February 21, 2021, - 1:43 am
Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che’s Anti-Semitic COVID Blood Libel (VIDEO)
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Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che wants you to know that he doesn’t like Jews. On last night’s edition of SNL’s “Weekend Update,” Che made his latest anti-Semitic, anti-Israel “joke” that was simply a lie.
During the Weekend Update segment (which is styled as a newscast on which Che is one of the two anchors), Che (real name: Michael Che Campbell, and yes, he is named for Che Guevara) said that Israel has vaccinated half its population with the COVID-19 vaccine. Then, he said, “I’m gonna guess it’s the Jewish half.” The video is below.
That’s absolute BS. In fact, Israel has vaccinated over half its Arab Muslim population. Even the anti-Israel Christian Science Monitor reported on January 15th that Israel–then vaccinating only its senior citizens–had already vaccinated 43% of its Arab population. Moreover, COVID vaccines have been provided for 133,000 Palestinians who work in Israel. In fact, the group that has the lowest vaccination rate in Israel is the ultra-Orthodox Jews, not the Palestinians. Anyone in Israel can get a vaccine, regardless of their religion or ethnicity. But Israel has had problems convincing the very suspicious Arab population to get the vaccine.
Che’s comment is a blood libel–an anti-Semitic canard that has been used to incite violence and murder against the Jewish people on the basis of some fiction that Jews killed or poisoned a group of people or denied them care or medical treatment. Jews have been subject to this very harmful type of false rumor and vilification throughout their history. It is hateful and hurtful, but even worse, many Jews have been killed as a result of statements like Che’s, in his case thinly parading as humor (though there was nothing funny about it).
Michael Che has a history of racism and bigotry, including racial attacks on Whites and referring to them as “crackers.” And this isn’t Che’s first foray into openly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel propaganda. As David Lange of the terrific IsraellyCool site informed me, in May 2020 Che said on SNL’s Weekend Update that the winner of the Miss Hitler beauty pageant was Miss Israel.
I don’t just blame Che for these anti-Semitic comments. I blame SNL creator and Executive Producer Lorne Michaels, who is Jewish, and doesn’t seem to have a problem with this Jew-hatred. Ditto for the many NBC execs who are fellow Jews In Name Only (JINOs).
Also not blameless is Scarlett Johansson, who is Jewish and married to Che’s close friend and co-anchor of SNL’s Weekend Update, Colin Jost. She has a lot of influence over her husband and his co-star. She should stand up against this. But she won’t, which is why I never cheered for her when she gutlessly said nothing to stand up for Israel after taking several million dollars to do an ad for Sodastream and coming under fire.
Anti-Semitism has been on the rise for some time, and now it seems it is increasing geometrically. So, sadly, look for more and more of this humorless anti-Semitism parading as “comedy.”
One of my tweets on this (follow me on Twitter) is getting some attention. It was covered in Showbiz411.:
Anti-Semitic #SNL‘s Michael Che said, “Israel vaccinated half it’s population and I’m gonna guess it’s the Jewish half.” Um, factcheck: Israel vaccinated 43% of Arab population but has trouble convincing them to be vaccinated. STFU anti-#Israel asshole https://t.co/ouTew0JdaX
— Debbie Schlussel (@bitchitsdebbie) February 21, 2021
*** UPDATE: One last thing: It shouldn’t go unnoticed or unmentioned that Che’s race has a lot to do with anti-Semitism. In poll after poll, Blacks are the most anti-Semitic group in America tied with Muslims. In fact, studies show that in every ethnic group in America, as socio-economic status (education, wealth, status) go up, anti-Semitism goes down, except in one group: Black America. Among Blacks, as socio-economic status rises, so does anti-Semitism.
Thank you Debbie Schlussel for the reporting and the analysis of the SNL shows deadly effects. Good to expose our brainless and spineless fellow Jews, albeit quite embarrassing.
Phil Lipofsky on February 21, 2021 at 11:21 am