Video response to "Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem"

NOTE: 'Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem' has since been removed from YouTube due to "terms of use violation."

UPDATE: I made a video response to Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem which I wrote about in my previous entry.

I asked some of my fellow students at Bar-Ilan University what they thought of Obama's speech. Everyone in the video is a first or second year student of Political Science and\or Communications.

Not surprisingly, all of the students had different things to say. Some liked Obama more, some liked him less, but they all had complex opinions that were based on legitimate facts and ideas. Not one of them made a racist comment.

I think that this video shows how wrong Dana and Blumenthal are.

Some major differences between the videos:

• Notice that not all Israelis are white! Israelis come in all colors. Doesn't make much sense for them to wish death on the "n*ggers," does it?
• Israeli opinion isn't monolithic! Some like Obama! Some don't! Some aren't sure! This is because - surprise, surprise - Israelis are PEOPLE.
• The people in this video are actually Israeli. Notice their accents. Notice how they're searching for the right words, and not because they're drunk.

Check it out::

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My friends are the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East

NOTE: 'Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem' has since been removed from YouTube due to "terms of use violation."

UPDATE: I made a video response to the video I mention in this entry. Check it out!

Sometimes, when someone says or does something idiotic, even if you find it personally offensive, the best policy is to ignore it. However, when it gets over 200,000 (and rising) hits on YouTube within four days, it's hard to ignore. " Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem" is not a video that I could just live with.

Sometimes, when someone says or does something idiotic, even if you find it personally offensive, the best policy is to ignore it. However, when it gets over 200,000 (and rising) hits on YouTube within four days, it's hard to ignore. "

I was trolling the internet the other day, looking at some of my favorite blogs, when I came across an interesting video. Max Blumenthal, a blogger on several left-wing websites who recently wrote a book slamming the Republican Party, decided to post what he called "the most shocking footage I have ever filmed."

Blumenthal went around the Ben Yehuda Street area in Jerusalem with Joseph Dana (an American-born Israeli who writes a pro-Arab blog) after Barack Obama addressed the Muslim world in Cairo. They interviewed young people in bars and cafes on their reactions to the speech. Most of the people in the video are American, dressed like frat-boys, and visibly inebriated.

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Yes we can (stop talking about Obama)

Two weeks have passed since the elections in the United States, but here on campus, it seems like they were only yesterday. Yes, Obamania has hit Bar-Ilan University with a vengeance.

Granted, the president-elect's policies will affect Israel, but Israelis seem to have a fascination with American politics that transcends their own national interests. It seemed that people cared more about Obama-McCain than the municipal elections that took place in Israel a week later. Even if Israel proclaims itself to be the fifty-first state, this is a bit much.

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