Mayim Bialik: I've lost many fans, but I'm still a Zionist (article + great video)

The Jewish star of CBS's "The Bing Bang Theory," says she has lost a lot of fans in the past month because of her support for Israel, but that "it's OK. I love you more than popularity, even when you make me crazy. And even though I don’t always agree with Israeli policy, I’m still a Zionist."

In a post titled, "Why I wear my Jewish star," Bialik wrote that following the Israeli operation in Gaza and what she had been through in the past month, she truly understood for the first time why Jews who previously hadn't worn skullcaps started wearing them in the United States after the Yom Kippur War in 1973, "when Jews were being attacked simply for being."

"In the middle of the conflicts in Israel and Gaza this month, and in the middle of the virulent attacks I was coming under on social media, I put on my Magen David – my Star of David necklace – and it strangely felt like putting on armor," she wrote. "It felt like a statement. Gold armor around my neck: The way I show that I am Jewish and that I am not afraid to be so."

6 Thanks Jews! [Public Service Announcement]

Sarcasm is a lousy way to make a point and many times defeats any valid points in an argument, as is evidenced by the comments from many Freepers. The video is an interesting compilation, some of it incorrect. The Jewish story in the West is an old story ...

“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvellous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?” by Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, excerpt from "Concerning the Jew", 26 page essay, © 1898, published by Harper’s Monthly

“During my youth I rather leaned toward the prognosis that the Jews of different countries would be assimilated and that the Jewish question would thus disappear, as it were, automatically. The historical development of the last quarter of a century has not confirmed this view. Decaying capitalism has everywhere swung over to an intensified nationalism, one aspect of which is anti-Semitism. The Jewish question has loomed largest in the most highly developed capitalist country of Europe, Germany. … The Jews of different countries have created their press and developed the Yiddish language as an instrument adapted to modern culture. One must therefore reckon with the fact that the Jewish nation will maintain itself for an entire epoch to come. … We must bear in mind that the Jewish people will exist a long time. The nation cannot normally exist without common territory. Zionism springs from this very idea. But the facts of every passing day demonstrate to us that Zionism is incapable of resolving the Jewish question. The conflict between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine acquires a more and more tragic and more and more menacing character. I do not at all believe that the Jewish question can be resolved within the framework of rotting capitalism and under the control of British imperialism. … Socialism will open the possibility of great migrations on the basis of the most developed technique and culture. It goes without saying that what is here involved is not compulsory displacements, that is, the creation of new ghettos for certain nationalities, but displacements freely consented to, or rather demanded, by certain nationalities or parts of nationalities. The dispersed Jews who would want to be reassembled in the same community will find a sufficiently extensive and rich spot under the sun. The same possibility will be opened for the Arabs, as for all other scattered nations. National topography will become a part of the planned economy. This is the great historic perspective as I see it. To work for international Socialism means to work also for the solution of the Jewish question.” Excerpts of Trotsky’s interview with Jewish Telegraphic Agency, published on 1/18/1937. Trotsky was an atheistic Jew who was exiled by Stalin about the time that Stalin began purging the Jewish marxist revolutionaries from his govenment. Trotsky was later assassinated in Mexico on orders by Stalin.

9 ... What is wrong with all the Jew haters? I don’t understand. The Dems hate the Jews, yet the Jews vote for the Dems. I don’t understand this either.

In national politics, Jews, who may or not be secular (~41% of the U.S. Jewish population is estimated to be religiously observant), holding office in Congress are present in numbers greater than their ~2% slice of the U.S. population pie.

The following is a list of the 39 Jewish members of Congress - 12 senators (12/100 = 12%) and 27 representatives (27/435 = 6%) - who served in the 112th U.S. Congress (2011 - 2012). Only 1 out of the 39 was a Republican. Both of CA’s senators were Jewish. CA and NY each had 6 Jewish representatives.

