The people want peace. That is thoroughly and utterly
clear. They've seen enough since
October 7th, when Hamas militants invaded Israel from
Gaza and murdered over 1000 people.
It was a terrible day and of course there was no one there to
help the people who live in the kubitzes here in the on the
Gazan border. I have people, I know, friends
who live in a kibbutzer too, in Israel, especially the ones down
there by Gaza. You have to understand the
people who live there, generally, the vast majority of
them are. They believe in peace, they
believe in human rights. They hate Netanyahu.
They didn't vote for him. They don't want to vote for him.
They want him out of there. Just like over 80% of Israel
wants him out of there. And yet, because he's a butcher,
he's not going anywhere. And because we hand him all the
tools that a butcher needs to slaughter what will probably by
the morning be now over 30,000 people, Palestinians, civilians,
2/3 of them children, women, a lot more who are older, elderly
people. And the IDF, the Netanyahu
cabinet, the war Cabinet. They don't give a rat's ass who
dies just as long as they're Palestinians because, you know,
they're guilty. Because a few hundred of their
people, Palestinians, got on scooters and hang gliders, broke
out of their outdoor prison and in a mad race to kill the people
they see as their captors, their jailers, the people that have
kept them in this open air prison for 14/15/16 years.
And it just continues every single day.
And we fund it. We Americans fund this.
And Joe Biden, President Biden, you are the topic of discussion
today again on my podcast Rumble with Michael Moore.
And I don't know if I mentioned this at the beginning.
I am Michael Moore and I voted for you, Mr. Biden.
I'm probably, as I've mentioned before, one of the few people
listening to this podcast right now that has been to Gaza in
person at the Palestine, the West Bank had Israeli soldiers
firing weapons at me and the other journalists who were there
to see what was going on and report what was going on.
This first trip was back 39 years ago, 39 years ago.
I was there and I saw the truth. I couldn't believe it.
I guess I did believe it, but because I was seeing it with my
own two eyes. And once you've seen this, you
can't Unsee it every day around the world.
I would say probably close to every hour of every day around
the world there is some kind of protest going on calling for an
end to this war. It's not really a war.
It's an assault against an imprisoned people who have to
live under apartheid rules. They don't get to have a say.
What's going on? They don't vote.
They don't have human rights the way Israeli citizens have them.
And let me tell you, there are thousands upon thousands of
these Israeli citizens who are sickened by this and who oppose
the apartheid regime of Benjamin Netanyahu and who have taken to
the streets every day in Israel, and who know that Mister
Netanyahu has absolutely little interest in getting those
hostages back. The longer the hostages are
being held, the longer he can keep the carpet bombing, the
massacre going on, that he can claim some justification for it.
I mean, I don't really have any contact with people in Hamas,
but I would say if somehow you're listening to this, don't
hurt anybody, don't kill anybody.
The hostages are civilians too, and I can understand you're
probably pretty upset right now. You're probably also pretty
confused as to why would the Prime Minister of Israel bomb
all these neighbourhoods where the hostages are being kept?
Why would he risk their lives? I mean, I think I read somewhere
we're over 20, 20, maybe 20 to 30 of the hostages have already
died as a result of the massacre that's taken place, the massacre
on the part of the Israeli Defence Forces.
Every day there's a protest, every day there's.
And I, I mean, people send me video.
They sent me selfies. I mean, from all over the world.
There's one woman in Tokyo. Her name is Nori and every day
she conducts a one woman protest on a street corner with a
different sign each day in Tokyo, just standing there
calling out to people to please stop the madness.
Man, it's amazing. I know some people in this
country don't understand why. Why has the whole world risen up
to oppose this, to oppose what Netanyahu is doing?
It's going on. I can't tell you how many times
I've run across small protests, large protests wherever I happen
to be, And Sunday night on the beach in Santa Monica, CA, the
annual Independent Film Spirit Awards, the Spirit Awards were
taking place. It's the awards each year that
given out to independent films, and there was one person with a
tape on a loop, with a loudspeaker standing legally on
the other side of where the awards are taking place,
outdoors, behind the police barricades, public space.
And he turned on this loudspeaker and for nearly two
hours, if you were watching this on the on the streaming
channels, that was on. It went for almost 2 hours and
you could hear it. Everybody in the the big tent
where the awards were taking place on the beach could hear
it, people watching on TV could hear it.
