Bill Maher unloads: 'How come it's okay for the left to hate the Jews?'
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"Real Time" host Bill Maher put a spotlight on the lack of condemnation of the growing antisemitism that has erupted on the left in comparison to the country's response to the infamous 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
"I got a question. How come it's okay for the left to hate the Jews?" Maher asked on Friday night. "Because, obviously, if this was the people at Charlottesville doing this, wouldn't there be a bigger outcry?
CNN contributor Ana Navarro responded by saying it's not an "apples to apples" comparison, saying that the "images" of dead children in Gaza are a major factor in the left's activism. But writer Joel Stein insisted the college students currently protesting have "more power" than the "tiki torch IT guys" that were marching in Charlottesville.
"If the people in Charlottesville who were chanting ‘Jews won't replace us,’ I mean, that's bad. It's not as bad as ‘Death to.' That's not deplorable?" Maher exclaimed.
"It's absolutely terrible," Navarro responded.
"Okay, well, if one side is deplorables and the other side does something that's- I mean, if I was a Holocaust survivor, and I guess there's not many of those left, but if I was, I would choose ‘Jews will not replace us’ over 'Death to Zionists," Maher said.
"There's no condemnation like there was with Charlottesville," he later added.
There were several antisemitic incidents that occurred in recent days. Last Saturday, violent anti-Israel protests took place outside the White House where a Hamas headband-wearing agitator held up a bloodied mask of President Biden's face.
On Monday, protesters chanted "Long live the intifada" outside a Nova Music Festival Exhibition in New York City memorializing the victims of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.
On Wednesday, the home of Jewish officials with the Brooklyn Museum was vandalized with red paint and a banner hanged reading "white-supremacist Zionist."
Also this week, a video of anti-Israel protesters swarming a New York City car went viral showing them chanting "Raise your hand if you're a Zionist. This is your chance to get out."
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Great question from an old fashioned liberal.
And one that the "new Liberals" will cry about and tap dance around instead of answering.
They are great dancers.
Yesterday they told us the Biden videos were edited!
So far all the editing is being done by the democrats. Official transcripts, evidence...
I don't agree with the killing of civilians anywhere unnecessarily. I have been very clear on that. And if I have not y'all can ask me to repeat myself! I don't wish ill on any individual or group of individuals in this situation: Exception: HAMAS. (No elaboration is needed.)
Good to know, thanks.
You're welcome.
It’s important to know who doesn’t agree with the killing of civilians anywhere unnecessarily and who does. Thanks for taking a stand.
You're welcome.
Its something to look back at Charlottesville and the wall to wall coverage that generated. It supposedly inspired Biden to run. Now they take place on every campus and the media and biden does its very best to ignore it because its their side leading the protesters.
Now that Bill has his solar hooked up maybe he can free the bees in his bonnet.
You've got to hand it to Hamas, or maybe to their Iranian masters who trained them, to have known that their Oct 7 massacre would provoke the retaliation from Israel that was bound to demonize Israel because Hamas hides among the civilians, uses them as human shields, hides themselves, their headquarters and weapons in hospitals, schools, UN facilities (obviously the antisemitic UN cooperates with and assists Hamas), residential homes and among and under refugee camps, making the loss of civilians inevitable, but Hamas is not blamed for that, Israel is blamed for murdering children and women and elderly using inflated numbers in order to win the war of public opinion against Israel, and the rest of the naive and ignorant world is eating it up, protesting in favour of the terrorists. Makes the expression "Stop the world, I want to get off" a reality.
i don't claim to be well versed on this contoversary, but, i cannot help but hold Netanyahu responsible, for trumping his country by wagging the dawg, a dawg willingly installed , to portray the Terrorists, as the innosent victims sentenced to death to put the projection where it can accomplish the most, cause allowing terrorists to hide amongst those who are innocent, is of one of the lowest , yet highest in cowardice, any individual could ever commit, imho
I'm sorry, Ig, but I'm unable to understand the poiint you're trying to make - you seem to equalize the blame on both.
I find them both to blame, for the killing of in know sense.
Cause in No Sense does it make for the October attack, except to create sympathizers for a cause i truly admit to not fully comprehending.
