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As assemblage campuses proceed to descend into chaos, Palestinian photographer Motaz Azaiza and Jewish comedian Alex Edelman were having a calm speech astatine Jazz astatine Lincoln Center successful NYC during nan yearly Time 100 arena for nan tear’s astir influential names.
A spy tells america they saw Edelman — who wrote and starred successful nan deed Broadway drama show astir anti-semitism, “Just For Us” — attack Azaiza astatine nan gala meal betwixt courses.
“It was astir a 5 infinitesimal chat,” said a spy who noted that while nan duo travel from different backgrounds, “it seemed to beryllium successful nan tone of productivity. They were having a dialogue.”
The brace besides took a image together astatine nan petition of a photog roaming nan event.
Earlier successful nan evening, Edelman, who grew up Modern Orthodox and attended yeshiva successful Israel for a year, told Page Six that amid each celebrities successful attendance — from Dua Lipa to Kylie Minogue — he wanted to meet Azaiza.
He said he’d ne'er heard Azaiza speak, but Edelman explained, “My show is astir conversations betwixt people who don’t spot oculus to oculus successful pursuit of a productive dialogue.”
He noted that he tends to support his opinions connected specified a “difficult things mostly to myself,” but is unfastened to conversation.
“I want to person a substantive speech — and what’s much substantive than a speech pinch personification for illustration that successful a clip for illustration this?” he said.
When it comes to nan war, field protests and Israeli hostages, Edelman says he is remaining hopeful.
“For my galore many failings, I’m an optimist always — and I judge successful quality ingenuity that tin propulsion america retired of this horrific spiral that we’re in,” he said. “I’d for illustration to judge that group will fig it out, but evidently that requires tons of action and tons of subject and that’s going to require immoderate dialog. So yeah, I person immoderate hope. It looks beautiful grim, but I’m ever an optimist.”
Azaiza, who grew up successful Deir al-Balah Camp successful Gaza, did not extremity for our newsman connected nan carpet and declined to beryllium interviewed astatine nan party, wherever he seemed to beryllium getting a respite from talking astir nan war.
He was spotted taking a video of a capacity by “American Idol” alum Fantasia Barrino.
Both Edelman and Azaiza made nan Time 100 database this year.
Also astatine nan event, which featured respective songs from Dua Lipa, were Chiefs prima Patrick Mahomes, Maya Rudolph and Michael J. Fox, who sewage a opinionated ovation from nan crowd for his activity to thief cure Parkinson’s Disease.
