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 facilitys 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 isnt 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 Avivs Hakosem restaurant also a highly controversial site ever since Israels Channel 2 proclaimed it the best falafel place in the White City.
The December trip was Seinfelds second Israel booking. The first time he performed here was in 2015, when he played four sold-out shows at Tel Avivs 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 didnt, he told The Times of Israel in an interview this past November. I was supposed to be chopping dead banana leaves. I couldnt 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.
He’s an anti-dentite.
LOL.
Imagine, an American Jew who visited Israel!
What is the world coming to!
Maybe, but he has gotten in hot water for being anti-PC multiple times.
He may harden his liberal stance and apologize, or he will be shoved into conservatism by resentment.
If only he hadn’t sucked up, way way up to Obama.
Interesting mix. Maybe he’s waking up? Dunno.
Has Seinfeld shown any interest in supporting the US military or is it only Israel he feels close to?
Agreed
You know, I don’t get it. Not allowed to ask a Chinese person where the Chinese restaurant is! I mean, aren’t we all getting a little too sensitive? I mean, someone asks me which way is Israel, I don’t fly off the handle.
The reaction?
Mine is that one side, the side Seinfeld visited, is fighting for its life.
The other side, the "violent backlash side", lives and breathes and fights only for DEATH.
FU GOAT RAPERS. FU SCUM of HISTORY. FU death merchants, buyers and sellers of YOUR OWN MISERABLE DEMISE.
He's an Indian giver too. I have no reservations in saying so.
Hey! Who wants to go to dinner? I made, umm, err, reservations.
México City. Great Mexican restaurant in Tel Aviv. Terrific chicken tinga.
Can’t believe it’s now 20 years since the show ended (May 1998). Just amazing how time flies.
He’s made his money. His show’s been in syndication for years. He doesn’t have to worry about SJW’s ruining his career.
But I’d imagine that Seinfeld and his wife are examples of Jewish Liberals who don’t want to face up to the fact that the Democrat party is becoming more and more hostile to Israel and more and more antisemitic.
They are old school, pro-Israel Liberals.....a dying breed. Clueless, naive, hypocritical, and vain, but not evil.
Another place says their falafel is better.
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Thanks SJackson. Bravo Jerry!
Seems ridiculous? It is. Hatred of Jews isn't due to the Jews. What cracks me up is the idea that the Jews are not descended from the Old Testament Hebrews, that instead they are descended from converts to Judaism -- try to imagine the level of a mind that can believe revisionist nonsense of that kind, in a world where Jews are not allowed to have the best falafel in the city. That hatred has ancient roots.
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