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Jewish Comedian Has Perfect Response After Heckler At His Show Claims That All Jews Are 'Evil'
That's absurd on its face—and is a pretty rich intellectual leap to make for people in a country run by the fascist wannabe dictator who has routinely said that Benjamin Netanyahu needs to "finish the job" of his genocide in Gaza.
But parsing nuance has never been America's strong suit. Case in point: a heckler in the crowd of Jewish comedian Lucas Zelnick, who insisted that "all Jews were evil," leaving both the crowd and Zelnick himself shocked.
As Zelnick began a bit of his act about religious beliefs that, he told HuffPost, usually results in a few jokes about religion and little more, a woman in the crowd yelled:
"I'm against Jews!"
Zelnick was bewildered at first, as his Jewish identity is a frequent part of his act. He jokingly mused aloud why the woman even came to see him in the first place on that basis.
But then he did what we could really use more of nowadays: He attempted to understand her. And that really only made it worse.
Asked to clarify what she meant, the woman replied:
"You guys are evil."
Asked to explain why she felt this way, she told Zelnick to look at "what's happening in Palestine." Which Zelnick rightly found absurd.
He replied:
“Considering what’s happening in Palestine, you say. But that’s not all Jews. Like, I’m here, right, and I’m pro Palestine."
Blaming Jews collectively for the actions of individual Jews or an ethnic entity like the Israeli state is quite literally the definition of antisemitism, according to authorities like the International Holocaust Remembrance Association, so the reaction to the heckler was collective shock and anger, and rightfully so.
Other people in the audience offered to "kick her a*s," but she would not let it go, demanding Zelnick justify the Israeli government's actions in Gaza.
To which Zelnick replied:
“Why am I on the hook for explaining to you why one religion of people aren’t all evil at the individual level?"
"I care about being Jewish. I think what’s happening in Israel is horrible, but those are two different things.”
It's hard not to consider the woman emblematic of a virulent problem on the American left today, in which people engaging in political discourse often blame Jews for the Gaza genocide, often without seeming to realize they're doing so.
That "Zio" online nickname commenters have come up with (short for "Zionist") may evade the algorithms' hate speech detectors, but you can often swap it with the k-slur without changing the meaning or certainly the tone of the comment it appears in.
Leftist comments often routinely traffic in thousands of years old antisemitic conspiracy theories in their rhetoric—like that "Jews control everything" and other such nonsense.
It's almost certainly due to the fact that multiple studies and investigations have shown that Gaza discourse has been heavily fueled by online propaganda and bot campaigns online designed to influence and change political discourse and behavior.
Many online have said they've noticed a decline in such propaganda since Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy bombed Russian data centers, though hard data is too difficult to parse to know for sure that this is anything more than anecdotal.
Election data, on the other hand, is another story: The American Jewish community voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic party last Tuesday, whose candidates have become increasingly anti-Israel in the last year.
This includes Muslim Michigan Senator elect Abdul El-Sayed's election campaign, which garnered 60% of the Michigan Jewish community's vote despite being outspokenly on the side of Palestinians.
For Zelnick's part, he handled the heckler masterfully, making multiple attempts to bridge the understanding gap between her and himself.
That was no match for the young leftist's antisemitism however: Rather than have a discussion with him, she got up and left.
Regardless, many online praised Zelnick's handling of the situation.
Asked why he even bothered engaging with the heckler, Zelnick told HuffPost:
“It never occurred to me that trying to intimidate her or be unkind would have been a productive way to engage with her.”
"I...felt like she was a symptom of a larger machine―the internet―like she was repeating someone else’s thoughts rather than stating her own.”
Probably so, and last week got the election data to prove it.
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LGBTQ+ Fans Celebrate After Alanis Morissette Comes Out As Pansexual: 'I Get Everything'
According to LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention and mental health organization The Trevor Project, pansexuality is a "sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to people regardless of their gender, sex, or gender identity." Some people view it as distinctly different from bisexuality, while others view it as just a more inclusive term for the same thing.
In the end, how a person chooses to define their sexuality is their choice.
As Sue Cardenas-Soto shared in their essay on The Trevor Project website:
"When I fall in love with someone, I don’t fall in love with their gender—I fall in love with the unique and wonderful person I see."
Morissette, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year, was a guest of the trio of comedians and actors for their November 3 podcast episode.
Near the end of the hour-long discussion, Feimster said to Morissette:
"I’m sorry for the men that hurt you, but I’m not sorry for the songs that came from it. Those are pretty amazing. Did it make you want to be a lesbian at any point?"
Morissette replied:
"I'm pansexual, so yeah. I get everything."
Seemingly shocked by the news, Notaro responded:
"Wait, you're not really pansexual, are you?"
Morissette confirmed she was pansexual, to which Martin said:
"Me too!"
Morissette had disclosed prior relationships with women in 2008 on The Howard Stern Show, then later spoke about that disclosure in an article for The Advocate, but had not specifically defined her sexuality at the time.
People were thrilled the award-winning musician was providing increased visibility for pansexuality.
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Many people referenced Morissette's role as God in Kevin Smith's film Dogma.
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When Notaro told Morissette:
"How did I not know this? You’re supposed to come into the 'Handsome' podcast leading with, 'I’m pansexual.'"
Morissette quipped:
"You know, I like to leave it for the epilogue. I like to confuse people on the way out. Is it confusing?"
Not confusing at all. Love is love.
You can watch the full podcast here:
Trump Does About-Face To Push New Election Conspiracy Theory—And Here We Go Again
Now, however, he's gone back to his old script of election fraud conspiracies, writing the following message on his social media platform:
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong???"
“Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”
Trump published the message on the same day he announced that Stephen Miller, the architect of the widely unpopular immigration crackdown and other draconian human rights abuses, would be his next White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles.
You can see what he wrote below.
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No one was surprised to see Trump up to his old tricks.
Trump has for years promoted election conspiracy theories; his lies about the 2020 election result—which former President Joe Biden won decisively–culminated in the insurrection of January 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on the false premise that the election was stolen.
While many polls anticipated a strong showing for Democrats, fueled by voter concerns over the Iran war and the cost of living, the party ultimately outperformed those projections.
As of Monday, Democrats were expected to hold a commanding advantage in Congress, with projected totals of 54 Senate seats and 253 House seats, compared with 44 and 160, respectively, for Republicans, as vote counting continued in a handful of races.
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