re: #206 The Vicious Babushka

ROB REINER: This undercurrent of anti-Semitism has always been there. Just like racism, it’s always been there and then it just bubbles up to the surface every once in a while. And it’s horrible now.

MAHER: Netanyahu is asking European Jews to come to Israel and —

NYE: Come home to Israel. That’s what he said, right?

MAHER: Yeah.

NYE: Yeah.

MAHER: Well, I mean he is the —

NYE: But the people have never been there. They lived, grew up in whatever, in Germany and France.

MAHER: It’s a shame that they should have to move.

NYE: Well, they probably won’t either because it’s not their home.

[tepid applause]

REINER: But you can understand it. There were German Jews that lived in Germany in the Second World War and that was their home. And you know at a certain point if your life is in danger you want to go someplace where you’re going to be protected.

[applause]

NYE: So, what do you do about it? I think you get to know your neighbors. That’s going to take — does it take a century? Something like that? (HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, February 20, 2014)