Battle is over — but it surely appears nobody informed the grandstanding, Israel-hating celebrities who made the “Free Palestine, ceasefire now” motion their complete persona for the final two years.
It's been two days since President Trump introduced the historic and, sure, nonetheless precarious ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Such great information — an finish to the preventing in Gaza and the return of Israeli hostages — must be met with applause from all sides.
And but, there's been relative crickets from the keffiyeh refrain of Hollywood.
Actor Mark Ruffalo, among the many loudest critics of Israel, has been very lively on instagram. However has he shared any heartfelt messages about this primary step towards peace? Nah, only a bunch of anti-Trump posts from his buddies, together with Robert DeNiro telling everybody to come back out for the subsequent No Kings Day.
Over on X, Ruffalo called for a ban on nonstick pans.
Ceasefire to grease fireplace!
“Hacks” comic Meg Stalter confirmed as much as September's Emmys with a black purse coated in a big piece of tape with the phrase “Ceasefire” written on it.
Now? Nada from her on the ceasefire.
To be honest, it's not simply Hollywood celebs. All of a sudden, Rep. Rashida Talib, who's Palestinian American, has higher issues to speak about. Greta “How dare you?” Thunberg is relentlessly posting about her ineffective flotilla of influencers. Nothing in regards to the ceasefire, as a result of that may finish her genocide grift.
Final month, greater than 2,000 artists signed a petition pledging to not work with Israeli filmmakers or “establishments which are complicit in Israel's human rights abuses towards the Palestinian individuals.”
Boldface signees included John Cusack, Joaquin Phoenix and director Ava DuVernay. This week, these three have merely shared movies criticizing Trump and the peace plan.
I anticipated an enormous celebration from Stalter's “Hacks” co-star Hannah Einbinder, who actually wore an “Artists4Ceasefire” pin to the Emmys and used her win to scream: “Free Palestine and f–okay ICE.”
After this week's information, she initially posted a video of her decrying Zionisim as a betrayal of Judaism and a tragic meme in regards to the Eagles shedding to the Giants. By Friday evening, two days after the very fact, Einbinder discovered the fitting ready publish to share: “We're elated by the Gaza ceasefire information,” it reads in small sort.
Bigger are the phrases, “Now the world should maintain Israel to account for two years of genocide.”
I assume I shouldn't be stunned. When Hamas murdered greater than 1,200 harmless Israelis and kidnapped 251 hostages on October 7, 2023, there was relative silence from Hollywood's hypocrites. And it will definitely turned rather more trendy to change into a shameless Israel-basher.
Maybe most shameless of all is Spanish actor Javier Bardem. He has posted a number of movies of youngsters celebrating in Gaza, however his happiness was tempered by whinging posts that the ceasefire doesn't handle the true problem of a free Palestine.
Perhaps he ought to take that up with boys from Hamas.
In 2014, Bardem and spouse Penélope Cruz signed an open letter, revealed in a Spanish newspaper, accusing Israel of genocide.
When the actor obtained blowback, he issued an announcement saying, “Whereas I used to be essential of the Israeli army response, I've nice respect for the individuals of Israel and deep compassion for his or her losses.”
Quick-forward to the Emmys, when he confirmed up in a keffiyeh and as soon as once more accused Israel of genocide.
When protesters in Madrid disrupted the La Vuelta bike race as a result of Israel's crew was competing, Bardem praised the agitators, including, “we will't enable” them to compete.
Guess he by no means actually had compassion for the individuals of Israel in spite of everything.
The aim posts are all the time shifting with this crowd.
Of their calls to “free Palestine,” it's all the time about Israel — by no means about Hamas, who turned Gaza right into a terror staging floor after Israel withdrew from there in 2005.
The silence at the moment speaks volumes about what certain appears like their actual and really sinister intention: wiping Israel off the map.
