Christopher Hitchens delivers the Daniel Pearl Memorial FULL

In this video, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens delivers the 2010 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture. The lecture was presented by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.
BACKGROUND: Daniel Pearl was a prominent Wall Street Journal reporter and the paper's South Asia bureau chief when he was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002. Pearl's father, Judea Pearl, a computer science professor at UCLA, and his family established the Daniel Pearl Foundation to promote and continue Daniel's mission of fostering cross-cultural understanding throughout the world. The lecture series, established at UCLA in 2002, features scholars, journalists and policymakers who have contributed original analyses or constructive approaches to problems of international concern. Previous presenters of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture have included Anderson Cooper, David Brooks, Ted Koppel, Larry King, Jeff Greenfield, Daniel Schorr and Thomas Friedman. In 2006, a parallel lecture series was established at Stanford University, which has featured Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Philip Zimbardo, Bernard-Henri Lvy and Christiane Amanpour.

[@merrickying4264]

Superb on every level, which comes as no surprise, given that Christopher Hitchens is the speaker. How I miss Christopher Hitchens.

[@manusha1349]

BRILLIANT 👏🏽 even 12 years after his death, there is NO ONE to match Hitch's insights, socio-political knowledge and oratorical skills ❤ how I miss him!

[@JosephNordenbrockartistraction]

A great man many people loved to listen to. His words are still here and I will not let him be so easily forgotten. I want to make Hitchen photo T-shirts with a Hitchens quote.

[@nathanoverley5040]

"Your cause of grief must not be measured by his worth." ...said that at my grandfathers eulogy. Heard it first from the Hitch. Thank you sir rest in whatever peace there may be for you. Also to the Pearls; for what it is worth - my most heartfelt condolences and love.

[@aynrandcansuckit4016]

It’s from Shakespeare - Macbeth Act 5, Scene 8: “If your grief were to equal his worth, then it would never end.”

[@SuperSlider2010]

Thank you Christophers Hitchslap and Hitchens.

[@interestingyoutubechannel1]

christopher hitchens, for him we should invent a new word that would define 'insight beyond insight' / 'transcendentally insightful'... i was nearly brought to tears.

[@sherriemathieson]

A great man, a great thinker..gone too soon!

[@yehudamccabi6437]

+Sherrie Mathieson indeed

[@jestermoon]

Take A Moment I am a 28yr veteran of the RAF. I now live in Calgary Untruedauxland. PTSD is a worldwide Why do we need to fight? I was and remain an atheist in my foxhole Get Free Stay Safe Stay Free 🌐

[@thedoctor.a.s1401]

I really felt the pain when Christopher said, "I would have thought it unthinkable (anti-Semitism spread on campus and on the left), but its not. I take it, a bit more PERSONALLY than you do. "

[@evanwells-jp4ed]

If only he could’ve seen the antisemitism on campus in relation to the newest Israel Gaza development. I think we live in a cursed timeline because we lost his voice before so many important events.

[@thedoctor.a.s1401]

@@evanwells-jp4ed he died just before social media... the world has changed like a 1000 times over

[@NealhughHurwitz]

beautiful

[@upadhyayrathiraj1518]

Brave man indeed for delivering lecture in UCLA.

[@Phil_Mitchell]

Not really, things were different 15 years ago!

[@Ghost_of_Paine]

Thank you so much for this.

[@Viky.A.V.]

"...humor and hatred -- two endlessly renewable energy sources.." - lol, so true =D

[@vinsvids1]

I'm usually impressed with Hitch's work, but he really mailed this one in. 😢

[@McLarenF1God]

Watch out. We have some seriously convincing statements in our presence.

[@AFMMarcelD]

I miss Hitch 😢 tis tumbler of Johnnie Walker Black 🥃 with a dose of Perrier on his behalf.

[@NAPOLEON_BONAPARTE987]

Oh dear! I thought I was the only one who did that in his memory. Glad you're doing it too. Cheers mate 🥃

[@AFMMarcelD]

@@NAPOLEON_BONAPARTE987 Cheers! 🥃🥃 to Hitch’s legacy, to our health and enlightenment, Salud!.

[@AFMMarcelD]

@@NAPOLEON_BONAPARTE987 J’ai toujours admiré Napoleon et ses réalisations, il était en effet unique, spécial un génie à tous points de vue, alors ajoutez un autre plan de JWB avec Perrier au nom de Bonaparte, Salud! 🥃 cher Monsieur.

