Joe Rogan Condemns Israel for ‘Wipeout’ of Gaza: ‘How Could You Defend That?’

Joe Rogan claims there will be little debate in the future that Israel committed a “genocide” in Gaza.

The veteran comic made the claim during the Wednesday episode of his podcast, in which he said the idea of genocide by Israel would become “universally accepted.”

Rogan said he can’t see how anyone can support Israel’s war in Gaza, even when considering it was spurred by the Hamas terror attack in October 2023 where about 1,200 people were slaughtered and hundreds of hostages were taken.

“Like, how could anybody defend that? I don’t even know how many people are dead,” Rogan said. “You have a complete wipeout of a city — like 90% of Gaza is gone, or whatever the percentage is. You look at the buildings — you look at what it used to look like, [and] you look at what it looks like now — like, this is defensible?”

He got onto the topic after his guest, actor Tim Robbins, complained it was “nuts” ex-wife Susan Sarandon lost her agent and had a hard time finding work because of her criticism of Israel and comments after the 10/7 attack. 

It is “safer” to criticize Israel now compared to a few years ago, Rogan added, recalling how Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters was one of the first people to call it a “genocide in real time,” which Rogan said led to people coming after him.

But he said “more and more” people agree with Waters, and “20 years from now it’s going to be a universally accepted opinion.”

Pro-Israel supporters have pointed to Gaza’s population growing following the launch of the war to combat the genocide claim.

Rogan’s Wednesday comments come after he has been critical of Israel a number of times in recent years. Earlier this month, he asked Vice President JD Vance to respond to people who believe Israel has a “very disproportionate influence on American politics.”

Vance pushed back, saying pretty much every foreign government tries to influence the U.S., not just Israel.

Watch above.

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