Video summary
The video features a discussion with Steven, a former political editor for the Catholic news outlet Zeal News, who recounts his recent experience of being ordered to drastically reduce or cease coverage regarding Israel's treatment of Palestinians. This policy shift reportedly came after a meeting involving the US Ambassador to the Vatican and influential Catholic donors following the Napa conference, leading Steven to resign because he viewed the directive as a moral scandal that violated his conscience. He argues that suppressing reports on human rights abuses in the Holy Land contradicts the teachings of the Church and the Pope, suggesting that such censorship prioritizes political interests over spiritual duty and the suffering of Christians in the region.
A significant portion of the conversation addresses the common misconception that terms like "Allah" and phrases like "Inshallah" are exclusive to Islam or indicate a conversion away from Christianity. Steven explains that these are simply Arabic words for "God" and "God willing," respectively, which are used daily by Arabic-speaking Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike without any conflict with their faiths. He shares an anecdote about a Lebanese Christian colleague who uses "Inshallah" twenty times a day, illustrating that understanding the linguistic context is essential to avoiding false accusations of apostasy against Western figures like Tucker Carlson who may use these terms innocently or through translation.
The dialogue also touches upon broader criticisms of certain Catholic practices, with Steven defending the faith against what he perceives as superficial attacks on religious traditions involving statues and rituals. He emphasizes that the current challenges facing Christians are not merely about finding "bad guys" but rather recognizing that evil permeates human hearts everywhere, including within his own organization. Consequently, his primary message is a call for American Catholics to remain intimately connected to Christ and to stand in solidarity with persecuted believers in the Middle East, rather than allowing political ambitions or donor pressures to dictate their moral stance on critical issues like the war in Gaza.
The video concludes with a strong assertion that opposing figures who advocate for peace or criticize Israeli aggression is not an act of declaring war on Western civilization but a defense of Christian values and human rights. The host wraps up by promoting a prayer tracking app called "Just Pray" as a tool to help viewers manage their spiritual lives, while reiterating the importance of supporting brothers and sisters in Gaza, Sudan, and Syria. Ultimately, the content aims to clarify misunderstandings about Islamic terminology among Christians, defend the integrity of Catholic journalism against political pressure, and encourage a return to core Christian compassion for those suffering under occupation.
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He said, "I say in shala, like 20 times
a day."
>> Do you know what it means literally? Do
you know what the English translation
from the Arabic means?
>> God willing, roughly.
>> Exactly. Exactly. That's pretty God
willing.
And as a Christian, I there's kind of no
sentiment I endorse more than that.
That's not in conflict with my faith.
It's It's an expression of my faith.
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defense Islam stronger than ever.
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>> Steven, thanks so much for doing this.
Um
the story what happened to you recently
is
it's it's hard to believe at first. Um
so if I understand just the outline of
it, you were
working for a Catholic news organization
and you were told not to allow anything
in print that might criticize, discredit
the state of Israel
up to and including the state of
Israel's mistreatment of Christians. Is
that Is that right?
>> Here's the thing. Let me just for a
little context.
>> Yeah.
>> I work for and I I'm a long-time
political editor for Zeal News, which is
a Catholic Catholic Votes uh news
outlet.
And we have in the past done a lot of
covering till until very recently done a
lot of coverage um arguably more than
any other Catholic outlet
on the mistreatment of
uh Palestinians by Israeli forces and by
the Israeli settler movement.
And one of our main sources on the
ground has been the organization The
Vulnerable People Project, which I know
you've heard of and uh
I've seen uh mentioned on your show.
And what happened is right after the
Napa conference
it was conveyed to me that we were now
adopting a new policy
and it was to drastically reduce um
our coverage of Israel.
Now, I will say it's been presented to
me in various ways. On one occasion,
yeah, it was a total prohibition. No
coverage of Israel
um
until the elections.
Um that's as a rule.
And maybe with exceptions and there will
be if there are exceptions it has to be
explicitly put, you know, brought to the
CEO and under brought under extra
scrutiny.
>> I'm I'm sorry to ask you to pause. Until
which elections?
>> I guess the upcoming midterms.
>> Okay.
>> the the reference.
And so to me though what was what was
alarming on the outset was
this came in the context of
uh
right after the Napa conference in
California which was attended by the US
ambassador to the Vatican, Brian Brown.
>> is the What is the Napa conference?
>> The Napa conference, the Napa Institute.
It's um the the people present would be
Catholic influential Catholics in
politics and media,
um donors.
>> I've got to interrupt you real quick It
is very important to understand that 90%
of Zionists nowadays are not Jews. So,
when you say I'm against Zionists,
you're not speaking about Jews or
religious Jews. You're speaking in 90%
of the cases about Christians in
America. Most of them are evangelical
Christians, I have to say this, but of
course it implies Catholics as well, as
you can see here. Christians are the
biggest supporters of the state of
Israel in this day and age. You have
more Christian supporters
for the state of Israel than actual
Jews. It's amazing.
>> One of the takeaways from our meeting
uh our meetings with donors and from our
meeting with the ambassador is we have
to change our editorial policy on all
issues with you know, all articles that
we were publishing with regard to this
one issue, Israel.
Um
that in itself, without even getting
into the substance of what the policy
change might be, uh was so alarming that
I immediately went to my immediate
supervisor and said,
>> Amazing.
>> this violates my conscience. I don't I
don't think I can abide by this.
Um
but that was only I guess the beginning.
I feel bound in conscience, and I even
said this to executives before I
resigned. I said, "This is unmistakably
a moral scandal."
