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Jerry Seinfeld Responds to Anti-Israel Protesters Heckling Him, Disturbing His Shows
Jerry Seinfeld arriving at a US Open tennis match on Sept. 11, 2022. Photo: Anthony Behar/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect
Jewish stand-up comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld said in an interview on the podcast “Honestly with Bari Weiss” this week that it’s “comedic” and “so silly” how anti-Israel activists have targeted him for supporting the Jewish state.
“It’s so dumb,” Seinfeld began telling Weiss, when asked him if he feels comfortable being “politicized” without intending to be.
“We get protesters occasionally [and] I love to say to the audience, ‘I love that these young people they’re trying to get engaged with politics. We have to just correct their aim a little bit. They don’t seem to be understand that as comedians, we really don’t control anything.’”
Hundreds of protesters marched outside Seinfeld’s stand-up comedy show in Syracuse, New York, in December 2023, criticizing his support for Israel and accusing the Seinfeld co-creator of promoting what they called Israel’s “genocide” in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing war against Hamas terrorists.
Two months later, he was heckled as a “genocide supporter” by anti-Israel activists after he left an event at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan that featured Weiss, who is the founder of The Free Press and a former New York Times columnist. While the activists berated Seinfeld on the streets of New York outside the event in February, the comedian merely smiled and even waved at the protesters.
When Weiss asked Seinfeld why he reacted that way towards the demonstrators, he explained that it’s because “it’s so silly. They want to express this sincere, intense rage, but, again, they’re a little off-target. That to me is comedic.”
Earlier this month, one of Seinfeld’s stand-up shows in Norfolk, Virginia, was disrupted by around eight anti-Israel protesters in the audience. Seinfeld’s commencement speech at Duke University was also interrupted by similar protesters, who staged a walk-out shortly after he was introduced on stage.
Seinfeld visited Israel earlier this year in the aftermath of the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks that took place on Oct. 7. He told Weiss the trip was “the most powerful experience of my life” before he got teary eyed, thinking back to the experience he had in Israel.
Seinfeld also talked to Weiss about how wanting to make people smile is “one of the greatest Jewish traditions.”
“That’s why there are so many Jewish comedians and such a great tradition of comedy in the culture of Jewish people,” he explained. “With all their crap that they had to live with, they used their incredible brains to make each other laugh. You do what you have to do and save a big part of your head to laugh. Because that will get you through a lot of things.”
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Trump Is Lying When He Speaks of Peace
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with government officials in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2025. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Donald Trump on Saturday of lying when the US president said during his Gulf tour this week that he wanted peace in the region.
On the contrary, said Khamenei, the United States uses its power to give “10-ton bombs to the Zionist (Israeli) regime to drop on the heads of Gaza’s children.”
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after departing the United Arab Emirates on Friday that Iran had to move quickly on a US proposal for its nuclear program or “something bad’s going to happen.”
His remarks, said Khamenei, “aren’t even worth responding to.” They are an “embarrassment to the speaker and the American people,” Khamenei added.
“Undoubtedly, the source of corruption, war, and conflict in this region is the Zionist regime — a dangerous, deadly cancerous tumor that must be uprooted; it will be uprooted,” he said at an event at a religious center in Tehran, according to state media.
Earlier on Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Trump speaks about peace while simultaneously making threats.
“Which should we believe?” Pezeshkian said at a naval event in Tehran. “On the one hand, he speaks of peace and on the other, he threatens with the most advanced tools of mass killing.”
Tehran would continue Iran-US nuclear talks but is not afraid of threats. “We are not seeking war,” Pezeshkian said.
While Trump said on Friday that Iran had a US proposal about its nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a post on X said Tehran had not received any such proposal. “There is no scenario in which Iran abandons its hard-earned right to (uranium) enrichment for peaceful purposes…” he said.
Araqchi warned on Saturday that Washington’s constant change of stance prolongs nuclear talks, state TV reported.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that America repeatedly defines a new framework for negotiations that prolongs the process,” the broadcast quoted Araqchi as saying.
Pezeshkian said Iran would not “back down from our legitimate rights”.
“Because we refuse to bow to bullying, they say we are source of instability in the region,” he said.
A fourth round of Iran-U.S. talks ended in Oman last Sunday. A new round has not been scheduled yet.
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Hamas Confirms New Gaza Ceasefire Talks with Israel in Qatar on Saturday
Doha, Qatar. Photo: StellarD via Wikimedia Commons.
A new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel is underway in Qatar’s Doha, Hamas official Taher al-Nono told Reuters on Saturday.
He said the two sides were discussing all issues without “pre-conditions.”
Nono said Hamas was “keen to exert all the effort needed” to help mediators make the negotiations a success, adding there was “no certain offer on the table.”
The negotiations come despite Israel preparing to expand operations in the Gaza Strip as they seek “operational control” in some areas of the war-torn enclave.
The return to negotiations also comes after US President Donald Trump ended a Middle East tour on Friday with no apparent progress towards a new ceasefire, although he acknowledged Gaza’s growing hunger crisis and the need for aid deliveries.
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Report: ICC’s Khan Goes on Administrative Leave Amid Sexual Misconduct Probe
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
i24 News – Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan has stepped down temporarily as an investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct by United Nations investigators is nearing its final phase, Reuters reported on Friday citing sources from the international court.
Khan allegedly forced sexual intercourse upon a member of staff on multiple occasions, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, linking the allegations to Khan’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant.
A statement is expected later today announcing that Khan is going on administrative leave, according to a source in the prosecutor’s office.
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