What's important here is that he spent the entire production trying to bait Muslims into assaulting him for acting flamboyantly gay. Only for that to never happen, except with a group of Israelis. It's the only time he broke character during production, to tell them he was acting
While filming "Bruno" He claimed a random Palestinian guy he interviewed was a "Hamas terrorist" he also cut out the part where he was spat on by a local Orthodox community while in Jerusalem. He was dragged, stomped, and punched while on the ground by Israelis.