Joe Rogan facing allegations of antisemitism after saying it's 'stupid' to say 'Jews aren't into money'

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• Joe Rogan faced accusations of antisemitism after his latest podcast episode. 
• "The idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous," said the podcaster.
• The CEO of the American Jewish Committee said that Rogan's comments invoked age-old antisemitic tropes.

The outspoken right-wing commentator Joe Rogan has been accused of antisemitism following a recent podcast episode. 

In the latest Spotify show, The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan defended Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar. 

In 2019, Rep. Omar tweeted that the Republican Party backed Israel thanks largely to a steady stream of political funding from the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC. 

Omar received significant backlash against this statement, with prominent figures accusing her of antisemitism. 

A subsequent tweet by the Minnesota representative, "It's all about the Benjamins, baby," followed by a music emoji, caused more outrage.

But in the podcast episode which aired Saturday, Rogan referred to the incident and said he believes Omar did nothing wrong. 

He said, "the idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That's like saying Italians aren't into pizza. It's fucking stupid."

Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, said in a tweet that Rogan's comments "invoke the same tropes that have been used to persecute Jews for centuries."

The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, added that it is "disturbing that at a time of rising anti-Jewish violence, when growing numbers of Americans believe in antisemitic conspiracy theories, @joerogan would use his immense platform to spew antisemitic tropes about Jews and money."

New York Congressman Ritchie Torres also addressed the comments. He said in a tweet, "the notion that interest in money is uniquely Jewish is antisemitic garbage."

Rogan has been criticized for antisemitism before when an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor condemned him for appearing to compare vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany.

Rogan has been no stranger to controversy on his hit podcast show. Last year, he apologized for using the N-word after a video montage of him saying the slur 24 times went viral. Rogan has also been accused of allowing the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on his show and was slammed by an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor for appearing to compare vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany.

The Joe Rogan Experience podcast was the most listened to on Spotify in 2022, with an average audience of approximately 11 million.

 

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