RADIOOctober 24, 2023

White House SHAMEFULLY dismisses rise in anti-Semitism

The White House recently had a hard time admitting that anti-Semitism is on the rise in America after Hamas' attack on Israel. Instead, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre claimed there were "no credible threats" against Jewish Americans and quickly switched the subject to "anti-Muslim hate." Well, Glenn brings the evidence that the White House can't seem to find. But he also urges Americans to wait for the facts to come out before jumping to conclusions like the Left does.

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GLENN: So the White House had a hard time yesterday, saying, yeah, there's some anti-Semitism going up. And I think we've all seen it. But, again, the White House and the media, is expecting us just to not see it.

You cannot deny what your eyes see.

And what you hear. At least today. I may have to amend that, when AI is fully engaged, and we're -- we can't believe what we see or hear. But at this point, we can. And we see it in our own areas.

I -- I'm going to save this for later.

Boy, I want to tell you something really bad. I've seen it in my own neighborhood.

But it's got to stop. It's got to stop.

Now, there's been some headlines over the weekend. AP News. Detroit synagogue president, Samantha Woll, fatally stabbed.

Fox News: Michigan Jewish synagogue president, Samantha Woll, found dead outside of Detroit home. NBC: Detroit synagogue president found fatally stabbed outside her home. ABC News: Detroit synagogue president found stabbed to death outside her home. New York Times: Synagogue leader is killed in Detroit, but motive is not known.

Okay. I -- I find it a great coincidence, but the New York Times is the one that got this right. Here's what we know.

Saturday, 40-year-old Samantha Woll of Detroit, Michigan, was found dead outside of her home, with multiple stab wounds to her body, and a trail of blood leading back to her home. She was the president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue.

Their website said they are the only free-standing synagogue in the heart of downtown Detroit.

Outside of her prominent role of the Jewish community, she's also an active member of the Democratic Party. She worked on multiple campaigns, and an is an aide to the Democratic Congresswoman, Elissa Slotkin. As far as the murder goes, that's all we know.

Now, the murder is set on the backdrop of war on Israel and growing support of Hamas and their anti-Semitic mission, including here in America. And including huge anti-Semitic rallies in Dearborn.

It's happening on our college campuses all over in America. Jews are afraid of being targeted for their faith.

But we also know. Detroit has the third largest homicide rate per capita in the country.

Right now, there is no reported evidence that Samantha Woll was targeted because she was Jewish.

We don't know that. The police chief was asking, that no one jumps to conclusions yet.

Investigation is just getting started. No clear motivate at this time.

Even the Michigan office of the Anti-Defamation League, said, we urge the community to refrain from speculation. And allow law enforcement to gather facts. Online, there is a wave of people, laying this murder at the feet of congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. She's one of the most anti-Israel voices in Congress. And I am absolutely no fan of hers.

The murder seems to have been taking place in the congressional district, that numbers heard. Now, I don't like Rashida Tlaib. She's wrong about Israel. I think she's a massive anti-Semite. But that's all we have.

Can we blame her for awful ideas? Yes. Can we blame her for murder? No. We don't have any facts yet.

Here's the thing: Our job is to try to get the story right. And you cannot get the story right, if you are rushing to publish. I could easily come on the air, and play all the clips. That Tlaib is spreading the lies of Israel.

She is just spreading lie after lie after lie, against Israel.

And then I could tell you about the pro-Palestinian marches in Dearborn. Right next door.

Then tell you a Jewish woman was murdered.

I mean, it's pretty easy to paint that picture.

But that kind of picture, riles people up.

Into mobs. That's what the media does. If a black person is murdered, they find out if it's a white cop. If it's a white cop, they whip everybody up into their own conclusions.

Things might be getting more crazy.

But we have to keep our heads.

I'm horrified, that we even have to wonder, if this -- this woman who was killed in America, in an American city. I'm horrified that we have to even wonder, was it because she was Jewish? But anti-Semitism is a real threat.

And I'm afraid, it will get worse. Because it always does.

When Marxism begins to erode a country.

The threat is real!

We don't know about this murder.

Senseless and evil. That's all we know right now.

But we will follow this story. We have to remain clear-eyed and vigilant. We have to wait and see.

There is a tremendous increase now of the number of Jewish people, purchasing firearms, after the Hamas attack.

After the attack, a lot of people are purchasing firearms, and learning how to use them. That's tremendous.

That's the First Amendment. Protect yourself. I feel for this guy who -- who was it, that was there? Pat, it was a -- it was a guy running for city council, I believe.

That was one of the guys taking the videos.

PAT: Yeah. At the Palestinian. Uh-huh. His name is Zach. I don't know his last name.

We didn't find that out. But Zach something or other, who is running for city council position.

Yeah. And he was one of the guys, who was yelling to follow this guy. To find this guy.

Just an old man, who was trying to get home. And blocked by, you know, the Palestinian -- pro-Palestinian protests.

You know what, it's the street. That's where cars drive!

I -- it's not where people stand.

When did this become a thing, that it's okay to stand and block the streets?

I don't think it is okay, for example, and, but, yeah. This -- this council candidate thought it was. And he's trying to track the old man down. Who -- who was just trying to go about his business.

GLENN: There is a -- there is a great story out by Jonathan Turley today.

That talks about the poll numbers that are coming out.

37 percent of conservatives, think that it's okay to engage in violence. At this point.

Because the other side is so dangerous.

42 percent of Democrats, believe that.

That doesn't lead anywhere good.

PAT: Nope.

GLENN: Nowhere good.

You know, in my mind, there have been -- there are -- well, I've always described them as exits. You're passing all of the exits.

And when you pass that exit, you've shut down more options.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And before we get there, there's -- there's like three things, that I have left on -- for me.

That I'm like, okay.

If this happens, then we do this.

If this happens, then we do this.

And we just take more and more steps, to protect the voice, to protect our families. And to protect you! To be able to speak to you, and protect you.

And things that I will be saying, I think more and new things.

That I have -- I've known for quite some time. But time is not right.

I always look at the star field.

Is the star field rolling faster or slower? And is it rolling away from common sense, or towards common sense?

The star field is still running away from common sense. And I fear that it is running faster, and this is going to come at us, quickly.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.