The American Conservative Union (ACU) is an American political organization advocating conservative policies, and is the oldest such conservative lobbying organization in the country. Founded in DEC 1964 by author and commentator William F Buckley Jr., the ACU was established after the defeat of Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) in the Presidential election of 1964 against LBJ (D-TX)). ACU's most well-known event is the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). ACU is well-known for its annual ranking of politicians according to how they voted on key issues, providing a numerical indicator of how much the law makers agreed with conservative ideals. These scores (on a scale of 0 → 100, liberal → conservative) are often used in political science research, in news stories and in election campaigns.

U.S. Senate – 112th Congress: 2010 – ACU life-time rating

 Carl Levin (D-MI) 32 years = 6.67
 Charles Schumer (D-NY) 30 years = 5.53
 Barbara Boxer (D-CA) 28 years = 2.85
 Frank Lautenberg (D/NJ) 27 years = 4.78
 Joe Lieberman (D/I-CT) 22 years = 15.60
Retired after the 2012 election.
 Bernard Sanders (I-VT) 20 years = 6.59
 Diane Feinstein (D-CA) 18 years = 8.50
 Ron Wyden (D-OR) 30 years = 9.23
 Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) 25 years = 5.05
 Herb Kohl (D-WI) 22 years = 13.12
 Michael Bennet (D-CO) 3 years = 7.00
His mother is a Jewish holocaust survivor.
 Al Franken (D-MN) 2 years = 0.00
 Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) 0 years
Joined Congress in 2011.

U.S. House of Representatives – 112th Congress: 2010 - ACU life-time rating

 Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) 6 years = 0.67
Democrat Party National Chair
 Henry Waxman (D-CA) 36 years = 4.43
 Barney Frank (D-MA) 30 years = 4.13
Retired after the 2012 election. In 1987, he became the 1st sitting member of Congress to openly disclose his homosexuality. He married his partner in MA on 7/07/12.
 Gary Ackerman (D-NY) 24 years = 4.04
 Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) 18 years = 2.47
 Eric Cantor (R-VA) 10 years = 99.7
House Majority Leader. The only Republican in Congress who is Jewish. He was defeated in a 2014 primary.
 Sander Levin (D-MI) 28 years = 3.10
 Howard Berman (D-CA) 28 years = 5.18
 Nita Lowey (D-NY) 22 years = 4.16
 Eliot Engel (D-NY) 21 years = 2.77
 Bob Filner (D-CA) 18 years = 4.32
 Jane Harman (D-CA) 16 years = 16.13
 Steve Rothman (D-NJ) 14 years = 7.93
 Brad Sherman (D-CA) 14 years = 14.98
 Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) 13 years = 1.92
Her maternal grandfather was Jewish. She was the 1st openly homosexual non-incumbent elected to the House of Representatives.
 Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) 12 years = 1.42
 Anthony Weiner (D-NY) 12 years = 4.72
Resigned in disgrace in 2012.
 Shelley Berkley (D-NV) 12 years = 11.02
 Susan Davis (D-CA) 10 years = 4.80
 Adam Schiff (D-CA) 10 years = 6.85
 Steve Israel (D-NY) 10 years = 11.10
 Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) 6 years = 4.00
 John Yarmuth (D-KY) 4 years = 1.00
 Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) 4 years = 14.25
 Steve Cohen (D-TN) 4 years = 0.00
 Jared Polis (D-CO) 2 years = 4.40
Openly homosexual when elected as a freshman to Congress. He and his partner have a son.
 Ted Deutch (D-FL) 1 years = 0.00
 David Cicilline (D-RI) 0 years (joined in 2011) Open homosexual

Jews currently occupy 3 of the 9 chairs on the SCOTUS. The other 6 justices are Roman Catholics. No Protestants currently sit on the SCOTUS.

 Stephen Breyer – MA
 Ruth Bader Ginsburg – NY, former ACLU General Counsel
 Elena Kegan – NY, lesbian

Two of America’s 3 largest cities currently have Jewish mayors.

 Michael Bloomberg – Democrat, an avowed atheist, billionaire, and founder of the anti-2nd Amendment coalition of mayors “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”. He term-limited out as mayor of NYC, after 3 terms, in JAN 2014.
 Rahm Emanuel - Chicago

17 If Jews own the media like you reckon, they’ve done a really crappy job at exploiting the medium, because the MSM is relentlessly anti-Israeli in its editorial slant.