All the presenters, the people winning awards and one award
winner, a man who made a film called Fremont was being given
the John Cassavetes award. John Cassavetes the great one of
the really godfathers of of the modern day independent films
starting back in the 60s and so they give an award out to a film
maker that makes their films in the spirit of John Cassavetes
and he went up to accept his award and and he and you could
you know hear the the the Protester.
Free Palestine. Free Palestine.
You know stop the killing ceasefire now free free
Palestine. Free free Palestine.
And he said, you know, I think what whoever and whatever he's
saying out there outside the tent, it's probably more
important than what I have to say, collecting an award and.
The. Whole audience treat.
Nobody got up, ran out of their seat to go beat the guy up.
The police showed up and said, well, he's on public property
and he has a right to free speech.
And even the host of the show, Aidy Bryant, said, you know,
we're on the beach and you know, we support free speech and that
way. And everybody applauded.
And even though they were all there to this important day for
indie film makers, but nobody wanted to shut him up and he
wasn't. He was not shut down.
The police did not arrest him. The organizers of the show
apparently asked the police not to arrest him.
That in the spirit of independence and independent
film. This.
Lone individual. It was necessary that he was
there and saying what he said and they didn't release his
name. Whatever.
I. I'll put up some video so.
Funny when you if you've travelled to Israel and to
Palestine, if you've been in, if you have been to Gaza, one of
the kind of interesting amazing things is that how similar the
people, the culture, the food is because both groups of people,
the Jews of Israel and the Arabs and Muslims of Palestine are
cousins, they're both Semitic peoples.
When you hear that Ant, well that's anti-Semitic.
Well, which anti-Semitic thing are you referring to?
Because the Arabs are Semitic people and the Jews are Semitic
people in in that part of the world.
And just looking at the guy and trying to and I, you know,
because so many of my friends are people I know that who are
Jewish. Americans have spent a lot of
time since October at many, many protests trying to stop this,
trying to stop the killing of Palestinians, trying to stop
what Netanyahu wants to do next, which is to push them into the
desert, into Egypt. And Jewish Voice for Peace,
which is an incredible organization, I encourage you to
join it. It's a Jewish organization, but
it's. But everybody is welcome to
join. You should sign up for their
newsletter. You should attend any rally or
protest that they're putting on. It's very powerful and very
brave of them to take the stand. And I have so much love and
respect for them because they don't have to do that, I guess,
right. I I mean, I guess you do if you
have a conscience, but. You know, I could just.
Go about living their lives in New York and DC and Boston and
LA and San Francisco and Detroit and Chicago.
But no, they have been showing up, standing up for the
Palestinian people. It's very uplifting to see this
and it's not surprising because if if well if you are Jewish or
if you have friends, Co workers, classmates, neighbors who are
Jewish and if you've spent any time talking to them about
Judaism and what it means at its core.
What we are witnessing is the opposite of what their book says
of what they are supposed to believe in and they know it and
they're crushed by this And the others who maybe are not as
left-leaning as some of the anti war groups, the Israeli and the
Jewish anti war groups. They've figured this out by now,
that Netanyahu and his war council have made them not
safer, but less safe, less safe other than people who are just
not thinking straight in Israel. Other than that group, those who
are really thinking this out know that the what the end game
is here, what the result of all this is going to be.
And it's not going to be a safer people for the people who live
in Israel and in order in order to be safe to not have any more
bloodshed on either side that the main fighting unit in the
so-called war. Because one side has all the
guns, all the battleships, all the fighter jets.
It's go. Down the whole.
List and Palestinians have some improvised bombs they've put
together from parts of bombs that when they've been bombed,
they go and grab the parts where if the bomb didn't go off, they
then have been trying to form their own missile brigade out of
this nonsense. Well, whoever you are out there
on the beach in Santa Monica, thank you.
Thank you for doing that Sunday night.
That took a lot of courage too, because stuff like that can go
South pretty quickly. I hope you're OK now.
If for some awful reason they've arrested you, DM me.
Send me a a message here, Send me an e-mail at
mike@michaelmoore.com. I'll put up the money to bail
you out of there in Santa Monica if that's the case.
