March 29, 2015, - 5:26 pm
If Harvey Weinstein Wants to Stop Anti-Semitism, Why Does He Put Out Jew-Hating Films?
Hollywood bigwig Harvey Weinstein claims he wants to take on anti-Semitism and anti-Semites. But if that’s the case, he should start with the hypocritical schmuck he sees in his mirror.
I was disgusted, last week, to learn that the Simon Wiesenthal Center whored itself out yet again by honoring Hollywood studio owner Harvey Weinstein with an award. I was disgusted even more when I read The Hollywood Reporter description of Weinstein’s speech at the event, replete with tough talk about Jews fighting anti-Semitism.
Well, if Harvey Weinstein really cares about fighting Jew-hatred, he should start with himself.
You see, the most anti-Semitic movie put out by Hollywood, last year (and maybe in the last decade or two), was the dark and disturbing movie, “The Immigrant,” put out by Harvey Weinstein’s studio, The Weinstein Company (TWC). The movie, about a heartless, brutal Jewish pimp, goes out of its way to tell you that Jews in the early 1900s were pimps who went out of their way to destroy innocent, virginal, Polish Catholic immigrant women’s lives. He bribes INS officials to force and sell these women into sex slavery with the Jew as the slaver. You can read my complete review of this cinematic Protocols of the Elders of Zion here. The movie made me both angry and sick to my stomach. It reminded me of the anti-Semitic films the Nazis put out as propaganda in order to wipe out most of both sides of my family and do the same to millions of other Jews.
As I watched this movie, I concluded as I have many times before, that Al-Qaeda and ISIS and HAMAS and all of the Jew-haters in the world need not spend a penny on anti-Semitic filmmaking because they have the Jews to do it for them–in this case, Harvey Weinstein and his partner brother, Bob Weinstein.
And, so, it’s absolutely despicable that the Simon Wiesenthal Center would honor this cretin with any award, much less allow him on the premises. And it’s even more outrageous that Harvey Weinstein would speak as if he’s the Jewish Rocky, fighting against Jew-hatred, instead of what he is: the modern-day Jewish Leni Riefenstahl, making films that would be the envy of Goebbels.
Oh, and just in case you thought Mr. Weinstein actually cared much about fighting anti-Semitism, he qualified his remarks with the typical, “We must be understanding of our Arab brothers and our Islamic brothers.” We must? Says who? And–sooo typical–he lectured about Muslims who are “honorable and peaceful” (and the very fringe of the fringe of that religion).
This isn’t the first time the Wiesenthal Center has used the memories of my relatives who died in ovens in order to honor Jew-haters and those who finance Jew-hatred.
The Center honored actor Will Smith, who said he admired Hitler, then backtracked and pretended he didn’t. But, in the meantime, Smith’s foundation continued to finance and donate to extremist, openly anti-Semitic mosques all over Los Angeles.
And the Wiesenthal Center gave actor Arnold Schwarzenegger the kosher seal of approval after he donated millions to the Center. The Center granted absolution to Schwarzenegger, the son of a Nazi, even though Schwarzenegger proudly invited SS chief Kurt Waldheim to his wedding to Maria Shriver. Waldheim couldn’t attend because his Nazi past was known worldwide, and he was on the no-fly list as a designated war criminal. As he and Ms. Shriver opened Waldheim’s gift at the wedding, Schwarzenegger waxed lyrical about what a good friend of theirs the Nazi war criminal was and how sorry they were that Waldheim couldn’t make it.
My friends don’t want me to mention Kurt’s name, because of all the recent Nazi stuff and the U.N. controversy, but I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt.
And, then, the Wiesenthal Center honored HAMAS-fan Ben Kingsley, despite the fact that he went to visit PLO leader and Holocaust-denier-in-chief Mahmoud Abbas (whose Ph.D. topic was that the Holocaust never happened). Kingsley visited for the sole purpose of attacking Israel and Jews and denouncing Israeli soldiers as they tried to defend their fellow citizens from HAMAS. In the visit, Kingsley also defended Palestinians throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers, saying “they’re desperate” and have no other choice. He also said he “support[ed] the struggle of the Palestinian people,” which is code for “I support terrorism.” That’s what the Palestinians and their friends mean, when they use the word “struggle.”
Given all this and the fact that the Wiesenthal Center has a track record of honoring and lauding Jew-haters, I suppose I shouldn’t have been at all surprised that the organization–which has done nothing actually to stop or slow the increase in anti-Semitism (which has grown exponentially around the world throughout the Center’s existence)–chose this past week to honor Harvey Weinstein. And I shouldn’t have been surprised at all that Harvey Weinstein, the maker of the previous year’s (and probably the decade’s) most despicably anti-Jewish film, pretended he’s a fighter against anti-Semitism instead of a propagator of it.
