I am saddened, Anthony. You identify as a zionist? You just broke my heart here. That's OK. You are free to be a zionist as I am free to be disappointed. I admire so much your standing up in the face of trump and trumplandia. As a jew, I wish to quote for you a from the lovely toni Morrison.... Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: would you take my life, or would you take it?
Anthony Scaramucci, you are a pleasure to listen to. An outstanding interview and discussion between two highly educated, rational human beings. Thank you 🙏🏻
There was a Montreal businessman who sold goods to stores. He sold goods to one of the stores in town. When he was over 80 years old he was still travelling around the country selling goods. My friend who owned the store in town asked him when he was going to retire. The salesman pulled out a piece of paper from his briefcase. He showed him papers that showed he sold his company for 80 million dollars. He then told my friend that he was using that money to help the poor students in Montreal go to university! He set up a scholarship from that money. Stories like that aren't covered by the news because the salesman wasn't looking for publicity!
The idea of envy of Jews is very accurate. When I was 6 years old, my family fled to Jamaica as political refugees from Cuba. We were not Jewish. However, when my Dad and other Cuban men went to check on their visas to enter the USA (they did this daily), the people they passed would yell, "Jews of the Caribbean". My Dad understood the insult but refused to translate to the other men. One day, he was fed up and yelled, " Thank you!". One person asked why are you thanking us. Dad responded because Jews have been persecuted and hated, but wherever they go, they succeed. That shut them up.
This is one of my favorite channels just because of the broad subject matter, diverse guests and thoughtfulness with intent on educating. Keep doing what you’re doing Mooch!
🌿🪻IKR? It's the best, tho I expected nothing less from Anthony, who has been a delight since he was first interviewed after his liberation from the trump WH. Even while he was trying to be pro trump. I've been so gladdened to watch his progress.
I just love this show. What a wonderful conversation between you two. I've never in my life understood anti semitism and I am Christian. Never understood how Christians could hate Jews when Jesus was a Jew. I know that sounds very simplistic but it's the simple truth for me. I have many Jewish friends. We respect each other and celebrate each other's holidays. I'm not going to speak on the war in Gaza because that's a whole other thing. I'll always defend Israel and their right to defend themselves but I also really want this bloodbath to cease. Two things can be true at once.
Happy you got to know him. I've bn a big Mooch fan since I've known of him which, granted, began when he repented from Trumpism & did whatever it took to repair with his lovely wife. 😊
I enjoyed and appreciated this conversation. However, not to mention Israel’s disproportionate response to the dastardly attack on October 7, 2023, resulting in serious genocide against the Palestinian people, leaves this viewer with frustration and dissatisfaction.
Disproportionate? Thousands of rockets fired into Israel for years by Hezbollah, the Palestinians vowing to wipe Israel off the map, and then attacking a music festival? When the US was attacked by Japan, they eventually dropped two atomic bombs on two cities full of civilians. It's called war, and Israel was not the aggressor. Should the Israelis have turned the other cheek?
Taught to small children: “I vow I shall sacrifice my blood, to saturate the land of the generous and will eliminate the usurper from my country, and will annihilate the remnants of the foreigners.” (= Jews)
@Skycouncil - War is hell. In any conflict, there will never be clean hands on both sides; however, that does not mean there is a simple equivalence. A "Real" unprovoked attack cannot be compared with a serious, even excessive human, response. Read the Hamas creed! Using civilians, children, as your "armour" should be unconscionable. Planning to martyr your innocents to harm your opponents, is worse than the Nazis, even.
Throughout history Jews were pacifists and that did not help clearly they can't can't be pacifists they have to defend themselves just like any country
There's plenty of reporting of "the other side" , which generally has found fault with Jews, that is, here we go again. The rabbi and Anthony are just trying to explain Jewish culture. Netanyahu is a war criminal and Israelis and Jews elsewhere are scared. It's a bad situation.
@jeffreywerner1099 I absolutely think you're an assh0le. How far did America go after 9/11? "The Violence".... interesting comment, who invaded Israel last year? Who Launched how many rockets & missiles into Israel? So its "violence" to respond in kind? Is this your point?
