I’ll start with an apology. Sorry I didn’t give you all a heads up that I was going to be taking a few days off. I have some (not very convincing) excuses. First, on March 7, I threw a belated Thanksgiving dinner for my family, all 28 – children, grandchildren, spouses and partners, and even a little great-grandchild. Now, you might ask, isn’t Thanksgiving in November? Well, actually, it is. But in November, my grandson was blowing up Hamas tunnels in Gaza. I prayed so hard he’d return to us and I promised him that when that happened, and he and his wife could join us, I’d throw the biggest, best, Thanksgiving party ever to thank the God of Israel for his return. I did. And they all came. This lovely family evening was followed on March 10 by a family wedding in Jerusalem. It was Sephardic. It brought the house down.

And for a few days, I tried to forget about the war, about our sorrows, and revel in all the abundance and joy that still remains for each of us as part of the Jewish people in the homeland that God has given us.

But even in our joy at having been spared, we have not forgotten our anguish over our decimated families, our captives, and our fallen soldiers. Even as we rejoice over the creation of yet another Jewish family to strengthen the people of Israel, we smash a glass under the wedding canopy, never forgetting what has been lost and destroyed, a tradition that has been with the Jewish people for centuries, for good reason. We rejoice, we grow, we prosper. But we do not forget what was done to us and we continue to hope and pray for the defeat and destruction of our enemies.

That includes stupid Hollywood airheads wearing red pins with a hand. I bet they don’t even realize what it symbolizes: terrorists hands red with the blood of two lynched IDF reservists—Chief Sargeant Yossi Avrahami (38) a toy salesman from Petach Tikva, and Corporal Vadim Nurzhitz (33) , a truck driver from Or Akiva, who in 2000 were returning to duty in a civilian vehicle when they made a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah and in the hands of Palestinian Authority policemen, who took them into custody. A thousand Palestinians stormed the police station, lynching both soldiers and holding up their bloodied hands in victory in an infamous photo. That’s the symbol you are wearing Billie Eilish, Mark Ruffalo, Ava DuVernay. Despicable. This is my wish for you all: that when Islamic terrorism invades Hollywood (a scenario made ever more likely by your encouragement and efforts to legitimize them and everything they do) you get to feel first-hand the joys of being terrorized by sickos addicted to murder, rape and kidnapping. Believe me, you Hollywood types, with your revealing dresses and gender-bending morals, are just their type.

There are stupid morons like Mark Ruffalo, and then there are people like Jonathan Glazer, the British-born director of German Holocaust movie Zone of Interest, who won an Oscar and used his platform to say: “We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation.”

As David Schaecter, a 94-year old survivor, and president of the Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation wrote on the Foundation’s website Tuesday: “I watched in anguish Sunday night when I heard you use the platform of the Oscar’s ceremony to equate Hamas’ maniacal brutality against innocent Israelis with Israel’s difficult but necessary self-defense in the face of Hamas’ ongoing barbarity. Your comments were factually inaccurate and morally indefensible.”

CEO Sacha Roytman of Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) had this to say: “Unfortunately, Jonathan Glazer has turned a magnificent achievement into another ‘As a Jew’ moment, where he appropriates his religious and ethnic identity to attack the national homeland of the Jewish People which is fighting a war on seven fronts against those who openly call for the genocide of Jews.”

If anyone could have put these people in their place it was Steven Spielberg. How I would have loved to see him, a la Will Smith, storm up on stage and smash that gold idol in Jonathan Glazer’s stupid, sneering British face in the name of the Jewish people! As the Purim megillah says: “Who knows, perhaps for this reason you were put in this place? For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place.” It will have too. Spielberg did nothing. Big disappointment.

I’m not going to see Zone of Interest. I’m not going to see any film with Mark Ruffalo, or any other “Cease-Fire” idiot; I’m not listening to any music by Billie Ellish (no great sacrifice). But these immoral gentiles do not compare to the “As a Jew…” traitors, who deserve a special place in hell for throwing their people under the bus in the delusional pursuit of a unique status that will exempt them from the ire of Jew-haters, a tactic, I might add, oft tried through Jewish history, but which never actually succeeded.

He’d know that, if he knew the least bit about Jewish history, which he obviously does not.

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