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Shout out to the incredible Daniel Ryan Spaulding for showing up and refusing to stay silent.
While other venues and organizers across Europe refused to provide a platform for Kanye West`s antisemitic rhetoric, the Netherlands chose to host him.
Watching the reactions from many concertgoers was a stark reminder of how easily hatred can be normalized. Years of antisemitic statements, conspiracy theories, and praise for extremists have been dismissed, excused, or rebranded as entertainment.
When a public figure repeatedly traffics in antisemitism and still receives applause, he normalizes people’s willingness to tolerate it.
Shout out to the incredible Daniel Ryan Spaulding for showing up and refusing to stay silent.
While other venues and organizers across Europe refused to provide a platform for Kanye West`s antisemitic rhetoric, the Netherlands chose to host him.
Watching the reactions from many concertgoers was a stark reminder of how easily hatred can be normalized. Years of antisemitic statements, conspiracy theories, and praise for extremists have been dismissed, excused, or rebranded as entertainment.
When a public figure repeatedly traffics in antisemitism and still receives applause, he normalizes people’s willingness to tolerate it.
The @nyknicks are finally winning. Omer Neutra should have been here to see it.
A lifelong Knicks fan, Omer would have been among the crowd celebrating.
He never got the chance to witness this moment.
As New York celebrates this historic run, we can’t help to remember Omer, not only as a hostage murdered by Hamas on October 7, but as a son, a friend, and a devoted Knicks fan who would have been cheering louder than anyone.
The @nyknicks are finally winning. Omer Neutra should have been here to see it.
A lifelong Knicks fan, Omer would have been among the crowd celebrating.
He never got the chance to witness this moment.
As New York celebrates this historic run, we can’t help to remember Omer, not only as a hostage murdered by Hamas on October 7, but as a son, a friend, and a devoted Knicks fan who would have been cheering louder than anyone.
Whether it’s sunshine, rain, or even missiles 😬, Tel Aviv is getting ready for #Pride 🌈
Israel hosts the largest Pride celebration in the Middle East. While the past two years have been overshadowed by war, Israelis remain determined to celebrate freedom, diversity, and the only country in the region where LGBTQ+ people enjoy full legal protections and equal rights.
We can’t wait to watch Pride unfold this year 🏳️🌈
Whether it’s sunshine, rain, or even missiles 😬, Tel Aviv is getting ready for #Pride 🌈
Israel hosts the largest Pride celebration in the Middle East. While the past two years have been overshadowed by war, Israelis remain determined to celebrate freedom, diversity, and the only country in the region where LGBTQ+ people enjoy full legal protections and equal rights.
We can’t wait to watch Pride unfold this year 🏳️🌈
Creative Community for Peace Stands With French Artists Rejecting the Boycott of Nadav Lapid
Creative Community for Peace stands with the French and international artists, filmmakers, and cultural leaders who have spoken out against the campaign targeting Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s participation in FID Marseille.
Nadav Lapid left Israel in 2021. He has publicly condemned the Israeli government. He has used incendiary language to describe the war in Gaza. His film, Yes, is a scathing critique of Israel and Israeli society. And yet, because the film received Israeli public funding, he has been targeted with a boycott.
This proves that the BDS boycott campaign is nothing more than a discriminatory effort to exclude an artist because of his connection to Israel.
That should concern every artist, filmmaker, festival, and cultural institution.
Creative Community for Peace Stands With French Artists Rejecting the Boycott of Nadav Lapid
Creative Community for Peace stands with the French and international artists, filmmakers, and cultural leaders who have spoken out against the campaign targeting Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s participation in FID Marseille.
Nadav Lapid left Israel in 2021. He has publicly condemned the Israeli government. He has used incendiary language to describe the war in Gaza. His film, Yes, is a scathing critique of Israel and Israeli society. And yet, because the film received Israeli public funding, he has been targeted with a boycott.
This proves that the BDS boycott campaign is nothing more than a discriminatory effort to exclude an artist because of his connection to Israel.
