Posted on 06/18/2026 6:19:53 PM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, has criticized comedian Jerry Seinfeld after he told a streamer that "Palestine doesn't exist" as he walked out of an NBA Finals game after he was repeatedly asked to say "Free Palestine."
While being interviewed by TMZ on Capitol Hill, Omar called Seinfeld's comment "disgusting," "disturbing," and "genocidal language," and argued that the remark is intended to erase Palestinian existence.
"Jerry Seinfeld has been a really horrific human being and an example when it comes to talking about the reality of the genocide that Israel has carried out," Omar told TMZ. "And I think when people prioritize their own people in the interest of harming others, it's very dangerous."
The congresswoman argues that the danger extends beyond Seinfeld's platform and his celebrity's public reach.
"I don't even think of him as like just a celebrity and someone who has a platform in that danger, but it is dangerous just as a human being to talk the way that he does," Omar told TMZ. "It's very disgusting, it's very disturbing, and it's very genocidal language that he uses, and people need to call him out for it."
Omar said that the contrast between Seinfeld's heritage and his comments is troubling. As a Jewish person who endured the Holocaust, Omar says he should know better than to use what she described as genocidal language.
"For him knowing that his people suffered the Holocaust and experienced what genocide looks like, for him not to recognize the genocidal language that he's using to wipe out a whole group of people is very disturbing, and people need to recognize that," Omar told TMZ.
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WHEN? OH! WHEN? WILL WE DEPORT THIS EVIL WOMAN?
Listen, Somali c**t, October 7 was genocide.
No Palestinian DNA
NO Palestinian blood type
No language
No archeological digs
No artifacts
Zero Achievements...
The Palestinians weren’t invented until 1968 by Yasser Arafat....
There it is.
It was the name for the region that used to be Israel, given by the Romans after the destruction of the temple. It was meant as a base insult, as the Philistines were the long-standing enemies of the Jews.
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Seinfeld trying to provoke world war 12.
She’s exceptionally triggered by this because she knows he’s right.
The Philistines had actually disappeared as a separate and distinct group by the time of Hadrian
Palestine never existed.
Dec. 7, 1941.
I’m sure Jerry is crushed /s
Does too. Where do you think Puff was hatched? Huh? Come on, answer.
Depressing this garbage human was imported in to this country. Send her ungrateful arse back to the s hole that excreted her.
This happened in New York City. As Seinfeld was leaving a New York Knicks game, a live-streamer approached him with a microphone and repeatedly requested, “Can we get a Free Palestine?” Seinfeld laughed and directly replied, “It doesn’t exist,” before quickly walking away
He just stated a fact - there is no such “free” state - the statement also agrees with the leftist view as well as the right pro-Israel view
I didn’t know that Palestine wasn’t free already...
Everyone there voted in the 2024 election with no problems...
Does this have anything to do with the Bears moving to Indiana???
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