I I have a feeling it's not going to be the case, in part
because everybody, I know, not everybody.
But I'll say it again. Everybody is against what's
going on. I mean, think about this.
In the last couple weeks, look at all the labour unions that
have come out against Netanyahu, against the IDF, against this
massacre. the United Auto Workers have taken a very bold
stand. They want a ceasefire right now,
tonight. And it's not just the United
Auto Workers. It's the National Nurses Union,
it's the National Flight Attendants Union.
It's the national. I mean, seriously, if the flight
attendants have turned against you, Really.
I mean, I you can look up the list.
I mean there's there's there's at least 200, either national or
local labor unions in this country alone opposed to Biden
continuing this war, opposed to US funding more armaments and
more death machines. Over 200 unions.
Those are just the unions, the National Education Association,
the America's teachers. I mean, you just could look at
the list. Just look at the list.
And if you were just randomly and and without thinking
continuing to support Netanyahu and what that government is
doing, you should look at this list.
I know you're not going to want to look at it because it's full
of people that have always supported Israel and would and
would stand and fight anyone who would harm a single one.
Of our Jewish brothers and sisters.
I've said that over. I've taken that pledge over and
over, and I know many of you have, too.
We will never let happen to the Jewish people what happened in
the last century and yet those same people, including me.
Man, it's over. I mean, those of you supporting
the war, those of you supporting the massacre, the killing of
what is it now? Almost 20,000 women and
children. You supporting that?
No, you're done. And President Biden this is
what's really upsetting us is that you are risking you are
risking putting Trump back in the White House.
What is wrong with you. It was an amazing I'll, I'll
post it here on the site op-ed by Michelle Goldberg today in
the New York Times saying basically and she's writing this
from Michigan where she's been getting ready for the primary on
Tuesday. She wrote this as a warning to
Biden, saying you don't get it, you're going to lose Michigan.
And if you lose Michigan, it really could probably mean
you're going to lose in November and Trump will be back in the
Oval Office and you're the one who's going to be held
responsible for this. And I'm going to talk to you a
little bit about that after we thank a couple of our
underwriters here today. But I just I.
Was just so upset. And I'm grateful to everybody
who has protested who's been out there, whether it's the awards
out in LA, whether it's the upcoming Oscars.
Oh my God, I don't know if anybody saw this.
The Berlin Film Festival was this past week and and the
awards were handed out. Also their big big award season
yesterday and the film that won best documentary.
This is in Berlin. It's called No Other Land.
A film about the brutalization of the Palestinian people and
and the hardcore violent apartheid actions and regime
from Tel Aviv to the Palestinian people.
This film was made by both Israeli Jews and Palestinian
Muslims. They made it together.
They focused on one village where Netanyahu and his gang.
The plan is, is and was to remove everybody, just
annihilate this village, get them all out of there, send
themselves, send them to Egypt, send them wherever.
And it won best documentary. And I'm going to actually, you
know what, Angie, if we could just play there's a there.
The Channel 11 in Israel put up about 30 seconds of their
acceptance speech in Berlin for winning this award for best
documentary. And it was so moving and the
people were just in tears watching this film.
These are Germans, you know, one of the Co directors, Yuval
Abraham, gave the acceptance speech and he's standing beside
the Basil Audra, one of his Co directors.
I think there's four of them, a woman named Rachel and somebody
else who made this film. And, you know, and they don't
have a distributor yet. They don't have one here in the
US But again, my plan is to just jot them a note and let them
know anything I can do to help get distribution in the US so
people can see the truth of what's going on.
That's what I'm here for. Why?
Because I have been that way since I was a teenager,
supporting our Jewish brothers and sisters, protecting the
people in Israel, a place for the survivors, the the victims
of the Holocaust to be able to go and be safe.
And of course, what they've learned in these last five
months is not only are they not safe, and not only will they not
be protected by their own government, they've lost the
support of the world and very specifically in this country of
young people, of the Arab and Muslim community, many other
people of colour. And they're all very upset and
very angry. This isn't like taking a
position on student loans, repaying the debt.
This isn't about a border wall here with Mexico.
This issue is so fundamental, if you don't know people that
actually will vote on A1 issue, I mean, I'm sure many of you
have this feeling how many people since Roe V Wade was
eliminated almost two years ago now.
