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Bill Maher deserves praise, not gratitude, for telling the truth about Israel
Ruthie Blum
May 18, 2026

In his typically acerbic style of dry humor, comedian-pundit Bill Maher marked the 78th anniversary of Israel’s Declaration of Independence with a hard-hitting monologue that promptly went viral. During the closing segment of the May 15 episode of his eponymous HBO show “Real Time,” Maher stated that “everyone must either wish [the Jewish state] a happy birthday or admit they’re antisemitic.”…For a full eight minutes, he let the hypocrites have it, highlighting the fact that “no one blinks” when an editor from the progressive magazine The American Prospect calls Israel a “brainwashed psychopathic death cult that might need to be nuked to save the human race.” He then pointed out that Jew-bashing is the one thing that the left and right have in common these days, mentioning Tucker Carlson, on the one hand, and The New York Times, on the other. READ MORE

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER Bill Maher’s New Rules: No Jews, No News People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days? Well, there is this one thing they agree on: hating Israel. Click to view video