Rogan: ‘You literally went through the Holocaust…and now you’re willing to do it?’
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
Joe Rogan, host of the highest-rated podcast in the world with 190 million downloads per month, accused Israel of committing a “small holocaust” in Gaza.
In an interview with comedian Kurt Metzger, Rogan alleged that the Israeli attitude towards operations in Gaza is “genocide is okay as long as we’re doing it.”
He added, “And you’re saying that from the perspective of someone who literally went through the Holocaust — or your people, your tribe — went through the f**king Holocaust, and now you’re willing to do it?”
What sparked the conversation was a discussion of Candace Owens being fired from The Daily Wire allegedly over posting and discussing anti-Israel material.
The two popular comedians discussed Owens reposting news stories from Al Jazeera alleging Israel intentionally killed four bystanders during operations in Khan Younis.
Rogan commented, “They (Israel) always say that they’re only bombing Hamas and everybody else is a casualty, well if those guys are just unarmed civilians and they’re walking alone that’s what they appear to be and you just blast them from the sky with robots.”
Metzger compared Gaza operations to the devastating Allied bombing of Dresden in World War II and also criticized IDF operations to target terrorist forces in Jabaliya.
“It’s okay to shoot through all the people; it’s sad that there are people; that’s normal, and that’s just war,” Metzger mocked.
“[Russian President Vladimir] Putin, by the way, is the most evil man in the world for nothing as f**ked up as that,” Metzger added.
After accusing Israel of intentionally starving Gazans, Metzger said Israel is fighting “against people that they hate with I would say a racial thing.”
Metzger, who was an ordained Christian minister before beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, said he understood Israelis because he once dated an Israeli woman.
Metzger went on to say that if he had converted to Judaism at the request of his girlfriend, he might have lived in Israel.
Rogan mused that Jewishness was interesting because it’s a “race you can join,” but Metzger insisted that Judaism is merely a religion and that Zionists think of being Jewish in racial terms like the Nazis did.
Metzger also alleged that calls to ban TikTok were to prevent IDF soldiers from posting their “war crimes” on the social media platform.
Joe Rogan then said that the Palestinians weren’t to blame for keeping Hamas in power and said they are too poor to overthrow them.
Finally alleging that Hamas has persecuted Gazans, Metzger said Hamas said to Palestinians in Gaza “you voted wrong we’re putting you in a concentration camp.”
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