Bill Maher says Harvard students hailing Hamas are as bad as Trump saying there were ‘very fine people on both sides’ of white supremacist riot, as he mocks ‘queers for Palestine’
Bill Maher said that Harvard students who disregarded Hamas’ carnage in Israel were as bad as Donald Trump who said there were “very good people on both sides” of white supremacy.
The late-night comedian called it “a difficult week, a very depressing week” after last Saturday’s carnage in Israel, with more than 1,300 dead there and another 1,900 killed in the subsequent strikes on Gaza.
He continued: ‘The college kids in America have gone full Trump and said there are a lot of good people on both sides.’
Asked in 2017 about the white supremacy rally in Charlottesville that resulted in the death of a counter-protester, Heather Heyer stated that there are good people among both groups. The comments remain among the most infamous of his presidency.
Maher pointed out that there is now a campaign, led by billionaire investor Bill Ackman, to ‘blacklist’ Harvard students from future employment because of their signing of a pro-Palestine letter.
The letter said: ‘We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for all unfolding violence.’
On Friday, Bill Maher spoke about “a very depressing week” and mocked Harvard students for declaring that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence.”
Harvard students are seen attending a pro-Palestine rally following the Hamas attacks
Maher said Harvard students condoning Hamas were like Donald Trump defending white supremacy in Charlottesville in August 2017.
Among those who coordinated the letter was the son of British perfumer Jo Malone, Josh Willcox.
Wilcox is one of three leaders of the Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee.
Maher also listed the freedoms that Americans enjoy but are restricted in Gaza – including freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom to choose your own political leaders.
He mocked the group ‘Queers for Palestine’, and his guest, journalist James Kirchick, joked: ‘Have you heard their sister organization, blacks for the KKK?’
Hamas is notoriously homophobic, with LGBT people in Palestine at risk of violence and persecution.
Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, said on Wednesday that the letter does not speak for the educational institution as a whole or its leadership.
On Friday, she issued another apology.
Gay said the university rejects terrorism, hate and harassment based on people’s beliefs, while embracing free expression, even “views that many of us find offensive, even outrageous.”
She wrote: ‘We do not punish or sanction people for expressing offensive or outrageous opinions.
‘But it is far from endorsing them. It is in the exercise of our freedom to speak that we reveal our characters and we reveal the character of our institution.’
Josh Willcox (left) son of perfume magnate Jo Malone (center) is listed as one of three Harvard students running the Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee. He is also pictured with his father Gary Willcox at a sophisticated London party in 2017
The letter caused a massive backlash after 34 student associations backed the statement written by the PSC ‘holding the Israeli regime fully responsible for all unfolding violence’
Harvard President Claudine Gay (pictured) has finally condemned the ‘terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel’ – in defiance of 34 student groups at the Ivy League institution that have pledged support for the militants
The death toll has reached more than 1,300 in Israel as the country plans a bloody revenge
An aerial photo shows the bodies of victims of the Hamas attack on the Kfar Aza kibbutz on Tuesday
Troops remove the bodies of victims killed during an attack by Hamas terrorists in Kfar Aza on Tuesday
Maher joked: ‘Many of the students still stand by their position of supporting the war criminals – but they strongly object to the word ‘blacklist’.’
He added to laughter that the students blaming the Hamas attack on Israel was absurd and offensive.
“Even Kanye said that’s some anti-Semitic bulls**t right there.”
Maher then turned to the Democratic Socialists of America, who held a pro-Palestine rally in New York the day after the terror attack and also said the killing and kidnapping were the result of the ‘oppression’ and ‘apartheid’ which was inflicted by Israel. region.
“The Connecticut chapter posted a statement.
‘They said no peace on stolen land.
“It’s from Connecticut—an Indian word that means ‘that land you stole,’ so you know—and, by the way, it’s not stolen land, okay.”
Hamas left a trail of destruction at a series of kibbutzim near the border with Gaza, including children’s beds soaked in blood.
Khalifa sparked massive backlash online after vocally supporting the terror attack by Hamas that left hundreds of Israelis dead over the weekend
In 2017, she revealed death threats from Islamic State after filming pornographic scenes while wearing a hijab
Maher also addressed the furore caused by former porn star Mia Khalifa, who tweeted on Saturday: ‘Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to turn their phones upside down and film horizontally.’
The Lebanese-born celebrity’s tweet was met with outrage: On Monday, she added: ‘I just want to make it clear that this statement is in no way shape or form (inciting) violence.
“I specifically said freedom fighters because that’s what the Palestinian citizens are… fighting for freedom every day.”
Khalifa’s contract with Playboy was canceled as a result and she was fired by a magic mushroom company that sponsored her.
Maher noted that Khalifa found fame performing sex acts while wearing a hijab, noting that that behavior would not be popular on the streets of Gaza.
“Where’s Donald Trump when you need someone to pay a porn star to shut the fuck up?” he asked.