Friday, September 12, 2025
Elder of Ziyon
Fox News reports:
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld compared the "Free Palestine" movement to the Ku Klux Klan during a surprise appearance Tuesday at Duke University, saying both groups "don’t like Jews."The "Seinfeld" creator attended a campus event for Omer Shem Tov, an Israeli hostage abducted by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks and held captive for 505 days. Seinfeld gave a brief introduction to Shem Tov before ridiculing anti-Israel activists, joking that at least the KKK was "honest" about their hatred for Jews."Free Palestine is, to me, just — you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews," Seinfeld said."By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think," he continued. "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."
People are predictably freaking out, but Seinfeld is right.
"Free Palestine" is not a call for a two state solution. It is a call for Jews to either be ethically cleansed from the Middle East, or for them to become official second class citizens in a Muslim majority state where they can reap the benefits of anti-Jewish laws they enjoyed under Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi and other regimes.
So yes, it is absolutely as antisemitic as the Ku Klux Klan. Instead of freeing America from non-whites, they want to free "Palestine" from Jews. And even the most charitable viewpoint - that the "Free Palestine" crowd is not genocidal but just want Jews to be second class citizens - mirrors what most KKK members want as well, a society where "Whites" are the leaders and people of color are on the lower rungs.
Anti-Israel activists have always cloaked their desire to rid Israel of Jews in the language of human or historic rights. They used to pretend that their demand for the "right to return" was principled, when it was always a means to make Jews a minority. They still pretend that "Palestine" was a historic political entity, when it was just the Roman name for the Holy Land, and it was used that way to the middle of the 20th century. They hate to be reminded that there was no Palestinian Arab national identity before a hundred years ago.
The KKK, similarly, pretend that their hate is meant to protect their "rights" and their historic heritage as supremacist European Aryans.
There is really no difference.
Palestinian nationalism, from its very beginnings through today, has always been a response to Zionism rather than something that anyone is actually working towards. Every time Palestinians were offered a state, they turned it down - because it always still allowed a Jewish state to exist.
So, yes, "Free Palestine" is window dressing for calling to eliminate Jewish rights in the region. And Seinfeld, who has been on the receiving end of antisemitic abuse for his refusal to join the woke "Free Palestine:" crowd, recognizes that fact.
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