Newsom Repeats Slur Israel is an ‘Apartheid State’ in Blatant Attempt to Appeal to Dem Base
“But the issue of Bibi is interesting because he’s got his own domestic issues. He’s trying to stay out of jail.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom used the words ‘Apartheid state’ when talking about Israel during a recent event hosted by two of the former Obama staffers who now run the ‘Pod Save America’ podcast.
This is the latest sign that Newsom is definitely running in 2028. He knows where the energy of the Democrat Party’s base is right now and that they have become increasingly hostile towards Israel in recent years.
It’s also a pathetic attempt by the ‘Pod Bros, ‘ as they’re called, to remain relevant to the base of the party.
FOX News reports:
Newsom suggests Israel is an ‘apartheid state,’ Netanyahu influenced Trump’s actions in Iran
While speaking at an event for his “Young Man in a Hurry” book tour Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested Israel is an “apartheid state” and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu influenced President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran.
Newsom told the event’s moderators — “Pod Save America” co-hosts Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor — it was appropriate to classify Israel as an apartheid state.
“A lot of Democrats have looked at the Netanyahu regime and felt like, ‘You know what? We don’t like the trajectory he’s on. It’s time to rethink the U.S. relationship with Israel, especially military support.’ Where do you stand?” Vietor asked Newsom.
“Let’s talk about that. But the issue of Bibi is interesting because he’s got his own domestic issues. He’s trying to stay out of jail. He’s got an election coming up. He’s potentially on the ropes. He’s got folks, the hard line, that [want to] annex the West Bank. I mean, [Tom] Freidman and others are talking about it appropriately — sort of an apartheid state,” the governor replied.
According to Newsom, Israel’s leaders “haven’t even been able to solve the Hamas question” over the last two years, questioning how they would successfully pull off “regime change” in Iran.
“I want to be careful here, but, you know, in so many ways, that influence in the context of the conversation of where Trump ultimately landed on this is pretty damn self-evident,” he claimed.
Watch the whole clip below:
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Tonight, at a book event in Los Angeles, Governor Gavin Newsom said that the United States is being pushed by Israel into a position where it may have to reconsider military support.
Newsom said that those who say Israel is an apartheid state are doing so “appropriately.”… pic.twitter.com/6UUBEH7hYD
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 4, 2026
Nothing about Newsom is authentic. Everything he says is a carefully considered exercise in politics and this is no different.
The far left Democrat base hates Israel, so now Newsom must hate Israel.
Their hatred doesn’t even make sense.
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– Respects women and LGBT people
– Respects religious minorities
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Sparkle Pants is a low intelligence moron who can’t read. He doesn’t know what an apartheid state is. Israel isn’t one. Frankly if you replace race with politics CA would probably qualify as an apartheid state. Especially after redistricting to eliminate almost all republican representation in their congressional delegation.
Seems to me, if they succeed with this tactic to delegitimize Israel, it would be transferable to any state.
Greasy Newsolini is so utterly vile, despicable and evil.
He’s totally unabashed, nonplussed and comfortable, parroting the utterly wicked and brazenly dishonest slander alleging that Israel is an “apartheid” state — trying to turn a conflict caused by genocidal, “holy war” Islamfascism, waged by Islamofascists, into an alleged racial conflict. It’s sickening and contemptible.
Not to mention, the notion that Israel allegedly discriminates against Israeli Arabs, or, Druze, or whoever, is utter bunk. Israeli Arab Muslims have more rights in Israel than they do in many Arab or non-Arab Islamic or Muslim-majority states.
I’d like to see someone ask Newsolini, “What is your basis for stating that Israel allegedly is an “apartheid” state? What’s the factual basis for that accusation?”
No one ever asks that obvious follow-up question, because the slander itself is such transparent and brazenly obvious bunk and rubbish.
The basis of this is that the juices discriminate against Palestinians…you know, people who are not Israeli citizens.
Check points…apparently its only the juices that have check points and every other country on the face of the planet doesnt have check points that limits access to that country to non-citizens.
Therefore…diScRimiNaTIoN!
Does Newsom realized he is running a political apartheid state? Harassing and marginalizing Republicans and conservatives? Look in the mirror you commie freak.
