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Edinburgh festival: Comedian attacks Israeli couple, makes fun as they exit show
Arutz Sheva ^ | 13/8/24

Posted on 08/13/2024 3:55:47 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

American comedian Reginald D. Hunter made an anti-Israel comment during a stand-up show in Edinburgh, UK, sparking a show of anti-Israel sentiment from the audience and animosity towards an Israeli couple who held front-row tickets, The Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish reported.

At the Sunday night performance, Hunter compared a scene in a documentary about an abusive wife claiming her husband was abusive to Israel's self-defense in its war against Hamas in Gaza.

Commenting on the documentary scene, Hunter said, "My God, it’s like being married to Israel." Some in the audience laughed at the remark, but a couple in the front row, who said they were from Israel, shouted, "Not funny."

According to Cavendish, upon hearing the Israeli couple's response, others in the audience began shouting expletives, telling them to go, and shouting, "genocidal maniac," "you're not welcome," and, "free ..."

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: dominiccavendish; edinburghfestival; frontrow; israel; judenraus; reginaldhunter; scotland; scotlandyet; unitedkingdom
Funny that they consider him a comedian.
1 posted on 08/13/2024 3:55:47 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

More “comedy”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9XdGS5to8s


2 posted on 08/13/2024 3:57:19 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

If he were in Israel there’s no question that the joke would not be funny. And Israelis are far from being humorless stiffs.


3 posted on 08/13/2024 4:04:53 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Eleutheria5

Little dick weed.


4 posted on 08/13/2024 4:06:20 AM PDT by albie
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To: one guy in new jersey

B-but Scotsmen don’t like us anymore. Wah. Boohoo.


5 posted on 08/13/2024 4:09:39 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

He seems to be a poor comedian.


6 posted on 08/13/2024 4:14:52 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Eleutheria5

He’s not man enough to criticize the terrorists


7 posted on 08/13/2024 4:16:51 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Eleutheria5

I was speaking with a couple Israeli’s I know the other day. They were in the US on business. I told him that as an American, I appreciated the stance Israel was taking against Hamas. We had a great conversation. One told me that many people had said the same to them.

They told me that they were in Germany recently and had to make it a point to not speak Hebrew at all, even in private.

How sad.


8 posted on 08/13/2024 5:36:08 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Eleutheria5

Has the comedian been arrested yet?


9 posted on 08/13/2024 5:54:27 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Eleutheria5

This is not comedy. Thanks to those 11PM “comedy” shows the word “comedy” no longer means “funny.” It now means “mean attacks on Whites/Christians/Jews/Republicans/Trump.”

Comedy was I love Lucy, Jack Benny, Rodney Dangerfield, etc.

Today “comedian” is the word they use to make people think that someone is funny, when he’s absolutely nothing more than a mouthpiece for political commentary and propaganda.


10 posted on 08/13/2024 6:14:19 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Stop genecide by killing the Jews.


11 posted on 08/13/2024 6:18:37 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: I want the USA back

Well said.


12 posted on 08/13/2024 8:05:55 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Brian Griffin

Only certain hate speech is criminal.


13 posted on 08/13/2024 8:06:51 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: I want the USA back

Aristophanes was a great political commentator and a great comic poet. He managed to synthesize the two.

Charlie Chaplin, Robin Williams, Groucho Marx were great comedians, and every now and then they would hit on political issues, too. But they didn’t let it get in the way of being funny. They didn’t use it to hurt people like this bozo did.


14 posted on 08/13/2024 8:09:44 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Ironic, considering the Stone of Scone/Stone of Destiny, which spent centuries in the Coronation Throne in Westminster Abbey, now is in the museum in Edinburgh Castle. And the ancient Scots believed it was the pillow Jacob laid his head on when he had his ladders dream.

The ancient Scots also believed they were descended from the Israelites.


15 posted on 08/13/2024 1:02:32 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Brian Griffin

Of course not. That would only happen if he insulted a Muslim.


16 posted on 08/13/2024 1:08:27 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: Paal Gulli

Everybody wants to be ancient Israelites, especially those who hate the present-day Israelites, except for the present-day Israelites, some of whom would rather be black.


17 posted on 08/13/2024 1:56:26 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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