Critics are turning to Twitter to call Michael Che “Saturday Night Live” for a joke claiming he was anti-Semitic.
“Israel reports that half of its population has been vaccinated. I’m going to guess that it’s the Jewish half, “the Weekend Update correspondent said Sunday morning.
The vast majority of the Israeli population (74%) is Jewish, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.
Vaccination rates for Israeli Arabs are much lower than for the country’s Jews, in part because of mistrust of the Arab community’s government, according to a January article in The Christian Science Monitor.
On Sunday afternoon, the issue was a trend, with many accusing Che and NBC of bias, and others defending it.
“It’s not surprising that he comes from SNL, as they have a long history of anti-Semitism,” published former member of the Dov Hikind State Assembly.
“But Michael Che or whoever wrote this‘ joke ’obviously also ignores the fact that Israel has Arab citizens who have received the vaccine according to the same qualifications as the Jews!” The Brooklyn Democrat said.
Another critic tweeted: “43% of Israel’s Arab citizens have been vaccinated, and this # already big would be even bigger if the kind of hateful propaganda spread by Michael Che did not exist.”
Others defended the fake news, claiming that Che was making a statement against apartheid.
Palestinian leaders have accused Israel of racism in connection with the deployment of the vaccine.
“Leave Michael Che alone. Israel does not vaccinate the millions of Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, all ultimately under Israeli control. As a woman of Jewish conscience, I find this medical apartheid frightening, “said one woman. he tweeted.
“All criticism of Michael Che seems to ignore the fact that people in the West Bank and Gaza have received almost no vaccines,” says another supporter. he wrote.
A week after SNL ignored the death scandal at Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19 nursing home, the variety show took off its gloves and threw Pete Davidson as the scandal surrounded the Democrat to start the Saturday night episode.