War Criminal Netanyahu's Nightmare Response With 60 Minutes Leaks, He's Defending Who?

14 May 2026 · 18 min · 11 chapters

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In short

The episode attacks CBS/60 Minutes host Barry Weiss and the Ellison family for allegedly enabling Benjamin Netanyahu’s propaganda and for allegedly editing out parts of his interview, while arguing Netanyahu is a war criminal and that U.S. media and politicians fail to hold him accountable. It also defends Nicholas Kristof’s reporting on sexual violence in the IDF and criticizes how similar reporting about Hamas is framed.

Guests

No guests are identified by name in the transcript. The speaker references “Barry Weiss,” “Leslie Stahl,” “Major Garrett,” “Senator Chris Van Hollen,” and “Nicholas Kristof,” but they are not presented as episode guests.

Key claims

Netanyahu lies; social media is blamed instead of Israel’s actions; 60 Minutes provided Netanyahu favorable conditions; U.S. funding supports “genocidal” policies; Kristof’s reporting is credible and should not be retracted.

Notable examples

Netanyahu’s “eighth front” claim about social media; alleged sniping of children in Gaza; alleged IDF sexual violence/rape of a prisoner; Kristof’s New York Times column and subsequent backlash/retraction discussions.

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Chapters

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Critique of Netanyahu's Interview

0:45 to 2:39

Discussion on Netanyahu's appearance on 60 Minutes and the controversial editing of the interview.

“between Leslie Stahl, Major Garrett, Newsy 60 Minutes interview.”

Propaganda and Historical Comparisons

2:39 to 4:25

Analysis of Netanyahu's use of propaganda and historical parallels drawn with Hitler.

“commits with saying the Jews, with what people are saying is Israel.”

Criticism of American Foreign Policy

4:25 to 6:10

Discussion on the conflation of Jewish identity with Israeli government actions, and critique of U.S. foreign policy.

“This funding of fascism by the billionaire Americans is so grotesque.”

Netanyahu's Claims and Accountability

6:10 to 8:02

Examination of Netanyahu's claims during the interview and lack of accountability for his actions.

“Netanyahu attributes the reputational harm to Israel almost entirely to social media, which he calls the eighth front of the war.”

The Role of Media in Propaganda

8:02 to 9:56

Discussion on how media supports or challenges narratives of powerful figures like Netanyahu.

“Multiple interviews, multiple fact checking.”

Nicholas Kristof's Reporting on Israel

9:56 to 11:50

Insights into Nicholas Kristof's reporting on sexual violence in the IDF and media response.

“by women and men in war and conflict zones.”

Media's Unequal Treatment of Stories

13:20 to 14:04

Critique of how different stories are treated in media regarding Israel and Palestine.

“Screams without words, how Hamas weaponized sexual violence on October 7th.”

The Role of Journalism in Justice

14:04 to 14:50

Explore how journalism seeks to reveal truths about injustice without bias.

“So in summary here, Nicholas Kristof does months long reporting, multiple, multiple interviews.”

Critiquing Israel and Anti-Semitism

14:50 to 15:43

Discussing the importance of critiquing Israel to combat anti-Semitism effectively.

“We are never going to defeat bigotry with lies.”

The Soros Family's Commitment to Combating Hate

15:43 to 16:46

Highlighting the Soros family's donation to combat bigotry against multiple communities.

“Well, the son of George Soros is a guy named Alex Soros, and he happens to be married to a Muslim woman.”
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Interconnectedness of Bigotry

16:46 to 17:51

Emphasizing the need to address all forms of bigotry collectively.

“This investment is about keeping people safe and pushing back against hate.”
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Transcript

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0:04Barry Weiss and the Ellison family have completely ruined the juggernaut news show 60 Minutes. They invited war criminal and homicidal, genocidal, lying maniac, Benjamin Netanyahu, on to 60 Minutes. And Barry Weiss was so obsequious to this genocidal killer, she allowed Netanyahu to pick. Who do you want to interview you, you war criminal? I want to make sure we service you so that you can lie to the American people the best way that you can. Old Benny boy, pop this up. Exclusive, Barry Weiss gave Netanyahu choice between Leslie Stahl, Major Garrett, Newsy 60 Minutes interview. This is a moment that Barry Weiss led CBS News, left out of the broadcast version of the interview.

0:58Let's play this clip. Without cell phones and without digital campaigns and farm bots was labeled a warmonger in the 1930s because he said you have to stand up to Hitler. Hitler. And they accused him of being a war monger. And Hitler didn't even say death to America, death to Britain. I think he might've planned it, but he didn't say it. And still they accused him of that. Okay. So they edited this part out. And I think it's really interesting because this is classic use of propaganda. And he is trying to pile on to World War II here. And he's saying that Iran deserves everything they're getting because they have said death to Israel, death to America.

