Bill Maher Crucifies ‘Privilege-y’ Anti-Israel Protesters ‘Cosplaying As Revolutionaries’ In Breathtaking Takedown: ‘No One Likes You!’

Comic and pundit Bill Maher utterly crucified anti-Israel protesters and other activist groups who block highways and roads, throw food or paint on famous works of art, and have been setting up campus protest “encampments” as ill-informed attention-seekers in an absolutely brutal New Rules rant this week.

On Friday’s edition of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher the host was joined by journalist Don Lemon and NYU professor Scott Galloway, and much of the show covered the topic of protests on campuses and around the world related to the war between Israel and Hamas … and Iran and Hezbollah and etc.

The lively discussion with Lemon and Galloway was followed by the popular New Rules segment, which included some mocking of Red Lobster and President Joe Biden’s bizarre story about his uncle, Maher went back to the protests.

“New Rule: Someone needs to tell the people who block traffic in the name of a cause, no one likes you, he said to kick it off. “And you’re probably hurting your cause.”

Maher shredded the protesters for hurting their cause by detaining “normies” among other counter-productive moves that are simply designed to bring attention to the protesters and not the thing against which they protest, according to Maher.

He questioned the knowledge and understanding of the protesters, challenging them to protest oppression and apartheid committed by the Islamist groups for whom many of the encampments have expressed solidarity.

He also went hard against the Google sit-in participants. “Maybe if these Google employees had the slightest idea what kind of fundamentalist, oppressive assholes they’re supporting — Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard — they might take it a little easier on the world’s greatest monster, Genocide Joe,” he said.

“Genocide, by the way, is when you want to wipe out an entire people. That’s the stated goal of Hamas. That’s what From the River to the Sea means. Hamas would do that to Israel, but can’t. Israel could do that to them, but doesn’t,” said Maher. “And you know how you can find that out? Google it!”

Earlier in the show, during his opening monologue, Maher cracked a few jokes about the protests, pondering when Columbia became “Kanye State.”

“No, you know Passover. It celebrates the Exodus of the Jews in Biblical times from Egypt. And nowadays it celebrates the Exodus of the Jews from Columbia University,” he said.

In his New Rule, Maher concluded by comparing the “like and subscribe” activists to Donald Trump.

And finally, New Rule: Someone needs to tell the people who block traffic in the name of a cause, no one likes you. And you’re probably hurting your cause.

In case you haven’t seen what’s going on lately, activist for ending the war in Gaza have taken to gathering on roads and bridges and stopping commuters from crossing.

It happened last week in New York and San Francisco. Chicago, Seattle. They also blocked traffic here on the 405, but no one noticed.

What they did notice was this: That you have to be pretty dumb to think that the way to bring people around to your point of view is to make them late to pick up their kids from daycare. And that’s what most normies are thinking. I have a kid, I have a job. And yes, I’m sure there are injustices on both sides in the Middle East as there are injustices all over the world, but I’m going to be late for work.

Something you protesters on the bridge seem to have the luxury of not having to worry about, which seems kind of privilege-y. You can glue your hands to the street because your hands don’t have to do any work today.

I’m not saying there aren’t sincere passions about Gaza, especially among people from the region, but Social Justice Warriors, for a lot of them, it seems like it’s more about the warrior-ing than about whatever the cause is.

If you really cared about apartheid so much — which Israel does not actually practice. Arabs there vote, they serve in Parliament, they sit on the judiciary — wouldn’t you start with this? With the hundreds of millions of women in the world who live under a true apartheid, a gender apartheid of the most brutal kind? I’ll wait.

Are you really speaking truth to power, or do you just think you look cool in a keffiyeh, which is really just the new Che Guevara t-shirt. Another historical figure you never researched and still think is a hero, but was actually a sadistic racist monster fighting for communism, the worst form of government ever. But these are small matters.

Small matters, when activism merges with narcissism. Less about the cause and more about me, look at me, watch me! And if you like the way I’m fighting injustice, remember to like and subscribe!

In February, a sad, confused man even lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy, and in his last Facebook post, he said, “Many of us like to ask ourselves, what would I do if I was alive during slavery?”

Interesting cocktail question, sir. And I guess the right answer is kill myself. But it wouldn’t have actually fix the problem if General Ulysses S Grant had immolated himself and his last words were, “Hey, Lincoln, are you using that log?” And then last week, another sad, confused man set himself on fire at the Trump trial in New York.

So, you can tell yourself you’re a martyr for the Palestinian cause, but it’s a lot less special when the next guy does it for Stormy Daniels. I don’t want to diminish how sad it is that someone would take their own life for any reason, but maybe from now on, before anyone commits an act of civil disobedience, they should ask themselves a few questions like: Is the most important thing in my life, something I hadn’t heard of six months ago? Do I even – do I even know what the fuck I’m talking about? Am I really here for the cause, or is the cause here to bring you me?

Hey, if it makes you feel good to cosplay as revolutionaries. Knock yourself out. Burn yourself out. Just don’t drag Gaza into it. Also, throwing stuff on paintings is just stupid. No one sees mashed potatoes on a Monet and thinks he’s got a point, I should recycle my cans.

Last week, Google employees staged a sit-in to protest their company doing business with Israel. Their t-shirts said Googlers against genocide. But they could have just as well said, ‘look at me, see me!’ And Google did see them – to the door. They fired all 28 of them the next day. Yes. Cojones Award coming to you guys next year.

Maybe the question that today’s protester needs to ask themselves more than any other is, why do I care so much about this particular cause? North Korea starves its people. China puts them in concentration camps. Myanmar brutalizes the Rohingya. Boko Haram kidnaps whole villages of women. The president of Burundi says gays should be stoned to death because they, quote, “deserve it.” Nothing? Ukraine?

Maybe if these Google employees had the slightest idea what kind of fundamentalist, oppressive assholes they’re supporting — Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard — they might take it a little easier on the world’s greatest monster, Genocide Joe. Genocide, by the way, is when you want to wipe out an entire people. That’s the stated goal of Hamas. That’s what From the River to the Sea means. Hamas would do that to Israel, but can’t. Israel could do that to them, but doesn’t. And you know — And you know how you can find that out? Google it.

And, not to rub it in, but you know who all this posturing for a cause reminds me of? This, um, fat guy from Florida who’s always pretending that he’s all about the cause of making America great again, when plainly, he’s simply history’s greatest attention whore. He’s always finding some new injustice, from Obama’s birth certificate to rigged elections, learning nothing about it, and making it personal.

So chew on that my warrior friends, the person you most resemble is the guy who looks like he’s always jerking off two guys at once. There it is. I got it in!

Watch the clip above via Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO.

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