Do you think of that issue like women, women's rights, the right
to their own bodies to determine what they want to do, if they
want to bring a child into this world that that was ripped from
them? Anybody here going to make any
decisions this year politically based on that one issue?
I think you are and I certainly am.
Well this this slaughter of innocence in Gaza that that
could affect this election. Angie, let's let's just play 30
seconds from the director, Co director on winning the award at
the Berlin Film Festival for Best Documentary.
Of the festival. I want to say we are we are
standing in front of you now. Me and Basel are the same age.
I am Israeli, Basel is Palestinian.
And in two days we will go back to a land where we are not
equal. I'm living under a civilian law
and Basel is under military law. We live 30 minutes from one
another. But I have voting rights.
Basel is not having voting rights.
I'm free to move where I want in this land.
Basel is like millions of Palestinians locked in the
occupied West Bank. This situation of apartheid
between us, this inequality, it has to end.
People in Israel saw that on TV last night.
Very powerful. And I want to read you something
else. Yuval Abraham, one of the Co
directors, the one who just gave that speech from the award stage
in Berlin, also said this afterwards to a German press.
He said, quote, I know Germans have a lot of guilt for what
happened in the Second World War.
Abraham added that many of his relatives were killed during the
Holocaust. Quote, don't use this guilt now
and weaponize it and refuse to call for a ceasefire speaking to
the German people here. Use it to help us reach a
political solution. Use it to pressure the State of
Israel to end the occupation. Wow.
It's the more this happens, and it happens every day, the more
that that people speak out, take a stand, give up their moment in
the spotlight. I mean, he's on this big stage,
he's live on German television, he's winning this award and he
gives up that time to to say, you know, there's something more
important going on here. His film is called No Other
Land. I'll do my best to make sure
everybody listening to this gets to see it.
Let me just, I got to pause and thank our underwriters here and
then they'll come back in in just a second.
But let me just just take this moment to thank the good people
who underwrite this, who allow me to have my voice and have it
heard, who do their best to that I don't have to stand on a beach
in Santa Monica with. A.
A bullhorn or a loudspeaker all by myself Today we've got. 3
Underwriters and The first one I want to thank is Netflix and
their incredible film that's been nominated for a Best
International Feature Society of the.
Snow Society of the Snow is one of the most intense movies I've
seen in the last few years. I mean, so well done.
It's based on the true story, which I'm sure many of you might
remember. Back in 1972, there was an
airplane crash in the Andes Mountains in South America.
There was a rugby team on board. Those who lived had to basically
endure 72 days of brutal, unbelievable suffering.
But they were determined to live.
They were going to survive. You've seen a couple films like
this before, but I'm telling you, my friend, you've never
seen anything like this. One review called it the most
incredible survival story of all time, and other critics said
this is a deeply felt portrait of togetherness, brotherhood and
survival. At this year's Goya Awards in
Spain, this film, Society of the Snow, won 1212 Goyas.
That's their Oscars, including for Best film, Best Director on
and on and on. It really took the country on
South America by storm. And now we're just now getting
to see this incredible, incredible movie thanks to
Netflix. And it's nominated for Best
International Feature at the Oscars here in a couple weeks,
and it also has another nomination, I believe, for hair
and makeup. Yes, it's heartbreaking.
It's intense. But there is such an enormous
heart at the center of this film, and I want to encourage
you to see it. It's called Society of the Snow.
See it on Netflix. You won't regret spending a
couple of hours with this amazing movie, Society of the
Snow. OK, now the primary, the
Democratic primary in Michigan is Tuesday, Tuesday the 27th of
February. Is is the primary.
Now, of course, you know Biden's on the ballot.
There's a couple of minor candidates that have been on
other ballots in these primaries, but they've really
picked up no votes and no delegates.
So it's, you know, it's it's it's Biden's.
I think everybody knows that where we're at now, who the two
candidates are going to be in November, It's going to be Joe
Biden and Donald Trump. So there's no doubt about, you
know, Biden winning the primary tomorrow.
But a group in Michigan, good people that I know, it's a
combination of progressives, progressive left, Arab Americans
in the Detroit and Flint area and and people who are just
absolutely fed up with this war in Gaza and the fact that you
and I are paying for it. So they've come up with a good
idea. It's called Listen to Michigan.
