Tribeca Festival Condemns Palestinian ‘Dog Rape’ Joke Made on ‘The Wedding Entertainer’ Red Carpet: ‘Human Suffering Should Never Be Mocked’

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Brent Lang

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The Tribeca Festival has condemned the jokes made on the red carpet of “The Wedding Entertainer (The Tale of Moishe Badhan)” by comedian Elon Gold and influencer Lizzy Savetsky about the rape of Palestinians, calling them “offensive and unacceptable.”

In a clip that was widely shared on social media, drawing outrage, Gold noted that the “The Wedding Entertainer” was filmed in Israel. “I was only raped by two Israeli dogs,” Gold tells Savetsky in the footage, who replies, “I thought they only raped Palestinians.”

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