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Bill Maher tore into college-age protesters as performative publicity seekers, warning that 'no-one likes you', in a withering putdown on his HBO show.
The comic and pundit blasted demonstrators, who have brought chaos to 'normies' with sit-down protests on major roads and college campuses, as damaging their own cause.
He dubbed the Palestinian keffiyeh headscarf the modern equivalent of the Che Guevara T-shirt and scorned their 'cosplay as revolutionaries' while disrupting the lives of those who have to work for a living.
'Hey, if it makes you feel good to cosplay as revolutionaries. Knock yourself out. Burn yourself out. Just don't drag Gaza into it,' he said on Real Time with Bill Maher.
'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.'
Bill Maher tore into college age protesters as performative publicity seekers, warning that 'no-one likes you', in a withering putdown on his HBO show
Demonstrators have repeatedly targeted major bridges and highways bringing chaos to city centers since the protests erupted
Maher joked that the Palestinian keffiyeh headscarf, seen here on students at UCLA is today's equivalent of the Che Guevara T-shirt
The 68-year-old had already clashed with guest Don Lemon who was appearing alongside NYU professor Scott Galloway, after the former CNN host complained of living 'in uncomfortable spaces all the time'.
'What do you mean uncomfortable spaces?' Maher demanded.
Lemon replied: 'I am often the only person of color in the room.'
'There's only three of us,' Maher pointed out.
The exchange prompted a clapback from Caitlyn Jenner who tweeted: 'Good on you Bill Maher.
'Don is a privileged, wealthy, (not to mention entitled ie Demands to X and CNN in alleged contract terms), celebrity. Get over yourself.'
But Maher saved his most scathing remarks for those protesting Israel's war in Gaza, denouncing them as ignorant and misguided - dubbing New York's Columbia State University 'Kanye State'.
'You know Passover?' he asked. 'It celebrates the Exodus of the Jews in Biblical times from Egypt. And nowadays it celebrates the Exodus of the Jews from Columbia University.
'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.
Lectures are heading back online at Columbia University in New York after protesters seized the college grounds
Columbia is among dozens of colleges that have become swept up in Israel-Hamas protests, with other prestigious universities including Harvard and MIT thrown into chaos
There were more road protests in DC on Saturday night ahead of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner
'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.
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