And Netanyahu, like our Trump, is using real politics, the politics of War no less, to keep him from any time soon answering to his alleged criminal actions. War is suppose to be a great unifier, as it certainly should be, yet we have the GOP here defending Putins Russia while attacking any and everything our current POTUS does, irregardless if they benefit or knot, as they tie it to a polcy enacted when Obama was elected. Israeli has become a voting issue this year. Gaza Terorists deserve to be hunted down and killed, innocent civilians don't deserve to be caught in the middle, so I will blame the Terrorists, and I will blame Netanyahu as well. Only a coward would put War above their own political power and survival, so the two nations both share a terrible commonality.
Once again we see the marks of a propaganda piece blaring out at us from the title. He didn't just say the words he "Unloads" them. This is an example leading the reader with emotion. As for the quote, it conflates "the left" not only as a singular entity, but makes the further accusation against the speciously defined left as hating the Jews. Both of these conflations are demonstrably false and we haven't even gotten beyond the headline yet....
Jew-hatred is not limited to specific political sides, it's just that it's more openly expressed by a lot more adherents of one of them.
What is happening in the world is why the refuge of a Jewish State was an absolute necessity in the past, and because what might have been more openly exercised by the Nazis in the past has now become more universally expressed lin the present, is what makes the existence and security of Israel as a Jewish State now more a necessity than ever before.
I would contend that the word "hatred" is much overused in these instances due to its severity and the baggage that the word conjures. You feel hate viscerally, and that is why FOX news used the sentence in the headline, to make the reader or the listener feel the power of hatred. That is why they did it: To put the left (whomever that means) on the defensive from the get go. That is, if the readers does not realize that they are being played.
I am not certain that it is more universally expressed. Certainly it is more present, but not universally so. I think that certain people with a vested interest in the sowing of disunity are amplifying the actions of some players while not allowing for an organic difference of opinion over the whole spread of humanity. They are trying to reduce a vast and complicated subject down to the false dichotomy of Jewish/Zionist = Good, vs. Jews = Bad, and it is not that simple. You can see that it is a false dichotomy when presented like above, but some may fail to make the distinction and dive in to do battle from both sides, not realizing that the piece was intended to sow division.
You feel hate viscerally, and that is why FOX news used the sentence in the headline
they used it because they were quoting bill maher accurately.
Kudos on turning a bill maher quote into an excuse to bash Fox News. That’s some exceptional deflection
They were lying with the truth. IMO, my conjecture is far superior to your conjecture. I can tell when I am being lied to. Can you?
my conjecture is far superior to your conjec
My “ conjecture ” is literally a statement of fact. It is not conjecture. Your conjecture is blaming Fox News for something bill Maher said. It is asinine.
I can tell when I am being lied to.
you are blaming a source for accurately reporting a quote. Correctly Identifying the speaker comes first.
An excellent summation that i illustrated while exampling, yet, i might take Umbridge with realizations i never realized were not realized , just because i, never realized them, cause eye sea not when to say when
"No" would be the answer. Context is everything.
Sorry to have misunderstood. I should be saying that antisemites just don't love Jews very much instead of the fact that they hate them.
By universally, I didn't mean that every human being is an antisemite, what I meant was that antisemitism is much more openly expressed both verbally and physically all over the world than ever before.
Your conjecture is assuming that since the quote is correctly ascribed, the rest of the article goes unexamined.
Just because an article contains factual information does not mean the article is telling the truth. The conjecture that I was talking about is the story that we tell ourselves, in this case about the story that the article told us and the way that we put what we learned into use.
I said that it was a propaganda piece and showed the readers why it was such.
You chose to tell of the correctness of the quotations attribution.
While being "correct" in attribution is always commendable, the mere fact of it's correctness does not imply that the article is accurate in the whole. The article is intended to make one say, "Damn the Left! They (whomever one decides they should be) hate Jews!" I would put it into the category of "Click Bait" and "Propaganda."
Exactly! Maher was saying that antisemitism is antithetical with liberalism and faulting organizations that tolerate it...
I think saying, "I am a liberal and I would not endorse antisemitism," would do it..... Some people are hard to convince.