I respect all race and faith. Mostly, I love good people. Most people want peace and not war. Unfortunately, people get fooled and vote in leaders that believe in violence and yet they wouldn’t go themselves or send their kids.
Firstly Anthony I am not Mika's brother even though her brother is about the same age as me but probably I am slightly a higher achiever if my measure in your metric of money. I was also heavily influenced by Jewish people when educated and when I worked. My experience is the opposite to yours. Initially I was accepted as someone to work with at the Universities I attended and when I was employed but as soon as you go beyond their limit of your perceived intelligence by others or when I ended up competing against them in business "I" found they work collectively to destroy your life or work. I get it, it's called stabbing you in the back and that is the "green game" called making money but when you beat them and laugh in a kind way they hate you for ever. Another point is even though both of my grandfathers fought against Nazism and the Russians and one died a hero in the Katin forist massiker they claimed with conviction that Polish people ie Catholics collaborated with the Nazis and we were cowards who did not fight hard enough to save their lives. God knows how many times I was told this. Also I will add both my parents who were children were in concentration camps for years so please dont give me this rubbish about Jewish people being the victims of the second world war. Both my parents are Catholic but happen to be the children of a spy and the other a captain. There is a problem in Israel. That problem is the long term treatment of Muslim people living there from after the second world war. There should have been a second country like the Pakistan solution or a second state with COMPLETE autonomy. Instead there has been consistently disrespect for these human beings for decades. Just because Jewish people are high achievers does not mean they have a right to have treated the Muslims in the way they have. I get it Anthony. Just because what you associate with Jewish people because they generally have money to invest with you or you associate with them a lot in business does not mean that everything they think and believe is correct. I love being around my Jewish friends. It's fun, interesting, and I learn something every time I see them particularly the work ethic thing and you know what I am talking about. For God sake these people were given a State by Christian governments. Can't they treat Muslims the same way and give them autonomy and pride.
The Israeli animus to Palestinians is criminally tragic. Recognizing the imperialism of occupying other peoples land is not antisemitic, it is a plea to everyone involved to settle up with an eye to fairness, reparation, empathy, and humanitarian brotherhood.
Sad that you are at the place where you call Jews, “they” and speak of them as a monolith. That says more than any of the other words you dumped here. Sad.
Anthony if you want to learn the origin of the Israeli state, you have to start in 1917 and the Balfour Declaration which established a Jewish home state, at the end of the Ottoman Empire, and not WWII.
Despite the chatter beforehand picked up by intelligence agencies and relayed clearly to Israel? There's a good chance they let it happen to justify their current pogrom.
Ok, im very pro the protection of Jewish people, the current issue is the actions of the Israeli government. Yes Iran is the issue and they are manipulating the region we also have to hold to account the actions of the Israeli government. What they are doing in Palestine is despicable and i wish it didnt reflect on jewish people generally.
Yeah, “we” don’t need to do anything about Israel and it’s response to being massacred, especially of “we” are not doing anything to protect the Jewish Americans right here at home who are being targeted for harm of all kinds as we speak.
@@OffbeatsMusic Jewish people everywhere should be protected and should also seek to influence the direction of the Israeli govt if it is acting in bad faith in their name.
Man, so many blanket statements. It's so easy to slide into anti-Semitism by stating any truth. I'm half way through. I'm going to try to keep listening to see if I can learn about why so many people are dying right now.
@Fswoop1 so the question of: "why so many people are dying right now?" Short answer is Hamas invaded Israel, kidnapped hundreds of people, murder people as young as infants in their cribs. Raped and murdered people (yes men and women) in their homes, and oh ya, videoed their triumphs and celebrated the War. Hezbollah and Iran launched hundreds of missiles and rockets into Israel... Gee, why is so difficult to see why people are dying... Death is the side effect of War.
@steve-real Bbi has some accountability for his lack of action, true enough. "Fault" ya, the Hamas Terrorists are what then? - Innocent Hezbollah is similarly what? - Innocent Iran and the Houthi what are they? A fraternity Fault is theirs and theirs alone. Bibi made errors, true.
