The following is a blog that I cannot disagree with more .
Money is King and so what ... Boycotting Zion isn't fashionable anymore.... a nice exit with little crisis management needed .. sort of like Christian Renaldo leaving Manchester United for Real Madrid and then scoring a magnificent header that knocked his old team out of the Champions League lots season.This one went in Pele's world cup was saved by Gordon Banks.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6TXfnfJv78
Money is King and so what ... Boycotting Zion isn't fashionable anymore.... a nice exit with little crisis management needed .. sort of like Christian Renaldo leaving Manchester United for Real Madrid and then scoring a magnificent header that knocked his old team out of the Champions League lots season.This one went in Pele's world cup was saved by Gordon Banks.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6TXfnfJv78
Scarlett Johansson, Israel, Oxfam & SodaStream: Starlet’s No Hero; History of Hanging w Israel Boycotters
Scarlett Johansson isn’t a hero in my book. Not even close. She has a history of hanging out with and enabling Israel-haters and anti-Semites.
Scarlett Johansson & Then-Boyfriend Sean Penn Feting Israel-Boycotting Al-Jazeera Owners, the Emir & Emira of Qatar, the Al-Thanis . . .
A lot of readers and others have asked me to post something congratulating movie star Johansson for keeping the millions of dollars she’s making for endorsing Israel’s Islamopandering SodaStream and her efforts to keep the money flowing in the face of opposition from the Israel-hating organization she promoted for EIGHT years. They also want me to congratulate her for “resigning” (she was asked to leave) from Oxfam, the openly anti-Israel organization for which she was an “ambassador” for eight years. Johansson is no pro-Israel revolutionary, despite the blind gushing by so many people who’ve elevated her to that position. But she is pro-wallet. And I give her credit for doingthe math. But that’s all I give her credit for.
In fact, she knew what she was getting into when she chose to lend her name, face, and presence to Oxfam, an organization that has been openly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and pan-Arabist for decades. It was that way when I was in high school. It’s not news. And yet Johansson–who had no problem “dating” (euphemism) anti-Israel Iran apologist Sean Penn, and attending a dinner honoring the Emir of Qatar, Israel-boycotter extraordinaire and owner of anti-Israel, anti-American Al-Jazeera–also had no qualms with Oxfam’s vicious anti-Israel doctrine for the eight years during which she was involved in the organization. If you believe she didn’t know about and didn’t agree with Oxfam’s radical views, then you also believe the same about Barack Obama sitting in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church. And I have some land in Gaza to sell you.
I’ve already written about this story over and over. As I noted four years ago, the exact same thing happened to actress Kristin Davis of “Sex and the City Fame.” She was the face of Ahava, another Israeli company boycotted and attacked by Oxfam. Davis also made a lot of money for being its spokesmodel, just as Johansson has with SodaStream. Like Johansson, she also knew what Oxfam was about, and yet joined the organization and served as one of its ambassadors for years. She, too, was forced to “resign.” She didn’t deserve applause for that, and neither does Johansson.
People are delusional if they think Johansson is the champion of the pro-Israel cause. All you have to do is read her PR statement (posted below) in response to Oxfam’s attacks on her, regarding her high-paid engagement with SodaStream. She said she didn’t want to get into the middle of it. She just wanted the money. She supports Israel AND Palestine (hey, just like Barack Obama and Geraldo and Mahmoud Abbas!). But what is Palestine? I thought pro-Israel people realized–as America officially says–there is no “Palestine.” And if there is, what is it and where is it? Is it Gaza and the so-called West Bank (where many Jews live)? Is it Jerusalem? Is it all of Israel, as the Palestinians claim? She doesn’t say because she didn’t sign on to be pro-Israel. She signed on to make a sexy Superbowl ad and make a lot of money. Cha-ching.
And SodaStream is one of those typical Israeli companies that panders to Muslims because they are politically correct and think this will help them escape the Judenrein boycott Israel campaign (but won’t). They hired a lot of Palestinian Muslim workers (not just Israeli ones–despite chronic unemployment remaining among Jews who were forced out of their Gaza homes). They built an on-site mosque, forever making that mosque (and the ground beneath and surrounding it) Dar Al-Islam ["Islamic land"] in the eyes of Islam. That’s Scarlett Johansson’s kind of company. But because the company is owned by Jews, it’s never enough. No “good deed” toward Muslims goes unpunished. Dhimmis are useful idiots, always and forever.
