Seth Rogen: I’m Afraid of Jews; We Were Told “Big Lies” About Israel

According to CinemaDrame News Agency, Seth Rogen said in an interview with Marc Maron five years ago that as a child he had been told “big lies” about Israel. However, the resurfacing of clips from that interview on social media — alongside the ongoing siege of Gaza — coincided intriguingly with the Canadian actor’s appearance last Wednesday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where Rogen told Fallon that during his first interview with Maron in 2013, he had been under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms.

The Studio actor, whose parents met in Israel, said in Maron’s Podcast No. 1143 that the fact Israel had established a Jewish state on Palestinian land is something often overlooked:

“My entire life we were told big lies about Israel. No one ever tells you: ‘By the way, people live there.’”

The Jewish actor went on to tell Maron — himself a Jewish comedian:

“I’m afraid of Jews. [laughs] I’m 100 percent afraid of Jews… It’s probably not a good idea to live in a place that, according to religious prophecy, plays a role in the apocalypse. Maybe it’s not such a bad idea not to live there. Maybe it’s better to send us somewhere where the religious people don’t believe you have to die for [the apocalypse] to happen. They want us to go there and die so the apocalypse can come.”

When Maron asked if he would ever live in Israel, Rogen replied:

“No.”

In his interview with Fallon last week, Rogen recalled that in 2013, on the night of the premiere of This Is The End — one day before the Maron interview — he and longtime producing partner Evan Goldberg consumed “a lot of mushrooms”:

“[The morning of the interview] we looked at each other and said, ‘I think I’m still on mushrooms.’”

After drinking coffee in the hope it would return their minds to “normal,” Rogen said, it instead “made our hearts race and just sent all the mushrooms coursing through our bodies again in a crazy way.”

The Guardian has reported that during the establishment of the State of Israel in the 1947–1949 war, more than 700,000 Palestinians were displaced.

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