@OffbeatsMusic dont confuse and throw smoke.. those boys who landed in beaches in france all those years ago didnt die so that youse lot can do the exact same thing that was done to youse lot then..have you got no shame? Crystal now?
I am anti-Netanyahu and anti-apartheid and should still not be labeled as something I am not! But Israel you sure are making it difficult to like Israelis with that Apartheid Government you support, your population is not as secular as some of your leaders would like you to think?
Israel could care less about what you think. They are too busy taking care of the survivors of the worst massacre experienced in our lifetimes against Jews and protecting themselves from the never-ceasing rockets rained down on their country by Iranian proxies endlessly, something I suspect you could not care less about.
You know what is wild to me is the amount of comments here completely glossing over the conversation between two humans about human existence, not to mention the actual book that was discussed, and superimposing their geopolitical biases/thinly veiled disdain for Jewish people/israel in order to comment myopically on the only issue people like that seem to be able to talk about these days. That’s how you can clearly spot those with unexamined and unchallenged bias, if not straight up hate. It’s crazy to me that these folks can do this so proudly with so little self-awareness or shame, but there we have, I think, the gift of Trump that keeps on giving - the embracing of willful ignorance.
@0413deborah let me help you out of your ignorance: Zionism [a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.] So Americanism would me, to establish and develop America and it's protection of it... Americanism would seem like a stupid word... if used the way you use Zionism.
@@lyndaproper1313 ya and it's sitting in your chair. Deb is saying it's "zionism"... which is just another racial term dumbass people use to disparage Jewish people. Your ignorant ass, goes the whole next step... Perhaps you've never read a "definition" before... and you call me ignorant.... Try you know... READING what I posted.
Zionism is Jewish, there is no difference. Zion is another word for Jerusalem. Throughout history, no matter where Jews lived, they prayed and yearned to be back in Zion, the ancestral homeland
@@ruthlieberman7157 kind of amusing how a "definition" out of the dictionary is so controversial. Or maybe people just need to relax and take a breath. Take it into context and save the bitching for Oprah.
What about the Palestinian self determination?????? I am neither Jewish or Palestinian. But wrong is wrong. You have not touched on the Palestinians. You are very one sided.
Anthony Scaramucci, you are a pleasure to listen to. An outstanding interview and discussion between two highly educated, rational human beings. Thank you 🙏🏻
There comes a time to deflate the bubble that "floats above" the problems of Israel and Gaza. Some things are emotional, upsetting for good reason. I would like the distinguished rabbi to come down off his high horse and deal with ALL the facts on the ground, not only the ones he chooses. I suspect the results might be better for Israel, though the discussion might be a little less cozy.
Who would you like to see on Open Book? Drop a comment below and thank you for watching! - Anthony
I am saddened, Anthony. You identify as a zionist? You just broke my heart here. That's OK. You are free to be a zionist as I am free to be disappointed. I admire so much your standing up in the face of trump and trumplandia.
As a jew, I wish to quote for you a from the lovely toni Morrison....
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: would you take my life, or would you take it?
How about tnahesi Coates? That would be an interesting conversation
Have you chatted with Jean Guerrero? Her book Hatemonger is essential info for this election.
I have never met you, but feel as if I have known you forever. I shall tell many of your guts, grit and insightful humanity. Love to you.❤
Bandy Lee
Anthony Scaramucci, you are a pleasure to listen to. An outstanding interview and discussion between two highly educated, rational human beings. Thank you 🙏🏻
There was a Montreal businessman who sold goods to stores. He sold goods to one of the stores in town. When he was over 80 years old he was still travelling around the country selling goods. My friend who owned the store in town asked him when he was going to retire. The salesman pulled out a piece of paper from his briefcase. He showed him papers that showed he sold his company for 80 million dollars. He then told my friend that he was using that money to help the poor students in Montreal go to university! He set up a scholarship from that money. Stories like that aren't covered by the news because the salesman wasn't looking for publicity!
The idea of envy of Jews is very accurate. When I was 6 years old, my family fled to Jamaica as political refugees from Cuba. We were not Jewish. However, when my Dad and other Cuban men went to check on their visas to enter the USA (they did this daily), the people they passed would yell, "Jews of the Caribbean". My Dad understood the insult but refused to translate to the other men. One day, he was fed up and yelled, " Thank you!". One person asked why are you thanking us. Dad responded because Jews have been persecuted and hated, but wherever they go, they succeed. That shut them up.
