Actor Michael Rapaport delivered an unhinged rant about the Israel-Gaza war, claiming that if the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas were Black, nobody in the world would be calling for a cease-fire.
At least 12,000 Palestinians, 5,000 of them children, have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7 after Hamas terrorists murdered 1,400 Israelis and took at least 240 people hostage in a surprise attack. Israel promised to destroy Hamas and began bombing civilian areas in Gaza they claim are infiltrated by Hamas, and international calls for a cease-fire occurred as footage of the carnage was unveiled.
Rapaport took to X, formally Twitter, to voice his displeasure in a video for the cease-fire calls on Nov. 16.
Rapaport captioned the video, “If 10 Black People from America were taken Hostage in Gaza by Hamas the entire world would be on the same page! PERIOD!!! #Israel #Jewish #brittneygriner Free All of Them!”
“Yo, if 20 American tourists, forget the 1,200 people that were murdered, slaughtered, civilians, if 20 American civilians, all African American, all Black, all ages were taken hostage, and 10 of them were murdered and raped, and there was 10 surviving American tourist hostages that were all Black, there’s not one motherf—ker in this country that would be talking about cease fire,” he exclaimed.
Rapaport did not stop his wayward rant there.
“There’s not one person. It would be ‘Bring the f—king hostages back, and they better be, they better be alive! They better be pristine.’ There wouldn’t be no cease-fire, there wouldn’t be no — can you imagine college students ripping down posters of 10 Black people from America if they were taken hostage and 10 of them were raped and murdered?”
He continued, “The African American community would be demanding they came back. White people, Black people, Jewish people would be demanding they come back. There wouldn’t be a discussion of a cease-fire. That’s a fact!…
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