When celebrity ignorance gets a stage

(JNS) — Julian Casablancas, the frontman of The Strokes, one of the defining rock bands of the early 2000s, recently told a million YouTube subscribers on the popular web series SubwayTakes that American Zionists “get the benefits of white privileged people, but talk like they are black people during slavery.”

This week, Oxford University released a video of Casablancas expanding on it. Yes, that Oxford.

The Oxford Union, comfortably ensconced at the highbrow academic institution in England, invited him to speak, and he offered a clarification. He now says he meant “settler-style Zionist expan...