Today’s quote comes to us from film director Jonathan Glazer – who, upon winning an Oscar, was nice enough to provide this deep, brilliant insight to the audience (a great many of whom cheered it):
“Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza”
I was ready to answer this particularly striking bit of idiotica…but writer/commentator Ben Shapiro did such a complete job of it he made things easy for me.
Says Mr. Shapiro:
There are a bushel of lies in this single sentence. First, there was no “occupation” of Gaza prior to Oct. 7; the Israelis abandoned Gaza in 2005 and turned it over to the Palestinians, who promptly tore down Israeli infrastructure and elected Hamas, who themselves turned Gaza into a full-scale terror ministate. Second, no “occupation” could justify the wholesale slaughter of some 1,200 innocents in Israel and the taking of 250 hostages on Oct. 7. Third, it is certainly not “Jewish and the Holocaust being hijacked” to point out that Hamas literally targets Jews for extermination, just as the Nazis once did. And finally, Israel is taking extraordinary measures to protect civilian life in Gaza; Israel has taken measures no military in history has taken, including sacrificing the lives of its own soldiers to go door-to-door in a terrorist-ridden urban hellscape.
In fact, Glazer has it all backward. It is he who is using his Jewishness and the Holocaust as a weapon — in favor of Hamas. Glazer has little actual involvement in Judaism on a day-to-day level — he grew up reform and there is little evidence of his Jewish practice today. But he’s happy to pull out his Jewishness card — to say that he, As A Jew, stands against Israel defending itself. This allows him to garner plaudits from his fellow political left-wingers, all the while maintaining his status in the intersectional hierarchy. Jews, as it turns out, are only allowed in the intersectional hierarchy so long as they use their Jewishness to attack Israel, or whatever the left-wing cause of the day is.
Well said, Ben. Very well said.
I award Jonathan Glazer Quote Of The Day honors for providing such an excellent example of “woke” scripture.
Right up there with “defund the police, don’t treat shoplifting and street assaults as serious crimes, let the perpetrators go without bail…and that will make everyone safer”.