New Jersey is a learn to fart state
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Goiv. Noisome is looking and sounding more like Tucker Carlson evry day.
he is riling up an already riled up blmplo street army
when trumps admin is over>>>locals turning to more socialist>>we are going to be the preferred victims of the day even more by the dem sanctioned street thuggs
Apartheid? Bruh. No, but lack of Covid rule compliance by the Fauci Fascist wannabe dictator class revealed who wants one set of rules for the masses and another for the elites.
New Jersey is a learn to fart state
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Liberals appear to be using reheated Soviet Cold War era ‘Zionism is racism’ propaganda to redefine ‘apartheid,’ They seem to be using the term to mean not agreeing to erasure by way of an interpretation of multicultural ideology.
It’s time to take the gloves with Newsom. I propose the following hashtag to try and get trending. It’s #NaziNewsom.
This latest attack on Israel is consistent with his new fascist rhetoric. He has called Trump an “invasive species” more than once. He has also said we need to punched in the mouth because these are dangerous times. The only proper comparison for this kind of thing is the Nazis. Video of this at the following link.
https://x.com/bluecollardad73/status/2029615078077804647?s=46
“Nothing about Newsom is authentic. Everything he says is a carefully considered exercise in politics and this is no different.”
Well, I don’t know about everything being carefully considered. He did say to black people that he was like them because of his low SAT scores.
Newsome didn’t say Israel is an apartheid state. He said that if it were to annex Judaea, Benjamin, and Samaria, the so-called “West Bank” — an area that Jordan occupied from 1949 to 1967, and Israel has occupied since then, but isn’t currently part of any country — without granting its Arab population citizenship, then it would be, as Tom Friedman and others claim, “sort of an apartheid state”.
More accurately it would be a state with a very large alien population, that would enjoy the same civil rights that aliens enjoy in any democracy, but would not have the privileges of citizenship such as the right to vote or to hold national office.
The USA currently has a large alien population, much of it illegal, but the percentage in Israel would be much larger than that. That’s the reason Israel hasn’t annexed this area yet. Back in the ’70s and ’80s it was generally believed that if it did annex the area it would have to give the population citizenship, and that would obviously be suicidal. To annex without giving them citizenship would lead to comparisons with apartheid.
But what we’ve seen is that the comparisons are being made anyway, so a new generation of Israeli nationalists are saying annex anyway and the accusations won’t be any more harmful than they already are. Arabs could choose to remain peacefully as aliens with full civil liberties, or they could choose to emigrate, or they could apply for naturalization and swear an oath of loyalty to Israel.
That’s what Friedman and his fellow PLO apologists are calling a “sort of apartheid”, and that’s what Newsome agreed with.
Parsing words as if it’s not clear what Newsom was/is doing. Even the Guardian acknowledged that “Gavin Newsom likens Israel to ‘an apartheid state’.”
And if Israel were to annex the West Bank and cripple the Israeli Supreme Court, as the boy who cried world Friedman worries, it would still not be an apartheid state as he pontificates. He and Newsom understand what Apartheid was. To compare Israel this way is antisemitic.
Defend Newsom at your peril. At this point, he deserves no benefit of the doubt.
Just look at what Newsome actually said, not at how people are paraphrasing it. He clearly said that in the hypothetical event that Israel were to annex the “West Bank” it would become “sort of an apartheid state”. Those are his words, no matter how anyone else characterizes them.
Would an Israel with a 30%-40% alien population that couldn’t vote be a “sort of apartheid state”? Maybe. If so, why would that be wrong?
There’s no question that Israel is entitled, legally and morally, to annex what is after all its heartland. It should have done it in 1967. And there’s equally no question that it would be impossible to grant citizenship to a hostile minority that wants nothing more than to destroy Israel and massacre its Jewish population.
The proper solution, which the martyred Rabbi Meir Kehane was pushing 50 years ago, would have been to promote emigration by Arabs who just wanted to live in peace, helping them obtain visas to foreign countries, find jobs and houses there, and settle down to become productive citizens of those countries. But Israelis rejected that solution as “racist”, and now they’re paying the price in blood.
Looked at both Newsom and Friedman. It was apparent what they were saying without saying it. Which is why others have paraphrased it as such, Parse away. It’s a ridiculous game of semantics and and some fall for it.
I don’t have a horse in the race but my suggestion for consideration would be:
1) Annex the “West Bank”.
