WATCH: Jerry Seinfeld brilliantly shames woke heckler as the crowd roars
Even after 40 years of doing stand-up comedy, “You never really knew [Jerry Seinfeld’s] political beliefs,” says Dave Rubin.
However, that has since changed. After Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel last October, Jerry, who’s Jewish himself, traveled to Israel and “basically said ‘Jews have a right to defend themselves’” — a statement that has made him “public enemy number one for all these pro-Hamas people.”
At a show in Sydney, Australia, last weekend, the comedian utterly destroyed a protester who started chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
“We have a genius, ladies and gentlemen. He’s solved the Middle East. ... It’s the Jewish comedians. That’s who we have to get!” he quipped.
The demonstrator continued his chant as security escorted him out, but Seinfeld wasn’t quite finished.
“They're going to start punching you in about three seconds, so I would try and get all of your genius out so we can all learn from you. It’s a comedy show you moron. Get out of here.”
When the chants didn’t stop, Seinfeld added, “You’re really influencing everyone here. We’re all on your side now because you’ve made your point so well. ... You’ve come to the right place for a political conversation.”
“Tomorrow we will read in the paper, ‘Middle East 100% solved thanks to man at the Qudos Arena stopping Jew comedian’ ... and everyone in the Middle East went, ‘Oh my God, let’s just get along.”’
“You have to go 20,000 miles from the problem and screw up a comedian – that is how you solve world issues,” he jested.
Dave, who’s long loved Jerry’s brilliance, applauds his willingness to call out the lunacy.
“Why are you going to a Jerry Seinfeld stand-up concert and doing that?” he asks rhetorically, adding that the woke protesters “are trying to ruin everything” because “they think they own everything.”
To see Jerry Seinfeld put a pro-Palestine protester to absolute shame, watch the clip below.
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Chuck Schumer calls Thomas Massie's Zionism-related meme post 'antisemitic, disgusting, dangerous'
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky of making an anti-Semitic post after Massie posted a meme suggesting that Congress has been averse to American patriotism while embracing Zionism.
"Rep. Massie, you're a sitting Member of Congress. This is antisemitic, disgusting, dangerous, and exactly the type of thing I was talking about in my Senate address. Take this down," Schumer tweeted in response to Massie's post.
"If only you cared half as much about our border as you do my tweets," Massie replied.
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"Thomas Massie, a House Republican, is pitting American patriotism against Zionism. Most Americans are both pro-America and pro-Israel and see no contradiction between the two," Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York tweeted.
The House voted 311-14 on Tuesday in favor of a resolution which, in part, declares that the House decries anti-Semitism, supports the Jewish community, and "clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism."
While 13 Democrats voted against the resolution, Massie was the only House GOP lawmaker who voted against it. A whopping 92 Democrats voted present.
In a social media post on Monday, Massie had stated his intention to vote against the resolution, writing, "Anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism."
In that tweet, Massie shared a video clip of Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) saying that it is "either intellectually disingenuous or just factually wrong" to assert that all anti-Zionism represents anti-Semitism.
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Nadler, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) had noted in a statement that they planned to vote present. They urged their colleagues to do the same.
"Among other problems with this resolution, H. Res. 894 does not account for the complexity of Judaism itself and ignores nuanced examples such as the Satmar sect, a Hasidic Jewish movement, which remains staunchly anti-Zionist and quite obviously is not antisemitic," the Democratic lawmakers said in the statement.
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UN faces calls to fire official who claimed Israel cannot defend itself against Palestinian terrorists
The Times of Israel reported that in February, a bipartisan group of U.S. House representatives urged that Albanese get the boot for her refusal to condemn terrorism.
In a Feb. 24 letter, 18 representatives noted that "when challenged about her continued silence regarding [January's] Palestinian terrorist attack outside a Jerusalem synagogue that murdered seven, Albanese repeated her assertion that Israel is a colonial, apartheid regime."
They underscored that Albanese's routine refusal to condemn terrorism and her nasty comments "provide further proof of the deep-seated prejudice inherent to the United Nations' approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Nearly 70% of all condemnatory resolutions in the U.N. General Assembly have targeted Israel since 2015, reported the Jerusalem Post.
