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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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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Really surprised how many people are just okay with straight up murder. Nazis and the Jews, Isreal and children, Christians and the LGBT, Russia and civilians, etc. Did everyone just take crazy pills? Just leave people the fuck alone.

[–] shreyan@lemmy.cif.su 3 points 8 hours ago

I never liked him or his work.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 36 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

TIL Jerry Seinfeld is genocide supporter. Anyway, he is a fucking rich comedian, he knows nothing about anything. He thinks tha being jew or white american gives you rigth to kill entire nation. Scumbag.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 30 points 14 hours ago

“Just say you don’t like Jews.”

Equating Israel and/or Zionism with Jews is antisemitic. You outed yourself there, Jerry.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I am a Jew. Free Palestine!

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 24 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Wow, really found a great way to blow up his image, I guess being a pedo wasn't enough for Jerry, he has to tack on hateful fuckwit as well.

You can just tell his hate makes him feel tough and important, but in truth he's attracted to it because it gives him a sense of power and control, surfing in the power wake of the genocidal Israeli government. As evidenced by his grooming of underage girls, Jerry seeks to have power over others in any way he can, to distract from his physical and mental impotency.

He's a small minded dipshit with enormous insecurities.

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 10 points 14 hours ago (26 children)

Is this the same pedo Jerry Seinfeld who was dating a 17 year old?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/seinfeld-lonstein-photo/

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He is many things to many people. Genocide supporting twat is the rational view

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[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Zionism is not Judaism, Jerry, you pedo fuckface.

Edit: His girlfriend was 17 when he was 39, so I guess technically he's not a pedo, but goddamit that's creepy as fuck. When I was 39, my oldest child was 20, so maybe it's my hang-up.

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[–] updn@lemmy.ca 15 points 17 hours ago

Well that’s a stupid thing to say when there’s an obvious genocide against the actual brown semitic people in the land you think belongs to your sect, you obnoxious pedo.

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago (10 children)

i don't know if anyone worked as hard as Jerry Seinfeld to ruin his own reputation insistently for so long.

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 11 points 17 hours ago

Jerry: if you don’t think Israel is evil, it’s because you are, too.

Genocide is never OK, which is why I stand with the Palestinians.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 36 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Jerry Seinfeld’s entire public profile can be attributed to Larry David. If it weren’t for him, he’d just be another mediocre Leno-esque standup. Nobody would remember him because he sucks.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 13 hours ago

I've long been of the opinion that part of the reason Larry David cast him was because he was so mediocre. None of the characters in that show are sympathetic.

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