Terrorist Jewess Daniella Weiss is the latest Israeli to appear on the British broadcaster’s show, at one point asking why she is being platformed at all: ‘You hope that through your program, you will enhance the chance that I will be put on trial?’
Haaretz
British journalist Piers Morgan interviewed Daniella Weiss, a prominent member of the Israeli settler movement, on his YouTube program on Wednesday, grilling her about her views on relocating Palestinians and the deaths of Gazan children during Israel’s ongoing war in the Strip.
Weiss, a veteran activist at the forefront of the Gush Emunim settlement movement, garnered attention in the West after appearing in a BBC documentary by Louis Theroux about West Bank settlers, released in April. Canada and the United Kingdom have imposed sanctions on Weiss for her role in supporting and facilitating violence against Palestinians. She heads the Nahala movement, which works to establish illegal outposts.
Morgan, who had defended Israel after October 7, has become increasingly critical of the Israeli government’s conduct in Gaza as the war has progressed. Recently, he has interviewed several far-right Israeli figures to discuss the war, including Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli and Social Equality Minister May Golan, members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. Both interviews ended with fiery exchanges.
On this episode of ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored,’ Morgan posited to Weiss that ‘Settlements have been a major barrier to peace for decades in the region,’ and that ‘The current Israeli government is often accused of using the most aggressive settler groups as a proxy force for shrinking the Palestinian state.’
‘All you want is all the Palestinians gone… you don’t care how many die in the process, do you?’
Piers Morgan grills the ‘Godmother’ of the Israeli settler movement, Daniella Weiss.
He began by asking Weiss if her ‘ultimate ambition’ is for ‘all Palestinians to be removed from the West Bank and Gaza.’
‘It’s not a question of ambition,’ she replied, ‘I think there is no choice now, especially after the massacre of October 7, the Gazans finished their chapter of history in Gaza.’
‘As far as people want to live a normal life, I think the option to go to other countries in the world is a good option, but it’s not a question of ambition,’ she continued. ‘I have an ambition to settle Jews all over the vast areas of the land that was given by God to the Jewish nation.’
After Morgan asked why Israel would not provide a home for Palestinian children from Gaza if it wants them to leave the Strip, he suggested that Israel carve out a territory from which Israelis would be relocated to allow Palestinians to live there. Weiss countered that Israel ‘is not a laboratory’ for population experiments, arguing that the 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza did not lead to a flourishing region but to ‘hell.’
‘Obviously, you’re outraged by the idea of Palestinian people taking the place of Israelis in Israel, and I understand that,’ Morgan said. ‘But what gives you the right to then tell Palestinian people, innocent people … what gives you the right … to expel them in what would be ethnic cleansing, which is a war crime?’
‘They attacked us,’ Weiss responded incredulously. Cupping her hands by her mouth to amplify her voice, she repeated, ‘They attacked, attacked, attacked, Israel … after we evacuated Gaza for their benefit. What is not clear in what I say?’
He then repeatedly pressed about her – and Israel’s – right to promote settlement in the West Bank and, more recently, Gaza. ‘Where do you think you have this right to do all this? You’re furious at the idea of any part of Israel being given up … but why would you then think it’s fine for you to take over Gaza and the West Bank?’
‘May I ask you, why do you repeat the same question three times?’ Weiss responded. She offered his viewers a summary of events of the last 2,000 years, from the Roman expulsion of Jews from the region to the Six-Day War.
‘We tried to live in a tiny, small, tiny land, and the Arabs didn’t let us live. So then there was a Six-Day War. And where I live now was liberated,’ she said, referring to the West Bank. ‘I say liberated, because it’s the heart of our homeland … Since then, we tried to live peacefully, and the Arabs don’t let us. So, how can you try to change facts?’
After Morgan told her that she is committing war crimes through her far-right settler activism, Weiss asked why she is being platformed at all by his show. ‘I’m holding you to account for your war crimes,’ he responded. ‘You have no right to displace millions of Palestinians and kick them out of their homes.’
‘Morgan, you hope that through your program, you will enhance the chance that I will be put on trial?’ she asked. ‘Is this why you’re giving me so much time?’
‘I mean, yeah, I ultimately hope you do face a trial,’ he responded.
He spent much of the remainder of the interview trying to get her to answer a particular question: ‘How do you feel about the fact that over 20,000 Palestinian children have now been killed since October the seventh in Gaza?’
Through his many repetitions of the question, Weiss delivered the same reply: ‘I think that the parents should be very careful before they teach the children to hate Jews and to kill Jews … I think that Arabs, Gazans, or Jordanians, or Syrians, whoever, should be very, very careful with the way they educate the children.’
After interviewing Weiss, Morgan held a discussion panel with Sunday Times columnist Matthew Syed, The ‘Young Turks’ commentator Cenk Uygur and Rabbi Shmuely Boteach, where he asked the participants about the interview. Uygur has faced criticism in his past for platforming white supremacist David Duke in a segment about Jewish control in 2015.
Uygur claimed that ‘Their [Israel’s] smugness has to do partly with the fact that they think ‘we own America, there’s nothing you can do. We control the largest military in the history of the world. We can get them to do whatever they want because AIPAC has bought the entire U.S. government. [That’s] not wrong.’
He added that with Trump refusing to release the Epstein files, ‘we’re occupied – we’re all Palestinians now.’ Morgan did not address or push back to Uygur’s remarks.