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Van Jones Thinks Genocide is Funny

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If there is one thing the last two years has shown us is that the American political class, which includes the likes of Van Jones and Bill Maher, is the perfect example of spineless grift and depravity.

Last night, Jones and the gin-soaked, D-list comedian Bill Maher, had their audience in stitches about dead children in Gaza. Jones was peddling a debunked, unhinged and idiotic far-right conspiracy theory that Iran and Qatar are behind the online “disinformation campaign” regarding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He claimed young people are being brainwashed when they open their phones and see “Dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby…”

Aside from his outright disdain for the younger generation, one that exposes him for the coward he is, Jones has no curiosity about how those babies actually died. Of course not. And neither does Bill Maher. I doubt either of them has seen even one photo or video of a dead baby or child in Gaza. To them, it is all a plot designed to divide and subvert the West by “foreign adversaries.”

The two were joined by the perpetually wrong Thomas Friedman and all three offered banal and debased excuses for why IDF soldiers had no choice in committing atrocities. They had to murder those Palestinian children (and completely destroy Gaza) because of October 7th.

Yup. That’s it. The IDF had no choice but to annihilate hundreds of thousands of people. The three would never dare talk about decades of Israel’s apartheid and ethnic cleansing that led to its climax in genocide. And they would never have an actual Palestinian at one of their fireside chats.

Jones realized how disgusting his commentary was in the morning and he quickly posted his regrets online:

“I made a comment on Real Time with Bill Maher about the war in Gaza that was insensitive and hurtful. I apologize. The suffering of the people of Gaza — especially the children — is not a punch line. I’m deeply sorry it came across that way. I’m praying and working for an immediate end to this war — and for peace and safety for every family caught in its path. I was trying to raise awareness about foreign adversaries creating chaos online – which is undermining democracy everywhere. But what I said was easily misunderstood.”

But Jones wasn’t “misunderstood.” He was seen for the genocidal apologist he is. A ghoul who believes its all just “politics.” One who soaks up his notoriety on a mountain of corpses.

If you know anything about me, you know what I think he can do with his “apology.”

Kenn Orfanos, October 2024

A Note on Genocide Apologist, Bill Maher

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Last Friday night, professional troll and genocide apologist, Bill Maher opined on Gaza. This is nothing knew. And his stance seldom deviates from the “Israel is the only democracy in the region” line. This time, Maher again made no mention the copious crimes of the IDF or that dozens of reputable human rights organizations, including within Israel, have agreed this is a genocide. Instead, he concentrated on “evil” Hamas and the vital importance of “protecting Israel.”

Earlier this summer, Maher described queer activists who oppose Israel’s genocide as “crazy, disturbing and sick.” His fans really yucked it up at that one. Because ridiculing one vulnerable community who is standing in solidarity with another vulnerable community makes for good comedy in the United States. And Maher has cashed in big on this rancid facet of American culture, even as the Trump regime has stepped up its vicious attacks on queers, immigrants and Palestinians.

This time he bemoaned the likely next mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, because of the candidates criticism of the Zionist state. Maher thinks Mamdani might take the city with the world’s second-largest Jewish population in a disastrous new direction, ignoring the fact that the candidate had wide-spread support among the city’s Jewish community.

Maher isn’t in the dark. He has seen the photos and videos of skeletal, burned or blown up children. He has seen the crimes of the IDF as they post it online themselves. He has read about the “humanitarian aid distribution centres” and the thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered by Israeli snipers and drones seeking food. He has seen the footage of an almost completely flattened Gaza. He just doesn’t care. His racist hatred of Palestinians has become a cash cow.

Earlier this year Maher shocked his fans by sitting down to dinner with the fascist dictator in the White House. He gushed about how personable and “humble” he was. And more recently, he has agreed with Trump’s attacks on universities. But his supposed “pivot to the right” is only surprising to his feckless American liberal fans. The ones he has bamboozled for years.

Maher is not an expert on geopolitics. He is no scholar. He is a D-list actor who’s credentials include one cringeworthy appearance on Murder, She Wrote. His “success” comes down to his snarky, low-brow comedy schtick that is supremely American in its penchant for punching down. Like so many Americans, he takes pleasure in the suffering of the marginalized, and it has been very profitable for him. He does not intend to be “canceled” like his colleague Stephen Colbert, so he is sloppy-kissing the ring of power to ensure his smug face remains on the air.

But like every mealymouthed, bootlicking sycophantic before him, Maher will end up in the dustbin of history when his useful idiocy becomes tedious. And this is at least one thing in these dark times to look forward to.

Kenn Orfanos, August 2025