Per a report from The Duke Chronicle, the university’s student newspaper, Seinfeld made the statement while suggesting that the “Free Palestine” movement was antisemitic. 

“Free Palestine is, to me, just — you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews,” Seinfeld said. 

“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think,” he added. “So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ OK, that’s honest.”