#antisemitism in hollywood

[snowviolettwhite]

With the rise of antisemitism and me being an actress, I have been thinking about theatre, television and film and identity. During college in one of my classes we were talking about diversity and not putting on shows in area where you know you could not cast certain types of actor. One example example given putting on Hairspray in Norway. I don't remember what my full statement was but one of things I said is Jewish characters should be played by Jewish actors. The professors said we should not get nitpicking we should not not yellowface or blackface but having only Jewish characters only played by Jewish actor is taking it too far. Basically saying if we are having people play only their own religions it is no longer acting. I only said Jewish, I did not say any other religion and frankly it made me feel really stupid.

Also the reason I said Jewish characters should be played by Jewish actors is because Judaism in an enthoreligion. Most people who are Jewish are born Jewish, they are ethically Jewish, they are Jewish by ancestry, if you convert to another religion and do not practice you are still Jewish which is not common in most religions.

That does not even go into the Jewish actors have to change their identity. Jewish actors are forced to deify as European even if they have zero European ancestry. Like, I will think to myself is it okay for to apply for middle eastern roles even though I am Middle Eastern/West Asian. (That does not even go into the fact one of the main reasons it is called the Middle East is because of British colonialism.)

Yet, people who are actually race-swapping, religion-swap, ethnicity-swap roles that are for underrepresented peoples do it will no care.

They had to change their last names and change their appearance to be given opportune. The fact non Jewish actors will use prosthetic noses and spread antisemitic stereotypes.

Like most Hundi people are Indian, it would make no sense to cast a non Indian person to play the role of a Hundi character. You would also have a lot of pissed off Indian people and they would have ever right to angry.

[serinablades]

Hey!! I found a non-paywalled article detailing what was antisemitic about Dave Chappelle’s recent SNL monologue.

The AJC also has a quiz on antisemitism for educational purposes. I completely agree that we need to know what antisemitism is and how it’s expressed so we can abolish it. I encourage folks to take the test and find out if you can identify this form of hate and oppression.

I support the Jewish community as we fight against antisemitism and protect those harmed by it ✡️✊🏽 I will note that I don’t agree with AJC’s views on Israel and Palestine, but I think it’s important to share the information noted in this article specifically because it identifies precisely what was wrong with the monologue and I’m grateful for that.

[pinktwingirl]

Just so we’re clear, the reason why Hollywood will bend over backwards to defend Zionists while blacklisting anyone who speaks out against Israel is not because of the anti-Semitic “jEWs cOnTRoL tHE meDiA” bullshit conspiracy theory; it’s because the U.S. military complex has the whole industry in its pockets. IT’S CAPITALISM GUYS IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CAPITALISM

[dstriple]

And here's Spyglass Media Group explaining why they fired Melissa Barrera: 👇

"FALSE REFERENCES TO GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING"

Let's be clear here... she wasn't fired for making an antisemite comment.

Mel Gibson was even more obvious with the whole "Jews control the media" narrative. And yet he has had no problem getting work in Hollywood.

No, Barrera was fired for accusing Israel of commiting genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Which Spyglass considers to be completely false.

Last October, Maha Dakhil, a prominent CAA talent agency agent, was forced to step down from leadership roles after she dared to criticize Israel's war crimes in Gaza.

Guess who was among the powerful Hollywood big-wigs leading the charge to get her to resign from CAA? Gary Barber, the CEO of Spyglass Media Group.

Even more proof that this has nothing to do with antisemitism is that Hollywood big wheels are now trying to go after writer/director Boots Riley, for voicing similar views as Melissa's. Boots Riley is Jewish.

BTW, Jenna Ortega is Pro-Palestine as well...

As a result of that Tweet, Ortega was quickly tagged as an antisemite & a HAMAS supporter by The Times of Israel.

It REALLY becomes harder to combat actual antisemitism when people who dare to criticize Israel's war crimes get quickly branded as antisemites for doing so.

So you have a ridiculous situation where celebs who openly hate Israel's government are tagged as antisemites. Placing their careers in peril.

While people who openly spread antisemitism, such as Elon Musk, they rarely face any consequences - see attached Tweets below where Musk promotes the White Supremacist "great replacement theory" that claims that Jews want to destroy the white race/Western Civilization. His dog whistles are not subtle at all.

Despite his antisemitic tweets, Musk received praise by the Anti-Defamation League because the so-called champion of "free speech" threatened to ban anyone that called for the decolonization of Palestine.

