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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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250 Hezbollah Terrorists Including 21 Commanders Eliminated in Ground Op
DF operating in southern Lebanon. Photo: IDF Spokesperson
i24 News – The Israeli military eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists including 21 commanders in four days of ground combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday.
IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon have uncovered vast caches of weapons and munitions in civilian residences, showing how central embedding within civilian population is to Hezbollah’s mode of warfare.
Meanwhile, heavy strikes targeting the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in southern Beirut were ongoing, Lebanese media reported.
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Airstrikes Launched on Several Parts of Yemen, Houthi Al Masirah TV says
Illustrative. Hodeidah, Yemen, July 20, 2024. Houthi Military Media/Handout via REUTERS
Airstrikes were launched on Friday at several parts of Yemen including its capital Sanaa and Hodeidah airport, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement controlling much of Yemen, and residents said.
Strikes also targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province, the channel added.
Residents said that the attack on al-Bayda province targeted several Houthi military outposts.
Al Masirah TV reported that the strikes had been carried out by the United States and British forces, but a British government source said Britain was not involved.
Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched attacks on international shipping near Yemen since last November in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel‘s war with Hamas.
The attacks have drawn US and British retaliatory strikes and disrupted global trade as ship owners reroute vessels away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal to sail the longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
Following the airstrikes, a Houthi spokesman called the attack “a desperate attempt,” adding that “Yemen will not be deterred by these attacks and will continue its steadfastness in confronting the enemies.”
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IDF Kills Hamas Commander in Tulkarem
Illustrative. Israeli troops during counterterrorism activity in Tulkarem, northwestern Samaria, September 2024. Photo: IDF.
JNS.org – An Israeli Air Force fighter jet conducted a rare strike in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Thursday night, targeting top Hamas terrorist Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
The Palestinian Authority reported at least 18 fatalities in the strike, with a local security source telling Agence France-Presse it was the deadliest in Judea and Samaria since the Second Intifada.
Ayyth Radwan, the head of Islamic Jihad’s Tulkarem branch, was also reportedly killed.
Oufi was planning a terrorist attack “in the immediate time frame,” according to the Israel Defense Forces, and directed the thwarted car bombing last month near Ateret in the Binyamin region of Samaria.
There were no casualties in the incident, which Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, called a “great miracle.”
The IDF said Oufi was involved in smuggling weapons to terrorists who perpetrated several recent attacks against Israelis, including some that resulted in injuries to civilians.
He also “worked to establish terrorist networks on behalf of Hamas and assisted terror operatives in the area to carry out significant shooting and explosive attacks,” added the military.
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