[@thedoctor.a.s1401]

What's perrier ?

[@rouzbehazshab]

so satisfying.

[@Nigel068]

What a legend!!

[@Muonium1]

Does anyone know anything more about Carter refusing to have his picture taken with MLK? Never heard that before. 49:00

[@DruoxTheShredder]

You should see if a google search can't turn anything up. I'm gonna google that as well, and see what I can find..

[@ambassador8524]

57:55 is that the dude from value entertainment?

[@9Speed]

I like the part where you believe your god punishes people FOR ETERNITY for not believing in him.

[@tyleranyways]

44:10 56:47

[@AndrewRainesGuitars]

You just directed a first person response to a man that has been dead for years. Feeling better? Good.

[@Xenaisthebusiness]

I couldn't respect my own atheism without acknowledging my Christian upbringing. I'm a Christian atheist.

[@lso5674]

Spot on about Hamas

[@EDTHEWATERGUY]

Hell does exist,today we call it the church.

[@andkosification]

hahaha, you cannot even read, it ist NOT the memorial! it is the annual memorial lecture! hope this makes a difference for you, if not, ....

[@tonylipsmire5918]

As rarely as I disagree with hitch I must say I think he was wrong about the containment of anti-semitism in the US

[@thedoctor.a.s1401]

Well, it got worse over time. It was pretty well contained in 2007

[@donovanjones4175]

You have many more Muslims in your midst now, and even if only 5 percent are radical, do the math.

[@gaynomadic]

Pity I can't get to see what it was that made shawndimery so bitter and insulting. He sounds positively deranged. Sad really.

[@UIHoosierFan]

Was Daniel Pearl an atheist ? Hitchens would've been a good marine-he's arrogant, proud, and know it all !! Hahaha

[@paulhhong8197]

Great points, though the Protocols of Zion are indeed true, not a fake at all. I'ts funny that Hitchen's writings turn 180 degrees and become sympathetic, even admiring the Jews once he found out he had partial Jewish ancestry. How insulting is it to imply that if a nation kicks out its Jews, that somehow means their civilization will crumble, as if it were only the Jews that were holding it up in the first place. The achievements that have been attributed to Jews living in the west should really be credited to the west alone, as it was not the Jewish way of life or ideology that made possible these achievements, rather it was the conditions created in the already established western nations that the Jews were simply born into in order to thrive. Compare the Ashkenazi Jews with their barbaric, illiterate desert dwelling ancestors...the difference was the presence of European civilization.

[@eashton42]

This nonsense cannot go unchallenged; the Protocols are, as Mr. Hitchens says, a whole-cloth fabrication. They are hideous (and written in comically incompetent prose), and they are used every day as an excuse for the hatred and suspicion of all Jewish people. And even if you somehow believe that these documents are true, then you should denounce them, if only for that which I just cited: their use as an justification for ethnic hatred of a statistically tiny group of people. So give it up; it's bad for you, and it's bad for everyone else too, for all the reasons Hitchens mentions in this lecture.

[@ben3000]

+Paul Hhong Why does it bother you so much that to give credit to Jews who have done great things? illiterate desert dwelling ancestors? You seem to be applying modern standards to the past (look up presentism). Most people 3000 years ago were illiterate, there were no books and literacy was generally only prevalent amongst the elites in society. However these illiterate people wrote "the bible" a book which (whether you believe its true or not) would undoubtedly be described not only as the greatest book ever written, but one which has had the most profound influence on humanity in history. Great Jews arose anywhere where there was a civilised society, not just 'the west'. I would suggest that the Europe you allude to could be compared to a fertile soil, with the great people (including Jews) as flowers. You wouldn't look at a rose and say "pfff that rose wouldn't look or smell so great if it had been planted in a desert"

[@andrewx7806]

+Paul Hhong The Protocols were exposed as fraudulent by The Times of London in 1921.

[@paulhhong8197]

Andrew X The Times hey, you mean the British paper, in the country that had already been infiltrated by Zionists and under Zionist control since the late 1800's? How convenient. Do you think the Zionists would admit that it was real after it was accidentally leaked?

[@yehudamccabi6437]

+Paul Hhong I call BULLSHIT, Jewish, working class, and proud WHAT NOW?

[@roostercogburn1943]

I was expecting a bit better, but Hitchens is a weirdo.

[@Paine137]

Easy there, Dingleberry.

[@roostercogburn1943]

@@Paine137 Congratulations on your sex change.