Last week, the streets of Brooklyn looked like those of the occupied West Bank, with pro-Israel extremists chasing, harassing, and even threatening to rape a woman they thought was part of a pro-Palestine protest, all under the watchful eye of the NYPD.

"A group of at least 100 Orthodox Jewish men encircled me. They threatened me with rape and hurled vile insults like, ‘you are a waste of semen’ and ‘you are failed abortion.’ I moved closer to the long line of police officers standing nearby, but they did nothing to intervene or protect me,” the victim’s statement read, a testimony that is eerily similar to what Palestinians living in the occupied territories regularly endure.

“We are witnessing the Israelization of the United States of America, brought to you by fanatics,” says Rula in response to the statement, adding that it won’t stop there. “This is the tip of the iceberg of what’s coming to America and what’s being normalized in the United States, which is fascism.” The two point out the hypocrisy in the state’s response to the attack, and how different it would’ve been had Arabs committed such a violent act, but Spencer takes it further.

A central figure in the conversation is Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose recent visit to the US served as an accelerant to the violence discussed in the video above. Spencer and Rula dive into Ben-Gvir’s extremist ideology and put into context the drivers behind the violence unfolding against Palestinians and those who support them, as well as the role of the media in keeping it all under the radar