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No sooner did the bloodbath take place in Itamar, Julian Schnabel's anti-Israeli film called Miral was screened at the UN by its distributors/producers, the Weinsteins, and to make matters worse, it appears that at least a few actors don't want me or you to bother about their movies anymore:

Not content to restrict its anti-Israel activities to the political arena, the United Nations has now taken upon itself to spread anti-Israel propaganda via popular culture, the American Jewish Committee said in a letter Swiss Ambassador Joseph Deiss, President of the UN General Assembly.

On Monday, a film called Miral, about the experiences of an Arab girl in the wake of Israel's War of Independence, made its U.S. premiere at the headquarters of the world organization, On hand to fete the film's producer, Julian Schnabel, were a panoply of American film stars, including Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Josh Brolin and Steve Buscemi – all long known for their left wing views and political activities.

In his letter to Deiss, AJC Executive Director David Harris called the film a propaganda piece that “will only serve to reinforce the already widespread view that Israel simply cannot expect fair treatment in the UN."

The film's plot revolves around the adventures of the fictional title character, a young girl orphaned as a result of the War of Independence. (It should be noted, however, that the movie is based on an autobiography by its author, Rula Jebreal). Miral is one of the children taken into an orphanage established by Hind al-Husseini, a scion of the infamous Haj Amin al-Husseini, who planned to deport all the Jews in the Land of Israel to concentration camps after the hoped-for Nazi invasion.

Al-Husseini starts the orphanage with 55 children who escaped the “massacre” at Deir Yassin, and before long there are 2,000. Along the way, there are attacks and provocations by Israelis, and eventually, the title character grows up and teaches in a refugee camp, where she falls in love with a terrorist.

I'm well versed in Penn's moonbattery for a long time now, but De Niro, Brolin Jr. and Buscemi I hadn't realized till now were this bad. Brolin is probably even worse than his father James. (I once watched that TV western with him called the Young Riders years ago, but won't be bothering today.) His career hasn't exactly been much to write home about lately, and he deserves the failure, though the sad part is that, even if it collapses completely, he'll go get a political job. What's worse?

Daniel Greenfield has written an op-ed where he takes Harvey Weinstein to task:

On the same day that a family of five were being murdered in their home in Israel, Harvey Weinstein ran a self-congratulatory promotional piece for his company's terrorist propaganda flick, Miral. The photos stand out. The fat smirking face of Harvey Weinstein contrasted with the sleeping baby, the smiling little boys and the earnest couple who were their parents.

They are all dead, and a Harvey Weinstein lives on to smirk another day. So it is with perpetrators and victims. The innocent children and the fat ugly men who profit from trafficking in the propaganda of their killers.

Harvey Weinstein denounces Peter King and urges him to go watch Miral. But perhaps it is Harvey Weinstein who should drive to a small town lost in the Samarian Mountains and retrace the steps of the murderers in the name of the nationalistic mythology that movies like Miral glamorize.

Tragically, he won't. For many years now, people with low-grade personas like Weinstein's got who don't give a damn about Israel have been the kind of Jews who populate Hollywood. And they're nothing more than embarrassments who make it impossible to be proud of the Jewish community in showbiz.

Here's more on the subject from Melanie Phillips.

Update: Silvan Shalom is absolutely correct: the murderers must be put to death.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, jihad, showbiz, terrorism, UN corruption