So apparently, the real antisemites are the people that dare to criticize Israel. Not the people who actually hate jews. It's f*cked up.

Anyway, Spyglass has made their move. Let's see if it pays off.

[fromchaostocosmos]

We Need To Talk About The Oscars

Or more like I a Jewish person need you non-Jewish people to listen and actually hear me and other Jewish people when we talk about Jewish representation and utter lack of it in media.

I know that you think there is Jewish representation is media and I know many of you think that is probably an over abundance of Jewish representation in fact.

But having characters occasionally say oy vey, or kosher or mazal tov even though they are not Jewish is not representation. Saying schmear or a yiddish word here and there again usually by non-Jewish characters is not representation.

Having characters who we only know they are Jewish because it comes up during xmas episodes and they mention Hanukah like once is not representation especially if they are not played by Jewish actors.

Having canon Jewish characters stripped of being for tv shows or movies is not representation. Having a canon non-Jewish character made Jewish, but by doing so it plays it really harmful stereotypes and tropes abouts Jews is not representation (i.e the penguin in the animated Harley Quinn Series being made Jewish even though he is not all while not having Harley be Jewish even though canonically she is).

Having Jewish actors play villainous roles all the time especially ones with certain overtones is not only not representation it is actively harmful.

Having non-Jewish actors play Jewish characters and people is not representation, no matter how far back they may or may not have some Jewish ancestry perhaps.

There are three movies nominated for multiple Oscars about three real Jewish people. Not one of those films bothered to get a Jewish actors to portray these very real Jews.

Maestro has Bradley Cooper portraying Leonard Bernstein, Golda has Helen Mirren portraying Golda Meir, and Oppenheimer has Cillian Murphy portraying J. Robert Oppenheimer.

All three actors are not Jewish and yet all three portrayed Jewish people in their films.

All of three films are being awarded for their antisemitism, because that is what this is, with a bevy of award nominations from the Academy. Even if one does not go home with Oscar to be an Oscar Nominee still comes with prestige and seal of approval.

Both Maestro and Oppenheimer are being awarded with the Best Actor Nomination for their choice of non-Jewish men to play Jewish men.

Golda and Maestro have been awarded with the Best Hairstyling and Makeup Nomination despite both films heavy use of prosthetic makeup of their non-Jewish actors in order to make them "look more Jewish".

This is disgusting. This is antisemitic point blank. Hollywood as an industry has always been antisemitic and continues to be so. And now it rewards itself for its antisemitism. Once again it is left to Jews to shout into the void about this shameful injustice and hope that others will hear us and help make our voices heard.

This should not be happening still. This should be a wake up call within Hollywood and should a moment to course correct and do better.

Clearly it is not. I do not hold my breathe. I can say what I feel needs to be said and hope and that others see it and understand the truth in what I am saying.

It is time to stop erasing from our own stories and narratives. It is time to start giving us true and meaningful representation.

[hejjhug]

hey i just noticed the prosthetic nose they put on jim carrey for his role as Gerald Robotnik and! I gotta say! I REALLY don't like that!

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

“There’s a particular spineless liberalism in acknowledging the victims on both sides”

“There’s a particular spineless liberalism to giving Jews any humanity at all”

“There’s a particular spineless liberalism to admitting that October 7 happened”

