Video shows Jerry Seinfeld smiling and waving off anti-Israel protesters who accused him of supporting genocide as he left an event on the Upper East Side on Sunday night. Ta.
The New York City comedian was heckled after leaving an event featuring former New York Times columnist and Free Press founder Bari Weiss at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Ta.
“You support genocide, you support genocide,” one demonstrator yells at Mr. Seinfeld, according to footage obtained by the newspaper, as Mr. He gave a quick wave before climbing into the back seat of a black SUV surrounded by government officials.
Protesters continued to shout at Seinfeld until the SUV departed.
“Damn you, you support genocide,” another enthused demonstrator said.
A small number of protesters rallied outside the community center that had hosted Weiss, who was delivering the 92Y’s annual State of Judaism address.
Protesters criticized Weiss, a strong supporter of Israel, and tried to link her to the death of Palestinian professor and poet Refaat Alalil. Who was killed in Gaza? Air strikes on Israel in December.
Arrea tweeted in late October that if he was killed, “it would be Bari Weiss and his friends’ fault.”His tweet was a response to Weiss. Criticize Arale as a joke An earlier tweet addressed whether an Israeli infant was burned alive in an oven “with or without baking soda” during the October 7 attack on Israel.
Mr Alalil reportedly mocked the victims of the terrorist attack and said in a BBC interview hours after the attack that Palestinian resistance was “just and moral”.
Two people were arrested Sunday night while protesting outside 92Y, police said.
Anti-Israel protests have roiled the Big Apple since Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more, leading the Jewish state to launch a major military operation in Gaza. .
The Hamas-backed Health Ministry said Israel had lost more than 200 soldiers and some 30,000 Palestinians had been killed during the ground operation.
Seinfeld, who co-created his eponymous long-running sitcom with Larry David, is not the first A-list actor to be criticized by protesters.
Alec Baldwin was walking the streets of Manhattan late last year when he encountered anti-Israel protesters.
