Last week, the National Conservatism conference went to Jerusalem for the first time. One panel in particular has consumed online right-wing discussion for an entire week. My friends Matt Peterson, Amanda Milius, Jonathan Keeperman and William Wolfe, gave bracing, frank, and provocative speeches on what they see as the reasons for why support for Israel is softening on the American right, especially among conservatives under 40, and what could be done to bolster that support.
Joining me on Counterweight is Yoram Hazony (
@yhazony), author of the Virtue of Nationalism, the man behind NatCon, and the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation where I serve as Vice President of External Affairs. We talk about why we took the conference to Jerusalem, how and why that panel was conceived, and what Yoram makes of the various critiques of that panel and the conference as a whole.
0:00 Cold Open
3:06 Why Jerusalem?
9:00 Smotrich on Muslim immigration
13:55 What the panel was for
21:41 Shapiro versus Tucker, and the 70 percent in between
26:20 Mike Doran's critique
35:56 Does Yoram want to expunge John Locke?
40:42 James Lindsay and the libertarian wing
55:09 Breaking the taboo on going to Israel