Reality Star Julia Haart On ANTISEMITISM: 'We Need To CHANGE This Trend'

[Music] an Orthodox Jewish woman turned glamour Queen is at the center of one of the thorniest issues in the country Julia Hart spent most of her life in the Orthodox Jewish Community a community she says felt like living in the 1800s Hart was wet off at just 19 years old in an arranged marriage and had four kids it wasn't until her daughter who was bisexual pushed back on the lifestyle that Hart decided at 42 years old to leave the Orthodox wing of the Jewish religion Hart went on to become a shoe designer and creative director for lingerie brand laera she famously designed kennel Jenner's 2017 Met gala dress but Hart soon faced hard times again divorcing her second husband in 2022 after accusing him of threatening to kill her and being aggressive towards her youngest son's Judaism this story may sound familiar as heart starred a Netflix hit show my unorthodox life and wrote A Memoir fashion has given way to fighting against anti-Semitism Hart recently launched a website to support those standing up to anti-Semitism online it comes as lawmakers increasingly made combating anti-Semitism a top priority President Biden vly condemned anti-Semitism across the country this week while Republicans grilled several School District leaders on their handling of the issue her son also attended Columbia University which has been Ground Zero for this students Pro Palestinian protest movement with us now is Julia Hart thank you for being with us thank you so much for having me on the lovely introduction that's beautiful yes thank you for your work I'm very curious how you decided to land on making this transition into fashion I think Amber and I like fashion a lot but it's an interesting and and alternative avenue into addressing anti-Semitism can you tell us how you landed on it well I'm a very proud Jewish woman and and as I've always said I'm not a religious Jewish woman but I'm a very proud one and I think that you know in the show in the book my purpose was to make the community I live in a safer better place for women where they would have autonomy and self-determination it never was done out of anger it was always done out of love and I think that as a um person a TV personality and someone that has an audience I think every Jewish person and every person who stands in allyship with the Jewish people have no choice today but become Advocates against anti-Semitism Advocates against terrorism because it's sweeping the world and we have seen what that evil monstrous Jewish anti-jewish sentiment can create and we don't want to go back there so I don't think any of us have a choice I think we have to fight against the hate that is spreading across world and recently we've seen some examples of anti-Semitism coming out of the student protest on college campuses what has been your reaction to that and what are some of the most concerning things that you've seen from that specific movement well I'll tell you something really interesting this morning I watched a student uh who is I'm going to just say Pro terrorist and pro murder and rape she got up in front of an audience and said you have to protect us the protesters you have to protect those who are anti-jewish she didn't say anti Israel she didn't say Pro Palestinian she used the word anti-jewish it's clear it's come out this has nothing to do with Palestine this is not political this is the reestablishment and the rising of hatred towards the Jewish people I spoke on Saturday at um a synagogue to a bunch of Scouts girls and boys who all go to public school a fifth grader came over to me and said that every day when she goes to school she has met with a group of people who Point their fingers at her and say go back to aitz where you belong I just saw in stent High School a student came forward and stated how he and his family have had to go all the way up to Congress because the Jewish people in the New York districts are getting what can literally be termed blood liing they are being accused of some bizarre crazy things as an example in ston paper they literally wrote that Jewish people are trying trying to sterilize Palestinians and kidnap children I mean the some of the things are crazy so it's terrifying out there and to me the only way to combat it is to unify which is exactly why I started omn Julia I'm curious we've heard accounts of a lot of these protesters with Jewish voice for peace protesters who are Jewish who want to see an end to the war who are critical of the current government of Israel but they identify as anti-zionists how are you squaring this in your mind are do you think all of the protesters you know on college campuses are anti-jewish or or how do you shake this out when some of them are Jewish it is really difficult to watch self-hating people it's just an uncomfortable feeling we don't understand it but it's not a new phenomenon nor is it only represented in the Jewish people look at all these self-hating Americans we have floating around who won't stand for the you know our uh our flag who literally complain every single day and hate America even though they're Americans self-hatred unfortunately is human nature and we can't use those extreme Fringe people to justify what is clearly an unequivocally Jew hatred whether Jews are involved in it or not just just as an American hate can hate America even if they live there so unfortunately this is not a new phenomenon is not only related to Judaism there're just who hate themselves I don't understand it but it's the reality now I have a Jewish friend Oscar DEC he's a writer he talked about how never again for him in reference to the Holocaust means never again for anyone and that it's a part of his Jewish faith he is a religious Jew that that means we have to stand up for people he quotes you know in in Hebrew that there are people the righteous ones and uh no one can ever tell if they're among these 36 righteous ones and it's this kind of teaching that any humble Anonymous act of kindness and caring for other human beings is key to the Jewish religion and that's why they're standing up to what's happening in Palestine you know what do you make of of this do you think this is a self-hating kind of perspective well I think that the beautiful part about you know the Jewish culture and our history is that we have always stood with the underdog we have always defended others even at the cost of our own lives who marched with Martin Luther King Jews did which lawyers went to the South to defend blacks Jews did there are I think if I'm not mistaken somewhere between 20 to 30% of all Nobel Prize lawyers are Jews Jews care about everyone not just Jews and the tragedy of it is is that all of these innocent Palestinians that are being killed and whose deaths are being blamed upon Israel the reality is these people are just as subjugated tormented as the Jewish people are by Kamas nobody wants to be led run by terrorist fundamentalist organizations that can mutilate female genitalia while raping people that is not who you want running your system so the truth is that the west and these completely Jew hating uh Pro Palestinian protesters they're literally defending the very people that are killing the Palestinians