SNL Accused of Antisemitism for Joke Claiming Israel Only Vaccinating Jews

03/03/2021

When anti-Israel - and often times anti-Semitic - messaging and misinformation becomes normalized, or at the very least common enough in the news media, it is only inevitable that it seeps its way into comedy programming, as well, which then amplifies it and regurgitates it to an even wider, more diverse and typically younger audience. And therein lies the dangerous nature of the situation, and what last week's Saturday Night Live sketch has shown.