California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) called Israel an “apartheid state” during an event promoting his new memoir.
“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,” Newsom said of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, going on to say that some refer to Israel “appropriately as sort of an apartheid state.” He noted that “for two years, they haven’t even been able to solve the Hamas question in Israel.”
“In so many ways, that influence in the context of the conversation of where Trump ultimately landed on this is pretty [removed] self-evident,” Newsom stated. “When you bring two aircraft carriers out there and you assemble the kind of military force that Trump did over the last few weeks, it didn’t surprise me ultimately that they moved that direction.”
“Pod Save America” host Jon Favreau asked Newsom. “Do you think, looking down the road, that the United States should consider maybe, you know, rethinking our military support for Israel?”
Newsom responded, “It breaks my heart, because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don’t think you have a choice about that consideration.”
“The fact that we are in this now, a regional war. All these proxies and all the grift and the corruption that also marks a huge part of this,” the governor claimed. “And that’s a real conversation we need to have, this Board of Peace. In the piece that the Witkoff family is getting, in the piece that Kushner is getting, in the peace that Trump Jr. is getting.”
