Bill Maher lashes out at ‘privilege-y’ anti-Israel protesters who are ‘cosplaying as revolutionaries’ on college campuses

Bill Maher addressed the college-age protesters as performative publicity seekers and warned that “nobody likes you,” in a scathing critique of his HBO show.

The comedian and pundit denounced protesters who have brought chaos to the ‘normies’ with sit-down protests on main roads and university campuses as damaging to their own cause.

He called the Palestinian keffiyeh headscarf the modern equivalent of the Che Guevara T-shirt and scorned their “cosplay as revolutionaries” as they disrupted the lives of those who have to work for a living.

“Hey, if it makes you feel good to cosplay as revolutionaries. Knock yourself out. Burn yourself out. Just don’t involve Gaza,” he said on Real Time with Bill Maher.

‘Throwing things on paintings is also just stupid. No one sees mashed potatoes on a Monet and thinks they’re right: I should recycle my cans.’

The 68-year-old had already clashed with guest Don Lemon, who appeared alongside NYU professor Scott Galloway, after the former CNN host complained about living in uncomfortable spaces “all the time.”

“What do you mean uncomfortable spaces?” Maher asked.

Lemon responded, “I’m often the only person of color in the room.”

“There’s only three of us,” Maher noted.

The exchange drew a backlash from Caitlyn Jenner, who tweeted: “Good job Bill Maher.

“Don is a privileged, wealthy (not to mention entitled ‘Claims to X and CNN in Alleged Contract Terms’), celebrity. Get over yourself.’

But Maher saved his most scathing comments for those protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, calling them ignorant and misleading, calling New York’s Columbia State University “Kanye State.”

“Do you know Passover?” he asked. ‘It celebrates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt in Biblical times. And today it celebrates the exodus of the Jews from Columbia University.

“I’m not saying there aren’t genuine passions for Gaza, especially among people from the region, but Social Justice Warriors, for many of them it seems it’s more about the struggle than anything the cause is.

‘If you really cared that much about apartheid – something Israel doesn’t actually practice.

‘The Arabs there vote, they serve in parliament, they sit in the judiciary – wouldn’t you start with that? With the hundreds of millions of women in the world living under a real apartheid, a gender apartheid of the cruellest kind? I will wait.

“Are you really speaking the truth to those in power, or do you just think you look cool in a keffiyeh, which is basically just Che Guevara’s new T-shirt?”

“Another historical figure you never researched and still consider a hero, but who was actually a sadistic racist monster who fought for communism, the worst form of government ever. But these are small matters.

‘Small things, when activism merges with narcissism.

‘Less about the cause and more about me, look at me, look at me! And if you like the way I fight injustice, don’t forget to like and subscribe!’

Among those joining the unemployed protesters are the 28 Google employees who were fired earlier this month for participating in a protest at the company’s offices in New York and California.

“Maybe if these Google employees had any idea what kind of fundamentalist, oppressive bastards they’re supporting—Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards—they could go easy on the world’s largest monster, Genocide Joe. ‘ he said.

‘By the way, genocide is when you want to exterminate an entire people. That is Hamas’ stated goal. That is what From the River to the Sea means. Hamas would do that to Israel, but it cannot. Israel could do that to them, but it doesn’t.

‘Do you know how to find out? Google it!”

And he mocked American pilot Aaron Bushnell, 25, who burned himself outside the Israeli embassy in DC in February to protest American involvement in the country’s attack on Gaza.

“In his last Facebook post, he said, ‘Many of us like to ask ourselves: What would I do if I were alive during slavery?’ Maher noted.

‘Interesting cocktail question, sir. And I think the right answer is suicide.

“But the problem wouldn’t really have been solved if General Ulysses S. Grant had set himself on fire and his last words had been, ‘Hey, Lincoln, are you using that log?

“And last week, another sad, confused man set himself on fire during the Trump trial in New York.

“So you can tell yourself you’re a martyr for the Palestinian cause, but it’s a lot less special if the next person does it for Stormy Daniels.”

He demanded to know why protesters did not target repressive regimes, including China, North Korea and Myanmar, rather than America’s ally in the Middle East.

And he warned that protesters would never win allies among the American public by disrupting their lives.

‘Someone needs to tell the people blocking traffic in the name of charity that no one likes you. And you’re probably hurting your business,” he insisted.

“In case you haven’t seen what’s been going on lately, activists calling for an end to the war in Gaza have gathered on roads and bridges, stopping commuters from crossing the border.

‘It happened last week in New York and San Francisco. Chicago, Seattle. Again, they blocked traffic on the 405, but no one noticed.

“What they did notice was this: that you have to be pretty stupid to think that the way to get people to your point of view is to make them late to pick up their kids from daycare.

“And that’s what most normies think. I have a child, I have a job. And yes, I’m sure there is injustice on both sides in the Middle East, just as there is injustice around the world, but I’m running late for work.

“Something that you protesters on the bridge have the luxury of not having to worry about, which seems like a privilege of sorts.

“You can glue your hands to the street, because your hands don’t have to do any work today.”