Dave Chappelle pulled a white sheet of paper from his jacket and read, "I condemn anti-Semitism in all its forms, and I stand with my Jewish friends."

With these words, Chappelle began his satirical monologue segment during his hosting of the famous "Saturday Night Live" SNL last Saturday night on NBC.

The monologue, which generated millions of views after it was later posted on YouTube, included comments in which Chappelle addressed the controversy surrounding "anti-Semitism".

In the latest show, titled The Closer, Chappelle sparked widespread controversy after he mocked and made jokes about homosexuals and transgender people, especially transgender women.

"I've been to Hollywood, and I've seen a lot of Jews there, yes, a lot, but that doesn't mean anything, and it doesn't mean they run the place," Chappelle said.

Chapelle's sarcasm drew him from the leaders of several American Jewish organizations.

The Anti-Defamation League's chief executive, Jonathan Greenblatt, criticized NBC, accusing its most popular program of "mainstreaming anti-Semitism".

"We should not expect Chappelle to act as the moral compass of the community, but it is disturbing to see NBC not only normalizing, but generalizing anti-Semitism," Greenblatt wrote. "Why are Jewish sensitivities denied or diminished at almost every turn? Why does it make us suffer?" to applause?"

This confrontation was not exceptional, as Chappelle has been approaching sensitive issues in which the principle of freedom of opinion and expression comes into contact with the negative effects of these opinions.

In 2016, Chappelle signed a major $20 million-per-view contract with Netflix in a deal worth $120 million, and her last show was on October 5 last year.

In the latest show, titled The Closer, Chappelle sparked widespread controversy after he mocked and made jokes about homosexuals and transgender people, especially transgender women.

Opinions were divided on what Chappelle said, and many considered it acceptable, normal, expected sarcasm, while Storm, on the other hand, was anti-transgender.

Several campaigns have been launched against Chappelle for her support of the broad liberal current that is strongly pro-LGBTQ.

The male and female protesters considered that Chappelle's mockery of transgender people "leads to inequality between transgender people and others, and encourages violence against them."

Chapelle had a difficult time, and said that many invitations from leading theatres, prestigious universities, famous clubs and international festivals had been canceled because of this latest controversy.

Chappelle was attacked by a man armed with a knife while he was presenting a show in Los Angeles, but he was not injured and security took control of the situation.

Last July, a performance by Chapelle in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was canceled after protests from transgender rights advocates outside the theater.

Many Netflix employees also organized protests against Chappelle's shows being broadcast on their platform, despite him achieving one of the highest viewership ratings.

Many of them demanded that the company's management ban Chapelle from appearing on its screen.

For his part, Chappelle stuck to not apologizing, though he admitted that the backlash caused by his comments had already bothered him.

Chappelle refused to back down from his sarcasm and considered it within the reasonable range of freedoms, defended himself and his right to sarcasm, and confirmed that he was not hostile to anyone, but that he had many homosexual and transgender friends, and that this did not affect at all their good, normal and years-long relations.

Chappelle has been a professional in this field for more than a quarter of a century, and his success and fame have translated into 6 Emmy Awards and 3 Grammy Awards, in addition to the Mark Twain Award for American Humor.

Chappelle saw that this whole crisis is an attempt by American companies to try to impose censorship on him, and he said, "I want everyone to know that although the media shows the matter that it is me versus this society, this is not real. I have nothing to do with this society, and do not blame the members of society for Any of those things. It's about corporate interests, their willingness to meddle in what I can and can't say."

Dave Chappelle, a 47-year-old black American man, works as a stand-up comedian, a type of comedy in which the comedian speaks, makes jokes, ridicules, and comments on public and private affairs in front of an audience that interacts with him. Theaters, comedy clubs, nightclubs, universities, and large cafes host this type of show. Art, also in some cases broadcast as TV shows.

Chappelle has been a professional in this field for more than a quarter of a century, and his success and fame have translated into 6 Emmy Awards and 3 Grammy Awards, in addition to the Mark Twain Award for American Humor.

Chappelle was born and lived his childhood in Washington, where he attended public public schools, then attended the Duke Ellington School of Art, a prestigious and specialized public art school, and graduated in 1991.

During his years of work and success, Chappelle was one of the most donors and supporters of the school, which he believes has great credit for him and his success.

Chappelle has donated millions of dollars to the school over the past years, and visits it periodically to give lectures to students and urge them to be creative and diligent, despite moving years ago with his family to live on a quiet farm in northeastern Ohio.

However, what caused Chappelle the most distress was his high school's decision to freeze its decision to name one of the school's theaters after him, due to the students' violent reactions to what Chappelle said.

The school had planned, before this crisis, to name its large theater after the comedian Chapelle, in recognition of a graduate from the school, the size of his successes and fame, and his role in supporting the school financially, morally, and artistically.

This has been postponed, as the school said it would take some time to address questions and concerns from school officials and students, hoping that the situation will change in the near future.

And last April, the school decided to lift the ban on Chappelle and activate its decision to launch his name on its stage.

Despite earlier protests from staff, Netflix has shown Chappelle a 40-minute special that was recorded at the Duke Ellington School of Art.

In the special, Chappelle reacted to the backlash he was subjected to and addressed students at the school who did not agree with the jokes and sarcasm he had previously launched.

Chappelle surprised the audience on the day he was honored and his name was given on the stage, by refusing to give his name to the stage, and decided to call it the "Theater of Artistic Freedom and Expression" instead.

Chappelle justified this by saying that he "didn't want his name to distract attention from the students at the school".

This case shows the dilemma of the limits of freedom of expression and what has become acceptable and what is not acceptable in American society, at a time when Western societies are witnessing a real debate about the limits of what is permissible in a world where the acceptable and unacceptable are rapidly changing.

It remains to be mentioned that Chappelle's great-grandfather, "William Chappelle", was born a slave in South Carolina in 1887 before he was liberated and became a Christian bishop. He served as president of Allen University and led a delegation of African Americans to meet with former President Woodrow Wilson to demand equality between black Americans and the rest of the Americans.

When Shabelle was 17 years old, he converted to Islam. He is married and has 3 children, Sana, Ibrahim and Suleiman.

Chappelle refuses to touch on his private or family life, and says about his religion that it is "a beautiful religion, and the ideas contained in this religion are reflected in all the major Abrahamic religions," but he refuses to link his behavior or attitudes to his faith because he admits that he is human and makes mistakes.