"So we have work to do to explain exactly what Zionism is, and we have work to do to help people understand the difference between legitimate political protest and Jew hatred. Meaning, there is nothing wrong with the fact that people hate war. That's actually a good thing. There's nothing wrong with the fact that people want to stand up for the Palestinians or support a Palestinian state. That's that's actually perfectly reasonable. The problem is, is when they're choosing to express themselves by going to a Jewish Community Center or a synagogue or a Jewish owned business and chant globalized the Intifada, or any of these other genocidal chants, that's a problem. But in their mind, they don't have the ability to distinguish between all these different elements, because nobody's taught them about the difference between them. That's the work that we have to do."

"To me, what makes this most dangerous and nefarious and scary is I was on a panel about two weeks ago with Martin Luther King, Junior's niece, and she reminded me of this great line from her uncle. We will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. And at Harvard, we would have been lucky to have the silence of our friends, but when you have those in a given society who are at the peak of their intelligence, who are at the the the climax of their their moral and ethical barometers, who are the future leaders of our society, who are the most sophisticated and nuanced and sensitive, when you have those individuals who who see the largest mass of Jews the Holocaust, who see unvarnished evil and terrorism, and their inclination is to side with that evil and terrorism, then I hope you and your listeners can appreciate this is not just a Jewish problem."

"Jews and things that represent Judaism are being attacked. But then at the same time, they're saying, our problem is not with the Jews. We love the Jews. Our problem is Zionists. But what are Zionists? First of all, 95% of Jews are Zionists. And second of all, Zionism is just Jews living in their ancestral land. And that's like Japanese living in their ancestral land and Italians living in their ancestral land."

"Our beauty is our diversity. Our beauty is that there's a synagogue that would pray in Ladino and then there's a synagogue that would pray in English, and a synagogue that's going to do it in Hebrew. How the Ashkenazis pray, or how the Sephardic pray. The beauty is that to be a tribe, is to be different, but then to be connected, like me and you."

"One of the things that I hear people talking about a ton outside of Israel, around anti semitism, is we just learned that the history of Jews is still the history of Jews. That's something we had heard about that sounded like it happened to a different generation, that we were maybe post historical in some way that that's not true the trauma of Jew hatred, right? And so we are trying to change our outlook and our understanding of how the world relates to us and what we need to do to keep our families safe and to move forward. And some people are frozen and reeling. Some people are distancing themselves and trying to suppress their Jewish identity and pass in a lot of situations, as not Jewish, even in their own minds. In some ways, here's what I want everybody to know, resilience is not the lack of emotional experience. It's not a lack of difficult emotions or frustration or anger or sadness or worry. Resilience is the ability to navigate change towards a positive goal."

"My tagline essentially two things. One, it's go time. And two, everybody is an activist. Everybody is an activist in any way you are able to be or choose to be, and which is why we have the on the ground activism. We have the digital activism. You know, we also believe in information activism by by being fed information, like Eitan, information you beautifully put out on social media. And when you express, you know, your monologs that are so priceless and invaluable. And we repost those because right there that just fanning the flame of activism in somebody that might not have been there prior. So everybody can be an activist. I know that it sounds so simplistic, but it's really the truth."

"I feel like I'm strengthening people and arming them. I'm arming them with the to have the audacity to strike back, to fight back, to yell back. Don't be one of those trembling, needy Jews. Arm yourself with the knowledge and facts so that you can throw a fucking Tyson punch knockout. "

"It's an amazing experience, not just on stage, just every time that I make someone laugh, because, because it, it's a reflex, you know? Laughter is reflex. You can't control it. That's why you laugh in like this, terrible occasions and this, you know, yo, musica Ron and stuff, you know that just you shouldn't laugh, but it's a reflex. So I was a singer for years. I performed with my band, and you play your song, and the moment it ends, people will clap their hands, and it's very civil, and that's it. But when you make someone laugh, it's just, it's almost like they don't want to, but their body is just like exploding. And to make that effect on people is is crazy."

"The situation we're in is very sad and can be very scary and...it's an intimidating situation. I'm optimistic in the sense that I believe the Jewish people have gotten so close because of this, and we need to continue doing it, and I believe we can. I'm optimistic because I know we can handle the situation."

"There's a level of (Jew) hatred that has just been ignited so quickly, and it can go to the worst places. I mean, we've seen that in humanity. "