Leftists losing their minds that 'Mary' movie about Jesus' mother — who was from Israel — stars woman who's from Israel



November has not been a happy month for leftists.

Donald Trump was re-elected president a few weeks ago, resulting in left-wingers shedding actual tears and engaging in ill-advised freak-outs. Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced legislation declaring that biological men shouldn't be allowed to use women's restrooms on Capitol Hill, punctuated with a "Period. Full stop. End of story." Which, of course, raised the ire of transgender-affirming lawmakers.

'Jesus, Mary, and everyone in this show should be Palestinian.'

Now leftists have something outside of Washington, D.C., to complain about.

See, it concerns a Netflix movie releasing Dec. 6 all about Mary, the mother of Christ. The trailer description reads, "In this coming-of-age religious epic, Mary is shunned following a miraculous conception and forced into hiding. When King Herod ignites a murderous pursuit for her newborn baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph flee to save his life."

Pretty non-controversial so far, right? Not so fast.

Turns out leftists have gotten word that the actress who portrays Mary, Noa Cohen, is from Israel — and leftists are losing their precious minds over it.

Some examples from X:

  • "Jesus, Mary, and everyone in this show should be Palestinian," one observer wrote.
  • "Palestinians aren’t available for the role?" another user wondered.
  • "A movie set in a time when Palestine was occupied played by the people who are colonizing Palestine now is beyond disgusting," another commenter declared.
  • "Easy to boycott as zionist Israeli[s] are in it," another user said.
  • "If they wanted authenticity they would have picked a Palestinian actress to play her given that all available genetic evidence suggests that modern [Palestinians] are the direct descendants of the inhabitants of the region at the time," another commenter noted.
  • "War criminal settlers are the main actors," another user stated. "My family will be boycotting this film @netflix."
  • "First Netflix taking all Palestinian content down and now they stream a movie about Mary with an all-Israeli cast whilst those same people are bombing the birthplace of Christ?" another commenter noted, while adding an accompanying video. "Boycott that s**t."
  • "The casting of an Israeli actress to play Mary, the mother of Jesus, is not just a casting choice—it's a clear political statement that trivializes sacred beliefs," another user exclaimed.

Other X commenters complained about what they characterized as the pale complexions of some "Mary" actors.

Director D.J. Caruso noted the following to EW last month in regard to the casting decisions: "When we started on this project, I immediately initiated a search for Mary. It was important to us that Mary, along with most of our primary cast, be selected from Israel to ensure authenticity."

You can view the "Mary" trailer here.

(H/T: Not the Bee)

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Pro-Hamas students protest 'war criminal' Hillary Clinton outside her Columbia University class



Pro-Hamas and anti-Israel students organized a sit-in demonstration outside of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's Columbia University course on Wednesday.

Videos of the protest, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, showed dozens of students waving Palestinian flags and chanting, "From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever." Protesters also held up signs reading, "Resist until victory," "Resistance is justified when people are occupied," "The Palestinian resistance is alive, not dead," and "Fa[s]cist bootlicker we know [yo]u," the Free Beacon reported.

'Clinton is touting her legacy of war crimes.'

The former secretary of state teaches a fall semester class called "Inside the Situation Room" at the university's Institute of Global Politics in the School of International and Public Affairs.

The sit-in was organized by the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Palestine Working Group, which posted a notice about the scheduled protest on social media. The post featured an image of Clinton with crossed-out eyes and covered in red, blood-like splatters.

"Welcome to IGP: Israel Global Propagandists," it read, using the acronym to rename the school.

The advertisement also read, "Invade Iraq," "Arm Israel," and "Bomb Syria."

"We will not stand for genocide propaganda and the militarization of our campus. We call on all students to walk out of Hillary's sham class!" the organizers wrote.

The sit-in was also promoted by Columbia University Apartheid Divest and the school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.

On Tuesday, the two groups were accused of preventing students from entering campus, the Free Beacon reported. A statue at the university was reportedly vandalized. They called the disruptive protests "just the beginning."

In a post on X, Columbia's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter wrote, "We're making it clear: War criminals are not welcome on campus. Hillary Clinton has actively engaged in war crimes against the peoples of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Palestine."

"Hillary Clinton has used her power & influence to cause devastation across the globe. As secretary of state, Clinton backed arm deals to bomb Yemen, interfered in Haitian elections, & lied about 'mass rape in Libya' to support a regime change," the group continued. "In a class at Columbia University, 'In the Situation Room', Hillary Clinton is touting her legacy of war crimes as 'valuable learning experiences'. We're not buying it. The more they try to silence us, the louder we will be."

