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Roseanne Barr Lets Loose On America’s Far Left: ‘Naked Bigots’ With No Interest In Peace Between Israelis And Palestinians

By Stacey Cole
Published on: 06:17 PST, Apr 12, 2016

Roseanne Barr returns to the stage and is set to perform at the Club Regent Event Centre later this year, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The 63-year-old actress, who started out as a standup comedian, is famous for her role on ABC’s 1990s sitcom Roseanne.

On her hit nine-season show Roseanne, Roseanne Barr played the caring and loving matriarch of the Conner family. The standup comedian has recently wrapped the second season as host of Momsters: When Moms Go Bad, which airs on Investigation Discovery.

Tickets to Roseanne Barr’s new September 8 performance range in price from $47.25 to $68.25 and went on sale last week. Since Roseanne’s last episode in May 1997, Barr has made guest appearances on several shows and served as a judge on NBC’s Last Comic Standing.

Roseanne Barr has also written three books: My Lives, Roseannarchy: Dispatches From the Nut Farm, and My Life as a Woman.

One week after her performance at the Club Regent Event Centre, Barr is set to appear on stage at the River Cree Resort & Casino on September 17, according to Edmonton Journal. Tickets went on sale last week and range in price from $19.50 to $39.50.

Speaking at the Yediot Aharonot and Ynet Conference in Jerusalem last week, Roseanne Barr criticized America’s far left for having “absolutely no interest” in helping facilitate peace between Israelis and Palestinians, according to the Washington Times.

Roseanne Barr, who’s the former Green Party presidential candidate, decried the “naked” bigotry of America’s far left, adding that everything she believed about the left was “severely shaken.” The standup comedian also added that the scales began to fall from her eyes in many ways. Roseanne Barr also admitted that many of those she considered “comrades” turned out to be “naked bigots” who are absolutely not interested in establishing peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

“It was shocking to realize that what I considered criticism of Israel many, many times gave way to the garden variety anti-Semitism that I’d heard all of my life, which is basically the code-word ‘Rothschild’.”

Roseanne Barr, who is Jewish in origin, refers to the world-famous Jewish banking family that often becomes part of anti-Semitic memes on the internet. Barr also went on to argue that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement doesn’t want peace, nor does it want to hold peace talks.

And while BDS use code words such as “occupation” and as they stall for time, far left in America and Europe condemn Israel’s actions and make it look as if they don’t notice Hamas resuming their tunnel building, Roseanne Barr said. Roseanne Barr explained her ideological shift by saying she thought it was like being “harshly critical” of the U.S. actions in the Vietnam War when there were protesters who said it was “wrong.”

“But I didn’t know this was part of a creeping campaign of delegitimization of the entire state of Israel looking to its destruction. I didn’t know that.”

During a controversial divorce between Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold in 1994, all the 57-year-old actor was hearing was that it was the end of his career in Hollywood, according to the Washington Times.

The Hollywood community then believed that Arnold had to thank his then-wife Roseanne Barr for making him famous in the show business. Barr invited Arnold on her show Roseanne and the actor served first as a writer and then as a guest performer. Barr and Arnold wed in 1990.

In his interview with the Washington Times, Arnold claimed Roseanne Barr told every president of every network that if they were to ever work with him, they would never work with her again.

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