‘Free Palestine worse than KKK’ claims Jerry Seinfeld, funnyman who dated 17-year-old

Famous comedian Jerry Seinfeld has described the ‘Free Palestine’ movement as being worse than the KKK. His comments, made as Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people has resulted in an ongoing, manmade famine, have not gone down well:

Disappointing to read that Seinfeld is another who falsely equates sympathy for Palestinians with antisemitism. Ugly and divisive nonsense. https://t.co/5TfQyqQWuQ

— Peter Lalor (@plalor) September 10, 2025

As always happens when Seinfeld says something controversial, people have used the situation to highlight that he once dated a 17-year-old.

Very true, in fact he’s been talking about this for 17 years, Google “Jerry Seinfeld 17 years old” for more info pic.twitter.com/3dCTkLB9FO

— W.E.B. DaBoi (@Tyre_94) September 10, 2025

Jerry Seinfeld: barely legal

If you’re a British person who isn’t convinced Seinfeld is all that famous, the reason for that is because the BBC gave Seinfeld (the show) a really odd time slot, which meant it never found an audience. Seinfeld was huge around the world, though, and Seinfeld (the man) became a household name.

As reported by the Duke Chronicle, Seinfeld has generated controversy for the following comments:

“Free Palestine is, to me, just — you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews,” Seinfeld said.

“By saying Free Palestine, you’re not admitting what you really think,” he continued. “So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay that’s honest.”

Seinfeld isn’t the first person to claim that supporting Palestinian liberation is a way of secretly being antisemitic. He is part of an increasingly shrinking group, however, because as Israel’s genocide has continued – and as senior Israelis have made their genocidal intent clear – fewer, and fewer people have bought into this obvious bullshit.

As people have highlighted, figures like former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant have made comments like the following:

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:

"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."

— Maha Hussaini (@MahaGaza) October 9, 2023

It takes a special kind of arrogance to read comments like this and think ‘you know who the real supremacists are? The people who want to stop this‘.

As you’d expect, people had a lot to say:

A message to Jerry Seinfeld.
Dear Jerry,
I’d like to introduce you to the Free Palestine movement. In it, you will find many tens of thousands of Jews, a very disproportionate number, in fact.
Those Jews have been welcomed and are often respected leaders, neither because of nor… https://t.co/JTOXnBMMZ7

— Mitchell Plitnick 🔥🕎 (@MJPlitnick) September 11, 2025

What the people of Gaza see every day.

# Jerry Seinfeld , Rupert # pic.twitter.com/Ji9FTBCO7W

— Apartheid Review (@ApartheidReview) September 11, 2025

Jerry Seinfeld is actively collaborating in genocide. https://t.co/95Dewh8bYx

— Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb) September 11, 2025

Jerry Seinfeld is actively collaborating in genocide. https://t.co/95Dewh8bYx

— Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb) September 11, 2025

People highlighted past comments from Seinfeld:

Reminder that Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old who was still in high school when he was 38 years old.

Jerry is about as Zionists as they come.

Jerry Seinfeld is gross. https://t.co/On8tMCD6m4

— Scrappy Jew gazafunds.com 🇵🇸🇸🇩🔻 חי (@scrappyJew) February 16, 2025

Here’s the camp Jerry Seinfeld took his family to where they got to shoot at Palestinian cutouts, located not in Israel but inside a segregated settlement in West Bank amidst active pogroms against Palestinian civilians. pic.twitter.com/kuH13mm7T9

— Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 (@rafaelshimunov) May 12, 2024

People also suggested the alleged ‘funnyman’ is not as funny as he likes to think:

I’m a bit bored of this world where we are all meant to love Jerry Seinfeld. I don’t. I think Larry David is a genius. Like a proper one. https://t.co/UurnaVLKe6

— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) September 10, 2025

Seinfeld shouldn’t say anything that Larry David hasn’t scripted for him. https://t.co/VSTXcsmIcw

— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) September 10, 2025

Unhealthy interests

People did get one thing wrong, however, and that was referring to Seinfeld as a ‘paedophile’. Those making the claim include Shaun King (who has a less than stellar reputation himself):

What @JerrySeinfeld is saying here is that oppressing Palestinians is now such a part of Jewish identity and culture that simply saying “Free Palestine” means to him that you must hate Jews and is worse than the KKK.

This man should never work again.

He’s also a pedophile. https://t.co/SYaZAj1PLP

— Shaun King (@shaunking) September 10, 2025

Here’s what Far Out reported in 2023:

The truth is that Seinfeld once dated a 17-year-old when he was 38 himself – a fact that sits rather unsettling through the lens of today’s acceptability. In the early 1990s, Seinfeld was involved with Shoshanna Lonstein, although the pair claimed their relationship was initially based on mere friendship. However, it came to light that Seinfeld and Lonstein’s relationship was far more than just friendly. They had met in Central Park in 1993 when Seinfeld had noticed Lonstein on a park bench and decided to approach her. Apparently, the two hit it off, and Lonstein agreed to give Seinfeld her number.

At the time, Lonstein was just 17 years old, and the two ended up dating for four years. However, Seinfeld was adamant that their relationship did not begin in terms of being romantic and most likely sexual until Lonstein turned 18.

In many US states, the age of consent is 18, but as Cracked note:

Of course, the age of consent in New York is 17, and even in states where the age of consent is 18, such as California, a “conviction for statutory rape, alone, does not require sex offender registration.”

So there we have it.

Even if Seinfeld did have sex with Lonstein when she was 17, that wouldn’t have legally made him a paedophile (so long as the act took place in his home state); he was merely just a creepy older man who would have been criminalised for doing the same thing elsewhere.

If you yourself are a middle-aged man who’s worried they may be mistaken for a paedophile, there’s a simple way to avoid this happening, and that’s to never date what people would legally or ethically consider to be a child. We also advise you avoid likening freedom movements to racist white supremacist lynch mobs, because that won’t go down well either.

If you’d like a breakdown of how Seinfeld found himself in ‘comedy purgatory’, we recommend the following video from The Elephant Graveyard:

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