Audience walks out on Dave Chappelle after he criticizes Israel during show in Boston
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M embers of the audience at a Dave Chappelle show on Thursday reportedly walked out after he criticized Israel's bombing of Gaza and said students supporting Palestinians shouldn't be losing jobs over it.
The Wall Street Journal , citiing attendees, first reported some in the audience shouted "Free Palestine,"in support of Chappelle's comments while others yelled, "What about Hamas?" before some audience members walked out.
The back-and-forth with the audience occurred after Chappelle declared students shouldn't be losing their jobs over supporting Palestinians, according to reports.
A member of the audience reportedly shouted, "shut up," after his statement, which prompted more statements from him about Israel.
The comedian also condemned Hamas' attack against Israel, according to the WSJ, but accused the U.S. of aiding the murder of innocent civilians.
Three students, who attend either Harvard or Columbia, were denied job offers at a top law firm after they signed on to a letter supporting Hamas.
Davis Polk & Wardwell, a law firm in NYC, rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard and Columbia universities after the students signed on to open letters supporting Hamas after their deadly terrorist attacks against Israel.
The firm's announcement came via an internal email that was later posted to social media. A chair and managing partner at the firm, Neil Barr, said that the statements in the letters were contrary to the firm's values.
"We thus concluded that rescinding these offers was appropriate in upholding our responsibility to provide a safe and inclusive work environment for all Davis Polk employees," the email reads.
Chappelle criticized the city of San Francisco during a surprise show in May and asked, "What the f--- happened to this place?"
The comedian told the crowd that he was dining out at an Indian restaurant in the city's Tenderloin district and said that a homeless person defecated in front of the establishment just as he was walking in.
A spokeswoman said Chappelle denied being in Boston in a statement provided to the WSJ. However, the shows at the TD Garden in Boston were posted to the venue's website.
Chappelle's spokesperson has not yet returned Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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He should be criticizing whoever he intends to criticize after the show or in interviews, not when people paid a lot of money to see him be funny.
Celebrities have no special well informed information about these things. They are just like the rest of us.
Sounds like it was a real shit show.
I never did particularly like him or his comedy.... He's just not funny.
I like Dave and am usually on his side, but not here.
I hope his comments cost him any popularity he may once have had. He should learn to speak Arabic and spend the rest of his life performing in Gaza.
When I was the senior partner of my law firm in Toronto I would have done the same thing. An employer can get into trouble if they fire someone without just cause, but an employer has every right to not hire someone for any reason whatsoever.
On the Mass live web site an attendee said "
An audience member who was at Dave Chappelle’s Boston show claims the comedian did not actually criticize Israel’s bombing of Gaza, but rather advocated for an end to the violence that has persisted for nearly three weeks.
“Dave’s comments about ending the violence centered around reducing the issue to a human rights issue,” Melissa Seaver, who was at the show on Thursday, Oct. 19, wrote in an email to MassLive Monday. “He never mentioned being Muslim as a means to supporting Hamas. It centered on all lives matter.”
I guess you often have to see more than once source before blindly believing anything
Yes, of course, make it both sides equal, all lives matter, international law, humanitarian rights. I compare what has taken place to 9/11. Were the terrorists concerned with "all lives matter" or "international law" or "humanitarian rights"? Was Hamas concerned when it incinerated, decapitated and murdered peaceful civilians in Israel"? Is Hamas, a declared terrorist organization that is more devoted to wiping Israel from the face of the world map than the welfare of their own fellow civilians - take note of its record of using its own civilians as human shields. Seem to me that you can't fight fire with an eyedropper. When the ones who attack you don't give a shit about "all lives matter", "international law" or "human rights" you don't go into a boxing match with boxing gloves while your opponent is using brass knuckles and a knife, or you're a dead man. Unless Israel wants to forever bear the brunt of missiles and rockets and explosive incendiary kites and balloons and armed terrorists breaking through the fence intending to slaughter innocent civilians forever. Israel has decided that once and for all it has no choice but to totally eradicate Hamas from the face of the Earth and if there is collateral damage, and the hypocrites around the world can fucking well grow a working brain and pair of balls.
While I agree with everything you say my point was actually not to believe what Dave said/didn't say, meant/didn't mean during his show based on one report. Without seeing it or understanding context it is unfair to judge him, or anyone, based on one report. I had actually seen one report that said the person was saying shut up to some people in front of him, not Dave.
Okay, you tell me, did he say "all lives matter" or not? In the context of the present conflict what that means is that there is equality of cause here, and IMO that is NOT the case. Normally, without that context, of course "all lives matter".
I have no clue, I wasn't there and I have not seen a tape of it. That is my point. All lives matter was the interpretation of the person writing it(Seaver). She said "It centered on all lives matter." She never quoted him as saying it.