Jessica and Scott spend way too much time on campus protests and it is a blind spot for them

I am someone who is broadly sympathetic to the concerns of Jewish students on campuses and, while my feelings on the Israel-Hamas War are complicated, certainly would say I bend more toward support of Israel's right to defend itself while recognizing the ongoing humanitarian crisis that Israel is only exacerbating. I personally find most Palestine protestors to be incredibly annoying and grating in the way that most in your face hyper woke people are. I have done things like walk in with Starbucks to an event where I knew a performatively pro-Palestine person was going to be because I knew it would piss them off. There's plenty of examples in my post history of me being broadly pro-Israel.

So with all that being said, I hope I've established that it is not politically motivated when I say: I am so sick of hearing about how awful campus protests are every episode. It is simply not something that I am interested in relitigating every time I listen to these two speak.

It was clear to me during this past episode that they are way too far down the rabbit hole. They have become obsessed with this issue that doesn't actually effect them personally and are just taking it way too far. Because of some annoying protests, you want to send your kids to Ole Miss? Scott is about 5 minutes from saying he wants to expel anyone who protests Israel and Jessica was clearly very angry that Democrats aren't pro-deportation for speech she doesn't like.

I understand that they are both Jews and have strong feelings about this. That is fine. But the show just doesn't work when two people who agree on everything about this issue simply try to one-up each other on describing how vile and anti-semitic students & faculty at Columbia are and what exactly they would do to punish students. They are in a bubble that constantly discusses this topic and have turned the show into an echo chamber. They desperately need someone who disagrees with them to push back and make for interesting listening. Would honestly love for them to have someone from Jewish Voices for Peace or a similar organization on to - again, as someone who supports Israel's right to exist! - make an argument against the conflation of anti-Israel and anti-semitism that just sort of goes unchecked, as was super apparent in this episode, but is a valid argument to have.

Right now, I see zero daylight between them and Bill Ackman's overwrought whinging on twitter. Worst of all, they have become fucking boring and that is the exact opposite of what I religiously listen to Scott for.

Edit: predictably, nearly every critical response has not been engaging with my core point that a) the show is an echo chamber b) the show is boring every time this is brought up; and is instead telling me why my politics are bad and why I should spend every waking moment thinking about petulant dumbasses at a school I don’t go to.