And we know what's happened in the past when you don't listen
to Michigan, the Clinton campaign, Hillary Clinton
campaign in 2016 decided not to campaign in Michigan or
Wisconsin, lost both states. And as I told you last week,
they lost Michigan by an average of two votes per precinct to
Donald Trump. He won Michigan by two average,
two votes per precinct. So this has been a swing state
for some time. It's very Democratic, very blue.
Right now. Democrats control both houses in
the state capitol, the House and the Senate.
They control the Supreme Courts. It's up and down and all over
the place. We have a Democratic governor,
Democratic Lieutenant governor, Democratic attorney general,
Democratic Secretary of State. The Lieutenant governor is
black. The governor is a woman.
The attorney general is gay. I mean, it's Michigan has become
a very, very progressive state. We have a new president of the
UAW, United Auto Workers union. That is FOOF one of the best
leaders of the UAW that we've had in a very, very long time.
So things are have been looking up going good.
We picked up another seat in Congress in the midterms.
So things should be OK, except I'm going to, I'm going to put a
link here on the site, this op-ed yesterday on Sunday in the
New York Times by Michelle Goldberg, where she says
basically that. Biden.
Biden has upset so many 10s of thousands of people in the state
of Michigan with this indiscriminate slaughter.
His word? He called Israeli the bombing,
the bombing they're doing is indiscriminate.
But he only says that privately. He won't say it out loud
publicly. And Michelle Goldberg wrote
yesterday that that Biden, because he has not listened to
the people in Michigan, the Democratic voters, 72% are
against Netanyahu and against this war.
They don't want any more money going to the military in Israel
right now until this there's a ceasefire, this is stopped and
there has to be a whole new conversation now about the
occupation occupations are wrong, apartheid is wrong.
We all know this. Why we let this go for so long?
Well, they're not going to let it go anymore.
I got to tell you, the mail that I'm getting from young people in
Michigan, from people in the Arab American community, Wow, my
friends, I should post some of these.
I don't know. I have to get their permission
and everything probably. But I mean, you read this and
you think, Oh my God, I mean, they're they're not going to
vote for Trump in November, but my fear is that they're going to
stay home. Can't stay home.
Trump can't come back. That's the only way Trump can
win is if the people against them don't show up, don't show
up, don't vote for Biden. So how do we get this message
through to Biden? He's not listening to the people
of Michigan. He's not listening to its young
people. He's not listening to the Arab
American community. And so some of the people in
Detroit came up with this great idea called Listen to Michigan.
This is, this is a movement that's only about two weeks old,
and it has caught on fire. Let me tell you, my friends, I'm
just telling you this as a Michigander, there are people by
the thousands who are going to vote.
You know, there's there's the line that says Joe Biden,
Marianne Williamson is the next line.
Dean Reynolds, those are the other, you know, candidates that
are running. And then there's a line that
says uncommitted. It allows you to to say, you
know, right now I'm just not too happy with things.
I'm not saying I'm not going to vote for Biden in November or
not. Certainly nobody wants Trump
back in there. So you can vote uncommitted
tomorrow. And there is a movement afoot,
especially in in southeastern Michigan.
Many of our cities are majority black in Michigan, Detroit,
Flint, Pontiac Saginaw, I think Lansing is.
And then over on the West side of the state, Benton Harbor.
It's, as they say, a very diverse state.
And to purposely piss off young people, people of color, women,
Arab, Americans, it's just, you know, why would you do that?
I don't get it. I don't get it.
So strong message needs to be sent to Joe Biden tomorrow in
Michigan. We all need to mark that that
little box that says I'm committed.
If he sees how many people do that, maybe, maybe it'll sink in
that he's in trouble. And one place you can't be in
trouble these days is Michigan. He has to win Michigan, but he
has to know just how upset people are.
People have lost family members, Arab Americans and Muslim
community. Just in that area of Michigan,
there's like a quarter million Arab and Muslim Americans
voters. I mentioned the cities that are
majority black. We have majority Arab and Muslim
cities in Michigan. We have cities where the mayors
are are Muslim. We have cities where the
majority of the City Council are Arab.
Americans probably didn't know this about Michigan.
