Posted on 01/11/2018 5:34:12 PM PST by SJackson
The Caliber 3 training facility takes down pics of the famous comedian snapped during a family visit
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is taking heat from fans after photos of him at a West Bank “anti-terrorism” course were posted online earlier this week.
The Caliber 3 training facility, located near the settlement of Efrat south of Bethlehem, posted the photos of Seinfeld on its Facebook page with the message, “Finally we are allowed to tell you! Jerry Seinfeld and his family were in Caliber 3. During their visit to Israel last week, they came to us for a special and exciting activity with displays of combat, Krav Maga, assault dogs and lots of Zionism. It was great.”
Seinfeld put on two performances in Tel Aviv on December 30 and toured Israel with his family. After the training facility’s Facebook post, however, Twitter erupted with a violent backlash against the comedian.
“I can never unsee Jerry Seinfeld gleefully posing with a machine gun at an IDF fantasy camp,” posted culture writer Eric Thurm.
“Jerry Seinfeld took his kids to play war games with the IDF. So cute, right? Now imagine the reaction if, say, Bella Hadid posed with the PFLP or DJ Khaled (brandishing a machine gun) hung out with Hamas,” wrote controversial academic Steven Salaita, who is known for his biting criticism of the Jewish state.
As of Tuesday, the facility had removed the photos from its page.
Caliber 3 began in 2003 as a camp for professional security personnel such as police. Since 2009, the program has also become an attraction for tourists who are taught how to handle weapons, participate in paintball or learn Krav Maga, the self-defense method using boxing and martial arts developed by the Israeli military. The course includes simulated “terror attacks” in a make-believe Jerusalem market, complete with plastic fruits and wooden stalls.
But the “fantasy anti-terror camp” isn’t the only military-related place Seinfeld visited during his Israel trip. The comedian also has photos – this time, ones he tweeted himself – taken at the Ramon air force base in the Negev.
And, JTA reported, Seinfeld was spotted at Tel Aviv’s Hakosem restaurant — also a highly controversial site ever since Israel’s Channel 2 proclaimed it the best falafel place in the White City.
The December trip was Seinfeld’s second Israel booking. The first time he performed here was in 2015, when he played four sold-out shows at Tel Aviv’s Menorah Mitvachim Arena.
But though he only started performing here relatively recently, he is no stranger to the country. Seinfeld volunteered in a kibbutz when he was 16, and remembers his time there fondly.
“It was eight weeks in Israel… Of course I had to work, which I didn’t,” he told The Times of Israel in an interview this past November. “I was supposed to be chopping dead banana leaves. I couldn’t do it – it was exhausting.”
“We actually just drove by [the kibbutz again], which was exciting,” he said. “When I go to Israel, I of course go back to that time. I just feel very close to Israel.”
Next thing you know he will be wanting them to go to their own schools!
Apparently the Jew Haters hate Jews.
Who knew?
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Good for him, sounds like the family had a good trip. Yes, that upsets some people. As to Seinfeld was spotted at Tel Aviv’s Hakosem restaurant — also a highly controversial site ever since Israel’s Channel 2 proclaimed it the best falafel place in the White City., white city is the buildings. Not sure why that's controversial.
Jew Haters Eric Thurm. Bella Hadid and Steven Salaita don’t approve.
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Well I say, Bravo Jerry Seinfeld!
Good for him! I would hope greatly to follow in his footsteps
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
More likely they'd pose with her...Her severed head, that is. Lopped off for practically flashing her cooch in public.
I worked in Andover, MA, and one of the history buffs said there's a White Shawsheen, and a Brick Shawsheen, leftover from a woolen mill company town. White ==> white clapboards/shingles ==> non-management, Brick ==> management.
Jerry Seinfeld, apparently not a self-hating Jew... someone clue in Savage
Now I like Jerry even more!
Jerry has been very vocal about the absurdity of political correctness and how it is corrosive to comedy.
Good for him. These critics would love the IDF if they saved their asses from a terrorist.
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Yeah l’d read a list of his political leanings before I make that statement. He did get it right this time.
Another reason to love the Sein.
Love jerry love his show I watch over and over
I tuned him out when he backed out of an engagement for St. Judes, iirc, because the benefit had something to do with Trump or his family.
At least a couple of years before Trump announced his candidacy.
Yes, Seinfeld sent a donation in lieu of his appearance.
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