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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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[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 224 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"I don't care about Palestine," says the comfortable billionaire. He doesn't mean he doesn't care about the issue. He's just OK with genocide as a final solution, like the vast majority of Israel.

“I don’t preach about [the war]. I have my personal feelings about it that I discuss privately. It’s not part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong.”

His feelings:

Jerry Seinfeld

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I mean, no one should be surprised. Seinfeld has been a zionist from day one. Most of the cast of the show Seinfeld were zionists. Zionists are unfortunately a lot more present in media than anyone would like to believe, in addition to having many positions of power.

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[–] hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world 189 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jerry Seinfeld? The man who, at 39 years old, dated a 17 year old high school student?

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 week ago (10 children)
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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 138 points 1 week ago (59 children)

We don't like innocent people being killed. This isn't hard.

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 100 points 1 week ago

“Just say you don’t like Jews.”
Yeah that makes total sense. Obviously, if I feel like a group of people deserve to not be genocided, that means I don't like Jews. So "liking Jews" = You must want to destroy another culture.

[–] mnhs1@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Isn’t this the guy who raped an underaged girl?

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week 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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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago

Exactly what I'd expect from the billionaire leech class.

I wonder what he thinks about a thirty-eight year old man dating a seventeen year old? Oh wait we know already.

Dude's been fuckin' gross for years, nobody should take moral advice from this pedo.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Oh Jerry, you geriatric, cradle robbing idiot.

Oh reminds me of a good video essay on recent Jerry from elephant graveyard.

https://youtu.be/c6692U1AD54

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[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Klan lit churches on fire and killed people. He thinks some words are worse than that? What a psycho.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trivializing the KKK just adds another level of implicit racism to his explicit racism.

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I like jews. Free palestine.

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

Seinfeld is a bigot piece of shit. No surprises there.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is what ethnonationalism does to a mfer

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[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This reminds me of Norm McDonald's bit, "People say the worst thing about the whole Bill Cosby thing is the hypocrisy. I disagree, I thought it was the raping that was the worst" apologies for butchering it, but I think it's very relevant, considering it was on an episode of comedians in cars with Jerry

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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (16 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.

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[–] knowone@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's amazing these people still think that all Jewish people agree with them. Or do they think a huge part of the global Jewish population just became "self-hating" or whatever term they'd use overnight?

[–] FatCrab@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 week ago

Jewish voices are deeply involved in Palestinian solidarity movements across the world and at almost every level, so statements like this are just fucking insane.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week 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.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Unpopular opinion but the guy's been out of "real life" for almost three decades now. His bubble is made up very heavily by the worldview of Jewish voices, specifically those from New York Money which is a thing, and it's not that surprising his take is what it is.

That said, yeah he probably shouldn't be talking publicly about it. Because that's ridiculous. For "regular" Jewish Americans, this time about this topic is incredibly distressing. Sort of like if your whole extended family, town, state, and media voted trump and think everything's difficult-but-good, when obviously it's beyond horrible.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 week ago

I love that Seinfeld says this stuff because I've always felt he was unfunny, smug, obnoxious, and basically I've just always hated him for no reason. Now he just keeps supplying reasons, and finally I can say I hate this fucker without being judged too hard for it

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 32 points 1 week ago

The old "If you don't support our atrocities, you're a racist" strategy.

It's a sibling to the Bush era "If you don't support our war crimes, you're a terrorist."

People with Critical Thinking Skills don't respond to such nonsense. Anyone who does, is outing themselves as a gullible fool.

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Seinfeld spoke at the school..."

He really shouldn't be in a school

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Free Palestine and fuck Jerry Springer and his stupid bass line

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A guy who dated a teenager he picked up at a park in his 30s has bad opinions and is a terrible person? Say it ain’t so!

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 30 points 1 week ago

“Just say you don’t like Jews.”

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

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's too bad, I liked his show back in the day, now I guess he'll be shown as often as the Cosby show

[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He’s been overrated as a comedian his entire career, I feel zero sense of loss from continuing to ignore every syllable he produces.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

I’m Native American free Palestine, fuck Jerry.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jerry Seinfeld is a pedophile

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[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

in reference to the Free Palestine activist movement, “Just say you don’t like Jews.”

Fuck Jerry Seinfeld and this dishonest bullshit. Hiding Israeli crimes behind false accusations of anti-Semitism.

Dried up has-been should leave the public stage.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

More like a dried-up never-was. He was cast in his eponymous show precisely because he was such an unlikeable, mediocre comedian.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I don't know much about the origins of that show. I do agree that he has always been highly overrated and received undue credit that should go to the writers and Larry David. Then he didn't do anything for 20 years and now he wants to pretend he's the "king of comedy".

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's when they start saying nonsensical shit like this that you got to look up someone's age. Seinfeld is 71 and saying stupid things. Go to bed gramps.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago

Yah suprise fucking billionaire is an asshole.

[–] RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fuck you, are you on his list? I seem to remember you dating someone significantly significantly significantly and grossly younger than yourself you pervert.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

You mean the guy who spent decades rehabilitating his racist friend is racist?

[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

Gee, I didn't know not wanting genocide makes you a fucking genocidal hate filled kkk loser. Damn that sure is weird...

Ugh.

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