Yassine Meskhout's avatar

I’m almost embarrassed to post the video because the Arab Borat is so bad. There was no clip farming going on here, I spoke to only these people and this was their primary protest location. I didn’t have much planned because I didn’t think I’d get this far so easily, and so felt aimless after just a few minutes. Her reaction to me saying “that looks like the lamp from genie” kills me everytime.

The credulity and ignorance on display could be much funnier if it didn’t have such depressing real world consequences.

My local grocery store got protested by anti-Israel activists because they sell one wine made in the Golan Heights (which they call “illegally occupied”).

I wore a yellow keffiyeh and spoke with a thick Arabic accent and convinced multiple people that Yahudi is just how you say Zionist in Arabic. And then I would just keep talking about h…