[SJackson]

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[Obadiah]

Ben Shapiro absolutely nails it.

[Impy]

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[School of Rational Thought]

Is this new?

What were American Jews doing to help their kin in Europe during WWII?

Not a rhetorical question.

[MinuteGal]

I well remember the "Bonds for Israel" drives in the '50s....designed to help the fledgling state of Israel survive.

The drives were led by Israeli leaders like David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir. It seems that all of Hollywood, Jews and Christians alike, rallied around to lend its support to the imperative cause.

Moguls like Sam Goldwyn, the Warner brothers, Selznik, etc., raised vast sums of money for the struggling new nation. $52.6 million was raised the first year alone, a tremendous amount in the dollars of the fifties.

Many film celebrities staged fund-raising events in New York and throughout the nation. These events were reported regularly and with much fanfare in the media of the day.

Today, the perils and uncertain future of the beleaguered Israeli state scarcely raises a "ho-hum" from the well-heeled in the Hollywood/LA entertainment complex. Israel still sells bonds but it's barely noticed. Today, a "fund drive" organized and participated in by the Jewish entertainment industry would undoubtedly never even get off the ground or it would be laughed off the stage.

Today's movie moguls and stars of Jewish heritage should be asking themselves, "What price fame and glory if you lose your soul?"......but, then, it appears most of them have long ago discarded their religion, heritage, traditions and roots for a mess of pottage.

Leni

[ridesthemiles]

I am pretty sure that Whoopi Goldberg is NOT her birth name.

She made that name up.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Another excellent article, though Shapiro's theory of the centrality of the Holocaust to liberal Hollywood Jews doesn't go far enough.

I'm actually old enough to remember when liberal Hollywood Jews really were pro-Israel (often implying that if you weren't liberal you couldn't be pro-Israel). Remember all the pro-Israel made-for-TV movies there used to be? Now they're all gone, sunk in an Orwellian memory hole because the "party line" changed.

While liberals and some conservatives have flip-flopped on the issue, only Biblical Fundamentalists have been consistently pro-Israel in all circumstances.