Netanyahu: 'SNL' Anti-Semitic Vaccine Joke 'Outrageous, False'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted an "outrageous" joke on "Saturday Night Live" about his vaccine distribution, calling his country "the vaccination nation," having vaccines waiting for people, not like President Joe Biden's "people waiting for vaccines."

"That's outrageous; it's just so outrageous," Netanyahu told Fox News' "Fox & Friends." "In fact, I brought vaccines and went especially to the Arab communities — the Arab citizens of Israel — and vaccinated as many as we can. I must have gone to half a dozen Arab communities already, talked with the mayors there, brought the leaders, brought the doctors there, Arab doctors.

"It's just outrageous; it's so false."

Netanyahu said 90% of Israelis older than 16 years have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccines, "I've brought vaccines for everyone."

"We're rushing toward herd immunity," he added. "How did we do this? Quick decisions, a tremendous distribution system, I would say the mobilization of the citizenry — I would say, they understood their health and their lives are dependent on it.

"We're setting the model for the world. We're very proud of it."

The Biden administration and its liberal cover people in the media, including "SNL" need to take advice from Israel, not mock it, Netanyahu said.

"In America, I guess people are waiting for vaccines," he said. "In Israel, vaccines are waiting for people."

His pointed advice for failures in liberal states like New York, where "SNL" is filmed and did not criticize, and for Biden's America: "Cut the bureaucracy, jab people, save them, and that's it, move on."

"SNL" sketch "Weekend Update" co-anchor Michael Che joked Feb. 20, "Israel is reporting that they've vaccinated half of their population. I'm going to guess it's the Jewish half."

Critics have protested the anti-Trump program, calling Che and his remark anti-Semitic.

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