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What Tyler Oliveira Didn't Tell You About Kiryas Joel
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These short videos were made by Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg in response to the viral video by Tyler Oliveira titled "Inside the New York Town Invaded by Welfare-Addicted Jews." It's important to counter misinformation with facts, especially when harmful stereotypes are being spread to millions of viewers. --- FAIR USE NOTICE: This video contains copyrighted material, the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, and education, which constitute fair use under Section 107 of the US Copyright Act. This video is not intended to infringe on any copyrights.
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Now let's talk about how he opens the
actual video.
He has a video of a kidic Jew asking
him, "You work for Hamas?"
And the reason why that man had every
reason to ask the question, first let's
watch the clip.
>> You work for Hamas?
>> Well,
the Jewish man
with his talis outside the sh
is clearly uncomfortable.
You're playing at Tyler like this man is
paranoid, like he's crazy, he's
unreasonable.
But let me tell you why he asked you
that question.
Tyler, you showed up in an insularic
village with a camera crew. You're
walking around filming people who don't
want to be filmed.
You're asking invasive personal
questions about their finances, their
families, their religion.
You're wearing a mask, which is fine,
but you're also a stranger in a
community that has been targeted.
I'm
I have the beard, the pis, the bald. I
have the right hat.
I have gotten plenty of looks and plenty
of anti-semitic comments just for
dressing the way I dress and being who I
am.
You know as well as the listeners, the
people who view your videos know that
this community gets picked on for who
they are and what they look like. We're
living in a world where anti-semitism is
growing.
So you have a guy showing up with a
camera, pushing into their space, asking
them questions.
When the man's asking you, "Do you work
for Hamas?" Tyler, he didn't really
think he worked for Hamas. He was
asking, "Are you here to cause us harm?"
Cuz from his perspective, that's exactly
what you were there to do. And as your
video shows, that is exactly what you
tried to do.
So when you want clickbait, what do you
do? You put that as the opening of your
video. That's how you start.
>> You work for Hamas.
>> I don't want my
>> So why do you start with that? me Hamas.
You didn't start the video with an
explanation. Maybe like PBS would start
a nice video where anybody who was
trying to explain something about a
community. You walk around, you show,
you give context. You didn't even give
an introduction. You started with a
distressed Yiddish man asking if you
work for Hamas. Why did you do that?
Because it's shocking. Because it's
viral. Because it'll get you clicks.
because it'll even get you people like
myself to respond which ultimately gets
you more clicks. But I don't mind if you
get clicks. You're a YouTuber. I wish
you all the success in making cute,
funny, interesting YouTube videos
that make you lots of money.
But to all the millions of people
watching your video, this video
particularly, they get the view, they
get the picture that these Jews are
paranoid, unreasonable, guilty of some
crime when really they're a community
that is living a peaceful life and you
are showing up there and they see that
they see you with your video camera and
your uncomfortable pictures,
uncomfortable questions as a threat. And
you know what, Tyler? They were
absolutely right.
Tyler, why did you show up there? What
was your actual goal? You didn't arrange
interviews. You didn't talk to community
leaders. Didn't do any research. You
showed up with a camera. I shouldn't say
you didn't do any research. You may have
done research on how to get people to
take clickbait, how to ask questions
that can be translated wrong, that
confuse people.
You showed up with a camera and sharded
confronting random people on the street.
You cold approached elderly men with
broken English. You asked women who have
no interest in speaking with you
questions.
In our community, women can do whatever
they want. They're free. But the average
woman who wants to speak to a YouTuber
like you is probably somebody who would
have moved out of Curious, not somebody
who's currently living there. You really
should respect the will of the people
who live in a certain place. You
shouldn't go over to them and arrest
them.
You come into a synagogue during prayers
with a video camera
and you start asking questions. Oh, what
time is it? Nobody works around here.
Before we get in depth any of these
points, I just want to make it clear.
You were not in curious yo to
understand.
You are not like that video of the
Shabas meal that somebody came and
wanted to experience. A non-Jewish
person came and wanted to experience
what an authentic Shabas is like. I
believe that video got millions or tens
of millions of views.
You weren't there to understand them.
You came to exploit them.
So, okay, one guy asked you if you work
for Hamas. You acting like a hostile
outsider. That was the question you got.
The reason you open that video with that
clip is because it makes him look like
the victim and it makes them look crazy.
But that's not what happened at all. In
the next video, I'm going to explain to
you what it means when you go into the
shul and you say people are praying from
morning till night.