Jerry Seinfeld likened the Free Palestine movement to the Ku Klux Klan — even saying those who use the phrase “Free Palestine” are worse than the white supremacist group — at a student event at Duke University meant to honor hostages who are being held in Gaza.

Seinfeld spoke at the school in Durham, North Carolina, to introduce a former Israeli hostage, Omer Shem Tov, when he made the remarks, according to the university’s student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle. He reportedly started by saying, in reference to the Free Palestine activist movement, “Just say you don’t like Jews.”

“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think. So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.

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    “I don’t care about Palestine,” says the comfortable billionaire. He doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about the issue. He’s just OK with genocide as a final solution, like the vast majority of Israel.

    “I don’t preach about [the war]. I have my personal feelings about it that I discuss privately. It’s not part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong.”

    His feelings:

    Jerry Seinfeld

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    Zionism is not Judaism, Jerry, you pedo fuckface.

    Edit: His girlfriend was 17 when he was 39, so I guess technically he’s not a pedo, but goddamit that’s creepy as fuck. When I was 39, my oldest child was 20, so maybe it’s my hang-up.

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    I never liked him with his canned laughter sitcom and his conformist suburban humor—a bit like a pop song that hasn’t aged well, the kind that was successful in its day but is so unoriginal, boring, and unimaginative that no one wants to hear it anymore.

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    The old “If you don’t support our atrocities, you’re a racist” strategy.

    It’s a sibling to the Bush era “If you don’t support our war crimes, you’re a terrorist.”

    People with Critical Thinking Skills don’t respond to such nonsense. Anyone who does, is outing themselves as a gullible fool.

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    in reference to the Free Palestine activist movement, “Just say you don’t like Jews.”

    Fuck Jerry Seinfeld and this dishonest bullshit. Hiding Israeli crimes behind false accusations of anti-Semitism.

    Dried up has-been should leave the public stage.

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      You know, its kinda crazy that everyone has conveniently forgotten Palestinians are Semites.

      I have to wonder what happens the day the Ashkenazi sect of Judaism loses control of the country and more militant factions decide they aren’t pure enough. Will Jerry Seinfield still want to vacation in Tel Aviv?

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      More like a dried-up never-was. He was cast in his eponymous show precisely because he was such an unlikeable, mediocre comedian.

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    Honestly never thought much of the guy… guess he won, I’m going to go delete the Frogger episode. The only one worth pirating 😝🦜

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    Fuck you, are you on his list? I seem to remember you dating someone significantly significantly significantly and grossly younger than yourself you pervert.

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        Nah, they never got married. He just dated her for four years, when she was 17-21.

        She was in high school when they started “dating.” He was 39.

        “Great guy,” thank god he still has a mouthpiece so we have to read the shit he spews out of his dumb fucking mouth.