LA TIMES, 12/19/2008, Who runs Hollywood? C'mon

“… As a proud Jew (author, Joel Stein), I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you'd be flipping between "The 700 Club" and "Davey and Goliath" on TV all day. …”

 AMC President - Charlie Collier (Jewish
 CBS Corp. Chief Executive - Leslie Moonves (Jewish - his great uncle was the 1st prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion)
 MGM Chairman - Harry Sloan (Jewish)
 NBC Universal Chief Executive - Jeff Zucker (Jewish)
 News Corp. President - Peter Chernin (Jewish)
 Paramount Pictures Chairman - Brad Grey (Jewish)
 Sony Pictures Chairman - Michael Lynton (Dutch Jew)
 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) President - Alan Rosenberg (Jewish)
 Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive - Robert Iger (Jewish)
 Warner Bros. Chairman - Barry Meyer (Jewish)

Wikipedia list of drama/ documentary films with Holocaust themes

Wikipedia List of American Jews List is 2 years old, so ages are off.

 Norman Lear, aged 89 – television producer, creator of the 1970s TV serial, “All in the Family” and founder of the progressive advocacy group in 1981, “People for the American Way”
 Carl Reiner, aged 89 - actor/ comedian/ director/ producer/ writer. Has described himself as a Jewish atheist.
 Stan (Lieber) Lee, aged 89 - writer, editor, publisher, producer, actor, reality show host, philanthropist for diversity causes. Creator of the Marvel comic book characters Fantastic 4, Hulk, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and X-Men.
 Ed Koch, aged 88, died in 2013 - lawyer, politician, and political commentator. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and 3 terms as mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. Lifelong bachelor strongly rumored to be homosexual.
 Barbara Walters, aged 82 - TV personality
 Ed Asner, aged 82 - actor, political activist
 Maury Povich, aged 73 - talk show host – “Maury”
 Michael Eisner, aged 70 - American businessman/ entertainment executive with ABC and then CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984-2005. Eisner brought in homosexualist Jeffrey Katzenburg as his 2nd in command.
 Barbra Streisand, aged 69 - screen legend and world-famous singer, whose actor son Jason with fellow Jewish actor Elliott Gould (long since divorced) is homosexual
 David Geffen, - aged 69 - record executive, film producer, theatrical producer, and philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970, Geffen Records in 1980, and DGC Records in 1990. Geffen was also 1 of the 2 founders of DreamWorks SKG in 1994. He is openly homosexual.
 Geraldo Rivera, aged 68 – attorney, investigative television journalist and host, now with Fox News.
 Jerry Springer, aged 68 – former politician, talk-show host – “The Jerry Springer Show”
 Nina Totenberg, aged 68 - journalist and legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio.
 Lorne (David Lipowitz) Michaels, aged 67 - television producer, writer, and comedian. Best known for creating and producing “Saturday Night Live”.
 Jann Wenner – aged 66, co-founder and publisher Rolling Stone magazine, divorced in 1995 with 3 sons. Has 3 children with fashion designer and homosexual partner Matt Nye.
 Oliver Stone, aged 65 – film director, producer, and screen-writer. His father was Jewish so technically he is not ethnically Jewish. Stone was raised as an Episcopalian but converted later in life to Buddhism. His 27-year old son, Sean Stone, converted to Shia Islam while in Iran filming a documentary during FEB 2012.
 Steven Spielberg, aged 65 – film-maker, mogul extraordinaire, 1 of the 3 founders of DreamWorks SKG which was launched in 1994.
 Rob Reiner, aged 65 – son of Carl Reiner, actor, director, producer, writer, political activist. Co-founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights which initiated the defense team against California's passing of Prop 8 which banned same-sex marriage in the state.
 Andrew Tobias, aged 65 - journalist, author, and columnist. Since 1999, he has been the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Tobias was the partner of late fashion designer Charles Nolan who died on January 30, 2011.[2] Tobias was Grand Marshall of the 2005 New York City LGBTQ Pride Parade.