2) Offer all those in “West Bank” Israeli citizenship.
3) To those who don’t want Israeli citizenship offer to fairly buy their property and
businesses and facilitate and support their emigration to a country that will
accept them,
4) Offer the right of return to those Arabs who can prove their ancestors were forcibly
displaced from Israel prior to its war of independence.
That’s my formula and yes it has a lot of problems but so does any other solution.
Offering them citizenship is a no-go. It would be pure suicide. They would accept it and vote Israel out of existence. They’d vote to disband the IDF and surrender to the enemy.
FYI: Jordan didn’t just occupy that land they annexed it with nary a whimper from everyone. They also gave all the residents Jordanian citizenship.
No one except the UK and Pakistan recognized that annexation.
““sort of an apartheid state”. More accurately it would be a state with a very large alien population, that would enjoy the same civil rights that aliens enjoy in any democracy, but would not have the privileges of citizenship such as the right to vote or to hold national office.”
So… like Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa…?
My, my, who’s apartheid now?
All the above except American Samoans are US citizens, and if they move to a state or to DC (as they can do) they can vote. They can also vote for their territorial governments. And they have all the other privileges of citizenship.
Palestine’s last official border was described by the last authority to control the area before Israel’s founding – the British. (The authority that controlled the area prior to the British was the Ottoman Empire and to this day that border remains Jordan’s western limit.) They divided the the Mandate for Palestine into Palestine and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The border ran along the River Jordan and down the middle of the Dead Sea (the border is today known as the “1994 Treaty Line”). The later “Green Line” was merely an armistice/cease fire line drawn on a map by two military officials. The formal agreement fixing the position of the Green Line specifies that it’s existence prejudiced the claims of neither Israel nor Jordan. When Israel took back the West Bank, they re-established their presence along the last legal border (established by the authority of the last legal authority in the area prior to the creation of Israel, Great Britain). The International Court of Justice has declared the West Bank “occupied territory,” when, in fact, Jordan was the occupier as it invaded Israel when it entered the territory (it couldn’t have invaded any other country as Israel assumed the boundaries that had been set by Britain). Then the Green Line was drawn and subsequently Israel took the West Bank back. It is not possible to occupy one’s own territory, and asserting control over the area can’t be “annexation” for the same reason.
Israel’s borders were set by the British while they controlled the Mandate for Palestine, just as the borders of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq were set by France and Britain while exercising their authority via conquest and under the Mandate system in the region at the end of WW I. Nobody questions those borders today. Why are Israel’s borders not recognized as are those of these other nations?
Please see any one of a number of videos of talks given by Professor Eugene Kontorovich on the subject of Israel’s borders and international law.
No, they didn’t. They extended Israel’s sovereign territory only to include that part of Jerusalem that had been under Jordanian occupation, and the Latrun salient. Later they did the same for the Golan Heights. But the rest of the area formerly occupied by Jordan remains outside Israel’s borders, because Israel has chosen that. It could and should have done as you said, but it chose not to. To this day, that area is under military rule, and the prevailing law is Jordanian law, not Israeli.
The ironic part about this is that large portions of the Democrat voting base would be welcome in Israel and would be murdered in most of the other countries in that region who they support more.
Hair Gel went Full Himmler so quickly it made my head spin.
This governor named Gavin Newsome,
Is somebody I find quite gruesome.
He doth think that the rules
Are all made for us fools,
While he goes and breaks not a few-some!
–Cephas Harte
I realize it comes from the COVID era, when Gruesome imposed harsh rules while dining with his entourage in fancy restaurants. But it is suitable for hi program for the whole country.
It is mind blowing that Newsom could even be a candidate for 2028. Just like it is astounding that Californians elected him in the first place. Try to imagine this ego maniac fraudster in the WH, a shuddering thought.
And now that his “base” are all into Iranian theorcarcy and honoring the bushy beard and majestic poetry of the late Ayatollah; will he suggest that Iran has the best track record ever on women’s rights and we should model their LGBTQ policies too? After all if it plays well to the ignorant base, then do it!
Imagine Gruesome’s surprise when his CCP pals squeeze his head to make up for their oil shortage.
Seems like it’s time to simply call Newsom an anti-Semite.
Will Democrats vote for or against racism?
Making it a simple binary choice will castrate Democrat legitimacy.