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Comedian-Turned-Advocate Lee Kern Confronts Antisemitism
(Ynet News) Yoni Beinart - Three weeks after Oct. 7, British screenwriter Lee Kern came to Israel. "After Oct. 7, it felt completely natural for me to leave everything and come here to support my people," he said in an interview. Kern, who was Oscar-nominated for his screenplay for Borat 2, has since officially made Aliyah. "I have no doubt that we're dealing with the cruelest, most sociopathic enemies imaginable," he asserts. "Historically, we've always faced the worst bastards. And this culture...it breeds sociopaths. It's a psychotic culture that glorifies death, blowing yourself up, becoming a shahid (martyr). This concept of jihad and self-harm is so evil, it's a rewiring of human nature....People say, 'Oh, they're so angry.' So am I, just as angry as them. But do I go out and commit terrorism? No." Kern realized that people don't just believe the worst about Jews, they want to believe it. "Since the dawn of time, people have believed every lie and conspiracy about Jews, from spreading plagues, to poisoning wells, to drinking Christian children's blood. You have to bypass logic to believe that stuff. You have to want it to be true. And that continues today in the global media, where the top journalists abandon fact-checking and evidence. They want us to be guilty." "I'm just a proud Jew. I won't let people kill us. My career isn't more important than that....I don't understand how a human being can see babies murdered, women raped, people kidnapped, and not do something. I just don't get it."