Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

Jerry Seinfeld said those who use the phrase "Free Palestine" are worse than the Ku Klux Klan during a student event at Duke University meant to honor hostages that are being held in Gaza.

Jerry Seinfeld likened the Free Palestine movement to the Ku Klux Klan — even saying those who use the phrase "Free Palestine" are worse than the white supremacist group — at a student event at Duke University meant to honor hostages who are being held in Gaza.

Seinfeld spoke at the school in Durham, North Carolina, to introduce a former Israeli hostage, Omer Shem Tov, when he made the remarks, according to the university's student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle. He reportedly started by saying, in reference to the Free Palestine activist movement, "Just say you don’t like Jews."

“By saying 'Free Palestine,' you’re not admitting what you really think. 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,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.

Representatives for Seinfeld did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A spokesperson for Duke University said in a statement that the school does not preview remarks of speakers who are invited to campus and that an invitation “does not imply any endorsement of their remarks.”