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Jerry Seinfeld likened the Free Palestine movement to the Ku Klux Klan — even saying those who use the phrase "Free Palestine" are worse than the white supremacist group — at a student event at Duke University meant to honor hostages who are being held in Gaza.

Seinfeld spoke at the school in Durham, North Carolina, to introduce a former Israeli hostage, Omer Shem Tov, when he made the remarks, according to the university's student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle. He reportedly started by saying, in reference to the Free Palestine activist movement, "Just say you don’t like Jews."

“By saying 'Free Palestine,' you’re not admitting what you really think. So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.

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[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

I guess hes planning a tour with Krammer

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I never liked him with his canned laughter sitcom and his conformist suburban humor—a bit like a pop song that hasn't aged well, the kind that was successful in its day but is so unoriginal, boring, and unimaginative that no one wants to hear it anymore.

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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Michael Richards Apologist Announces that Desire to End Genocide is Worse than Espousing Views of Virulent Racist Group"

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

Jerry Seinfeld is less funny than the Ku Klux Klan.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Hes been a racist piece of shit since sinfield. Probably long before.

[–] Baked86@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

seinfeld is a pedofile zionazi.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

So he really was Murphy all along.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

This is the type of mass murder Jerry likes.

[–] Pumasuedeblue@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Who the fuck cares what a rich washed up comedian thinks about anything? This is just content for the sake of content. One rich TV show idiot gets elected and now every time anyone says anything they act like it's news.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Why is it if you were jewish born any where in the world, you get to kill and steal the land of other people? When ISIS did exactly that, the whole world including muslims fought them to non-existance, meanwhile we have "jews" like Jerey fuckfield saying Zionism is Judaism and shamelessly advocating for a colonizing ethnostate genocidal aparthied.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

This guy's a pedofile, idc what he says.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not to excuse him or anything—but I have to remind myself that high-profile targets of anti-semitism (or racism in general) are exposed to orders of magnitude more of it than private individuals, and are correspondingly more likely to interpret it as a cause of things that anyone else can see have other motivations.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Need him to clarify that statement by establishing his personal view of the Klan.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Most old, white comedians are fucking awful people. Who knew? /S

These guys were always losers. They told us so, and we said ‘lol? They’re kidding! They’re like us!’ Then we made light of the fucking jerks in our own lives.

But it turns out they actually were jerks or worse, and they’ve banded together enough that they think they can tell the rest of us what to do.

We need to show them they can’t,

[–] shreyan@lemmy.cif.su 3 points 3 weeks ago

I never liked him or his work.

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