{"id":95740,"date":"2026-10-26T21:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95740"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:19:01","slug":"why-pro-palestinian-comedian-sammy-obeid-refuses-to-stay-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95740","title":{"rendered":"Why pro-Palestinian comedian Sammy Obeid refuses to stay silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/26\/0162abd6-f29e-4040-a5d4-0951fc997d37_a824446a.jpg?itok=jGTBd30H&amp;v=1792986581\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTwo wrongs don\u2019t make a right. If you wrong a wrong, you get a wrong. If you wrong that wrong, it is a wrong-wrong. If you wrong that wrong-wrong, it\u2019s a triple-wrong. How many more wrongs until we get this right? The easiest way to make things right is to give people rights. When you give people rights, they can do right. And rights are very powerful \u2013 they undo all wrongs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This is one of stand-up comedian Sammy Obeid\u2019s most viral clips, where he cleverly dissects the Israel-Palestine situation while keeping the audience laughing.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Obeid made headlines in August 2025 when two of his planned <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Singapore shows<\/span> were cancelled. The comedian accused Singapore\u2019s Infocomm Media Development Authority of trying to censor his material, which often criticises Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza, though officials said his permit was rejected over a late application. In contrast, he was able to perform his material in Hong Kong freely the following month.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3372114\/why-pro-palestinian-comedian-sammy-obeid-refuses-stay-silent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwo wrongs don\u2019t make a right. If you wrong a wrong, you get a wrong. If you wrong that wrong, it is a wrong-wrong. If&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19288,32159,5828,237,32158,5568,2165],"class_list":["post-95740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-comedian","tag-obeid","tag-propalestinian","tag-refuses","tag-sammy","tag-silent","tag-stay","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}