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Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan (www.nbcnews.com)

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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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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 months ago

So disingenuous when people pretend they can't see the difference between "I don't like the actions of the Israeli government" and "I don't like Jewish people." This sort of false dichotomy is exactly the sort of thing fascists leverage to justify their actions.