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This is one of my favorite channels just because of the broad subject matter, diverse guests and thoughtfulness with intent on educating. Keep doing what you’re doing Mooch!
🌿🪻IKR? It's the best, tho I expected nothing less from Anthony, who has been a delight since he was first interviewed after his liberation from the trump WH. Even while he was trying to be pro trump. I've been so gladdened to watch his progress.
This was a wonderful discussion. Thank you. Anthony - I wish there were more people on this planet like you. 🙏 ❤
Same.
“Shanah tovah” (שנה טובה), Peace and Love to my Jewish friends! I am proud to be an Italian American as you. God Bless and God America!
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I agree. I've always thought they were jealous. We r bright, family oriented, educated, and financially stable. We r very proud to be Jewish.
I just love this show. What a wonderful conversation between you two. I've never in my life understood anti semitism and I am Christian. Never understood how Christians could hate Jews when Jesus was a Jew. I know that sounds very simplistic but it's the simple truth for me. I have many Jewish friends. We respect each other and celebrate each other's holidays. I'm not going to speak on the war in Gaza because that's a whole other thing. I'll always defend Israel and their right to defend themselves but I also really want this bloodbath to cease. Two things can be true at once.
i always assumed Scaramuchi was a villain, but iv'e been enjoying his commentary a great deal over the past months.
Happy you got to know him. I've bn a big Mooch fan since I've known of him which, granted, began when he repented from Trumpism & did whatever it took to repair with his lovely wife. 😊
thanks Anthony, interesting talk
I enjoyed and appreciated this conversation. However, not to mention Israel’s disproportionate response to the dastardly attack on October 7, 2023, resulting in serious genocide against the Palestinian people, leaves this viewer with frustration and dissatisfaction.
Disproportionate? Thousands of rockets fired into Israel for years by Hezbollah, the Palestinians vowing to wipe Israel off the map, and then attacking a music festival? When the US was attacked by Japan, they eventually dropped two atomic bombs on two cities full of civilians. It's called war, and Israel was not the aggressor. Should the Israelis have turned the other cheek?
Taught to small children: “I vow I shall sacrifice my blood, to saturate the land of the generous and will eliminate the usurper from my country, and will annihilate the remnants of the foreigners.” (= Jews)
Oct 7 was horrible and Israel's response has been even worse.
If you would say that about any other country that ever responded to being attacked senselessly, then sure. Otherwise, 💯 not so.
@Skycouncil - War is hell. In any conflict, there will never be clean hands on both sides; however, that does not mean there is a simple equivalence.
A "Real" unprovoked attack cannot be compared with a serious, even excessive human, response. Read the Hamas creed!
Using civilians, children, as your "armour" should be unconscionable. Planning to martyr your innocents to harm your opponents, is worse than the Nazis, even.
@@OffbeatsMusicsenseless? You must have also been asleep.
One sided. I'd be interested in what the Rabbi has to say about how far Israel is going with the violence.
Throughout history Jews were pacifists and that did not help clearly they can't can't be pacifists they have to defend themselves just like any country
There's plenty of reporting of "the other side" , which generally has found fault with Jews, that is, here we go again. The rabbi and Anthony are just trying to explain Jewish culture. Netanyahu is a war criminal and Israelis and Jews elsewhere are scared. It's a bad situation.
Fair question. Shalom.
@jeffreywerner1099 I absolutely think you're an assh0le.
How far did America go after 9/11?
"The Violence".... interesting comment, who invaded Israel last year?
Who Launched how many rockets & missiles into Israel?
So its "violence" to respond in kind? Is this your point?
Seriously? This question tells me you’re ignoring the fact that the enemy wants us dead.
Excellent! Sincere thanks and respect to you both!
More of this. 🙏
I respect all race and faith. Mostly, I love good people. Most people want peace and not war. Unfortunately, people get fooled and vote in leaders that believe in violence and yet they wouldn’t go themselves or send their kids.