And with the involvement of the US
ambassador to the Vatican, especially in
light of how outspoken our Holy Father
has been, as well as his right-hand man
in the Holy Land, you know, Pierbattista
Pizzaballa, the cardinal who is the um
patriarch of Jerusalem,
to say nothing of the clergy on the
ground in the West Bank, for the US
ambassador to be going to the US and
meeting with an executive at a media
organization and saying we need to
adjust our policy toward Israel and the
way we cover it is inherently
scandalous.
And I said I will not be complicit in
such a scandal.
Uh and I don't be I don't appreciate
being put in the position of sitting on
it.
>> I generally don't understand how anybody
in this day and age can be Catholic.
>> [music]
>> This Catholicism putting a skull into a
golden statue of
a supposed angel, [music] I guess,
something of those lines, with a bunch
of crosses.
And you're wearing the pink little hat
on top of that.
And then kissing it, kissing the skull
of a dead person.
The skull of a literal dead person,
bowing to it, and everybody's
applauding.
I'm genuinely really wondering, how is
this even happening in 2026 or not?
Like, how is this even real right now?
I'm not pulling the atheist card here.
I'm not saying, "Oh, you're believing in
a sky daddy." No, that's not what I'm
saying. I believe that you can make a
rational argument for the existence of a
primordial being, so to speak, an
existence that creates existence in and
of itself, a necessary cause, a
necessary being, yada yada yada. But
when it comes down to those practices,
how do you justify them in this day and
age where you have AI, where you have
internet, where you have science? How do
you come to the conclusion that's a good
idea now to take all of that gold and
dunk it onto another golden statue, put
a dead person's head into it? What is
going on? How is any normal, sane human
being today still believing in this?
Essentially, this just Roman larping.
>> I think that what's happening right now,
we we battle, as scripture says, against
powers and principalities.
Um it would be simplistic and
unproductive
to go,
"Okay, I found the bad guys.
>> Right.
>> Now, jump on my bandwagon
>> Exactly.
>> where none of the bad guys are. We're
all good.
Um the line as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
said between good and evil runs through
the human heart, and I just found it
runs through
the hearts of everyone in my
organization, right?
>> Yeah.
>> And and ours.
>> For that matter.
>> And ours. Right. And so, the message
that I feel I want to send is more like
right now,
the church in the Holy Land is
suffering,
and I want Catholics in America to be
intimate
with Christ.
To be close to Christ, to look to
Christ, to not lose their not lose sight
of Christ on the cross and not lose
sight of
the body of Christ where it's suffering,
especially.
Um and not allow whatever the interests
might be.
>> This is so counterintuitive, man. So,
that means that the apostles of Christ
during his lifetime actually were not
Christians. They were not saved,
whatever. And all the messages that
Jesus Christ gave them, all the lessons
that he taught, all of that is pretty
much a non sequitur. Nobody cares for
it. It's really not important
whatsoever. What is important, however,
is that Jesus Christ got crucified. His
whole ministry, essentially, is totally
useless. It's not about it. The only
thing that is useful for you guys now is
that he got crucified. And this makes
you a Christian. And so, now the
Christians, the Catholics have to focus
on Jesus Christ dead on the cross. Okay.
>> Say, well, until the elections, we need
to focus, you know, downplay some, you
know, like that's just not an option for
us as Christians. It's not.
We have to be a um focusing on
on um
being in solidarity, I think, especially
with our coreligionists when they're
under attack.
As you said, in the land where Christ
walked, um the birthplace of our faith,
um what could be more important that
than that? Um
Someone's ambitions for 2028?
Maybe some donors who are angling for
something in the It's certainly, by the
way, not even in the interests of the
current administration,
which has been outspokenly increasingly
outspoken, by the way, against Israeli
aggressions. We have Trump
directly to crying Netanyahu's use of
arms in Lebanon,
uh where their uh
their offensive is explicitly modeled
after their Gaza offensives. And this is
evil.
But right now, the messaging of
Muslims
El Sayed, you can oppose the guy's
candidacy for a numerous reasons.
But he said inshallah, so he's a that's
actually code for I'm declaring war on
Western civilization. I have a coworker,
by the way, who's a Lebanese Christian,
Lebanese-American.
She used to say "Inshallah."
It's a It's It's like saying, "How are
you?" I mean, it's so common in their
language throughout the Arabic world.
One person, um, by the way, who works
for VPP,
uh, is a Christian. He's a He's an expat
from Gaza.
He said, "I say 'Inshallah' like 20
times a day."
>> Do you know what it means literally? Do
you know what the English translation
from the Arabic means?
>> God willing, roughly.
>> Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. That's God
willing.
And as a Christian, I there's kind of no
sentiment I endorse more than that.
That's not in conflict with my faith.
It's It's an expression of my faith. So,
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, exactly right. As he said already,
a Lebanese Christian says "Inshallah."
This is what all of those enemies of
Islam in America, those English-speaking
guys, simply don't understand. There are
actually other languages out there,
guys. Allah is the devil. Allah is the
deceiver. Allah is the moon god. Arabic
Christians say Allah. And therefore,
they say "Inshallah" as well, because it
simply means God willing. You don't have
to like Islam, but at least be
cosmopolitan enough in order to
understand that Allah simply means the
god in Arabic. So, therefore, Arabic
Christians, Arabic Jews, everybody
understands that Allah is God, nothing
else. Anyways, this is it for today's
video, guys. I'm going to cut it off
here. Mashallah, Tucker Carlson, and
Inshallah, you will be Muslim one day.
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>> [singing]
>> Oh.
>> [singing]
>> Yeah.