SPIKE LEE AINT AFRAID but he'll pay a price down the road. This is Spike during an interview:
"And I'll leave it at this: I just find it insane that if you speak about what's happening in Gaza, if you speak about young children starving to death, that makes you antisemitic. Those pictures that are going around the world now of starvation - it's a horrible, horrible situation there. I don't know how it makes you antisemitic if you say something about what's happening in Gaza." [NY mag]
Even with such a mild observation Spike Lee will be branded a Jew-hater. Worth noting Spike is now probably the only high-profile Black Hollywood celeb to comment on Gaza. The others are in hiding!
This is Cong. Rashida Tlaib at a Palestinian Conference:
"They thought they could kill us, rape us, imprison us, violently uproot us from our olive tree farms, starve our children to death, and we would disappear. Well, guess what? Now we're in Congress...I want to say to all of them, every genocide enabler, look at this room, motherf***ers! We ain't going anywhere." [8.3]
...I love it! Big props to Rep. Rashida Tlaib! FREE PALESTINE!!!
Don't shoot the messenger. This is Trump on AIPAC/Israel lobby during an interview:
"I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body or of any company or corporation or state that I've ever seen. Israel was the strongest..There was a time you couldn't speak bad about Israel if you wanted to be a politician... Israel was the strongest lobby I've ever seen. They had total control over Congress." [Haaretz, 9.3]
Trump was commenting on the decreasing support for Israel lately in Congress, especially among young representatives. That's true, but AIPAC remains powerful.
Had it been anyone besides Trump making that observation he'd be labeled an antisemite! BUT THEN, President Kennedy, President Nixon, and President Carter, all spoke of the power of the Israeli lobby in America. Kennedy even wanted them to register as "a foreign agent", which got him into lots of trouble before he was killed.
