Julian Casablancas criticizes “privilege of Zionists living in the United States”

Rahma, who has not been shy about his opposition to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and America’s support thereof, agreed wholeheartedly. “100%,” he told Casablancas, “I’ve never seen something so shocking where they’re like, ‘I’m so oppressed.’ I’m like, ‘You are going to a wedding in Tel Aviv right now when there are 80,000-plus dead people, including women and children, half a mile away.” Casablancas clarified that he felt the October 7 attacks had been “bad,” but that “Native American rebellions didn’t mean it was okay to do what we did. Slave rebellions that were violent didn’t mean that slavery is not bad.” 

Rahma and Casablancas went on to express hope that Americans were waking up to the ongoing political “brainwashing” affecting the general public. “They’re, like, in the Matrix,” a red-pilled Casablancas added. “But eventually, they might become the One.” The singer’s other takes, in order of assumed controversy, were as follows: 1) a plea that his loved ones stop using long audio text messages; 2) that modern cars are “the worst”; and 3) that conservatives and progressives should come together in a “non-corporate consensus populist party to fight the real billionaire gang agenda.” Rahma, for his part, agreed with every take but the first. Watch the full SubwayTakes video with Julian Casablancas below.