Bill Maher delivers blistering takedown of pro-Palestinian movement, says Israel going ‘nowhere’

“Real Time” host Bill Maher closed his final show of 2023 with a blistering takedown of the pro-Palestinian movement parading the “myth” that the slogan “From the river to the sea” can be achieved. 

Maher began by linking Christmas to the war-torn region, citing how the “little town of Bethlehem was “86% Christian” in 1950 and how today it’s “overwhelmingly Muslim.”

“And that’s my point tonight: Things change,” Maher said. “To 2.3 billion Christians, there could be no more sacred site than where their savior was born, but they don’t have it anymore. And yet no crusader army has geared up to take it back. Things change- countries, boundaries, empires. Palestine was under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years but today, an Ottoman is something you’ve put under your feet.”

After listing several global geographic changes throughout history, Maher told his audience “Eventually everybody comes to an accommodation, except for the Palestinians.”

“Was it unjust that even a single Arab family was forced to move upon the founding of the Jewish State? Yes, but it’s also not rare. Happening all through history all over the world. And mostly what people do is make the best of it,” Maher said. “After World War II, 12 million ethnic Germans got shoved out of Russia and Poland and Czechoslovakia because Germany had become kind of unpopular. A million Greeks were shut out of Turkey in 1923, a million Ghanaians out of Nigeria in 1983, almost a million French out of Algeria in 1962, nearly a million Syrian refugees moved to Germany eight years ago. Was that a perfect fit?” 

“And no one knows more about being pushed off land than the Jews, including the almost holy kicked out of every Arab country they once lived in. Yes, TikTok fans, ethnically cleansing happened both ways,” Maher continued while showing a chart of the shrinking Jewish population in Arab countries.