HBO’s John Oliver thinks Republicans are racists, and the fact that Republicans would vehemently reject the label doesn’t matter to him. However, on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver tried to claim that former Columbia University student and pro-Hamas protest leader Mahmoud Khalil isn’t anti-Semitic because Khalil claims he’s not and therefore the efforts to deport him are an attempt by the Trump Administration to silence opinions they do not like.
Oliver declared that, “Clearly, you shouldn't be deporting green card holders for their views. And for what it's worth: Regardless of what others may've said or done during those protests, Khalil himself explicitly said, ‘anti-Semitism, and any other form of racism, has no place on this campus and in this movement.’”
Moving on to a picture of some of the demonstrators’ signs, Oliver added, “It's also notable some Jewish students at Columbia rallied in support of Khalil this week and while the word bitch in me wants to point out that that's not how you spell the word fascism, I don't want to draw attention from the excellent ‘Pigs aren't kosher’ sign just a few feet behind it. That's the kind of pithy slogan that would turn Don Draper's head. He wouldn't hire a Jewish copywriter until pretty late in the show, but still, put that in your book, kid.”
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