AEW Criticized For Running Antisemitic Storyline Amid War In Israel

AEW is catching some severe flak from followers on-line after it had a few of its wrestlers take part in an antisemitic storyline on Tuesday night time … simply days after the heinous assaults in Israel.

The controversial phase aired towards the top of this week’s AEW Dynamite episode, when World champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman, who’s Jewish, started a promo trade with Juice Robinson.

In the course of the bit, Robinson and his Bullet Membership Gold teammates had been taunting Friedman and making an attempt to bait him right into a future match … when, instantly, Robinson pulled out a roll of quarters.

Written on the $10 pack of cash was the title “Friedman” — and as Robinson confirmed it to the digicam after which to MJF, he screamed into the microphone, “You already know what I do with these, Sonny Jack? I break idiots’ jaws!”

The scene was broadly panned on social media as anti-Jewish … as Friedman has mentioned repeatedly previously that when he was a teen, bullies would pelt him with quarters and inform him, “Choose it up, Jew boy. Choose it up.”

Followers had been irate with the wrestling org.’s resolution to show all of it right into a storyline this week … contemplating all the terror that is currently happening in Israel.

For Friedman’s half, he truly snapped over the quarters as a part of the promo on Tuesday’s present … yelling again at Robinson, “You come close to me with these quarters, I am going to finish your life, you piece of s***!” He later took to X to handle the matter as nicely.

“Tonight that piece of s***, Juice Robinson determined to deliver up a narrative from my childhood that has left me scared,” the 27-year-old star wrestler wrote. “I am glad he did. He introduced consciousness to one thing we have all gone by means of in a method, form, or kind in our lives. On behalf of anybody who’s ever been bullied for being completely different in any capability. I stay up for leaving him scared too.”