1:41Meanwhile, who he's saying, Hitler, Hitler didn't even say these things. Hitler did exactly what you're doing. He secretly was killing all of these people and then lying about doing it. That's what the Nuremberg trials proved, that Hitler used mass propaganda, just like Benjamin Netanyahu is doing. And Barry Weiss and some editors at 60 Minutes were smart enough to take that out. Meanwhile, Hitler spoke exclusively to the people about what he thought about death and killing people through his bombs. And I can guarantee you that the people of Gaza, the people of Iran, the people of Lebanon feel exactly what type of death Benjamin Netanyahu wants to intact on them.

2:28And the problem with Benjamin Netanyahu is so many people in our country keep providing cover for him. And they try to conflate the crimes that Benjamin Netanyahu commits with saying the Jews, with what people are saying is Israel. Let me put it to you very simply. Right now, I'm an American. Any criticism or critique that anybody has towards the American government, I say, yes, it's correct. You are not a crazy person. Our president is committing, in my opinion, war crimes by bombing fishermen, by bombing a bunch of schoolgirls in Iran. So if you call the United States foreign policy murderous, I would agree with you.

3:10Somebody lying about the actions of the military of the country I live in doesn't help anybody. So why people continue to lie and conflate Judaism with the Israeli government is just so incredibly dangerous. This next part was kept in to the interview, and let's play this clip. I believe it's time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States, meaning what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis. Absolutely. And I've said this to President Trump. I've said it to our own people. their jaws dropped. But I said, look. What do you mean?

3:51What are you saying? I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Okay. So all this man does is lie. He's never wants to draw down the support of the Americans funding his genocidal terror. He gets on TV, American TV, with Zionist propagandist Barry Weiss making sure he gets the edit he wants, he gets the interviewer he wants, and he sits there and lies with impunity. This funding of fascism by the billionaire Americans is so grotesque. Barry Weiss taking part and allowing 60 Minutes to normalize the lies and propaganda from this man whose regime targeted journalists, over 200 journalists killed by fucking Israel.

4:50What does Barry Weiss and CBS say? Come and sit down. Do they ask him about this? Do they ask him about the little kids that were sniped by snipers in Gaza that were shot in the head or in the chest? Does he ask him, hey, everybody says you're a war criminal. The ICC has charged you as being a war criminal. What is your response to that? Nothing. Zero accountability. This is what happens in two-bit dictatorships. And Barry Weiss and the Ellisons are allowing this coup to take place of American media. And Netanyahu, he cannot live in reality. He wants to say social media is completely to blame for Israel's declining popularity in the United States.

5:34And I think this is just so patronizing to Americans that he thinks we're this fucking stupid. Israel is not popular because you carpet bomb civilians. Israel is not popular because we saw a video of IDF soldiers raping a prisoner on video. No charges. no charges whatsoever. It's so condescending for you to say Americans are so stupid that if they didn't have social media, then they'd love us. That is just the definition of a propagandic cult leader. Play the clip. Netanyahu attributes the reputational harm to Israel almost entirely to social media, which he calls the eighth front of the war. Because it's this.

6:21This is yours, right? You're not immune either. Because you can penetrate this machine. You can penetrate this little instrument. And you can say about Major Garrett anything you want. And I can paint you as a monster. And if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it. that's just it is absolutely unbelievable it is absolutely unbelievable number one that 60 minutes made such a safe place for him to sit there and just brazenly lie like that and number two that they didn't ask him well let's talk about the claims that people are seeing on social media let's talk about the journalists that you've killed let's talk about the American citizens that you've killed in Gaza.

7:11The only person who seems to be talking about this is Senator Chris Van Hollen, a senator who is always bringing this up into the public dialogue. There was a Palestinian American journalist, female, three years ago that was shot by the IDF. No charges, no investigation, crickets. And for Benjamin Netanyahu to sit on 60 Minutes and lecture us, that we can't be outraged by this, and he can't even be questioned by it, is madness. It is utter madness. All of the Zionists are completely melting down because Nicholas Kristof wrote a New York Times opinion piece, and in it he exposes a culture in the IDF of sexual violence towards Palestinian prisoners.

7:58And I think you all have to understand that in order for these articles to go to print. The legal threshold is intense. It is really, really intense. Multiple interviews, multiple fact checking. And let's put up a screen grab of Nicholas Kristof. He says, the silence that meets the rape of Palestinians, male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel's prison guards, soldiers, settlers, and interrogators. And I mentioned to you all that there is a video of IDF soldiers raping a prisoner. And this was circulated heavily, both in Israel and in Western media. And the Israel, absolutely no charges.

8:45All these IDF soldiers are off the hook. And then Benjamin Netanyahu gets on the airwaves and he tells people, we have the most moral army in the universe. That's propaganda. It is a fucking lie. It's like Donald Trump saying, we have the hottest country in the world. We have the hottest economy in the world, despite the facts. And all of the Zionists are melting down over Nicholas Kristof's brave journalism. Pop this up. David Schuster's going through some things. Hearing from longtime friends at New York Times, there are already discussions, including up the masthead, about retracting Nick Kristof column.

