Saturday Night Geschrei

SNL Weekend Update anchor Michael Che (still frame from YouTube video via Israeli news medium Haaretz)

Happy Purim, everyone! At the end of a week where the Associated Press reported that Israel faced international criticism for excluding Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza from its successful covid-19 vaccination campaign while Israeli legislators argued that availability for the vaccine should be exploited for leverage against Gaza’s Hamas rulers, Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update anchorperson Michael Che joked, “Israel is…