So, when Harvey Weinstein says from the Weisenthal Center podium about anti-Semites, “We better stand up and kick these guys in the ass,” I gotta ask:
Just how exactly, Harvey, are you going to kick yourself in the ass?
And when he says of Jew-haters, “We just can’t take it anymore [from] these crazy bastards,” I have to agree.
Harvey, I just can’t take it any more from you, you crazy bastard.
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More:
“We better stand up and kick these guys in the ass,” movie mogul Harvey Weinstein said about present-day anti-Semites as he accepted the Humanitarian Award at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s National Tribute Dinner on Tuesday night at the Beverly Hilton. “We’re gonna have to get as organized as the mafia,” he continued. “We just can’t take it anymore [from] these crazy bastards.”
At the conclusion of a ceremony that celebrated four Jewish and gentile heroes (several posthumously), and at which more than a dozen Holocaust survivors were asked to stand and be applauded, Weinstein was introduced by his longtime friend and competitor Jeffrey Katzenberg — the event’s master of ceremonies — and Christoph Waltz. The actor has twice won the best supporting actor Oscar for roles in Weinstein films, the first time for portraying a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds. Weinstein said to hearty applause, “Too bad movies can’t all be like Inglourious Basterds, where Hitler gets what he deserves.”
Weinstein, 63, then went off-script to speak about his father, who was a sergeant stationed in Cairo during World War II. The elder Weinstein aided the Haganah (the precursor to the IDF before Israel was a state) and later taught his sons about anti-Semitism. Weinstein emphasized his concern about anti-Semitism around the world, which Wiesenthal Center studies indicate is at its highest levels since the end of World War II.
“I’m upset when I read The Atlantic Monthly’s headline that says, ‘Should the Jews leave Europe?’ — a resounding ‘no’ on my end — and [New York Times columnist] David Brooks today talking about how to combat anti-Semitism,” Weinstein said. “It’s like, here we go again, we’re right back where we were [before the Holocaust]. And the lessons of the past are we better stand up and kick these guys in the ass.”
The co-head of The Weinstein Company continued, “I think it’s time that we, as Jews, get together with the Muslims who are honorable and peaceful — but we [also] have to go and protect ourselves. We have to build, once again, back into the breach. There’s a quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s book The Sirens of Titan and it always was the motto of Miramax and now The Weinstein Company. It says, ‘Good can triumph over evil if the angels are as organized as the mafia.’ That’s how we built our company! And, unfortunately, we [Jews] are gonna have to get as organized as the mafia. We just can’t take it anymore. We just can’t take these things. There’s gotta be a way to fight back.”
“While we must be understanding of our Arab brothers and our Islamic brothers,” he added, “we also have to understand that these crazy bastards [Arab and Islamic extremists] are also killing their own — they’re killing neighbors, they’re killing people from all sorts of different races. And, unlike World War II, when we didn’t act right away and we paid the price, we better start acting now. Trust me, I’m the last guy who wants to do anything about it, but I realize if we don’t, we will perish. We can’t allow the bad guys to win. So, as they say in The Godfather, ‘back to the mattresses,’ and back to the idea that we will not ever forget what happened to us.”
Blah, blah, blah. Do as Harvey Weinstein says, not as he does.
Talk is cheap, none cheaper than that coming out of the mouths of Hollywood hypocrites.
If and when there is ever a Jewish Godfather organizing like the mob to fight back against Jew-hatred, Harvey Weinstein will be the first to emulate Luca Brasi and relocate near the fishes.
That Was Then . . .
This Is Now . . .
Tags: Harvey Weinstein, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Sadly, leftist Jews are nearly always leftists first, above anything and everything. You could almost say they are “principled” in this way–however misguided or heinous those “principles” may be.
And this, unfortunately, isn’t a new phenomenon and I see I mirroring of Hollywood conduct of the current rise of Islam with the earlier ascent of the Nazis. As Mark Twain put it (or words to this effect), “history may not repeat itself, but it does seem to rhyme.” As the Nazis came to power in Germany, the Jewish film moguls, instead of confronting Hitler directly, took a “let’s not upset the apple cart” point of view and willingly made concessions to the Nazis so as not to contradict or upset the Nazis. There’s a book that I’m planning to read that addresses this very issue, called “The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler,” by Ben Urwand. Some may say that Urwand’s case for “collaboration” may be stating his case too strongly, but the evidence does, at a minimum, show acquiescence. (Another book I;m planning on reading is “Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters–Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler,” by Allan Ryskind, because there’s a link between the subjects. Little Al recommends the latter book, BTW.) This is not to say that Jewish filmmakers were all leftists by any means. There were several great people in the film industry who stood strong to genuine Jewish principles–or just plain principles of decency. The great screenwriter Ben Hecht, for example, comes to mind. But today?
Ralph Adamo on March 29, 2015 at 5:54 pm