{"id":651535,"date":"2026-10-19T23:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/651535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:44:13","slug":"larry-david-mocks-democratic-socialists-antisemitism-in-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/651535\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry David mocks Democratic Socialists, antisemitism in satire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry David, the famously cranky creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, has just penned a \u201cmodest proposal\u201d skewering the hypocrisy and antisemitism<\/a> of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in the online publication Air Mail.<\/p>\n

David\u2019s piece, titled \u201cThe View from Here,\u201d was published over the weekend and featured the subhead, \u201cA comedian\u2019s modest proposals for the Democratic Socialists of America.\u201d He opens the piece by saying that he recently attended a DSA meeting and joined the group.<\/p>\n

The DSA counts New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> among its members, and Mamdani has endorsed DSA candidates for public office, including Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is running for US Congress as a Democrat.<\/p>\n

The DSA<\/a> promoted and urged its members to attend the notorious rally in Times Square in New York City on October 8, 2023, that celebrated the Hamas massacre the previous day. Multiple DSA chapters condoned and gave explanations for the massacre.<\/p>\n

Since then, they have doubled down on accusing Israel of genocide and apartheid.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and UK\u2019s Green Party leader, Zack Polanski, have revived the debate over whether Zionism can be considered racism. (credit: MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO\/GETTY IMAGES)<\/p>\n

Tackling this issue head-on, David writes, \u201cThe DSA has great respect for religious traditions. Because of our burgeoning Muslim population, we want to take all measures to give these people a strong sense of belonging in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlong those lines, we\u2019ll require that all Caucasian women wear a hijab on weekends in solidarity with their Muslim sisters. In addition, Jews<\/a> will no longer be allowed to refer to themselves as \u2018the Chosen People.\u2019 Henceforth, their new nickname will be \u2018the Bagel People.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

His proposal continues: \u201cWe strongly believe in a two-state solution. To this end, we propose that Palestinians should be given all the land currently occupied by Israel and that Israel should be given Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific, where the weather is beautiful, and grapefruits are aplenty. We think the Bagel People will be very happy there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larry David mocks DSA with outlandish proposals on housing, pets, reparations<\/p>\n

David includes his trademark irreverent shtick in the proposal, ribbing the group by suggesting that all homeowners be forced to leave their doors open and host any and all strangers; that people be granted bereavement leave when their pets die and maternity and paternity leave when they adopt pets; and that as a form of reparations for slavery, whites be enslaved to Black families for a year.<\/p>\n

Towards the end, he writes, \u201cWe Democratic Socialists love to laugh \u2026 but not at the expense of others. The last thing we want is for any person to be offended by a joke that targets them or someone they know. No one should ever have their feelings hurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, any comedian who is responsible for causing emotional discomfort in any way will be sent to a facility where they will be re-programmed and hopefully emerge with a greater awareness of the sensitivities of their fellow citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf, however, the re-programming is unsuccessful, the repeat offender will be sent to Pitcairn Island to live with the Bagel People.\u201d<\/p>\n

Air Mail, co-founded by former Vanity Fair and Spy editor Graydon Carter in 2019, tends to feature articles on entertainment, celebrity gossip, and the high life rather than politics, but its editors made room for David\u2019s DSA piece.<\/p>\n

Larry David’s DSA satire sparks criticism and confusion online<\/p>\n

The New York Times wrote an article on the piece and reported that DSA representatives did not respond to their request for comment. Some actual DSA members and sympathizers, not known for their sense of humor or satirical acumen, slammed the piece online, while others seemed merely bewildered by it.<\/p>\n

On a Reddit thread, one user wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s still pretty weird, but I would need more context before jumping to the conclusion that this is supposed to be read as disparaging DSA rather than making fun of its naysayers\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t bring myself to believe that Larry David doesn\u2019t know the difference between personal and private property. Isn\u2019t Bernie [Sanders] like his first cousin or something?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larry David, the famously cranky creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, has just penned a \u201cmodest proposal\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,209049,1903,42,68589,5708,43,40,38,41,39,14325],"class_list":["post-651535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-antisemitism","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-diaspora","tag-headlines","tag-larry-david","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}