It's got the largest percentage of Arab and Muslim voters in
this country. And by the way these Arab
Americans and Muslim Americans, they were our neighbors that we
grew up with them. They worked in the factories
next to our dads and our grandmothers and grandfathers
and they are loved. They are loved by their
neighbors, their Co workers, their classmates.
You know, most Arab Americans in Michigan will tell you this is a
place of acceptance. This is not a place of bigotry.
It's not a place where they have to worry about violence against
them. Not that they they probably
should always worry about that, no matter where they are in this
country at this point. But wow.
There was a a story in the Times earlier this week about the
different factions on the campus of the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor, where there are a lot of Arab American students and
there's a lot of Jewish students.
And it told this little known history of the University of
Michigan that I've never seen this in a national publication.
We know it in Michigan, but back in the what's called the 20s,
thirties, 40s, the first half of the 20th century, if you were
Jewish in this country it was not easy to get into a good
university. They all had caps for they they
will accept only a a minimal number of Jewish students and no
more than that. They put a cap on it is it was
very discriminatory, it was anti-Semitic.
And we're talking about the Ivy League schools, the other elite
colleges, either no Jews allowed or few Jews allowed.
And the people of Michigan and the people that ran the
University of Michigan were frankly appalled at this
bigotry. And so and the time story sort
of made this clear that while here we are now in 2024 and you
have a different campus groups on different sides of the
slaughter in Gaza. But the reason that there's even
different groups is because the University of Michigan, sixty
7080 years ago, first of all put the word out that we have no
caps here for Jewish students. We will accept if your grades
were such or whatever, and it didn't matter what you were, if
you were Jewish or not Jewish or whatever.
And this is way back all those years ago.
So it's at a point now where there are, it's according to the
article there are now 5000 Jewish students in Ann Arbor.
I don't, you know, I should have looked this up, but I think
there's, I'm talking about undergrads now there's maybe
35,000 undergrads that go to the University of Michigan and 5000
of them are Jewish. I mean, but that's because
that's decades of having an anti bigotry policy.
And word got around the Jewish communities around the country
that there was this place, a really great school that
welcomed all Jews. And as times progressed and into
the second-half of the 20th century, all Arab Americans,
Muslims were welcome too. So right now on the campus
you've got 5000 Jewish undergrads and you've got 2500
to 3000 somewhere in there of Muslim and or Arab students.
You understand that's huge, right?
It's huge because again, you probably have to be from
Michigan to know this history, but the first black mayor in the
country was the was Floyd Mccree of Flint, MI 196566 before Karl
Stokes. Was the mayor of Cleveland Floyd
Mccree in Flint, MI, Flint, MI, the first city in the country to
pass an open housing ordinance? Non discrimination against
people because of their race or their religion, their ethnic
origins? Whatever.
So if I'm explaining this correctly, people in Michigan
don't like apartheid. I was there with Nelson Mandela
when he got out of prison and he came and did that tour of the
country and he came to Tiger Stadium in downtown Detroit.
And I got to hang with this, the small group that was there, that
welcomed him and brought him there.
And it's just who we are. And I'm not saying it's perfect,
Believe me. It's not.
I'm not saying we don't have bigots.
We got a boatload of them, just like every place else.
But when we see the kind of stuff that's going on now, what
Israel is doing to the Palestinians, the massacre of
all these civilians, of children, of women, of the
elderly and all that, people are sick of it.
And the disappointment in Biden that he has embraced Netanyahu,
that he has essentially given them a blank check here.
More armaments, more bullets, more everything.
And it's not to protect the Israeli people if they're if
they weren't protected in October.
That's on their Prime Minister who pulled the army back from
the Gazan border for still a yet to be explained reason.
Or the investigative reporting that the Hebrew daily Herats in
Israel has done about how much money over the last decade
Netanyahu has put into the pockets of Hamas because he, he
was trying to create a wedge between the two Palestinian
groups, Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the
West Bank, thinking that if I can build this wedge, have them
fight each other, we win, we'll destroy them all.
So I I tell you that little story about the history of the
University of Michigan because there is going to be an effect
and a blowback, I believe, in the Michigan primary and a lot
of people. And when you have like a former
congressman Andy Levin, who's Jewish, he's actually an
observant Jew. He was the president of a
synagogue there in Detroit. But because he talks about
Palestinian rights and treating them the right way and not just
giving a blank check to the Netanyahu government, when he
ran in the last election, he was an incumbent Democratic member
of Congress and AIPAC and and the Israeli lobby put up
millions of dollars to get rid of them, and they did.
