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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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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

And Israel could have ended this on October 8 by releasing the thousands Palestinian hostages they were holding without charges, without trial, in prisons treat viciously. Thats what Hamas asked for and why. Hamas took hostages to trade back their people with.
Israel wanted to keep holding people without charge and have a reason to bomb and steal from civilians more than they wanted their own hostages back.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world -5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's one of the things they asked for. They also demand the elimination of the state of Israel and vowed for there never to be peace until that happened.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

If I had a shekel for every nonsensical argument Israel frames as "elimination of the state of israel" or "kill us all" or "drive us into the sea", I'd be a rich person.

Hamas did not demand the elimination of the state of Israel. You're just making stuff up.

This is why peace negotiations with zionists are so hopeless. You lie about whats going on because you never wanted peace, you just want to not be seen as murderers and thieves. Look at the polls, thats not working. Even in the US. You need to stop digging the hole you are standing in and start being honest here.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

It's in Hamas' charter. It's what they chant. I know you don't want believe that narrative (me neither), but that doesn't make it less so.
I'm not an Israeli or a Jew or affiliated to any degree except I have some Jewish friends - some who live or who have lived in Israel, just as I have some Palestinian friends. Palestinians that I've talked to who are out of the control of Hamas say that Hamas is pure evil. Such Palestinians don't support the killing of civilians in Gaza any more that I do and they see Israel's latest policies as abhorrent, as do I. Of course most of them got out of that area of the world when they had a chance because they recognize that there's too many stubborn assholes on both sides that will never accept any feasible peace despite the incredible harm such a position does.