9:21Issues with source credibility and lack of evidence. No indications that Kristof sourcing mistakes were deliberate, still problematic. So the New York Times retweets this and backs up Nicholas Kristof. Pop this up. There is no truth to this at all. Nicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has reported on sexual violence for decades and is widely regarded as one of the world's best on-the-ground reporters documenting and bearing witness to sexual abuse experienced by women and men in war and conflict zones. He traveled to the region to report firsthand on the stories of Palestinians who suffered abuse.

10:07And this article collects accounts in the victim's own words backed by independent studies. It is so disgraceful that these Zionists are not outraged at the facts in this reporting. We all know the bravery that it takes to come out to report about sexual abuse. Imagine how oppressed these Palestinians are. They are second-class citizens in this ridiculous, immoral, genocidal apartheid state in which Israel controls everything. And at great risk to themselves, they come out and tell their stories. We also have the tape that I mentioned before. And they just want to besmirch the character of this Pulitzer Prize winning author instead of saying, this is insane.

11:01There are a lot of stories here about the IDF doing this on top of a video of them doing it. Let's investigate further. Maybe we shouldn't give them American taxpayer funding money anymore. But instead, I've never seen anything like it. So many people lie for this genocidal state. And then if you criticize it, if you say the truth, like that's really fucked up. I don't think our taxpayer money should go to this. I don't want it to go to kids starving or kids getting raped or kids getting shot or journalists getting shot. Then they say, oh, you're a bigot. It's just it is so insane how much this country, this president, this administration, the Western media bends over for Benjamin Netanyahu.

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13:19I'm glad the New York Times is backing up Nicholas Kristof, but why does reporting on the rape of Palestinian people get put under the opinion section, while this reporting on sexual assault by Hamas gets put on the news section? Pop this up. Screams without words, how Hamas weaponized sexual violence on October 7th. family members of one of the women prominently featured in this report that got put in the news section on the New York Times challenged the claim that she had been raped and discrepancies and testimony from a cited witness drew further scrutiny. So in summary here, Nicholas Kristof does months long reporting, multiple, multiple interviews.

14:12It goes through a rigorous legal check through the New York Times legal department. And he pops this up because journalism can put a light on injustice and can right wrongs. This is not about antisemitism. This is not about not being pro-American. This is about the truth. Journalism is about the truth. And they shuttle him over to the opinion page. And then this other headline, which is a lot of Israeli propaganda, gets put on the front page of the New York Times. And this is the way Western media treats this. And that's not okay. We are never going to defeat bigotry with lies. We are never going to defeat anti-Semitism if we cannot critique Israel.

15:00We have to be able to critique and call out the lies of a genocidal government. We have to. And Western media silences. There are many, many, many American anti-Zionist Jewish voices who say, not in my name, not in my faith, do not do this, that pose with everything in them, the murderous regime of Benjamin Netanyahu. And, you know, the Soros family is always under a lot of critique from the right. I believe a lot of those critiques are because George Soros is Jewish. And so that's where like Marjorie Taylor Greene gets the Jewish space lasers and the Soros are paying all these protesters and all of this stuff.

15:44Well, the son of George Soros is a guy named Alex Soros, and he happens to be married to a Muslim woman. And the family is donating$30 million to combat bigotry because you in order to combat bigotry you have to value Islamophobia every bit the same level that you do anti-semitism transphobia all the same protections you cannot prioritize these things and expect people to be safe play the clip I'm Alex Soros as the son of a Holocaust survivor and a Jew I'm acutely aware of the dangers of anti-semitism I'm also proudly married to a Muslim American. Discrimination and hate are an abstract concepts to me or my family.

16:29They're deeply personal and have been persistent throughout our lives. Today, the Open Society Foundations are committing$30 million to organizations fighting anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hate around the United States and across the world. At a moment like this, we need to stand together and act. This investment is about keeping people safe and pushing back against hate. I think that's beautifully said, and I think that's a worthy cause to donate to. And I think it's just so important. In order to combat anti-Semitism, we must tell the truth. In order to combat anti-Semitism, you must also prioritize anti-Black racism.

17:11You must also prioritize Islamophobia. They are all connected. You cannot prioritize. This is the only form of bigotry that matters. We're going to tell a bunch of lies to promote that and then leave everybody else aside because so much Islamophobia fuels the murderous, dictatorship, fascist regime of Benjamin Netanyahu. I know this is really tough stuff to absorb. I really hate even wading into it, but it's so important. Those war crimes and these kids that are getting killed abroad, we have to stand up for it. we must stand up for these people. That's all we have. We'll be back later with more news.

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