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After using anti-Semitic remarks in his wildly famous Spotify podcast, Joe Rogan has found himself in hot water.
The Joe Rogan Experience host referred to a tweet by Rep. Ilhan Omar, who in 2019 suggested that supporters of Israel in the U.S. were driven by money, while chatting to MSNBC contributor Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjet.
“It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” wrote Omar at the time.
Joe Rogan said about Omar on his show, “She’s talking about money. That’s not an anti-Semitic statement, I don’t think that is. It’s about, Benjamins are money. You know, the idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians aren’t into pizza. It’s fucking stupid.”
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized Rogan on Twitter shortly after he made his remarks.
“Disturbing that at a time of rising anti-Jewish violence, when growing numbers of Americans believe in antisemitic conspiracy theories, [Joe Rogan] would use his immense platform to spew antisemitic tropes about Jews and money,” Greenblatt wrote.
He continued, “For centuries, people have used these longstanding tropes to spread vicious lies about the Jewish people. ‘Comedian’ or not, Rogan’s comments are no joke.” The tweet linked to an ADL article and video debunking the stereotype.
.@joerogan saying “the idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians aren’t into pizza” would make sense if Jews invented money and/or Italians had been massacred because of a conspiracy that they control the world through pizza. pic.twitter.com/odzZzFHIYG
— Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) February 7, 2023