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A Stranger Things actor has gone on a bizarre tirade against Gen Z and "fake woke" liberals.
Brett Gelman, who plays Murray Bauman on the hit Netflix series, is a pro-Israeli actor who has been very vocal in his support of the country since its recent escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip. The latest spate of conflict between Israel and militant group Hamas began on October 7 when the Palestinian group launched a ground and air strike killing more than 1,400 people and taking roughly 200 people hostage, according to the Associated Press.
Gelman took to Instagram to sing a tune decrying woke people supporting Palestinian civilians on the ground in Gaza. More than 5,000 people have died in Gaza since Israel's response to the Hamas attack, according to the United Nations.
"Hi Gen Z and all you other fake woke liberals, here's a little something for you," Gelman said speaking to the camera in an Instagram reel posted on October 14. The comedian then broke into song, repeating the line, "You don't read. No, no, no," multiple times.
"So how you know, history. How you know, history?" he concluded and captioned the post, "sent from my rage."
Then, in another Instagram reel posted on Monday, Gelman took to singing his feelings again.
"Hey fake woke liberal Americans," he started and then began singing, "Guess who actually lives on stolen land? You do. Guess who actually lives on stolen land? You do you, me Jew. You live on stolen land."
He captioned the post: "To you who have been pushing this false antisemitic narrative for years.... Jewish and Palestinian blood and trauma are in your hands!"
Gelman also tagged Jewish podcaster Shanni Suissa in the post who shared it to her Instagram stories.
"It's genuinely hysterical when literal colonizers talk to us, indigenous Judeans, about stolen land. Any Jew or Israeli living outside of Israel is part of the DIASPORA," she wrote.
The pair were referring to an ongoing argument that Zionists colonized the land on which Israel sits by forcibly displacing Palestinians in 1948 during what is referred to as the Nakba, in order to create the state of Israel.
Palestinian activist Mohamed El-Kurd described the conditions under which many Palestinians live in Gaza and the West Bank.
"There are a people that lives under a system which has been deemed by many, many global human rights organizations as a system of apartheid. And personally my family are not citizens of the state of Israel, despite living in Jerusalem, we live in constant fear of settler expansion of home, demolition of home evictions and home expulsions," he said in an interview with London-based radio station LBC earlier this month.
"There's a population that lives inside a cage without citizenship, without right to movement, without access to clean water... when you compared an occupied population, a population that has been ethnically cleansed, a population that lives under a system of apartheid to a population that is afraid of that population. That is occupation."
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