The Strokes’ lead singer Julian Casablancas slammed the “white privilege” of Zionists in the United States during an extended episode of the viral online talk show SubwayTakes.

“American Zionists get the benefits of white privileged people, but talk like they are Black people during slavery,” he argues in his fourth and final take in the extended version of the interview published on YouTube on Tuesday.

“One hundred percent agree,” Rahma responds. "I’ve never seen something so shocking, where they are like, ‘I’m so oppressed’.

Casablancas then responds to arguments often made by defenders of Israel’s assault, including the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attacks on the country, by making an analogy to Native American and slave rebellions in the Americas, which he argues “were violent” but “didn’t mean it was okay to do what we did… and didn’t mean slavery is not bad”.