no one ever gets fired for shit like thishttps://twitter.com/billmaher/status/489930991956262913 …
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Replying to @buffalocialism
Maher is what Yeshayahu Leibowitz called a judeonazi. and not funny at all. http://palestinechronicle.com/old/view_article_details.php?id=17752 …
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Replying to @Cukullen @buffalocialism
Maher is disgusting and always has been -- a shameless Islamophobe & misogynist -- but I don't see the connection btwn him & Leibowitz's term Judeonazi, since Maher isn't Jewish (much less an occupation soldier). He's a lapsed Catholic.
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thanks i didn't know that. but he is jewish (his mother was jewish) and he seems to identify as such. he's eligible to for israeli citizenship if he is not already one.
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He doesn't identify as Jewish. Here he is with Martin Short ruminating on why people think he's Jewish but he's not. Then he makes some borderline antisemitic "jokes", bc of course he does. He's Bill Maher. Starts around 3:40.https://youtu.be/6fdztHeqwgU
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Replying to @aryehlou @buffalocialism
Until his early teens, he was unaware that his mother, whose family was from Hungary,[10] was Jewish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maher
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Replying to @Cukullen @buffalocialism
Yes, I know. That's the point. It was a fact if family history that played no part in his rearing or identity. He literally didn't even know about it.
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all of his humor reflects the neocon (israel-first, w. pretensions to liberalism) view of the world. whatever story he tells about himself can't cover that.
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He's awful and the Israeli occupation is awful. I really don't see what one has to do with the other, other than that both are products of the same imperialism that long preceded them both.
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although 1967 was the context for YL's comments, i don't think they were limited to effects of "the occupation" but to a new kind of jew he saw emerging after 1967, marked by what's now called neocon sensibility. neocons are imperialistic but above all they are bullies.
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