Jerry Seinfeld publicly shamed an anti-Israel heckler who disrupted the famous comic’s performance in Australia with pro-Palestinian chants over the weekend.
Seinfeld, 70, was on stage in the Kudos Vault area Sunday night when the heckler began shouting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a video of the event shared by the Australian Jewish Federation on shows,
“We have a genius, ladies and gentlemen. He solved the Middle East!” Seinfeld joked.
“It’s the Jewish comedian, we’ve got to get him! They are the ones doing everything.”
Security personnel surrounded the protestor as he persisted in calling at a comical pace and tried to escort him out of the venue.
“They’re going to start punching you in about three seconds, so I’m going to try to bring out all of your talent so we can all learn from you,” Seinfeld informed the demonstrative motion to applause from the audience.
His hard-liners rid the department of the disruptive Palestinian supporter by getting the comedy legend to turn his aid to security in need by joining the “Jerry” chant.
Nonetheless, the heckler continued shouting loudly and was escorted out, although Seinfeld continued to scold him and told the audience, “Imagine if this guy actually resolved the conflict?”
“You are really impressing everyone here. We are all on your side now, because you have made your point so well, and at the right place, you have come to the right place for political dialogue,” he told the level.
“Tomorrow we’ll read in the newspaper ‘The Middle East is 100% solved by one man blocking a Jewish comedian at the Qudos Arena.’ They stopped him, and everyone in the Middle East said, ‘Oh my God, we can’t do this.’
The “Seinfeld” co-creator wasted no time joking about Australia’s personal history to lighten the mood.
He informed the public, “I know there are problems here with the indigenous tribes and the white people.”
“They have problems here so maybe to solve it, I’ll harass Jim Jefferies at a show in New York. If it works, it will work.”
“You have to go 20,000 miles away from the problem and find a comedian to harass, that’s how you solve the world’s issues.”
The remainder of the performance continued without further interruption, and Seinfeld apologized to the intended audience for the uproar at the end of his set-up.
Seinfeld has faced backlash over his support for Israel since the horrific October 7 attacks.
Two days after the attack, he wrote the post “I stand with Israel” on his Instagram account.
“I lived and worked on a kibbutz in Israel when I was 16, and ever since, I have loved our Jewish homeland,” he wrote in the caption. “My heart is breaking with these attacks and atrocities. But we are also very strong people at heart and mind.”
In the following days, the comic has been disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters.
At one point, anti-Israel supporters protested the fan-favorite comic’s graduation speech at Duke College, where dozens of scholars walked out on the pace of his speech.
Video of the incident showed that as the comedian and TV superstar was called to the stage, a group of students were walking out of their seats and wearing Palestinian flags.
On the other hand, the public’s attention was briefly turned to the protesters, who chanted, “Jerry!” Jerry!” As Seinfeld presented his accent and negotiated an honorary degree from Duke.
Once again, on May 19, the Primetime Emmy winner’s comedy show in Virginia was interrupted by an anti-Israel protester at Target Market who shouted “Free Gaza” during his set, TMZ reports.
Similarly, Brand, the New York Town comedian, was surrounded by a group of protesters during an event on the Higher East Side in February, where protesters called him a “genocide sympathizer”.
Seinfeld was harassed when he left a tournament at the 92nd Side Road Y in New York, which was attended by former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, founder of Distant Press.
Extreme Hour, Seinfeld appeared on Weiss’s podcast, “Honestly with Bari Weiss”, where he told him how he deals with the complaints he gets from anti-Israel protesters.
“When we get the occasional protesters, I love to say to the audience, ‘You know I love that these young people, they’re trying to get involved in politics, we just need to support their cause. Gotta do a little bit of tweaking, they don’t do that. It seems like we understand that as comedians we don’t really control anything,” Seinfeld said.
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