John Oliver‘s jokes had been secondary this night because the host started Final Week Tonight by delivering an impassioned plea to cease the U.S. authorities’s complicity in Israel‘s blockade of the Gaza strip, the place roughly 2 million residents face imminent hunger and loss of life.
The late-night host singled out Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for claiming there may be “no hunger” disaster in Gaza regardless of all proof on the contrary, saying the chief was doing so with the “talent of a sh—y magician.”
Of notice, Oliver added, was that president Donald Trump additionally just lately questioned Netanyahu’s claims.
“Describing ravenous kids as trying ‘very hungry’ is a large understatement, proper up there with: ‘We had been simply associates,’” Oliver remarked, flashing an picture of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein onscreen, including that it was a “uncommon second of Trump expressing one thing resembling empathy.”
Zeroing in on some figureheads who “pounced on” a New York Instances report that added an addendum a couple of ravenous youngster’s pre-existing well being circumstances, Oliver slammed media persona Megyn Kelly, who denied the legitimacy of the photographs popping out of Gaza.
“I form of hoped we had been accomplished with Megyn Kelly as a society,” he started to viewers whoops, “and collectively, you truly don’t should litigate this case one picture at a time,” he stated, citing studies from the United Nations, quite a few support organizations and Israeli human rights teams, together with conclusions reached by Israel’s oldest every day newspaper and a number of first-hand accounts.
“What’s taking place in Gaza proper now could be a famine. All the data we’ve factors to that, apart from this f—ing man [Netanyahu] and some grownup junior detectives squinting at every picture of a skeletal youngster to determine in the event that they’re the proper of dying,” Oliver acknowledged.
Referring to a 2024 CNN article through which Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated “it could be simply and ethical” to starve 2 million Gazans, however “nobody on the earth would allow us to,” Oliver concluded that the official is “mainly complaining that the world is c—blocking him from committing genocide higher. And that’s the argument for sustained worldwide stress right here, and that nation greatest positioned to use it’s this one [the U.S.], the one which gave Israel almost $18 billion in army support throughout the first 12 months of this conflict alone. Look, ‘Gaza is ravenous,’ is a sentence that’s objectively true, nevertheless it’s additionally barely deceptive as a result of it’s too passive. Gaza is being starved by Israel.”
In response to main humanitarian teams and specialists — such because the UN Particular Committee, Amnesty Worldwide, Docs With out Borders and worldwide regulation students — Israel is committing genocide in opposition to Palestinians. A Might 2025 IPC evaluation projected catastrophic ranges of meals insecurity for all the inhabitants of Gaza by September, that means at the least half 1,000,000 persons are anticipated to be in IPC Part 5 — the best part, often called disaster — which is marked by acute malnutrition and mortality.
