Rob Delaney condemns Israel’s war against Gaza

July 12, 2024

Rob Delaney speaks at the “Enough is Enough” strike rally outside Kings Cross station in London, England, on October 1, 2022 (Getty)

American comedian and actor Rob Delaney has drawn attention to the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and denounced Israel’s ongoing aggression in the enclave.

In the episode of the July 10 show he talks aboutWe are not joking‘ from Mehdi Hassan’s new media company Zeteo, Delaney said the tragic loss of his two-year-old son in 2018 compelled him to speak out against Israel’s attacks on children in the Gaza Strip.

“So I was holding a dead baby in my arms, my own. What I don’t have in common with the people of Gaza is that after the death of my baby, I didn’t have to worry about the safety of my other children,” he told Hassan.

Hasan and Delaney discussed the dehumanization of Palestinians and the lack of empathy toward them in Western media coverage of the war.

“Because I’ve been through that, I’m not afraid of someone online saying, ‘Mr. Delaney, fuck off,’ you know what I mean?” he explained, describing how he no longer worries about the backlash when he speaks out about Israel’s war in Gaza.

Already on October 17, Delaney warned in an editorial he wrote for The guard.

“The evacuation order for the residents of northern Gaza cannot be implemented. The Israelis know it, we know it… Children holding their younger siblings in their arms will be crushed by rubble and left to rot where they die,” he wrote.

In social media posts that same month, Delaney also directed comments at U.S. President Joe Biden over the treatment of Palestinians.

“More than a million Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed RIGHT NOW with American weapons. Are we supposed to appeal to your ‘heritage’ or some such bullshit if you can’t see them as human beings? Stop it! Stop it now!” he wrote on X.

The interview comes as a new study estimates that the actual death toll in Gaza could be more than 186,000, according to The Lancet medical journal.

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7.

The war in the besieged strip has triggered a serious humanitarian crisis and devastated the enclave’s infrastructure.