 Andrea Mitchell, aged 65 - news anchor - NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, wife of former Fed Chairman
 Wolf Blitzer, aged 64 – journalist – CNN’s “The Situation Room” anchor
 Howard Fineman, aged 62 – journalist, editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group, NBC News analyst
 Jeffrey Katzenberg, aged 61 - film producer, 1 of the 3 founders of DreamWorks SKG which was launched in 1994. Currently CEO of DreamWorks Animation.
 Arthur Ochs “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr., aged 61 – publisher of The New York Times. His father was Jewish so technically he is not ethnically Jewish. He was raised in his mother's Episcopalian faith, but no longer observes the religion.
 Harvey Weinstein, aged 60 – studio head (co-founder of Miramax Films), producer
 Churck (Levine) Lorre, aged 60 - writer, television producer, composer, television director, production manager, “Two and a Half Men”, “The Big Bang Theory”
 Suze Orman – aged 60, author, television personality, motivational speaker, open lesbian  Paul Krugman, aged 59 - op-ed columnist for The New York Times
 Roseanne Barr, aged 59 - actress, comedian, writer, producer, director, perennial Green Party presidential candidate
 Howard Stern, aged 58 - radio personality, television host, author, actor, photographer
 Ellen Barkin, aged 58 - actress
 Andrew Rosenthal, aged 56 – opinion editor for The New York Times. His father’s family was Jewish.
 Bill Maher Jr., aged 56 – His mother was Jewish, but he was raised Catholic. Today he is a militant atheist. satirist, political satirist, news satirist, observational comedy
 Donny Deutsch, aged 54 - advertising executive; television personality
 Sean Penn, aged 51 – actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. His father was Jewish so technically he is not ethnically Jewish.
 Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz), aged 49 - stand-up comedian, actor, author; host, head writer, and producer of “The Daily Show”
 Judy Gold, aged 49 – actor and stand-up comic, lesbian who has 2 children
 Sarah Jessica Parker, aged 47 - actress, producer Her husband-actor, Matthew Broderick’s mother is Jewish.
 Ken Mehlman, aged 46 – RNC Chairman 2005-2006. Lobbied for homosexual marriage in NY. Now an open homosexual.
 Andy Cohen, aged 44 - Executive Vice President of Development and Talent at the Bravo cable television network, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. He is also the host of the network's nightly live talk show “Watch What Happens Live” and the author of a memoir, Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture. He is the 1st openly gay host of an American late night talk show.
 Sarah Silverman, aged 41, writer, stand-up comedienne, actress, agnostic She has stated she does not want to get married until same-sex couples are able to.
 Natalie (Hershlag) Portman, aged 31, actress
 Mark Zuckerberg, principal founder of Facebook, atheistic Jew

21 Physics were considered “Jewish Science” by the third reich, that’s why they didn’t and couldn’t develop an atomic bomb and we DID.

No argument on that. Except Robert Oppenheimer eventually lost his top security clearance after WWII because of his long flirtation with communism. And the Rosenbergs were convicted/executed for passing information about the A-bomb to the Soviets.

I stand with Israel against the jihadist Muslims.
I enjoy Mayim Bialik on "TBBT" and liked her earlier TV serial, "Blossom."
I acknowledge that Jesus was Jewish and that Christianity and Judaism are connected.
I am greatly enriched by conservative Jewish columnists/commentators like ...

 David Horowitz
 Dennis Prager
 Mark Levin
 Mona Charen
 Charles Krauthammer (semi-conservative)
 Ben Shapiro
The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration
video run time = 01:02:00 hours

Ben Shapiro lays out a criminal case against President Obama based on several scandals that have surrounded his administration, including Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and Fast & Furious. Mr. Shapiro spoke at an event hosted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles. Ben Shapiro, a columnist for Breitbart.com, is the author of "Primetime Propaganda" and "Porn Generation." For more, visit: benjaminshapiro.com.

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