So, while it’s nice that Scarlett Johansson made a non-statement “statement” that desperate pro-Israel activists want me to congratulate as “pro-Israel” and “anti-jihad,” it’s not that nice. Her exact, carefully fence-sitting statement said:
While I never intended on being the face of any social or political movement, distinction, separation or stance as part of my affiliation with SodaStream, given the amount of noise surrounding that decision, I’d like to clear the air. I remain a supporter of economic cooperation and social interaction between a democratic Israel and Palestine. SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights. That is what is happening in their Ma’aleh Adumim factory every working day.
That’s pretty bland and it reeks of moral equivalency about Israel and “Palestine.” These are the carefully crafted non-committal words of a publicist hired so that she can keep her millions, remain in the ads, and quietly resign–as she was forced to do–from the openly anti-Israel organization she openly and proudly endorsed for eight years without a word against their decades-long hatred of Israel.
And as far as her “stepping down” from her eight-year engagement with anti-Israel Oxfam, again the organization made her quit, saying this:
While Oxfam respects the independence of our ambassadors, Ms Johansson’s role promoting the company SodaStream is incompatible with her role as an Oxfam Global Ambassador.
Translation: Buh-bye. She didn’t have a choice in the matter.
Is Israel that embattled and desperate that its supporters will glom on to anything and anyone this tenuous and remotely “pro-Israel” as something to gloat about and congratulate? Maybe. And if so, that’s very sad. And very weak. I don’t gush over crumbs. Nobody strong does. Sorry.
Scarlett Johansson as Israel’s new spokesmodel? Not even close. Courageous? Not even in the same ballpark.
Like I said, she simply took a page out of the Kristin Davis playbook because Oxfam put her in an uncomfortable position. She proudly hung out with Israel boycotters at Oxfam and Israel-boycotters-in-chief of Qatar (one of many countries that doesn’t allow entry to Jews with Israeli passports or Israeli stamps on their passports). Shame on Sodastream for hiring her in the first place.
Oh, and by the way, did Scarlett Johansson say anything or choose to leave Oxfam when it forced Kristin Davis out for endorsing Ahava?
Nope.
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She sounds like another sand shark. Who was that CNN reporter that got all romantically involved with Arabs and then pretended to do even-handed and unbiased reporting about them? Yeah, Campbell Brown.
I wish you would stop saying, “anti-Semitic”. Why not anti-Jewish or anti-Israel? It just gets on my nerves because it isn’t technically accurate. Whatever. Go ahead I don’t care. This woman means about as much to me as JINO Sean Penn does.
get real on January 30, 2014 at 2:29 pm
Its all about the munyay baybay. She’s sold her soul to the highest bidder and/or has her sights set on another Jewish man for the moment.
get real on January 30, 2014 at 2:33 pm
I would not be surprised if she gets active in politics in a few years. Even though her ‘pro-Israel’ stance is very weak, and not really pro-Israel at all, that is how it will come across to millions of people, and that is how it will be remembered by them. She is by no means a stupid person, and I am sure she realized that her association with SodaStream would likely result in the termination of her relationship with Oxfam. Yes, money is playing a crucial role, but there may be long-range considerations as well.
Couple this with her brief visit to the troops in Iraq a few years ago. The trip will also be remembered, in spite of her numerous associations and affiliations with those opposing who are hostile to all traditionally Western values.
There is a long history of Hollywood celebrities getting involved in politics. Perhaps she will be next. An image of being friendly to Israel but still supporting the Palestinians. Antiwar, but still supportive of the troops. Perhaps she aspires to be more successful in Washington than was the Communistically inclined Hollywood Pink Lady of the 40s, Helen Gahagan Douglas (short presence in the U.S. House of Representatives, but defeated by Nixon for Senate in 1950).
