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By JON GAMBRELL ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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dagon
Chappelle has a very good take.
Leave it to a brilliant comedian like him.
bass4funk
Love Chappelle! The most funniest and deepest thinking Comedian, absolute genius.
Gene Hennigh
Yeah, he's pointing out a forgotten truth: neither the Palestinians nor the Jews living in the US have had anything to do with that war. Neither group should be threatened, harmed, or blamed. Neither side did anything wrong. If any of them pick up a rifle and go there to fight then there would be an issue.
Bob Fosse
It’s not ‘deep thinking’ to understand that criticism of Israel’s actions is not antisemitism.
Do you agree with his condemnation of Israel’s war on Hamas as genocide? I most certainly do.
Seth Majer
You can't block roads to hospitals, workplaces or airports either for people that have their own livelihoods to attend to.
Negative Nancy
A smart man. Well done Dave, thank you.
bo
I have no sympathy for terrorists , hamas terrorizes the gazans as well !
TheLizardKing
History never repeats, but it rhymes.
Bob Fosse
tomlives
Suggesting superiority or inferiority based on ethnicity is always wrong all the time. Don’t do it.
tomlives
Bob FosseToday 11:06 am JST
tomlives
No.1, You can't tell me what to do and nor should you.
No.2, Just because a fact is inconvenient it doesn't make it false.
No.3, The fact in question is backed by an undeniable mountain of evidence that available to all. If you're unwilling to engage with it, or unable to do so, it's not my problem; est quod est.
No.4, You're virtue signaling, and most people can see through it.
tomlives
Bob FosseToday 11:12 am JST
IQ is distributed along a bell curve. Males are more highly represented on the tail ends of the distribution for all aspects of their genotype (this is across pretty much all species, by the way, due to having a y chromosome and being nature's play thing, as males woo while females choose - this is what Darwin explained when he put forth his theory of sexual selection in 1859), while females tend to be grouped around the middle. This means there are more really stupid and really smart men, but on average, men and women have the same IQ.
tomlives
***I wrote 'genotype' but meant to write 'phenotype'.
bass4funk
I disagree.
No, I don't.
Bob Fosse
Of course you do.
bass4funk
Yes.
Geeter Mckluskie
This is what Israel is up against...something the Palestinians have vowed to do...again...and again...and again...
https://www.thisishamas.com/
Bob Fosse
Sure, I can. I did. You don’t have to like it.
”You secretly hate Jews because they are smarter than you” is not a fact.
Proponents of ethnic or racial superiority usually claim scientific evidence.
No no no. I’m calling out your abhorrent comment which has since been deleted.
u_s__reamer
Anti-semitism? That's on the Israelis! Netanyahu and his cronies, Biden and the West have done the rest to fuel real antisemitism more than anyone since the man with the mustache.
nukkuheddo
love his comedy...he's funny...and a breath of fresh-air we have not seen in a while...
dunno about entertainers mouthing off about politics...
but I agree with him
Agent_Neo
Historically, Jews were mistreated in Europe, and then Jews abused Palestinians in the Middle East.
Isn't the original cause due to white people?
Anonymous
Yet another performer who doesn’t know what genocide is. Or is he just pandering to an audience? “Oh, no, no, no! Performers never pander!!!”
Anonymous
“Fight antisemitism”? Now that’s a brilliant and original idea.
You can’t fight an idea. You must persuade people of the fallacy of the idea.
The problem is that although you persuade someone that an idea is false, they may still use it to mask a primordial feeling. A Nazi may not actual hate Jews, he just enjoys beating the crap out of someone. Same with “revolutionaries” such as antifa: acts of destruction soothe the savage beneath.
Strangerland
Same thing innit?
Strangerland
Or maybe he is of the opinion that it's genocide, and wants to have his voice. As an anonymous poster, having your voice online, is that so strange?
plasticmonkey
But according to your definition, he’s an anti-Semite. He’s criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.
zibala
Abu Dhabi has maintained its diplomatic relations with Israel even as it has increasingly criticized its conduct in the seven-month war.
Credit to this Arab country for its support of Israel.
How true.