Critics are turning to Twitter to call him “Saturday Night Live” Michael Che for a joke that he claims is anti-Semitic.
“Israel reports that it has vaccinated half of their population. I’ll guess it’s the Jewish half, “the Weekend Update correspondent broke on Sunday morning.
The vast majority of Israel’s population – 74% – is Jewish, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.
Vaccination rates for Israeli Arabs are much lower than Jews in the country, in part because of distrust of the government in the Arab community, according to a January article in The Christian Science Monitor.
By Sunday afternoon, the subject was on trend, with many accusing Che and NBC of bias, and others coming to his defense.
“Unexpectedly from SNL, because they have a long record of anti-Semitism”, mail former member of the state assembly Dov Hikind.
“But Michael Che or whoever wrote that ‘joke’ also ignores the fact that Israel has Arab citizens who received the vaccine under the same qualifications as the Jews!” The Brooklyn Democrat said.
Another critic posted on Twitter: “43% of Israel’s Arab citizens have been vaccinated – and this already large number would be even higher if there were no kind of ugly propaganda spread by Michael Che.”
Others defended the fake news, claiming that Che was making an anti-apartheid statement.
Palestinian leaders have accused Israel of racism in connection with the launch of the vaccine.
“Leave Michael Che alone. Israel does not vaccinate millions of Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza – all of which are ultimately under Israeli control. As a Jewish woman of conscience, I find this medical apartheid awful, ”a woman posted on Twitter.
“All of Michael Che’s criticism seems to ignore the fact that people in the West Bank and Gaza have received almost no vaccine,” said another supporter. wrote.
One week after SNL ignored Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19 health care death scandal, the variety show took off its gloves, throwing Pete Davidson as the scandal implicated the Democrat to kick off the episode. Saturday night.