Bill Maher has been on a real roll lately. Last week, he slammed Harvard and other top schools over anti-Israel protests on campus, and this week he is back with another zinger.
FOX News reports:
Bill Maher pummels leftwing antisemitism amid Israel-Hamas war: ‘You’re the ones with the tiki torches now!’“Real Time” host Bill Maher expressed how he was floored by the amount of antisemitism that has erupted in the US since war broke out between Israel and Hamas.”What do you make of this level of just gut-wrenching antisemitism?” Maher asked during a panel discussion on Friday. “I must admit, I don’t think of myself as a naive person [but] I’ve been surprised. It was like a volcano that blew. I mean, just the people in the United States who [are like] ‘F— Israel!’ You know, the ‘Any means necessary!’ I just, I don’t know where this comes from. I guess it’s ancient. Obviously, the hatred of the Jews goes way back. But I was taken aback by this.””You can’t tell me you don’t think social media has made it much worse,” political scientist Ian Bremmer interjected.”So you think that’s the answer?” Maher replied. “Because it’s got to be something about the Jews themselves because there were other people around the world are oppressed. There are other ‘colonized’ places, not that Israel ‘colonized’ anything, but why this one’s nice. Why does this arouse, especially among young people?””I mean, the young people who hated Trump because he wouldn’t condemn the people with the tiki torches talking about Jews- you’re the ones with the tiki torches now!” he exclaimed.
Bill gets one thing wrong here. Trump did denounce the people with tiki torches, repeatedly. Anyway, here’s the clip:
In addition to that, in his ‘New Rule’ segment, Maher stood up for Israel and Western Civilization in general.
Nick Arama writes at RedState:
The panel talked about the bigotry toward Jews and how social media is making things worse, and that’s certainly true. But the reason for such venom is the leftist indoctrination of the college students in question and the painting of Israel as the product of the Western oppressors.Maher laid it out in a great segment and skewered this liberal mentality, highlighting how Western civilization has been a benefit to the world, which today’s college students seem to have been taught to despise.He notes it’s Western civilization that has given the world every principle that “liberals are supposed to adore,” such as individual liberty, freedom of speech, religious freedom, human rights, and the rule of law.”Please, someone stop us before we enlighten again,” he said sarcastically. He noted you can find all those things in Israel and practically nowhere else in the Middle East. The world would be better off if it had more Israels, he said. He added this is lost on the left who reduces things to victims and victimizers, and they make Israel bad because it’s the “toxic fruit of the victimizing West.”
Watch the segment below:
Maher isn’t going to become a conservative any time soon, but it sure is fun to watch him call out the radical left.
Featured image via YouTube.
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