The group also issued a statement on Telegram praising Hamas' founder and current chairman, the Free Beacon reported.

"Sheikh Yassin was assassinated by the Zionists in 2004, but even in death, his legacy of unrelenting resistance in the face of oppression lives on," the group stated. "He lives on in his students, which includes the current head of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar—the man who fooled the Zionist entity—and all the Palestinian fighters who embody the steadfastness that Yassin taught."

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Taking Sides In The Jewish-Arab Conflict Is Wreaking Havoc On Ivy League Universities

The reckoning continues for Ivy League presidents who allowed pro-Palestinian protesters to terrorize their campuses.

Anti-Israel group has meltdown after Harvard withholds degrees for 13 protesters



The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee announced on Wednesday the Harvard Corporation voted to withhold degrees from 13 protesters who were set to graduate this year.

"The Harvard Corporation has officially voted to WITHHOLD DEGREES from 13 seniors for protesting the genocide in Gaza. This comes after over 1,500 students, 500 faculty and staff members, and 45 student organizations petitioned and fought against the repressive administrative board," HUPSC said.

"The Corporation has decided to ignore the people’s voice, all bets are now off," the group threatened.

'The organization will not be recognized and will not have access to university benefits.'

The group claims over a thousand students and faculty walked out of commencement in support of Gaza and the students who were not allowed to participate.

HUPSC said a new group, Harvard Jewish Alumni for Justice, pledged they will not donate to any Harvard school “without divestment from Israel and reversal of student sanctions" in response to Harvard cracking down on students.

The Ivy League college had suspended HUPSC in April, at the height of the college campus encampments, for organizing an unauthorized protest according to the Harvard Crimson. HUPSC was one of the many college groups that had cosigned a statement that stated it held “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” on October 7 and after.

“The organization will not be recognized and will not have access to university benefits and services during this time, including but not limited to use of campus space and appropriate use of the Harvard name,” the email from the school said. “If the organization continues to operate and commits additional violations during this suspension, the organization risks permanent expulsion, as provided in the Resource Guide.”

To ensure the encampment on campus did not grow from people who were not students or faculty, Harvard had to close the yard to the public.

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College Anti-Semitism SKYROCKETS with Columbia Occupation | Ep 888

College Anti-Semitism SKYROCKETS with Columbia Occupation | Ep 888

Campus Radicals Go Bananas At The Colleges That Created Them

The same institutions of higher education that have brought us the DEI cult are cowering in fear of offending the genocide-defending pirates.

CEO warns left-wing college students they're 'breathing the vapors of a dangerous new, fake, and self-destructive religion'



Alex Karp — chief executive officer of data technology company Palantir — drew applause during a panel discussion when he issued a warning to college students, presumably over their growing inclination to support terror groups who want to wipe Israel off the map.

Check it out:

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"I am not a legislator," Karp said. "But I am running one of the coolest companies in the world, and I'm telling young people, 'You are breathing the vapors of a dangerous new, fake, and self-destructive religion when you are sitting at your elite school pretending because you watched TikTok twice and got an A+ on some crazy paper because your professor couldn't get a job anywhere else that you actually understand the world. And you're not welcome at my company.'"

Karp made his comment at the most recent Reagan National Defense Forum — and while the event took place in December, these specific words of his are just now getting traction on social media.

Elsewhere during the panel, Karp blasted companies that stayed silent in the wake of Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 terror attack against Israel.

"As far as I can tell, there are only three companies that have been publicly pro-Israel on Oct. 7," Karp said, according to Fox Business, as he named Booz Allen, Anduril Industries, and his company, Palantir.

Karp insisted it's an issue business leaders need to solve, the outlet noted: "Like, somehow the corporate elite of this country thinks when it's time to make money, you stand up. And when it's time to stand up, you go play golf. And like, we've got to change that. That's our fault, that's no one else's fault."

Fox Business said the panel met to discuss the results of the Forum's sixth annual National Defense Survey, which found that most Americans want to increase military spending and provide security assistance to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.

Here's a longer video encompassing his "breathing the vapors" remark:

RNDF 2023 Panel 1 – Asking Americans: Polling on U.S. Global Engagement Ahead of 2024 youtu.be

(H/T: Not the Bee)

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NYPD arrests over 150 pro-Hamas protesters at NYU as volatile demonstrations spread



The New York Police Department arrested more than 150 pro-Hamas protesters at New York University on Monday evening amid a wave of volatile demonstrations taking over university campuses.