it is hamas's responsibility to ensure Palestinian safety by not putting their weapons the hostages and them surrounding themselves with women and children they want Palestinians to die it is on their hands and their head that those deaths are and I cannot understand how anyone looking at Iran the fact that Iran is inviting these students to school in Iran should tell you everything you need to know think about the millions of women in Iran who stood up against the very regimes against the Hamas hasah fundamentalist regimes that keep women down so yes I'm going to fight for those women in Gaza I'm going to fight for every Muslim woman just like I did when I spoke in front of thousands of Muslim women when the Iranian women were uh protesting I went to Washington I was a keynote speaker this little Jew girl from m for the Iranian women so I 1% agreed every Jewish person that I know cares about all life we just want the people responsible for the murder of both innocent Muslims and innocent Jews to be held accountable and to release the hostages period it's that simple then every person is safe Jew Muslim Christian Drews everyone Julia what do you make of the current administration's policy and and posture towards Israel there's been two recent incidents where some critics have accused them of betraying Israel both by pulling Weaponry from them as they uh begin their Siege on Rafa and also there was a recent incident where the Biden Administration reportedly helped negotiate a ceasefire without Israeli involvement that Hamas then accepted publicly which was viewed as sort of a pressure campaign to get Israel to accept a ceasefire without release of all of the hostages um what is your perspective on exactly how the American government's policy has been toward W Israel over the past few months so you know what I've seen is that uh it is now cool and popular to hate Jewish people standing up in allyship with Jews right now is dangerous for you you're going to lose followers you're going to lose jobs people are going to attack you I can read you some of the posts that I have um uh what's it called that I really I mean literally comments that I get on my posts yesterday something was related to something to the fact that um bring don't bring them home bring them to Hitler something to that effect it was wild that's why I started on Nation we need to change this completely disastrous Trend where it is cool and popular to hate Jewish people and if you defend Jewish people you may lose your election you may lose this you may lose that how do we change that that was the question I asked myself and I realized that aggregation Unity defeats hate and so what I've done is created a website we're asking every person Jewish not Jewish Muslim Christian I don't care anyone who wants to stand in allyship with the Jewish people against anti-Semitism sign up the more thousands of people that sign up what we're going to do starting June 12th is we're going to put three names on there and we're going to ask every person who has signed up to follow those three names every morning we want it to become a habit get up get dressed brush your teeth go on om. follow those three people the power of that is imagine if 400,000 people sign up 500,000 aill ion people imagine if someone gets attacked someone loses a job and we put that name on omation and they wake up the next morning with a million new followers we are creating a safe space for people to speak up for the Jewish people and I think that will change the policies and politics because I think what these policies are related to is the popularity of Jewish hatred and the only way to combat it is to change that trajectory we need people to understand that anti semitism is wrong that Terror terrorism is wrong that rape can never ever be excused that is not an act of freedom fighting and that we if you are standing in allyship with the Jewish people they will support you and defend you they if you get attack we will come to the rescue and that's why I think there's all of this going on is because it's so popular to hate Jews it's easy to fall into that unfortunate kind of trend to chase after popularity and that's what's happening and we need to change that so sign up to om Nation be one of those people who helps change the trajectory of hate that is sweeping the globe so is this a a sort of fundraising pitch is there a cost Associated or a subscription or is it are you creating a network of people that's it it's just Unity that's the beauty of it you don't have to have money you don't need followers we're not asking for anything other than being united all we're saying is every person has power if we aggregate ourselves together if we stand together if we all sign up and when someone who is speaking up against hatred gets attacked we come to the rescue think about the power of that first of all the people who are already fighting on behalf of the Jewish people get protected but number two all of those people who want to speak up for the Jewish people who are afraid to it gives them a safe space to do so because they know they get attacked they put their name on there we're going to put that name on there and they're going to get a million new followers 500,000 followers real followers not bxs you cannot buy that it takes years and years to create and it's a game Cher for people so we're creating an environment where it is safe to speak the truth and stand up against terrorism against R so the beauty of this is it's not asking for anything it takes literally three seconds of every day I want and I know that Unity defeats hate I have seen it in my own life and if we band together and we follow the people simultaneously in one shot in one 12-h hour period can you imagine the power of that Unity we will change the conversation on social media we will enable those who want to speak up on behalf of the Jewish people to do so without fear of reprisals and of course lastly and most importantly we will stop the confirmation of Jewish hatred that is spreading across the globe just curious Julie really quick before we wrap is there a way to prevent people from signing up for this and then using this to to block whoever's on the list is there a way to verify that whoever's joining is a part of the Jewish community so here's a beautiful part of it there's no information on there there's no messaging there's no text there's nothing it's just three names so you sign up you see the three names but these are names you already know because if they're going up on that website those three names have already been attacked they're already being attacked on social media they've already lost all their followers so the people that we're putting up there are people that everyone already knows is standing in allly with the Jewish people so there's really no way to stop it we're just asking people to unify that's simple we're asking people to be the protection the infrastructure in order to be able to speak the truth and stand up against hatri interesting thank you for your time Julian talking with us more Rising after this thank you so much you guys are amazing [Music]

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Length: 15min 33sec (933 seconds)

Published: Fri May 10 2024