The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
The Metropolitan Police arrested women for carrying signs in Arabic at a pro-Palestinian demo in London today, even though they did not actually know what the signs said.
Israel shot and killed a child in the occupied West Bank, and when his dad went out to try and help his boy they shot him too. The Israeli army then prevented an ambulance from reaching the boy for over an hour.
when we were begging people to care and humanize palestinians and their suffering people were like ‘why would you even ask that’, this is why. palestinian and arab suffering is nothing but joke material for the west.
"Where are they? They were four!"
A heartbreaking video of the moment when a Palestinian father knew about the killing of his four children by an Israeli missile in #Gaza.
#GazaUnderAttack#GazaUnderFire