You can be gay, racist, anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, mysoginist, a drunk, a drug dealer, a child-molester, guilty of manslaughter - Hollywood will forgive all this and there are actors working today who fall into these categories. The one thing you cannot be or seem to be in Hollywood is anti-semetic. That is not forgivable.
Maybe so, but it's perfectly ok to be anti-zionist and anti-neocon, and those are just about the same thing. I suppose it's like the n-word. It's ok (to them) to keep blacks on the plantation, to treat them like idiot children, to keep them on welfare, but by God nobody better use THAT WORD.
Of course, this rule does not apply to muzzies.
"The one thing you cannot be or seem to be in Hollywood is anti-semetic."
Hollywood doesn't like it if you're anti-semitic, either.
I bet you they will forgive Mel for it. These days, the Jews in Hollywood aren't really Jews. They're liberals, who happen to be of Jewish ancestry. And, since Jew-hating is fashionable amongst liberals these days, they'll probably follow the trend as well.