‘We’ve Gone From Mel Gibson to Kanye!’ Bill Maher Jokes About Rise In Anti-Semitism

Comic and pundit Bill Maher joked about the rise in anti-Semitism amid the Israel-Hamas war, saying “We’ve gone from Mel Gibson to Kanye!”

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the comic’s panel guests were Ian Bremmer and Fareed Zakaria, and his interview guest was Congressman and Democratic primary challenger Dean Phillips (D-MN).

During his monologue, Maher devoted several jokes to the rise in anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents, including a slam on the two now-infamous celebrities:

The FBI director, Christopher Wray, he testified at the Senate panel on anti-Semitism. It’s at historic levels. The threat level, they say, has gone from Mel Gibson to Kanye. No, it’s it’s not funny. And especially in a city like this, we have a lot of Jewish people. Couple here today, I hope. All right.

But we see it. I mean, Canter’s Deli is right down the street here. You saw this coming, vandalized. People wrote on it. Things like “Israel’s only religion is capitalism.”.

And “How many dead in the name of greed?” they wrote. Of course, that one was just about the pastrami, but.

We make a lot of. But yes, the ground war has now started in the Middle East and Gaza. Israeli troops are going building by building, hoping to root out Hamas-supporting radicals. And if it works there, they’re going to try it at Cornell. I never liked it there anyway.

And this is big news. Trial news. You were following the crypto con man, Sam Bank. Sam Bankman-Fried found today guilty on all counts. Yeah, well. So that should really put a damper on all this antisemitism, huh?

Well, it’s and it’s hard to get outraged for his victims. Right. You know, that magic bean salesman took my money and never came back!

Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.