Alan Futerman on Israeli attempts to limit civilian casualties in Gaza

Israel, it's been what, six months into the operation and they killed 24,000 of which 14,000 are Hamas terrorists.  And so it's obvious that Israel is doing whatever it can in order to reduce civilian casualties.  Because, of course, any person of goodwill in the world don't want to see people dying and war is horrible, and what is going on is terrible.  It's a human tragedy, of course, but who is responsible for that?  It's Hamas...  It's obvious that the official policy of the state of Israel is not to commit genocide.  Figures prove it.  But it is the official policy of Hamas to commit genocide.

~ Alan Futerman, "THE CASE FOR ISRAEL - FULL SHOW," Visions of Freedom, 3:12:10 mark, June 11, 2024

Alan Futerman on anti-Zionism and antisemitism

You could say that anti-Zionism is different from anti-Semitism, but now, after the state of Israel exists and you have one-third of the Jewish people living in Israel - more even - and it's the Jewish state and you read the Jewish books and the Jewish calendar is followed and the Jewish language is spoken and every Jew is related in one way or another with the state of Israel, etc., you cannot be against the only Jewish state in the world and not be antisemitic.  So I think the distinction has to be made between those things: to say, "ok, theoretically you could be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic," but today the practical consequences of making the state of Israel to disappear would be the mass murder of an important part of the Jewish people.

~ Alan Futerman, "Is Zionism a Libertarian Movement?," (interview with Gilad Alper), 1:16:00 mark, May 18, 2024

Alan Futerman on those who justify the means of Hamas

Danny Woods: Attacking people just because you think you own their land or they might've taken it, bombing them, killing them, taking their children, killing the elderly, kidnapping babies, this is not in any way a legal representation that would be considered valid.  It cannot be.  And then to defend that system and say, "oh, you see the other person who's wrong because of this thing he did a long time ago," it's so utterly lopsided.  The argument is so wrong...  It's completely wrong and someone who justifies that, it's crazy, justifying the most deepest wrongs and evils man can commit...

Alan Futerman: The point I mentioned about Jew hatred explains so because if you're fighting absolute evil, if you're fighting a cosmic battle and you are fighting evil, everything's permitted.  The ends justify the means.  You can do whatever you want.  And even if you do something that is horrendous, "well, it had to be done"...  So this is not just something you see among Jew haters only.  In this context, you can take anyone on the intersectionality camp and they use exactly the same argument.  They say, "well, if you fight colonizers, if you fight settler colonialists, if you fight oppressors, if you fight etc., all bets are off and you can do whatever you want."  This is the type of totalitarian mentality that allows people to think they can do whatever they want.

~ Alan Futerman, "Block, Futerman on Hoppe, Israel and Hamas," Individualist Origins, 43:45 mark, May 15, 2024