Jay Sekulow and Robert Ash of the European Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit human rights group, wrote to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres on April 19, arguing that Albanese was not only wrongheaded but factually incorrect.
Sekulow and Ash suggested that the special rapporteur failed "to consider two facts: (1) that 'occupation' presumes the existence of another sovereign whose territory is occupied and (2) that Israel has repeatedly stated that its application of the rules set forth in the Fourth [Geneva] Convention was for convenience and not because it was obligated to do so because of the lack of a foreign sovereign to whom such territory belongs."
"No Palestinian Arab political entity has ever possessed a single square centimetre of the territory it now claims to be 'occupied,' and the last foreign sovereign, Turkey (the successor state to the Ottomans), renounced its sovereignty in the 1920s," added Sekulow and Ash. "Regardless of the views one holds regarding the two foregoing facts, Israel's right to self-defence is inherent and undeniable."
Like Chikli and the American representatives, the ECLJ reasoned that "because Ms Albanese has openly sided with the Palestinians and concluded that the sovereign State of Israel may not defend itself and its people against Palestinian terrorist attacks, she has encouraged further violence and forfeited any claim to impartiality on her part. Her anti-Israel bias is on full display. Accordingly, she must be replaced forthwith."
The International Legal Forum comprising 4,000 lawyers similarly wrote to the U.N. last month demanding Albanese's termination, accusing her of exhibiting a "relentless, systematic and unhinged bias against Israel."
Albanese, an affiliate scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, was appointed to the position of special rapporteur in March 2022. She told the Middle East Eye, "This is neither the first nor the last time my mandate and persona will come under attack. ... An apartheid regime, as the international legal framework acknowledges, may resort to the persecution of persons and organisations opposing it."
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ADL chief rips into socialist Democratic Rep. Tlaib for 'ugly antisemitic dog whistling'
Leftist Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib accused people "behind the curtain" of making money off the abuse and exploitation of people "from Gaza to Detroit" during recently posted remarks to the 2021 Democratic Socialists of America National Convention.
Her claims have the leader of the Anti-Defamation League fuming and accusing her of "ugly antisemitic dog whistling," Newsweek reported Wednesday.
What did Tlaib say?
In comments to the DSA convention, "From the Ashes of the Old: Socialism for a New Tomorrow," which is taking place virtually through Sunday, Tlaib told viewers, "For me, as a Palestinian-American, we also need to recognize as I think about my family and Palestine that continue to live under military occupation and how that really interacts with this beautiful Black city that I grew up in."
"I always tell people cutting people off from water is violence," she added. "And they do it from Gaza to Detroit. And it's a way to control people, to oppress people, and it's those structures that we continue to fight against."
Of course, the lawmaker who has a reputation for making anti-Semitic remarks and accusing Israel of all sorts of atrocities, knew exactly whom to blame: The people "behind the curtain" who "make money" off the exploitation and harm of Palestinians and others.
I know you all understand the structure we've been living under right now is designed by those that exploit the rest of us for their own profit. I always say to people, "I don't care if it's the issue around the issue of global rights, and our fight to free Palestine, or to pushing back against those that don't believe in a minimum wage or ... a right to health care and so much more." And I tell those same people, that if you open the curtain and look behind the curtain, it's the same people that make money and — yes they do — off of racism, off of these broken policies. There is someone there making money, and you saw it, it was so exposed during the pandemic.
Because of all those structures — everything that was set up — they made record profit when we were all having some of the challenging, most difficult times in our lifetime, at that moment. And again, they made record profit, so if anything this pandemic has just exposed what we all have been fighting against.
How did the ADL respond?
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt hopped on Twitter on Tuesday to call out the socialist lawmaker for what was, in his mind, a clearly anti-Semitic diatribe complete with dog whistles for her intended audience.
"Stunning to hear @RashidaTlaib claim 'behind the curtain,' those who prevent a 'free Palestine' are the "same people' who exploit 'regular Americans,'" he wrote.
This kind of rhetoric isn't new, Greenblatt noted.
"We've heard this kind of ugly #antisemitic dog whistling before, but it's appalling when it comes from a member of Congress," he tweeted.
Stunning to hear @RashidaTlaib claim "behind the curtain,” those who prevent a “free Palestine” are the “same peopl… https://t.co/euo6ZBIr0j
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