But he was quoted here in the Times and he he still supports
Biden. He's going to vote for Biden in
November, but tomorrow in the primary he's voting uncommitted
because he's wants to be part of this group that's trying to send
a message to Joe Biden that you've got to knock it off or
you're going to lose this election, he told the Times.
He said, really, I'm doing this more to say Biden than anything
else because he doesn't get it. He doesn't understand Michigan.
And as the headline said over Michelle Goldberg's column, you
lose Michigan, you lose the election in November.
So that's what we're all up to tomorrow.
And I want to encourage anybody and everybody to think about
doing this. Remember, it's you're not
against Biden. You can vote for him in
November, all this, but but we have to stop the killing of
these kids now. This week, this week, no more.
Can't wait till November on this.
People are dying every single day and they're dying with
bullets and tanks and bombs that you and I pay for out of our tax
dollars. That means we're partly
responsible for this if we sit by and do nothing and say
nothing. So please join with all of us,
all the people in our group, the Jewish Voice for Peace, all the
anti war activists, the progressive left, Arab
Americans. And really let me just say this
to my fellow white people. You know, it's moments like this
where if you don't stop and think about the fact that how
you and I have benefited from white privilege for a very long
time, long before we were even born, things got set up in this
country in a certain way that if you were white, the doors opened
a little wider and a little faster and, you know, you didn't
go through the same criminal justice system that black and
Hispanic and Arab Americans go through.
So this is one of these times where, you know, maybe you don't
want to do this this a little. I don't want to hit.
You know, Biden, he's done a lot of good things.
He has done a lot of good things.
And Biden, you know, we got to get behind him.
Trump can't come back. You're right about that.
But but you have to also say, you know, but our Arab, American
neighbors here in Michigan, our Muslim neighbors, our Jewish
neighbors who are for peace, we can't let them stand by
themselves on this. We have to stand with them.
We have to make up for some of that white privilege.
This is one of these moments where you can do something
constructive. We're trying to send a message
to an otherwise decent president of the United States who has
made a fatal error, who has been the bank for the massacre of 10s
of thousands of people since October.
And we cannot be silent. Silence is violence.
We need to stand up for our Arab neighbors in the state of
Michigan, the people that they've lost back home, all the
hassle and trouble they have to go through.
Now once again, what they had to put up with after 911 simply
because they were Arab or Muslim.
Do you feel good about this? I certainly don't.
I don't want any of this done in my name.
Don't write me and say, Mike, you can't say this kind of
stuff. We can't.
We have to stop Trump. We'll stop Trump.
In fact, because we're going to take the stand tomorrow, we know
that we're going to have to double and triple our efforts to
make sure that Biden doesn't fall off the rails here so that
Trump doesn't come back. We know this.
But right now we have to We have to stop the slaughter.
It can't go on another day. Biden needs to wake up, as I
said on Wednesday morning, and go, holy shit, what happened in
Michigan? Well, Sir, we tried to tell you,
you know, there's a heck of a lot of Arabs and Muslims and
Chaldeans and Lebanese and Syrians and Palestinians.
They're pretty distraught. They have a conscience.
A conscience does not allow them to pick up that pen on on
Election Day and color in a little circle by your name.
Not when they've got family who are dying, family who are
homeless. 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza that are have been wounded,
70,000 plus the 30,000 dead. It's not right.
The whole world knows it's not right.
We in Michigan know it's not right.
We're going to mark that little circle, that little box tomorrow
that says uncommitted, not against uncommitted.
And you, Mr. President, you have got to straighten up and fly
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gonna close up shop here. Before we do that, I began the
podcast here talking about how great it is people showing up to
demonstrate the protest have their voices heard, whether it's
one person or 1000 people. My enormous thanks to the pro
Palestinian groups that have been organizing this and but
also to Jewish Voice for Peace. Thank you so much for making
your voice heard. There was also.
Something that happened yesterday, I'm sure you read
about it by now or saw it on TV for the second time here since
the situation in Gaza and in Israel on October 7th.
