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Julian Casablancas Expands on Controversial Zionism Remarks During Oxford Union Speech

Chris DeVille

1d ago· 7 min readenNews

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Summary

Julian Casablancas, lead singer of The Strokes, made controversial remarks about American Zionists during an Oxford Union speech, expanding on earlier comments from a SubwayTakes interview. He compared American Zionists to white privileged people claiming victimhood akin to Black people during slavery, and drew parallels between violent slave rebellions and the October 7th Hamas attacks, arguing that violence by oppressed groups does not justify the oppression itself.

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StereogumJulian Casablancas Expands on Controversial Zionism Remarks During Oxford Union Speechstereogum.com

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American Zionists get the benefits of white privileged people but talk like they are Black people during slavery.

Just for the people that are going to be like, 'Hamas, October 7th.' Yes, bad. But Native American rebellions didn't mean it was okay to do what we did.

Slave rebellions that were violent didn't mean that slavery is not bad.

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When Julian Casablancas appeared on SubwayTakes back in April, host Kareem Rahma asked the Strokes singer for his most controversial take. Casablancas replied, “American Zionists get the benefits of white privileged people but talk like they are Black peo

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