
Jon
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My official statement to the @nytimes about the red carpet joke.

“Last time, you told me to shut up —“ “And I’ll tell you to shut up again…you work for My Pillow Guy? That’s not journalism.” 😆😆



Debra Messing bravely spoke up for Israel and her fellow Jews after Oct 7. Hollywood’s response? It effectively put a full stop to her career. “I felt betrayed, I felt abandoned, I felt maligned. I felt like I was completely alone. I lost so many friends, and I know so many Jews who have had the same experience.” She called it “the hardest thing that I’ve ever experienced in my life.” Exactly as director László Memes warned about this “orgy of antisemitism” shutting out Jewish creators in the entertainment industry. (See my pinned tweet) This is the new Hollywood. Shameful. #JewHatred #antisemitism


Also marching in today’s Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth Avenue: Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister and the cabinet minister overseeing civilian affairs in the West Bank. Smotrich was largely shunned by Biden administration. Jewish organizations and Democratic leaders have often singled him out — alongside Itamar Ben-Gvir — in their criticism of the Israeli gov’t












I want non-Jews to understand how monumental this shift as. As Jews we are raised with endless propaganda about how great Israel is. It’s part of our prayers, our family gatherings, our education, our extra curricular activities, even our fraternities. It’s everywhere, and there’s never another side presented. I practically never even heard the word Palestinian growing up. There was no asterisk next to how great Israel was. No war crimes to atone for. No ethnic cleansing, no open air prison, no list of massacres - just endless propaganda. And free paid trips to Israel from billionaires to try to convince us to move there. And that’s not to even mention the generic American propaganda we all face daily. So it’s absolutely staggering, that in the face of that endless, relentless propaganda, 44% of young American Jews favor the establishment of one non-religious state in Israel/occupied Palestine. Many of us are pissed that we’ve been lied to. We’ve done the research and learned the history about how truly Hitlerian Israel’s history is. This isn’t something that just happens by accident. You don’t have such large percentages of people mistakenly turning against their families, cultures, and traditions due to misinformation or misunderstandings. This kind of shift can only happen when people are exposed to the absolute worst horrors on the planet that their people have committed. The human psyche can justify or use cognitive dissonance for almost anything. But the evils from Israel have gone too far for far too long. Nobody with a conscience who is educated about what Israel has done for the past hundred years can come to a conclusion other than, “Israel in its current form should simply not exist.”









From @WSJopinion: Ruth Wisse, the Iron Lady of the American Jewish right. At Harvard, she fought for ROTC and against racial preferences. She warns now of “the organization of politics against the Jews,” writes @ElliotKaufman6. on.wsj.com/3PDK89a




Federal officials have served subpoenas to Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba's communist regime, Fox News Digital has learned. foxnews.com/politics/feds-…






