Seth Rogan Canadian-US Jew

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Seth Rogen has said he was ?fed a huge amount of lies about Israel? as a young Jewish person, stoking controversy around the country?s sometimes fraught relationship with many North American Jews.

The Canadian-US actor, who attended Jewish camp and whose parents met on a kibbutz in Israel, said the fact that the Jewish state was created on land where Palestinians were living had always been omitted.

?[As] a Jewish person I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life,? Rogen told the comedian and actor Marc Maron in an episode of

?They never tell you that, ?Oh, by the way, there were people there?. They make it seem like it was just like sitting there, like the fizzleing door?s open.?

More than 700,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes or fled fighting in the 1947-49 war that led to Israel?s creation. Today, those families and their descendants make up around 5.6 million refugees.