A prominent actor and comedian isn’t holding back when it comes to his opinion about the “Free Palestine” movement.
Jerry Seinfeld was at Duke University this week to introduce a former Israeli hostage, Omer Shem Tov, during a campus event in Durham.
During his remarks, he discussed the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and made a controversial comparison between groups, according to Duke’s student newspaper, the Duke Chronicle.
“Free Palestine is, to me, just — you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews,” Seinfeld, who is Jewish, said.
“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 sa