America’s entrenched self-image as a chosen, exceptional, redeemer nation is borrowed from the Hebrew Bible, having been modelled on the history of the Israelites. American exceptionalism has been the main driving force behind the creation of Israel in Palestine. America sees Israel as a confirmation of its own self-identity. American exceptionalisation is not only a supremacist ideology but the most dangerous in the world.
00:00 Introduction
03:58 Racism and Supremacy
07:12 2019 Survey of belief in American exceptionalism
08:18 Barak Obama and American exceptionalism
13:56 The exceptional danger of American exceptionalism
16:24 History of American chosenness
23:04 The myth linking America and Israel
24:24 American exceptionalisation as an act of plagiarism
27:25 The Founding Fathers
32:00 Other borrowed Biblical descriptions
36:36 Chosenness and exceptionalism
39:04 Zionism
42:24 American Presidents and Zionism
47:40 The misnomer of “Jewish supremacy”
51:53 Israel as proof of America’s self-image
54:42 Exceptionalising Zionism
01:02:42 Exceptionalising antisemitism
01:08:30 Exceptionalising the Holocaust
01:12:37 Conclusion