That should concern every artist, filmmaker, festival, and cultural institution.
Yet another celebrity acceptance speech, yet another detour into geopolitics from someone who clearly learned everything they know about the Middle East from Twitter.
Ali Louis Bourzgui dedicated his Tony Award to immigrants and Palestinians, which would be admirable if the speech didn’t lean so heavily on terms like “colonizers” and “fascists.” These are words borrowed wholesale from American campus politics and dumped onto a conflict with a history, complexity, and context that has nothing to do with them.
This is the problem with activist celebrity speeches. The passion is real, but the actual argument being made is lazy. Reducing one of the world’s most complicated geopolitical conflicts to a social justice vocabulary is performative activism.
These terms carry specific ideological weight rooted in Western academic and political discourse, and applying them to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict flattens decades of regional history, competing national narratives, and geopolitical realities into a bumper sticker.
Award show stages are not known for nuance, but when public figures with large platforms reduce a multifaceted conflict to a villain-and-victim framework, they don’t advance the Palestinian cause.
Yet another celebrity acceptance speech, yet another detour into geopolitics from someone who clearly learned everything they know about the Middle East from Twitter.
Ali Louis Bourzgui dedicated his Tony Award to immigrants and Palestinians, which would be admirable if the speech didn’t lean so heavily on terms like “colonizers” and “fascists.” These are words borrowed wholesale from American campus politics and dumped onto a conflict with a history, complexity, and context that has nothing to do with them.
This is the problem with activist celebrity speeches. The passion is real, but the actual argument being made is lazy. Reducing one of the world’s most complicated geopolitical conflicts to a social justice vocabulary is performative activism.
These terms carry specific ideological weight rooted in Western academic and political discourse, and applying them to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict flattens decades of regional history, competing national narratives, and geopolitical realities into a bumper sticker.
Award show stages are not known for nuance, but when public figures with large platforms reduce a multifaceted conflict to a villain-and-victim framework, they don’t advance the Palestinian cause.
At a time when many public figures stay silent, Gwyneth Paltrow is publicly standing with Israel. The Oscar-winning actress will front a new campaign in Herzliya, adding to her outspoken opposition to antisemitism and support for the hostages held by Hamas. Her decision is a reminder that supporting Israelis and rejecting antisemitism should never be considered controversial.
At a time when many public figures stay silent, Gwyneth Paltrow is publicly standing with Israel. The Oscar-winning actress will front a new campaign in Herzliya, adding to her outspoken opposition to antisemitism and support for the hostages held by Hamas. Her decision is a reminder that supporting Israelis and rejecting antisemitism should never be considered controversial.
We absolutely love how Jewish comedian Menachem Silverstein handled this heckler.
Chanting "Free Palestine" at someone simply because he is visibly Jewish isn`t activism and it does absolutely nothing to help Palestinians.
Menachem responded with humor, confidence, and dignity, exposing the absurdity of reducing an individual to a political target based solely on their identity.
We absolutely love how Jewish comedian Menachem Silverstein handled this heckler.
Chanting "Free Palestine" at someone simply because he is visibly Jewish isn`t activism and it does absolutely nothing to help Palestinians.
Menachem responded with humor, confidence, and dignity, exposing the absurdity of reducing an individual to a political target based solely on their identity.
The Dutch National Holocaust Museum has made its position clear: a memorial dedicated to Holocaust victims is not a place to rehabilitate the image of someone who has repeatedly promoted antisemitic rhetoric and praised Hitler. As Kanye West continues touring Europe, the museum’s rejection sends a message that remembrance and accountability cannot be separated.
The Dutch National Holocaust Museum has made its position clear: a memorial dedicated to Holocaust victims is not a place to rehabilitate the image of someone who has repeatedly promoted antisemitic rhetoric and praised Hitler. As Kanye West continues touring Europe, the museum’s rejection sends a message that remembrance and accountability cannot be separated.