Yet another reminder to the Pick Me Jews: they will never pick you.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The first Oscars. Photo: Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles announced on Monday that it will make changes to its new exhibit about the Jewish roots of the Hollywood film industry after it was criticized by Jewish activists and members of the entertainment industry. The museum said in a statement to the The Hollywood Reporter that it “heard the concerns from members of the Jewish community,” takes the concerns “seriously,” and is ”committed to making changes to the exhibition to address them.” “We will be implementing the first set of changes immediately — they will allow us to tell these important stories without using phrasing that may unintentionally reinforce stereotypes. This will also help to eliminate any ambiguities,” the museum added, before stating that it is “convening an advisory group of experts from leading museums focused on the Jewish community, civil rights, and the history of other marginalized groups to advise us on complex questions about context and any necessary additions to the exhibition’s narrative.” “We are deeply committed to telling these important stories in an honest, respectful, and impactful way,” the museum said in conclusion. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened on May 19 its first permanent exhibition, titled “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital.” The exhibit highlights the “Jewish founders of the Hollywood studio system” and “tells the origin story of filmmaking in early 20th-century Los Angeles, spotlighting the impact of the predominately Jewish filmmakers whose establishment of the American film studio system transformed Los Angeles into a global epicenter of cinema.” Jewish activists and members of the film and television industry criticized the exhibit for its negative portrayal of Jewish studio founders and filmmakers, claiming that the exhibit focused more on their flaws than their achievements. The critics accused the exhibit of promoting “antisemitic tropes” and attacked the museum for describing the Jewish filmmakers with words like “oppressive,” “harmful,” “predator,” and “tyrant.” The museum announced changes to “Hollywoodland” on Monday before an open letter published by a group called United Jewish Writers further condemned the exhibit. “While we acknowledge the value in confronting Hollywood’s problematic past, the despicable double standard of the ‘Jewish Founders’ exhibit, blaming only the Jews for that problematic past, is unacceptable and, whether intentional or not, antisemitic,” read the open letter. “We call on the Academy Museum to thoroughly redo this exhibit so that it celebrates the Jewish founders of Hollywood with the same respect and enthusiasm granted to those celebrated throughout the rest of the museum.” United Jewish Writers also claimed that the exhibit is “the only section of the museum that vilifies those it purports to celebrate.” The open letter was signed by more than 300 Jewish members of the entertainment industry, including actor David Schwimmer and showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Maybe this time, have some movie-loving, non-Jew-hating, non-ideologues do the writing. And don't forget that originally, the Jewish founders of Hollywood were completely left out of the Museum's story.

[silverfox66]

On Twitter you really can find a tweet from a leftist saying "Jews control Hollywood" followed by "but I am definitely not an anti-semite!!" And it gets 25k likes and replies full of leftists about how, this time, it's definitely not antisemitism, but "the truth."

It is antisemitism, has always been antisemitism, and will always be antisemitism.

[sefarad-haami]

Rabbis speak out after more than 50 bomb threats sent to Florida synagogues

🇺🇸 Prominent South Florida rabbis, including Rabbi Yisroel Spalter of Chabad of Weston and Rabbi Yisroel Harlig of Chabad of Kendall and Pinecrest, have spoken out following over 50 bomb threats sent via email to synagogues in Florida on June 19, 2024. This surge in antisemitic incidents comes amidst heightened tensions since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. Synagogues like Temple Solel in Hollywood and Temple Judea in Coral Gables were among those targeted. Governor Ron DeSantis emphasized increased state funding for security measures to combat such threats, stressing accountability for offenders under federal law.

🇪🇸 Rabinos destacados del sur de Florida, incluidos el Rabino Yisroel Spalter de Chabad de Weston y el Rabino Yisroel Harlig de Chabad de Kendall y Pinecrest, han hablado tras más de 50 amenazas de bomba enviadas por correo electrónico a sinagogas en Florida el 19 de junio de 2024. Este aumento en los incidentes antisemitas coincide con las tensiones crecientes desde que Hamas atacó a Israel el 7 de octubre de 2023. Sinagogas como Temple Solel en Hollywood y Temple Judea en Coral Gables estuvieron entre los objetivos. El gobernador Ron DeSantis destacó un aumento en la financiación estatal para medidas de seguridad para combatir tales amenazas, enfatizando la responsabilidad de los infractores bajo la ley federal.

[eretzyisrael]

by Rabbi Michael Barclay

A mere month after the horrors of babies being beheaded, women being raped, and the slew of horrors from Hamas, Owens went on Tucker Carlson’s show to speak about how it really wasn’t that bad, and why should she even care. (After all, she seems to think that Hitler was “ok”, so what’s the problem?) She wanted to talk about the depravities of Hamas as an “academic discussion”, and refused to even condemn Hamas. She castigated Ben Shapiro for being passionately pro-Israel, and demonstrated a remarkable ignorance about everything Jewish, including: the Holocaust; the history of Israel; the history of the involvement of Jews in the early civil rights movement, and how Kanye West’s anti Semitic comments were clear expressions of Jew hatred.

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But her appearance a few months ago is not the exception; it is part of a pattern of repeated Jew hatred that seems to be an essential part of Owens’ psyche.

Most recently, she has tried to justify her repeating anti-Semitic trope by attacking a Rabbi and his family. She has called any Jew who points out her anti-Semitism a “thug” and “part of a gang” that she compares to Crips and Bloods.

