“Crackhead Bernie,” an anti-Israel activist and vulgar performance artist, called director Quentin Tarantino a “Zionist motherfucker” while dining at a New York City restaurant, according to a video of the incident.
In the video, Bernie, clad in a bikini top and yellow plaid skirt, walked up the stairs of Che Lee restaurant on St. Marks Place, where Tarantino appeared to be sitting alone enjoying a meal. She posted to her Instagram account on Saturday..
“Quentin Tarantino!” she yells at the director. “Why are you a Zionist motherfucker?”
In the video, he can be seen grinning and with his arms crossed.
“Are you going to Israel?” she asked as the salesman shoved her out of the store.
The footage cuts to Tarantino walking down a flight of stairs to leave, with a rowdy crowd yelling at him on the sidewalk.
As her breasts spill out of her outlandish top, Bernie repeatedly tells Tarantino, who is famous for using the N-word extensively in his films, to say the derogatory term.
“Be careful, everybody,” Tarantino says calmly, and then he makes his way through the crowd of Bernie’s fellow protesters to a limo waiting on the street, and we see the driver take him by the arm and lead him to the back seat.
“Liberate Palestine!” Bernie shouts.
Bernie and several friends then put their feet up the car window and yelled “toes” repeatedly, before Bernie drove off.
A man chases the car down the street yelling, “Tarantino!”
The Post has contacted the restaurant for comment.
The “Reservoir Dogs” director, 61, is married to Israeli singer Daniella Pick, daughter of iconic Israeli pop musician Subika Pick, and lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and their two children.
“I love this country. The people are really kind, really nice to me, and seem excited that I’m here,” he told Bill Maher in 2021. He likened Tel Aviv to a smaller version of Los Angeles.
“I don’t make films about political situations. [in Israel],” he added.
The director was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the prestigious Hebrew University in Jerusalem. We celebrate his career and his new life in the Jewish state.
A week after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, leaving some 1,200 Israelis dead, Tarantino visited a military base in southern Israel, Meeting with Israel Defense Forces soldierstaking selfies to boost morale.
Stand With Us, a nonprofit that fights anti-Semitism, has been covering Tarantino’s trip on social media.
“Legendary film director Quentin Tarantino made a surprise visit to southern Israel, a region utterly devastated by Hamas’ terror war, to show solidarity with the Israeli people,” the organization said. Said at that time.
Tarantino could not be reached for comment.
Bernie made headlines earlier this year when he attacked actor Alec Baldwin in a pro-Palestinian tirade at a New York coffee shop, and has been pulling similar pranks around the country for more than a decade.
The New York-based content creator’s real name and age are unknown.
Since the conflict in Gaza began, Bernie has antagonized Israeli supporters at rallies, even going so far as to mock Jewish protesters by saying hostages held by Hamas are as good as dead.
