Jerry Seinfeld was invited to Duke University to introduce former Israeli hostage Omer Shem-Tov at an on-campus event. During his introduction, the comedian condemned the Free Palestine movement in a comparison that invoked the rhetoric of the Ku Klux Klan, a violently racist white supremacist terrorist group.

“Free Palestine is, to me, just — you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews,” Seinfeld said, per Duke University’s The Chronicle . “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.’ OK, that’s honest.”

The university told The Chronicl

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