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‘SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’ Features Newcomer Emil Wakim Unpacking Young People’s Support For Gaza: “Just Stop Bombing Them, They’ll Get To Gay”

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Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” gave a spotlight to a newcomer on Season 50, in Emil Wakim, who used his time to unpack young people’s support for Gazan and Palestinian people.

During the segment, co-host Colin Jost invited Wakim, who is Lebanese, to the table, where he tested his stand-up material in front of a live audience, including a bit about why a talking point previously uttered by Bill Maher against Chappell Roan won’t fly with Gen Z. (Multiple polls showcase Gen Z views are more pro-Palestinian and less supportive of U.S.

actions, with young people more likely to classify the conflict as a genocide.) “I don’t think people are being honest with stuff over there,” Wakim said. “Like a lot of young people now that are for gay rights and women’s rights will be like ‘Free Palestine, free Gaza,’ and then people on the other side are being like, ‘Oh, gays for Gaza, huh?

Go be gay in Gaza, see how they like it over there. That’s why we’re going over there.’ As if that’s why America goes to war, because we love women and gay people so much?

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