As Twitchy reported earlier, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” is under fire for a joke about Israel immunizing half of its population … “and I’m gonna guess it’s the Jewish half.”
It's all fun and games until you start promoting antisemitic myths, @NBCSNL.
Every Israeli citizen—Jewish and Arab, Muslim, Christian, of any or no faith—is eligible to be vaccinated; 2/3 of Israel's Arab citizens over 60 already have been.
Apologize.pic.twitter.com/EMA9pK1kC0
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) February 21, 2021
Now a clip from NBC’s “Nurses” is being passed around:
This is the malicious way @nbcnurses portrays Orthodox Jews. Read our response https://t.co/w7ifhHJIUy pic.twitter.com/nH8SD4cKFM
— Allison Josephs (@jewinthecity) February 23, 2021
So unlike a certain poorly-worded joke, this is actually anti-Semitic & not remotely how Orthodox Judaism works! I get that lazy ethnic & religious stereotypes have been Hollywood's thing for decades but how hard is it to call up a Jew in 2021? Don't let this happen to your show. https://t.co/u3KqFn0Q8t
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) February 24, 2021
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— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) February 24, 2021
First @nbcsnl now @nbc 'Nurses' airs a viciously antisemitic episode filled with lies about Orthodox Jews.
"A dead goyim leg … from an arab, a woman, G-d forbid an Arab women … Israel … without this next step you won't walk again".
Lies and libels lead to VIOLENCE! pic.twitter.com/BvRA4Xiq9e
— StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) February 23, 2021
This is terrible. Orthodox Jews are some of biggest live organ donors. Every rabbi and every organization supports organ donors and donees. This is pure anti-semitism! https://t.co/uTg33BptjB
— Sandwich Lady (@jessepstein) February 24, 2021
What the absolute fuck @nbc??? https://t.co/VlbLdxbE3j
— Joe Pilot, MD (@JoeSilverman7) February 23, 2021
Is this real? OMFG.
— LRJensen (@LRJensen1) February 24, 2021
No words.
— kar (@CoverUp2021) February 23, 2021
Cringe
— Marlin Perkins (@MarlinPerkins15) February 24, 2021
— mootless_cosmopolitan (@EmGeeSanDiego) February 23, 2021
This is insane.
— DanielGabbay (@DanielGabbay) February 23, 2021
This is horrible! Imagine if they had a Muslim character say "G-d forbid the leg comes from a Jewish woman!"? The backlash would be enormous.
— Louis Kimmelman (@lkimme22) February 24, 2021
What the hell! Tipoff that the writer knows nothing about Jews or Judaism is the use of "goyim" as an adjective.
— Eytan Mirsky (@eytanmirsky) February 23, 2021
"A dead goyim leg".
Someone should lose their job just for this line. GOYISH. The adjective is GOYISH, you farshtunkeneh mamzeirim!
— בן סורר ומורה (@BenSorer) February 23, 2021
And the next person to lose their job should be the person in wardrobe/costumes/hair who thinks that those look anything like payos
— בן סורר ומורה (@BenSorer) February 23, 2021
What the hell is wrong with @nbc???
— Newsgatherer (@GroupToStopHate) February 23, 2021
I half expected this to be dubbed in English from something produced in Syria. @nbc, this is textbook anti-Jewish propaganda. Yikes.
— Malkah Fleisher ? (@MalkahFleisher) February 23, 2021
This is absolute vile garbage
— Etai Harel (@EtaiHarel) February 24, 2021
Why doesn't the patient ask for directions to the maternity ward so he can suck some blood while he's there.
— Casey Pechet # Metal and Loving it (@cpechet) February 23, 2021
This is one of the most offensive things I have ever seen. It's literal Jewface and putting words in Jewish mouths. Jewploitation, like Blaxploitation. How is Jewface OK, but Blackface racist? They are both equally horrible and the writers and showrunners should be fired.
— John Smith (@MacfanJohn2) February 24, 2021
It’s actually very similar to story line HBO used on “Oz” where a Neo nazi who needed dental work, refused it because it was from an African American. Amazing to see the NBC has put Orthodox Jews in that same category.
— SanDKoFax (@SanDKoFax) February 23, 2021
This is a skit – right?
This isn't actually from a show on @nbc right?
— Viejo Judio (@viejojudio) February 24, 2021
Related:
‘All fun and games until you start promoting anti-Semitic myths’: SNL under fire for ‘joke’ about Israel and COVID vaccinations (watch) https://t.co/uspAm0mMNe
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 21, 2021
