He then spoke with his panelist, liberal historian Jon Meacham.
“Jon, a historian, could you tell those kids they’re huge?” Maher asked Meacham.
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“Real Time” host Bill Maher rails against Israel, “morons” who “don’t win any votes” for Democrats. (Screenshot/HBO)
Meacham argued that there is a “false equivalence” between “far-right” and left-wing anti-Israel protesters.
“But he doesn’t win any votes!” Maher exclaimed, “O convinces no one, it doesn’t engage. “
“What are you going to do to them?” Meacham responded.
“I need to win an election,” Maher responded, and then said, “I think you have to go through the component that they don’t perceive, that they don’t see. And that doesn’t happen, you know, academically, saying, “Well, you know, according to the Constitution. They need you to take care of that kind of thing. And I think it starts with admitting that some things are crazy too. And I don’t like to see high school students who don’t perceive history and somehow Jews or Nazis?!?
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An anti-Israel protest blocked the Golden Gate Bridge for hours on Monday. (Ronald Davis/Suburbanite)
PBS NewsHour correspondent Jane Ferguson weighed in on behalf of the “peaceful” anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University, many of whom were arrested.
“We want to have a verbal exchange about relaxed speech, you know, because anything that’s a bipartisan issue,” Ferguson told Maher, later adding that “it can’t be a relaxed speech if I agree with what other people are saying. “It’s completely different. “
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Anti-Israel demonstrators protest Thursday, April 18, 2024, along police lines of the New York Police Department, outside the campus of Columbia University in New York City. Several academics were arrested as police cleared an encampment on the campus lawn. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)
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Maher went on to draw a grim parallel between the current unrest within the anti-Israel wing of the Democratic base and the notorious riots at the 1968 Democratic conference in Chicago, predicting that he would return to the 2024 conference in August, which is also in Chicago.
“This will happen again because the kids are out; many of them will chant ‘Genocide Joe’ because that’s their new cause now,” Maher said. “They think it’s the explanation for why Hamas lives are on their side. “
“I wonder how the Democrats are going to get out of this convention. Because the last time it happened in Chicago, they were bleeding and Nixon won the White House,” Maher added.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Se can send tips on the subject to joseph. wulfsohn@fox. com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.