SNL’s Pete Davidson gave a COWARDLY response to Hamas attacks, despite his father’s tragic death on 9/11

"Saturday Night Live" has long been a source of comedy for Americans, but it’s also been what Dave Rubin calls “a mirror to look back on us.”

“We needed satire to look back on the [ridiculousness] and make fun of our politicians,” says Dave, “but you know that most of our comedy and our drama … went crazy woke.”

A couple of days ago, Pete Davidson opened an SNL episode with the following statement: “This week we saw the horrible images and stories from Israel and Gaza, and I know what you’re thinking: Who better to comment on it than Pete Davidson? Well, in a lot of ways, I am a good person to talk about it, because when I was seven years old, my dad was killed in a terrorist attack, so I know something about what that’s like.”

You might be thinking: Wow – someone who can empathize with the brutality of terrorism; surely a denouncement of Hamas will follow.

But, unfortunately, you’d be wrong.

“I saw so many terrible pictures this week of children suffering – Israeli children and Palestinian children – and it took me back to a really horrible, horrible place,” he continued. “Sometimes comedy is really the only way forward through tragedy. My heart is with everyone whose lives have been destroyed this week, but tonight I’m gonna do what I’ve always done in the face of tragedy, and that’s try to be funny,” Davidson said, concluding the opening.

“There’s a bunch of things I want to address here,” says Dave.

“First off, it’s odd that he said his dad was killed in a terror attack. His dad was killed on 9/11; he was a firefighter on 9/11 in New York City. I don’t know why he just said a terror attack and didn’t address that. There probably is some reason why … it might make people think, who did 9/11, right? And that they have a little something in common with the people that just burned babies alive,” says Dave.

“His dad was killed by jihadists waging a holy war. It’s the same thing that is happening right now,” he continues.

Further, Davidson “immediately opens by saying he feels bad for Israeli children and Palestinian children,” Dave explains, but “the Israeli children who were burned to death and are now kidnapped … the absolute intention was the horror and the savagery … [but] the Palestinian children who are dying are dying because of Hamas.”

While Israel has been dropping leaflets warning civilians to evacuate, Hamas has positioned its headquarters under a hospital to use the most vulnerable people as human shields.

Hamas is evil and should be openly denounced.

But SNL, of course, refuses to speak the truth and instead takes the cowardly path of neutrality.

Davidson “can’t say which one is worse and which one is better,” says Dave. “No people are more moral and less moral – it’s complete nonsense.”

“I’m not making this personally about [Pete Davidson],” clarifies Dave. “They write this for him, and this is the message they want to get out.”

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