Little Al on January 30, 2014 at 3:00 pm
I look it somewhat differently. There have been Jews who cared nothing about Judaism or the Jewish people and if you had approached them at a certain point in their life, they would have told you – “what does being a Jew have to do with me?” Scarlett Johansson isn’t the first and won’t be the last Jew to believe that being Jew meant nothing to do them.
But there is always a turning point, when for a Jew, being Jewish becomes the most important thing in their life and nothing else before has mattered! It happened to Moses Hess and Theodor Herzl. In their youth, they were the epitome of the assimilated Jew. But then they had an experience that changed their life and for them working for the Jewish people made them who they were.
G-d, I believe calls His people back to Him and changes their lives. I don’t think what we saw happen is necessarily materialistic or cynical. We have to consider the people through whom he speaks are the last people on earth any one would consider worthy! We think in our human ways and His ways are not ours. We can see this as a gift from Him and walk in His paths. We can pray that Ms. Johansson does it also and that she become the Jew she was born to be!
There are things in the world I can’t explain; all we have to know is to believe G-d will be with the Jewish people and Israel in their trials in the present and the future as He has been with them in the past. He is wherever we let Him in! None of us is perfect but when we have faith in G-d, we can deal with adversity and become better than we are now.
Our lives have turning points and the Jewish people and Israel are not alone.
NormanF on January 31, 2014 at 7:24 am
Parliament of whores comes to mind
Jack on January 30, 2014 at 3:22 pm
first off johannsen made it in movies and television by spreading her legs on the directors couch and that low grade drug addict sean penn is half jewish so let them join any group they want in a few years the public wont remeber either one of them fame is a temporary state those that despise jews forget christ was a jew his hebrew name was yashua and he was a rabbi so how can you hate an entire race when you elevated him as your god its a good thing the jews were kind enough to allow you to adopt him as your god or you would be worshiping a pile of horse shit
robert bernstein on January 30, 2014 at 3:22 pm
Debbie, thanks for the exact information on this story regarding Scarlett Johansson, I initially late last week praised Ms. Johansson on social media, but at the sametime, didn’t know the whole details that Johansson was quasi apathetic of the Israel-Palestinian issue and is doing this for profit and for PR reasons. So as I say again, thanks for the whole information 101 DS!
“A nation is defined by its borders, language & culture!”
Sean R. on January 30, 2014 at 3:58 pm
They needed a Hollywood Jewish face for an embattled Israeli Jewish company!
Debbie’s right her association with the virulently anti-Israel Oxfam isn’t what a Jew should be doing in thev first place.
If she’s learned anything from all this, is that anti-Semites and Israel haters still hate even liberal Jews who hang out with them. Its not because they care about the Arabs – its because they loathe everything Jewish and Israeli.
I half-expected her to follow Kristin Davis and remain with Oxfam cuz Israel is too hot a potato for any one to identify with these days.
Good for her she finally cut her ties with Oxfam? Not so much with her moral equivalence between Israel and Palestine and her pretending that both sides are the same. She has a lot to learn about the Middle East.
Any Jew – and any human being with an ounce of common sense know that’s not true and it will never be. SodaStream is hated for what it does for Arabs. And you know people will hate Jews because that’s who they are – and never mind if they are the humanitarian of the year!
Will we see other liberal Jews like see the light and begin to back Israel? Johansson is probably the exception to the rule. For many Jews on the Left sad to say, their Judaism begins and ends with their keeping an arms’ length from Israel.
I’m not really surprised – it equal part cowardice, fear and of course a natural sense of self-presentation given the rising tide of anti-Semitism in today’s world. Its hard for a Jew to love Israel when its politically correct nowadays to hate the Jewish State.
Johansson has found out being made an ambassador for an Israeli brand isn’t making her popular in the circles that liked her for her liberal views… until they discovered, hey, she’s just another “dirty Jew.” It takes so little to fall from grace with that crowd.
NormanF on January 30, 2014 at 4:12 pm
It’s only such an easy “fall from grace” because they were never in to begin with.
Non-Jews understand ego. Jews don’t.
Jill on January 30, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Oops… I meant to write self-preservation.
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