Published October 14, 2023
Bill Maher is sick and tired of people in America supporting Hamas.
Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1,200 Israelis last weekend, and the attack shook the civilized world to its core.
The videos and images that came out of Israel were nothing short of horrific and appalling. Entire families were massacred and Hamas killers shot people on sight.
Now, Israel is in the process of hitting back, but there’s been a shocking amount of anti-Israel/pro-Hamas rhetoric in the aftermath of the attack. Maher, like many people, has had enough.
Bill Maher rips people who support Hamas.
“Mostly what I saw this week was a shocking amount of support, even at the moment of the rampage or right after when they’re still counting the bodies. That was shocking to me. Even at its best, I feel most of the people who you would read in the media, the attitude is sort of like, ‘This is very complicated. I don’t really study it. I don’t really know the facts. So, I’m just going to go with a kind of they are both guilty equally and a moral equivalency.’ Which I would like to take issue with tonight. I think the Israelis have always had the moral high ground, and I think they still do,” Maher said during the Friday night episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
It’s amazing to me that the American left, so much of it, throws its lot in with people whose values, I hope they don’t share,” Maher said before rattling off a list of Hamas’ oppressive views on women, non-muslim people, tolerance and more.
“Religious tolerance. That doesn’t exist in Gaza. You’re either a Muslim or an infidel, and you better be a Muslim,” Maher told his viewers.
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SOURCE: https://www.outkick.com/bill-maher-college-students-hamas-supporters-video/
RELATED: Bill Maher Rips Apart Left’s Pro-Hamas Takes and the Moral Equivalency Game
Published October 14, 2023
In the wake of the attack on Israel by Hamas, we’ve seen a lot of bad takes from the left.
We’ve seen it across college campuses, with students coming out claiming that the “resistance” is justified. We saw Harvard students claim that it was Israel’s fault they were attacked.
We saw it with Sunny Hostin on “The View,” suggesting that retaliation by Israel could equal a “war crime.”
We’ve seen it on MSNBC with hosts trying to “both sides” the issue, which might explain why their ratings have taken a nosedive with this type of coverage.
Bill Maher took on the Harvard students reaping some consequences in a funny bit.
He then continued during his panel discussion with James Kirchick of Tablet Magazine and Matt Duss, a former foreign policy adviser to Bernie Sanders,
Maher shot down that attempt to make a moral equivalency between the two sides, saying Israel has always held the moral high ground.
He said there was a “shocking amount of support” for Hamas even “at the moment of the rampage” or right after while they were still counting the bodies.
They just kind of go with a “they’re both guilty equally and a moral equivalency, which I would like to take issue with tonight,” Maher said. “I think the Israelis have always had the moral high ground, and I think they still do.”
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SOURCE: https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/14/bill-maher-rips-apart-lefts-bad-takes-on-israel-and-hamas-n2165054
RELATED: Bill Maher Exposes the Left’s Idiocy in Supporting Hamas
Published October 14, 2023
In a more serious roundtable discussion on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the panel covered the atrocious terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas. The October 7 attacks are Israel’s 9/11, and the stand-up comedian had James Kirchick of Tablet Magazine and Matt Duss, a former foreign policy adviser to Bernie Sanders, on the show to discuss these atrocities.
All three agreed that Israel had the right to defend itself and retaliate in the wake of this barbarism by Hamas. Maher also took issue with reactions among the American media and the Left that there was moral equivalency in this debate. Maher feels rightly that Israel has always held the moral high ground.
Maher added that Israelis don’t purposefully kill children—they might be killed as collateral damage, but that’s an entirely different situation. Israelis regret when civilians are killed, Hamas celebrates it, which is the crucial difference. The IDF has littered Gaza for days, warning civilians to vacate known Hamas sites as they are targeted in airstrikes.
Duss wanted to get into the other aspects of this debate, namely that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t an actor who wants peace, noting a 2019 report that showed Likud wanted to bolster Hamas to ensure the Palestinian people are forever split, rendering the creation of a state impossible. At its core, both sides need to share this land, and how do we get there?
