Jerry Seinfeld likened the Free Palestine movement to the Ku Klux Klan during a student event at Duke University, NBC News reports .

Seinfeld said people who use the phrase "Free Palestine" are worse than the white supremacist group on Tuesday at the Duke event meant to honor hostages that are being held in Gaza.

Seinfeld introduced a former Israeli hostage, Omer Shem Tov, when he made the remarks, according to the university's student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle . The student publication reported that Seinfeld 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 li

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