“Real Time” host Bill Maher focused on the lack of condemnation of the growing anti-Semitism erupting on the left, comparing it to the national response to the infamous white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
“I have a question for you: Why is it OK for the left to hate Jews?” Maher asked Friday night. “Because obviously, if the people in Charlottesville had done this, wouldn’t there have been much bigger protests?”
CNN contributor Ana Navarro countered that it wasn’t an “apples to apples” comparison, saying the “images” of dead children in Gaza were a big factor in the left’s activism, but author Joel Stein argued that the college students protesting today were “more powerful” than the “tiki torch-wielding tech guys” who marched in Charlottesville.
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Bill Maher blasted the lack of condemnation of anti-Semitism from the left, such as in the aftermath of Charlottesville. (Screenshot/HBO)
“The people in Charlottesville who were shouting, ‘The Jews cannot replace us,’ that’s bad. It’s not as bad as, ‘Death to them,’ is deplorable?” Maher exclaimed.
“That’s absolutely horrible,” Navarro replied.
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“Well, if one side is deplorable and the other side does something — if I was a Holocaust survivor, and probably not many people are now — then I would choose ‘The Jews Will Not Replace Us’ over ‘Death to Zionists,'” Maher said.
“There’s no condemnation like there was in Charlottesville,” he later added.
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In August 2017, neo-Nazis, alt-rightists, and white supremacists carried tiki torches and marched on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. (Zach D. Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
There have been several anti-Semitic incidents recently, including a violent anti-Israel protest outside the White House last Saturday, where a Hamas headband-wearing agitator held up a bloody mask of President Biden’s face.
On Monday, protesters chanted “Long Live the Intifada” at the Nova music festival exhibition center in New York City to commemorate the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
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A protester wearing a Hamas headband holds up a blood-stained Biden mask. (FNTV)
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On Wednesday, the home of a Jewish associate at the Brooklyn Museum was vandalized with red paint and a banner reading “White Supremacist Zionist” was posted.
Also this week, a video went viral of anti-Israel protesters swarming a car in New York City, yelling, “Hands up if you’re a Zionist. Now’s your chance to get out!”
