Comic and outspoken pro-Israel activist Michael Rapaport trashed a liberal Canadian politician for demanding her fellow lawmakers bar him from doing stand-up exhibits within the nation.
In a Monday column for “The Free Press,” the actor and comic known as out Canadian Parliament member Heather McPherson after she urged fellow lawmakers to bar him from the nation forward of his present dates in Alberta, Canada this week.
He declared that he can be there and even invited her to take a seat within the entrance row.
“If you’re reading this, Heather, I have front-row seats reserved for you and the New Democrats. That’s a genuine offer,” Rapaport wrote on Monday.
McPherson, a member of Canada’s New Democrat Social gathering, posted her “Statement calling on Canadian government to deny entry to Michael Rapaport” to X on Feb. 27.
The assertion consisted of an prolonged X thread by which she introduced up the comic’s “significant criminal history,” historical past of “Islamophobic speech” and historical past of “inciting violence” as justification for maintaining him in a foreign country.
“We are witnessing an alarming increase in Islamophobia in Canada and globally,” she wrote. “All Canadians deserve to feel safe in our communities. New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to deny entry to Michael Rapaport.”
After declaring “Hate has no place in Canada,” McPherson tagged a number of different members of the Canadian Parliament within the publish, searching for to make them conscious of Rapaport’s upcoming go to to their nation.
In his column, the comic and Jewish advocate known as the Canadian lawmaker’s push to ban him from the nation the “craziest campaign against me yet,” claiming that it’s extra ridiculous than numerous anti-Israel teams protesting his exhibits over his outspoken protection of Israel following the Oct. 7 Hamas bloodbath within the nation.
Rapaport’s Wisconsin present was canceled final Might after anti-Israel agitators threatened the venue the place he was set to carry out.
He responded to every of her fees in opposition to him, stating, “I have no criminal history other than calling my ex-girlfriend Lili Taylor too many times back in 1997. (I’m not ashamed; I was in love). I have no outstanding warrants. I don’t have any parking tickets. As far as racist Islamophobia, my only phobia currently is of radical jihadists. I’ll admit: I have a phobia of anybody who wants to kill, hurt, or dehumanize Jews.”
Rapaport pleaded responsible almost 30 years in the past to aggravated harassment in opposition to Taylor, the Hollywood actress who filed a police report in opposition to the comedian after he repeatedly known as her and confirmed up at her condo unwarranted in the midst of the night time following their break-up.
Rapaport has spoken out typically in opposition to Hamas sympathizers and anti-Israel agitators on social media following the Hamas terror assault in 2023, particularly these demonizing Jewish folks on U.S. school campuses.
He has continued to demand Hamas return all hostages taken from Israel throughout their assault.
The comic accused McPherson of ignoring hate in opposition to Jews in her personal nation.
“The irony is that McPherson, in her post, asserted that ‘hate has no place in Canada’—except, of course, when hate is directed toward Jews, which Canada apparently has no problem with,” he wrote, linking to a different Free Press piece reporting that there’s been a “670 percent increase in antisemitic incidents in Canada since October 7, 2023.”
He additionally accused her of utilizing her energy to rail in opposition to him relatively than demand the remaining hostages to be launched by Hamas, stating, “Rather than call attention to that—or the horrific antisemitism sweeping her own country—this member of Parliament is spending her capital making pleas to keep me out, rather than fixing whatever is going wrong in her own backyard.”
Rapaport declared that he can be there for his two exhibits on Mar. 6 and Mar. 8, as nobody had blocked him from getting into the nation.
“Luckily, at least for now, it seems Trudeau and his party aren’t listening. I’ll still be crossing the border this week,” he mentioned.
McPherson’s workplace didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
