When rape becomes a punchline

There is a particular kind of joke that doesn’t just offend — it reveals. Last week at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, American actor Elon Gold and influencer Lizzy Savetsky offered one such moment of revelation. Promoting a film made in Israel, Gold quipped on the red carpet that he had been “raped by two Israeli dogs” while filming there. Savetsky’s response: “I thought they only raped Palestinians.” Gold’s rejoinder: “No, I got also a dog.” Cue the laughter, somewhere. Tribeca has since condemned the remarks as “offensive and unacceptable.” But the film screened anyway.

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