Bill Maher Slams the Mainstreaming of Antisemitism and Israel Hatred

Bill Maher Slams the Mainstreaming of Antisemitism and Israel Hatred

Bill Maher delivered a fiery and stern monologue during his show on Friday night, aimed squarely at figures on the left and the right who are now openly fomenting antisemitism, calling out people like Candace Owens and Hasan Piker by name.

He also makes a point about the ignorance surrounding Israel, particularly with regard to young people who have no idea of the history involved or Israel’s cultural impact on the Middle East.

Overall, it’s one of Maher’s better monologues. If you watch the whole thing below, you’ll notice that his liberal audience gets remarkably quiet at certain points.

FOX News has some details:

HBO host Bill Maher blasted Democrats Friday, saying liberals have failed to condemn antisemitism, calling out a seething swath of hatred as Israel celebrated its 78th birthday.

“There is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of this one group [Jews] and, Democrats, where are you?” Maher said in his “Real Time” rebuke.

“If any other minority group was being talked about this way, you’d break out the kente cloth and have ten benefit concerts, but because you see that so many of your brainwashed-by-TikTok constituents now have an unfavorable view of Israel, you indulge them when you should be correcting them.” he added.

“You don’t tell your woke idiots that Israel isn’t a colonizer or an apartheid state or committing genocide and that, if you brats had to spend a week anywhere in the Middle East other than Israel, you would understand what liberalism is not.”

Maher offered a warning to the left, “Let me just say this to all who ask me, ‘Why are you harder on the Democrats than you used to be,’ until you fix this whole issue, stop asking me.”

During the “Real Time” segment, Maher criticized media figures and aspiring politicians on both the left and right for rhetoric he said fuels hostility toward Israel and Jewish people.

The HBO host observed, “People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. Well, there is this one thing they agree on.” Maher then proceeded to call out both liberal and conservative figures who have indulged in anti-Israel or antisemitic comments.

Other criticisms from U.S. college professors and right-wing voices came into focus as well.

“Israel was founded on the idea that antisemitism made a Jewish state [necessary] because Jews would never be safe without one. Can you honestly listen to this rhetoric and not see why that turned out to be true?” Maher said, reacting to the statements.

Watch the whole thing below:

Maher may still be a liberal, but he deserves credit when he gets things right. The country needs to hear what he said in that monologue.

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