Name: A message to all peace makers | Nuseir Yassin's speech at ADL
Uploaded: 2026-01-25T17:09:12.000Z
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Seven leaders, prime ministers and presidents were assassinated since 1948.

My whole life I thought leaders were killed because they wanted war, because they wanted destruction, because they wanted chaos.

I did more research and this is a true story.

And I found out that six out of the seven leaders were assassinated because they wanted peace.

Six out of seven because they wanted to end war.

Three in Lebanon, one in Egypt, one in Jordan, one in Israel.

My whole life I thought peace, coexistence and tolerance is the popular thing.

In fact, it's very risky in the Middle East.

The first person to die is the person that wants us Jews and Muslims to live together in peace.

And the first person to be glorified is the one that wants revenge, justice and war.

When I discovered this, honestly, I was depressed.

That's why today I came all the way here to New York.

Not to address you, the 3,000Americans who are sitting in front of me today.

I came here to address the person watching this on the Internet.

The person in their bed on YouTube late at night, alone, watching this in Sudan, in Pakistan, in Ukraine, Russia, Israel and Palestine.

The ones who are fighting for tolerance, for coexistence, for long term, term peace.

If my data is right, and if my hunch is right, and

it is right, then these peacemakers are now feeling a lot of stuff.

They're surrounded by war and people who are calling for death.

Especially in the last five months, whenever there is conflict, peacemakers feel lonely.

I know this feeling because I felt it too.

I want to share with you my story, how lonely I felt.

And I want to share with you what keeps me going.

I was born and raised in Israel as a Palestinian.

This is a background I do not recommend on my worst enemy, Israeli citizen, but Palestinian origin.

Part of me wishes I was born in Denmark instead, with blonde hair and blue eyes like you and you.

And ever since I was a kid in the village, I was confronted since day one with conflict and hatred.

Everyone around me who spoke Hebrew hated the Arabs.

Everyone who spoke Arabic hated the Jews.

I always believed in peace, tolerance, and coexistence.

Even as a child, I think I got these crazy, controversial ideas from my dad.

Fifteenteen years later, I came to the United States with the same ideas and started NAS Daily, one of the largest social media companies with tens of millions of followers and a strong team of 100.

After all, Nas, in the beautiful Arabic language, means people.

Everything we do, touch or say must bring people together.

From content to education to technology, we only bring people together.

Especially if they're Jewish or Palestinian.

So I did what we always do, remind people that coexistence is the only solution.

I created a video to promote Jewish and Muslim tolerance and coexistence, to call for two states, for two people, for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians who are equally indigenous, who are both here to stay.

But that message, that exact message, is not popular.

Remember the number I shared above six assassinations?

It is not popular to call for peace, whether you are a leader or a follower or a silly YouTuber, especially at times of war.

Immediately after our message, I lost a million dollar deal.

I lost 10 friends and created 10 million haters.

That was the price I paid, and I was willing to pay it.

To the person watching this on the Internet, through these cameras, the peacemakers, the ones who feel lonely today, you can relate because you pay a price too.

Every time you speak up, someone tells you to shut up.

Every time you think we shouldn't fight, someone tells you that we should.

But something inside of you tells you to keep going.

Something inside of me tells me to do that too.

Why do we keep going when this stuff is so hard?

Why don't we just chill at a beach in Mexico and Do makeup videos and drink cocktails.

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A message to all peace makers | Nuseir Yassin's speech at ADL

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