Jerry Seinfeld mocks pro-Palestine heckler at Sydney show

‘It’s a comedy show, you moron,’ Seinfeld told the heckler who was escorted out of his Sydney show chanting: ‘From the river to the sea’ | WATCH

US Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld mocked a pro-Palestine heckler at his Sydney performance on Sunday night.

Seinfeld has become an unlikely, occasional lightning rod amid the Israel-Hamas war. He made headlines last month when his commencement address at Duke University was interrupted by pro-Palestine students. Seinfeld visited Israel following the October 7 terrorist attacks and has expressed support since.

Jerry Seinfeld on his way to his Jerry Seinfeld Live show in Sydney on Sunday.

A video shared by the Australian Jewish Association from Mr Seinfeld’s performance at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Sunday evening shows an altercation between a pro-Palestine heckler at the event and Mr Seinfeld.

“We have a genius, ladies and gentlemen, he solved the Middle East,” Seinfeld said, as a man in the crowd yelled, inaudibly in the video.

The crowd laughed after booing the heckler.

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Crowd cheers as security boots the activist.

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“It’s the Jewish comedians, that’s who we have to get – they’re the ones doing everything!” Seinfeld said mockingly.

“Go ahead, keep going. They’re going to start punching you in about three seconds so I would try to get all of your genius out so we can all learn from you.

“It’s a comedy show, you moron, get out of here.”

Security personnel can then be seen escorting out two people down an aisle. One of them is yelling, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” while the other looks to be filming on their phone.

Amid this, Seinfeld remarked, “you’re really influencing everyone here”.

“We’re all on your side now because you’ve made your point so well. And in the right venue. You’ve come to the right place for a political conversation.

“Tomorrow we will read in the paper, ‘Middle East 100 per cent solved thanks to man at the Qudos Arena stopping Jew comedian, they stopped him, and everyone in the Middle East went, oh my god, let’s just get along, we can’t do that’.

“I know there are problems here with Indigenous Aboriginal people and the white – they have problems here – and maybe to solve that, I will screw up Jim Jefferies in a show in New York.

“If this works, that will work.

“You have to go 20,000 miles from the problem and screw up a comedian, that is how you solve world issues.”

The Seinfeld star is on a tour of Australia and is scheduled to be in the country for another week before departing for New Zealand before returning to the US.