It's the second time yesterday that somebody decided as a
protest to set themselves on fire and protest what the
Israeli government was doing. This is a horrible thing.
I mean, for those of us old enough to remember Vietnam and
the Buddhist monks who would set themselves on fire in downtown
Saigon to protest the war, to stop, try and stop the war, they
were willing to actually give up their lives so that everybody
would see the horror of it all. That happened yesterday again,
this time in Washington DC, outside the Israeli Embassy.
A United States Air Force officer, active duty Air Force
officer, He had notified the press and he made a statement
standing outside the gates of the embassy that he could no
longer tolerate nor support his government.
The one that he serves as an active duty officer in the US
Air Force could no longer be any kind of a participant in
something that is a slaughter of civilians.
That is a form of genocide. And so he asked those who are
standing there on the sidewalk to do what they could do to free
Palestine. Support the Palestinian people
Do not support our war that we're funding against these
innocent civilians. And then took some, I assume
some kind of petrol and doused himself with it, struck the
lighter and set himself on fire. Now as I'm recording this, as of
you know, late Sunday night they said that he was still alive.
They had taken him to the hospital with serious burns,
life threatening burns. This is not the kind of protest
anybody wants to see. And I hope this man who served
his country here lives. I hope his family's OK.
You know, it's got to be pretty bad if somebody has to go to
that extent to have their voice heard.
Man, we live in a dark time and none of us want any of this to
continue. It has to stop.
President Biden, you and you alone can stop this.
Nobody else is standing with Netanyahu.
All around the world, all sorts of people, all sorts of
political beliefs, religions, races.
It's you. And in the polls are going to
open in another 24 hours here, and people like me, and there's
going to be thousands of them are going to mark uncommitted.
They're not going to vote against you.
Well, some will, but generally it's to send a message to you
that there are going to be many people who are not going to vote
in November. They're just not going to show
up. That's the worst thing that can
happen. You've got to do the right
thing, Not token stuff like you've been doing, like, oh,
you're not going to deport any Palestinians from the US for the
next 18 months. That's not what is needed.
What is needed right now is to pull the plug.
Pull the plug on the slaughter, Pull the plug on the genocide.
Pull the plug on the apartheid. These are not my words.
These are the words from Jewish Voice for Peace.
These are the words of the UN. These are the words from leaders
all over the world who like you and support you.
And have supported Israel. That's it though.
They're done. They're done with this.
No more money for armaments. No more military money until
this thing is resolved. And if you don't agree with me,
I understand, I respect you. But hopefully you've got to know
that the jig is up here, the game's over.
Nobody's going to support this kind of madness anymore other
than mad people. That's not me.
And that's not the majority of Michiganders.
And I know a lot of people will have a hard time marking
uncommitted on Tuesday. You'll still get to vote for
Biden in November. We're going to do everything to
make sure Trump doesn't win. But now it's kind of out of our
hands because too many people, not you and I necessarily, but
too many people have already made-up their minds.
They're not going to vote for Trump, but they're not going to
show up. I ask everybody to, especially
my fellow Michiganders, come Tuesday, send a message, a
strong message. And let me tell you, by doing
this, you're saving Biden too. You're saving Biden from
himself. He made the wrong decision going
and hugging a monster, and he won't.
He won't undo that for some reason.
It can't be because he doesn't want another four years, right?
It's not that because any sane, intelligent person knows that
what he's doing is risking the return of Donald Trump.
Call any family or friends you have.
Text them. E-mail them who live in
Michigan. Tell them to vote in the
Democratic primary on Tuesday and to mark uncommitted the left
time in November once Biden fixes what he's done, stops the
damage to vote for Joe Biden and to stop Donald Trump.
But Tuesday, we have an immediate mission, and that is
no more killing children, babies.
No more trying to push them into the desert.
President Biden, you have to do the right thing.
Please let us help you. I hope you wake up on Wednesday
morning to a brutal awakening. We're different in Michigan.
It's easy or it's not easy. But we have a long history and
you have to listen to Michigan. This is Michael Moore.
This is my podcast, Rumble. Thanks to my executive Producer
and editor Angela Vargos, and to all of you who are listening,
and especially to all of my friends, family, neighbours in
the state of Michigan. We can stop the killing if we
send the message. Be well, everyone.
Peace the.