Mandy Patinkin (Graphic: The Jewish Press)
Mandy Patinkin is to receive an award from the American friends of an Israeli medical center at their gala at the Harvard Club in New York next month, and the award is rankling the right guard.
The Jewish Press— the same Jewish Press that published Lori Lowenthal Marcus’s bizarre rant about Dustin Hoffman’s Semitic nose and Emad Burnat as an alleged “Israel-hater”– seems to be demonizing Mandy Patinkin in the green-bearded image above. Because Marcus is ticked that an honor is going to someone who supports boycotting the settlements, “an American Jewish celebrity who supports economic warfare against Jews living and working in Judea and Samaria.”
Working off the original image of his impassioned speech at the Peace Now Conference in Tel Aviv last spring (at which he described America as his homeland and said, “I am certain that this peace process will prevail”), the Jewish Press morphs Patinkin into the very opposite of who he is.
Look at the original:
Lori Lowenthal Marcus knows it; she says “It is hard to listen to Patinkin and imagine anything other than that he has a warm, loving soul and just wants everyone to get along.”
But the award worries her– another soldier in Israel’s delegitimization:
Now we learn that the American fundraising arm of a wonderful Israeli institution – Soroka Medical Center – is poised to honor yet another soldier in the delegitimization war against Israel.
………..And now Jews are left with the choice of not going to a fundraiser for a wonderful, non-political medical center in Israel, or going and watching as an American Jew who encourages the economic boycott of a Jewish town is given an award. It’s a tough choice that Jews should not make other Jews make.
‘By the time I left I didn’t want a memory of this place’ – wow…
”the economic boycott of a Jewish town is given an award. ‘
gawd….it and they (illegal settlements) are not Jewish towns.
You know what you should start doing?…instead of just writing up their unfair denunciations of people like Patinkin…..you should really ridicule the stupidity of the Lori Lowenthal ‘s…..as in hey honey how STUPID are you to not know that nowhere except in zionist comic books and propaganda are illegal settlements Jewish towns.
“Soldier in the delegitimization war against Israel” ?? Not so fast with this inescapable Zionist-Expansionist rant.
Any Zionist who is content with an Israel territorially consisting of pre-1967 Israel (a non-expansionist Zionist) will see that battling the settlement and occupation projects is not anti-Zionist and THUS does not delegitimize Israel (however much it necessarily delegitimizes these two projects).
But the Expansionists desire to blackmail all Jews into becoming their enablers by use of the familiar “all Jews must stick up for all other Jews” rigamerole, suggesting that these two projects are noble expressions of Judaism, etc., blah-blah.
I’d hope that just a few Jews could begin to say:
These are people who have even tried “demonize” legendary anti-apartheid activists like Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and who have also now moved on to uttering some of the most vile statements imaginable against a renowned intellectual and scholar like Stephen Hawking.
There’s no one on Earth and in all of history that Zionists won’t cannibalize for Greater Israel.