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But in promoting the film, he turned up on the Marc Maron podcast, and as you'd expect the talk got around to Judaism and, ha ha ho ho oy oy, what the listeners would or wouldn't find offensive. Like Lenny Bruce wannabe's the idea was to be real daring and controversial, after alerting the audience to watch out, I'm gonna be offensive, ha ha ho ho oy oy.
Seth Rogen, perhaps channeling the opinionatedly idiotic Joe Rogan, seemed to declare that supporting Israel was a "silly" thing to do, because religion is "silly" and so is the idea of a group of like-minded people being in the same place:
"To me it just seems an antiquated thought process. If it is for religious reasons, I don’t agree with it, because I think religion is silly. If it is for truly the preservation of Jewish people, it makes no sense, because again, you don’t keep something you’re trying to preserve all in one place — especially when that place is proven to be pretty volatile, you know?"
No, I don't know. You know?
I don't think Seth Rogen has been beaten up enough. Nor Marc Maron.
Maybe they need to live in Flatbush or Bushwick or some other Bushwack area of Brooklyn where, if you look like a Jew, you just might find yourself lying on the ground with a flattened nose.
Rogen, age 55, grew up in Canada. Not Brooklyn.
JEW LIVES DON'T MATTER in some parts of the world, and don't count on Brooklyn being sympathetic. Not when there are people who will take a stroll a few blocks into a Jewish neighborhood there, JUST to coldcock a Jew.
Mayor De Blasio (aka De Lousio) who got elected by escorting his black wife all over Brooklyn and Queens (not so much Manhattan where there's still a white majority), could care less about Jews. His TV ads featured his black son, and traded in on the idea that his black son would not, if De Blasio was elected, have to worry about "stop and frisk."
The ads didn't seem to offer an assurance to Jews that they wouldn't be subject to "stop and PUNCH."
Wilhelm De Blasio (the man had a German last name which he changed) would much rather NYC be loaded up with Muslims than Jews. Trick or TWEET:
But let's get back to Israel. Let's bypass the fact that despite the amount of Jews in New York (second only to Israel) and how many are centered in Brooklyn, "assmilation" seems to have only given Jews a black eye and a sense of fear. Because they don't matter. They don't riot, so they don't matter.
Seth figures that Israel is stupid for having so many Jews. The Promised Land? What a load of SHIT. Pat Boone, a devout Christian who has offered tours (with his friend, a rabbi) wrote the lyrics to "Exodus." He wrote them on the back of a Christmas card. They begin:
"This land is mine. God gave this land to me."
But Seth is the scholar and historian who knows it all. And to him religion is "silly."
It might be, but don't say that to the Muslims who destroyed the WTC, shot up an Ariana Grande concert, or destroyed a funny bunch of Frenchies in their magazine office. Not everyone this religion is "silly." Six million Jews lost their lives in the Holocuast because Hitler didn't think religion was "silly."
Oh, but let's all watch the next SILLY movie from Seth Rogen. Ha ha ho ho oy oy.
One thing anti-Semites love is when a Jew turns on other Jews, and most of all, betrays Israel. "See, even other JEWS think Israel should be wiped off the map. It's not just the Ayatollah!"
Noam Chomsky has made a living being a Jewish Benedict Arnold, but he isn't really as well known as Seth Rogen. To have Seth Rogen on the side of the anti-Semites is a major victory for the haters.
See? Here's a Jew comedian and he's NOT like Lenny Bruce or Mort Sahl or Mel Brooks. He's anti-Israel! He thinks religion is SILLY. He tells us paranoid Jew-haters exactly what we want to hear:
"I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life!"
Let's repeat that:
"I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life!"
When the ADL came to me, Ronald L. Smith, and asked for my help, I didn't speak that phrase:
"I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life!"
I got them Jerry Seinfeld for their fund-raising dinner.
The next year, I got them Joan Rivers for their fund-raising dinner. As the editor of RAVE, which was the Playbill of comedy clubs, I was glad to make some calls and get these things done, and help supervise the comedy portion of the evening. Joan Rivers said: "Of COURSE I'll do it. We're taking a beating." WE meaning The Jews. That included ISRAEL.
I've had dinner with Jackie Mason, with Mort Sahl, with many of the great Jewish comedians...ones whose fame did not rest on films with titles such as “Sausage Party” and “Knocked Up.”
Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers, Jerry Lewis...these are people from a generation or two before Seth's, who know exactly what anti-Semitism is, and how important a Jewish homeland is. My late friend Brother Theodore was not a religious Jew, but he was BURIED as one. I know. I took a shovel full of dirt and landed it on the plain wooden box he was in, and watched as the cemetery workers filled in the rest. What he told me of the concentration camp he was in — remains vivid in my memory.
Rogen, at some point during the podcast, woefully noted that Israel came into being but...other people were on that land! Can you imagine? The Jews, who have been around longer than the Christians, and longer than the Muslims (that is, if you don't happen to believe crackpots like Malcolm X and Louise Farrakhan), had the NERVE to take back land that was stolen from them.
And Rogen seems equally aghast that Jews would want to live in a "volatile" place where they are constantly being attacked and terrorized by NICE PEOPLE LIKE THE PLO and HAMAS and all kinds of superbly peaceful Palestinians.
In other words, why fight when you should "gather up your things and get thee out?"
Move? To where? A big reason there are "blue eyed Jew devils" in Israel (much to the misery of the Farrakhan and Malcolm types) is that Jews who looked like Kirk Douglas were kicked out of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and everywhere else. When they turned up in France, England, Denmark and Sweden, they were attacked and punched and murdered. They had two choices: Israel or America.
America is not a Jewish State. It is not a HOMELAND for the Jews...the wandering tribe of 2000 years. Israel is.
Somehow, all the fine anti-Semites of the world, including Peter Gabriel, Patti Smith, Roger Waters, etc., fixate on Israel as the one country in the world that practices apartheid, won't allow anyone but their own, and is totally unwilling to compromise. The Palestinians? Lovely. They've put together peace plans galore that are very fair. (YEAH?) And as for North Korea, China, Boko Haram of Nigeria, Turkey, Syria, and all the other hot spots of the world, and that includes the border between England and Ireland...meh. No problem. Ethnic cleansing in Russia? Never heard of it. Coptic Christians being burned out of their churches in Egypt? Who cares. The ONLY thing that bothers so many people is ISRAEL. What a coincidence. That's where the Jews are.
Seth Rogen is so concerned that Palestinians owned Israel? There are a lot of historians who say it does NOT belong to the Palestinians.
Seth Rogan lives in America, and that land was owned by the Native Americans. NO question about that. He's not moving, is he?
Fortunately there's been SOME backlash against Seth Rogen and other misinformed Jews ready to join Noam Chomsky in helping Jews all over the world get beaten up and killed. Oh, and after a Jew is dead, there is no rest because a tombstone can be desecrated.
If you happen to get the Weisenthal Center reports, you know that Jews continue to be harassed and brutalized. In Sweden, of all places, a Jewish female doctor was harassed until she had to flee for her life. "Oh, that's just ONE incident..." The Weisenthal news magazine would be the size of an unabridged dictionary if it listed all the incidents of anti-Semitism in the world. It's increased, not decreased.
The number of Nazi flags being waved, the number of crude cartoons being circulated, the number of death threats on the Internet...all on the rise.
Meanwhile Seth Rogen seems to be figuring that there are enough second, third and fourth generation Jews, half-Jews, one-fourth Jews, and "I'm not religious" Jews around...that they'll always want to see his films and be very reasonable about the right to his opinion, and/or that somebody's opinion has nothing to do with his art.
He's certainly not figuring that people "of color" are going to rush to see his Tevya Does Sleeper movie.
Seth reminds me of a Woody Allen line about a Jew who was not Orthodox, not Conservative but "reformed. VERY reformed. A nazi."
When people ask me about Israel, I tell them my own reasonable point of view: The Israelis are not saints. They are, in fact, pretty similar in looks and attitude to the Palestinians and to most of the others in the Middle East. They'll take land if they can grab it. They have a sense of entitlement. But they are NOT as nasty as to burn down churches, throw gays off roofs, circumcise women, or refuse to let somebody who isn't of their relgion play in a damn tennis tournament. If there's a conflict between Israel and Palestine, don't take sides any more rigidly than you would if it was England vs Ireland. There's plenty of room for negotiation and the issue isn't a simple "get out, you have no right to live there."
The National Review, among others, wasn't thrilled with Rogens remarks and you can read all about it:
Why Seth Rogen's Anti-Israel Rant Matters And in case you're having link problems, here's a chunk of it:
Here's the last paragraph from The Jerusalem Post:
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