What His Jewish Upbringing Teaches Him About Israel’s War On Gaza

“I really feel like I’m watching one thing that’s so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be advised that I’ve to close up as a result of I danger the Jewish state by talking out? I’d say the alternative,” stated Stewart in an interview with Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart.

“I believe they’re placing the probability of a surviving Jewish state far more in danger with this kind of motion. I believe they’re those being [antisemitic] … [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, with the definition of antisemitism, would most likely should bomb himself.”

Stewart, whose household is Ashkenazi Jewish, stated he discovered from Judaism that Jewish persons are the “underdog” and stated he’s “at all times appeared on the chosen individuals as form of awry.”

Stewart harassed that he is aware of what he’s seeing in Gaza, the place specialists have flagged a “worst-case situation of famine” occurring regardless of Israeli leaders like Netanyahu claiming that “no starvation” is happening there.

“And I’ve an ethical readability about what I’m seeing,” Stewart advised Beinart, who was on the “Every day Present” to advertise his new e-book “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.”

“And what I’m seeing, I believe — as somebody who was raised in Judaism — that’s what taught me that that is mistaken. What I’m seeing taking place in Gaza is mistaken,” Stewart stated.

Stewart’s interview with Beinart arrived on the identical day that two main Israeli human rights teams concluded in separate stories that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Earlier within the phase, Stewart — who has coated the Israeli-Palestinian battle a number of times on his show — took intention at those that “yell” at him and name him a “dangerous Jew” over his feedback on the struggle.

“Apparently you possibly can lose factors,” Stewart quipped.

Try Stewart’s interview with Beinart on “The Every day Present.”