Excellent discussion... thank you...
Firstly Anthony I am not Mika's brother even though her brother is about the same age as me but probably I am slightly a higher achiever if my measure in your metric of money.
I was also heavily influenced by Jewish people when educated and when I worked. My experience is the opposite to yours. Initially I was accepted as someone to work with at the Universities I attended and when I was employed but as soon as you go beyond their limit of your perceived intelligence by others or when I ended up competing against them in business "I" found they work collectively to destroy your life or work. I get it, it's called stabbing you in the back and that is the "green game" called making money but when you beat them and laugh in a kind way they hate you for ever.
Another point is even though both of my grandfathers fought against Nazism and the Russians and one died a hero in the Katin forist massiker they claimed with conviction that Polish people ie Catholics collaborated with the Nazis and we were cowards who did not fight hard enough to save their lives. God knows how many times I was told this. Also I will add both my parents who were children were in concentration camps for years so please dont give me this rubbish about Jewish people being the victims of the second world war. Both my parents are Catholic but happen to be the children of a spy and the other a captain.
There is a problem in Israel. That problem is the long term treatment of Muslim people living there from after the second world war. There should have been a second country like the Pakistan solution or a second state with COMPLETE autonomy. Instead there has been consistently disrespect for these human beings for decades. Just because Jewish people are high achievers does not mean they have a right to have treated the Muslims in the way they have. I get it Anthony. Just because what you associate with Jewish people because they generally have money to invest with you or you associate with them a lot in business does not mean that everything they think and believe is correct. I love being around my Jewish friends. It's fun, interesting, and I learn something every time I see them particularly the work ethic thing and you know what I am talking about.
For God sake these people were given a State by Christian governments. Can't they treat Muslims the same way and give them autonomy and pride.
The Israeli animus to Palestinians is criminally tragic. Recognizing the imperialism of occupying other peoples land is not antisemitic, it is a plea to everyone involved to settle up with an eye to fairness, reparation, empathy, and humanitarian brotherhood.
@@thebookelf2135 Wholly wrong. Uneducated and ahistorical take.
Sad that you are at the place where you call Jews, “they” and speak of them as a monolith. That says more than any of the other words you dumped here. Sad.
Wow, Anthony, you're going to need to define apartheid for me. I no longer know what "apartheid" or "genocide" means.
Maybe you never did?
Open Book is now my favorite podcast. Mr. Scaramucci you bring out the best in all your guests. Thank you.
What I do find intriguing is hearing someone use the word and identify as a philo-semite. That’s something you don’t hear very often.
Anthony if you want to learn the origin of the Israeli state, you have to start in 1917 and the Balfour Declaration which established a Jewish home state, at the end of the Ottoman Empire, and not WWII.
October 7th was unthinkable!
Despite the chatter beforehand picked up by intelligence agencies and relayed clearly to Israel? There's a good chance they let it happen to justify their current pogrom.
Ok, im very pro the protection of Jewish people, the current issue is the actions of the Israeli government. Yes Iran is the issue and they are manipulating the region we also have to hold to account the actions of the Israeli government. What they are doing in Palestine is despicable and i wish it didnt reflect on jewish people generally.
Yeah, “we” don’t need to do anything about Israel and it’s response to being massacred, especially of “we” are not doing anything to protect the Jewish Americans right here at home who are being targeted for harm of all kinds as we speak.
@@OffbeatsMusic Jewish people everywhere should be protected and should also seek to influence the direction of the Israeli govt if it is acting in bad faith in their name.
Man, so many blanket statements. It's so easy to slide into anti-Semitism by stating any truth. I'm half way through. I'm going to try to keep listening to see if I can learn about why so many people are dying right now.
Yes too many blanket statements.
@Fswoop1 so the question of: "why so many people are dying right now?"
Short answer is Hamas invaded Israel, kidnapped hundreds of people, murder people as young as infants in their cribs. Raped and murdered people (yes men and women) in their homes, and oh ya, videoed their triumphs and celebrated the War.
Hezbollah and Iran launched hundreds of missiles and rockets into Israel...
Gee, why is so difficult to see why people are dying... Death is the side effect of War.