I am always recalcitrant to  speak negatively about any conservative in the public arena, as we are all attacked too much by the left as it is. But it is worth taking an honest look at Ms. Owens to see if her previous words were just based on ignorance, or if in combination with her latest actions demonstrate a Jew hater and ignorant hypocrite.

While Owens showed ennui towards what happened on Oct 7 and defended Kanye West, in the last few days she has adopted some of the oldest Jew hating lies. There is a reality that in the early 20th century, many Jews got involved in the entertainment industry as it was just starting. Many of the original heads of studios were Jewish: the Warner brothers, Thalberg, Mayer, and others gravitated to the new industry of motion pictures as they were kept out of other businesses by institutionalized anti-Semitism. This led to the oft repeated anti-Semitic trope of “the Jews control Hollywood”. Although there was actually a level of truth to that in the early 20th century, it was simply a Jew hating slur by the 1950s. By the 1970s, the majority of executives, producers, and powerful agents were no longer Jewish. By the 1990s, the slur was no longer being used, and had actually been replaced by the anti-gay slurs of “Hollywood is controlled by the gay mafia”, and “you can’t get a job in this town if you’re not gay”; and the days of Jew haters accusing Jews of controlling Hollywood was a relic of the past.

But not so for Owens, who has brought back that Jew hating libelous trope in recent days. And she has additionally made personal attacks on a prominent Rabbi and his family for his exposing her Jew hatred.

[ancestralsurvival]

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“Jews run Hollywood.”

No, as Ms. Streisand makes clear, Jews began aspects of modern Hollywood out of the tradition of the Yiddish theater, which also made significant contributions to Broadway:

But we didn’t just tell our own stories, we made it so others could tell their stories:

From the above article:

“He listened,” says Gloria Calderón Kellett, co-showrunner of the 2017-2020 revival of Lear’s One Day at a Time. “He very much understood his privilege, and he leveraged it consistently for other people. For him, it was, ‘How can I best serve you guys in the telling of this story authentically?'”

Listening and helping others are Jewish values.

Maybe Jews were mistaken to ascribe these values to people who don’t believe the way we do. Yet, it still hurts all the more when other people don’t listen and try to help us.

Note: This post is about antisemitism in the diaspora, particularly in the US, and also to contextualize why diaspora Jews in the US have contributed to certain industries. There are many other important issues right now, but they aren’t what this post is about. Also, the “privilege” mentioned in the quote is easily revoked, as we all know too well.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[ace-hell]

"jews control Hollywood!"

Jews invented Hollywood, don't like it doesn't use it or participate, or watch. It was made for us not you

"jews control the banks!"

Jews were tasked with money work bc it was viewed as blasphemous, have a problem take it up with the medieval christians

"jews control the media!!"

Have yall even seen wtf is going on with the media😭 ain't no fucking way a zionist jew run that thing

"jews control the weather and land and cause natural disasters!"

Omg? Like in the ATLA? the earthbender jews cause earthquake? And water bender jews cause tsunami? Tbh that's kinda sick yall are just losers

"jews drink X people's blood!"

Humans. Can't. Digest. Blood. We all should've died long ago if that was true

"jews are satanists!!"

Jews? Don't? Believe? In? Satan??? In judaism satan is a metaphor for your negative, inpulsive, violent and intrusive thoughts not a literal being or an entity, the idea of "satan" as a ruler contradicts the whole idea of judaism and "one god one ruler" 💀

"jews are colonizers!!"

Yes bc palestinians and jews proving they are native by having JEWISH dna is SO colonial weh. there's no palestinian dna so that's a food for thought. Also הגונב מגנב פטור.

"jews killed jesus!"

Wha holup, i thought yall believe jesus was palestinian no? Bc "he lived in what today is palestine"? Does that mean that everyone at the time were palestinians too? Palestinians killed jesus.

[odinsblog]

“I’m not the first person that’s happened to, but it was shocking. I don’t even know what to say. I think everything that happened was very transparent, on both sides, and I know who I am, and I know that what I said always came from a place of love and a place of humanity and a place of human rights and a place of freedom for people, which shouldn’t be controversial. It shouldn’t be up for debate. So, I’m very at peace. The people who know me in my family know the truth about me and where I stand, and I think most people in the world also do.”

—Melissa Barrera, on being fired from ‘Scream VII’ and being accused of “Holocaust distortion” after voicing support for Palestine 🇵🇸

[alwaysbewoke]

You know you fucked up when you got a slimeball like this talking like this about you...