Thanks go to actor Javier Bardem for his principled stand at the Emmy Awards last night. (No, I did not watch them.) He said on the red carpet, “We [Film Workers for Palestine] will never work with some company now [who] are not condemning the genocide in Gaza.”
Bardem is on a list of entertainers and artists who have shown moral integrity in standing against what Israel is doing in Gaza.
An example of someone showing the opposite of moral integrity would be actor/comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Mr. Seinfeld shared this intellectually inert piece of reasoning at Duke University recently:
“By saying ‘Free Palestine’, you’re not admitting what you really think,” he continued. “So it’s actually—compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ OK, that’s honest.”
So, if Mr. Seinfeld values honesty, why doesn’t he expect it of his beloved Israel, which does not say what it is trying to achieve in the Palestinian territories? And why does Mr. Seinfeld not expect honesty from the snipers murdering Gaza's hungry children? Mr. Seinfeld would rather change the subject and make this about being Jewish.
It is not. It’s about Israeli crimes. I posted a video clip on this blog of an ultra-orthodox rabbi comparing Israel’s leadership to Nazis. An ultra-orthodox rabbi. Is he anti-semitic, Mr. Seinfeld? Or are you protecting a foreign country’s crimes? And why is that? Why don’t you say what you are thinking, Mr. Seinfeld? Why don’t you “come right out and say” why you’re looking to cover up the murder of hungry children?
In addition to being weak and a moral failure, you're also something of a hypocrite, aren't you, Mr. Seinfeld?