Because of the fact of terror and not from Israel … who is standing first??? People should learn history, before judging 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦
Do you know what antisemite would look or feel like if you were to slide into it? How do you know you’re not soaking in it right now?
It’s all Bibi’s fault. Let’s just face it. That would never, ever, happen on my watch. Ever! He sucks
@steve-real Bbi has some accountability for his lack of action, true enough.
"Fault" ya, the Hamas Terrorists are what then? - Innocent
Hezbollah is similarly what? - Innocent
Iran and the Houthi what are they? A fraternity
Fault is theirs and theirs alone. Bibi made errors, true.
😅😅😅.
And the response is not a crime?
No. It is war.
@@OffbeatsMusic so when one site kills civies its war and if the other side kill civies its not war?
@@michaelseet9320 Your oversimplification is impressive.
@OffbeatsMusic dont confuse and throw smoke.. those boys who landed in beaches in france all those years ago didnt die so that youse lot can do the exact same thing that was done to youse lot then..have you got no shame? Crystal now?
I am anti-Netanyahu and anti-apartheid and should still not be labeled as something I am not! But Israel you sure are making it difficult to like Israelis with that Apartheid Government you support, your population is not as secular as some of your leaders would like you to think?
Israel could care less about what you think. They are too busy taking care of the survivors of the worst massacre experienced in our lifetimes against Jews and protecting themselves from the never-ceasing rockets rained down on their country by Iranian proxies endlessly, something I suspect you could not care less about.
Thank you both. Learned today.
You know what is wild to me is the amount of comments here completely glossing over the conversation between two humans about human existence, not to mention the actual book that was discussed, and superimposing their geopolitical biases/thinly veiled disdain for Jewish people/israel in order to comment myopically on the only issue people like that seem to be able to talk about these days. That’s how you can clearly spot those with unexamined and unchallenged bias, if not straight up hate. It’s crazy to me that these folks can do this so proudly with so little self-awareness or shame, but there we have, I think, the gift of Trump that keeps on giving - the embracing of willful ignorance.
Wow. They both actually think that other cultures don’t have the same values.
The Mooch!❤️
Elliot Cosgrove …is that a Jewish name ????
End the apartheid state.
"yehudi" "Shalom alekhem"
Bruce Springsteen
It's zionism... not the whole Jewish population. Big difference.
@0413deborah let me help you out of your ignorance: Zionism
[a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.]
So Americanism would me, to establish and develop America and it's protection of it...
Americanism would seem like a stupid word... if used the way you use Zionism.
@@Navschannel3908 So you think it's the whole Jewish population? There's ignorance here, but I don't think it's on the part of 0413deborah.
@@lyndaproper1313 ya and it's sitting in your chair. Deb is saying it's "zionism"... which is just another racial term dumbass people use to disparage Jewish people.
Your ignorant ass, goes the whole next step... Perhaps you've never read a "definition" before... and you call me ignorant....
Try you know... READING what I posted.
Zionism is Jewish, there is no difference.
Zion is another word for Jerusalem. Throughout history, no matter where Jews lived, they prayed and yearned to be back in Zion, the ancestral homeland
@@ruthlieberman7157 kind of amusing how a "definition" out of the dictionary is so controversial.
Or maybe people just need to relax and take a breath. Take it into context and save the bitching for Oprah.
This is a one sided interview.
Most interviews especially book interviews are from the perspective of the author- and the author explains their view, not yours
Perhaps it would be easier if you just came to live with us in the US.
What about the Palestinian self determination??????
I am neither Jewish or Palestinian. But wrong is wrong. You have not touched on the Palestinians. You are very one sided.
Anthony Scaramucci, you are a pleasure to listen to. An outstanding interview and discussion between two highly educated, rational human beings. Thank you 🙏🏻
There comes a time to deflate the bubble that "floats above" the problems of Israel and Gaza. Some things are emotional, upsetting for good reason. I would like the distinguished rabbi to come down off his high horse and deal with ALL the facts on the ground, not only the ones he chooses. I suspect the results might be better for Israel, though the discussion might be a little less cozy.
@@lyndaproper1313 What a disgusting comment. Do better.