Many of the detained anti-Israel protesters were students and faculty who had set up an encampment on the NYU campus. According to the school’s newspaper, Washington Square News, the pop-up campsite was formed by the NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition, which consists of more than 20 on-campus groups.

The protesters demanded that the university divest from entities with ties to Israel and shut down its Tel Aviv site. Similar encampments have sprouted up at a number of universities across the country, including Columbia University, MIT, Yale, and the University of Michigan.

Fountain Walker, NYU’s head of campus safety, warned protesters that they would “face consequences” if they failed to leave the area by 4 p.m., according to Washington Square News.

“With the breach of the barricades early this afternoon, that requirement was violated, and we witnessed disorderly, disruptive, and antagonizing behavior that has interfered with the safety and security of our community,” Walker told the crowd. “If you leave now, no one will face any consequences for today’s actions — no discipline, no police.”

Despite the warning, the demonstration continued to grow, with activists outside campus arriving to support those inside the encampment.

Around 8:30 p.m. on Monday, NYPD officers in riot gear instructed the protesters to disperse, warning that they would be arrested for trespassing if they refused. Police then began handcuffing demonstrators with zip ties. The remaining protesters responded to the arrests by forming a circle around the encampment and linking arms.

A video captured by a reporter with the City showed faculty and students creating a human barrier between police and the rest of the protesters.

While students pray at one end of the plaza police enter through back entrance LRAD plays while line of faculty hold a line.
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Other videos shared on social media showed rowdy and disorderly protesters hurling chairs and other objects at NYPD officers.

Bottles and chairs thrown as NYPD Clears the NYU occupation encampment 'Liberated Zone', making mass arrests.\n\nFULL STORY: https://t.co/ogESGvZcpK\n\nVideo by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 Desk@freedomnews.tv to license
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By approximately 9:30 p.m. all of the demonstrators had dispersed or been arrested, Washington Square News reported. It noted that NYPD began releasing the detained students and faculty in groups of two to five around 3:50 a.m.

NYU spokesperson John Beckman said, “We witnessed disorderly, disruptive, and antagonizing behavior that has interfered with the safety and security of our community, and that demonstrated how quickly a demonstration can get out of control or people can get hurt.”

“We also learned that there were intimidating chants and several anti-Semitic incidents reported,” Beckman continued. “Given the foregoing and the safety issues raised by the breach, we asked for assistance from the NYPD. The police urged those on the plaza to leave peacefully but ultimately made a number of arrests.”

Some remaining protesters who were not arrested by authorities marched toward NYPD headquarters carrying flares late Monday evening.

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Pro-Palestinian staffers resign from opinion magazine after magazine runs piece suggesting that the war has been brutal for both sides



As the conflict between Israel and Hamas has just passed its fifth month, pro-Palestinian activists have wasted no time in censoring and bullying pro-Israeli voices out of the cultural zeitgeist.

The latest casualty was Guernica Magazine's removal of a heart-wrenching piece of nonfiction written by Joanna Chen — a British writer and translator whose family moved to Israel after her brother was killed in a traffic accident.

The piece, entitled "From the Edges of a Broken World," tells the story of Chen's move from England to Israel and her work with Road to Recovery — "a nongovernmental organization founded by Yuval Roth, whose brother was kidnapped and killed by Hamas in 1993."

Chen wrote that the organization transported Palestinian children in need of lifesaving medical care to Israeli hospitals. Before the slaughter of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, volunteers would pick up Palestinian children — accompanied by parents and grandparents — from checkpoints near the West Bank. Chen wrote, "I usually drive to the Tarkumia checkpoint, close to Hebron, a fifteen-minute journey from my house in the Ella Valley."

"Before this present war, I would pick up my passengers around 5:30 a.m., everything still shrouded in shadow when I left the house," Chen continued.

She went on to recall the horrific events of October 7, writing that "sirens filled the air" and "rockets began falling close to my village." And despite all the uncertainty surrounding the attack and the fallout thereof, Chen said that she and her husband, Raz, "donated blood at a hospital in Jerusalem, waiting in line for six hours along with hundreds of other people."

After October 7, her work with Road to Recovery came to a screeching halt. She questioned how she could carry on knowing that Hamas "had massacred and kidnapped so many civilians," adding that Road to Recovery members had even been kidnapped, including Vivian Silver, "a longtime Canadian peace activist."

Chen noted that it was difficult to square what had happened to innocent Israeli lives on October 7 with what has since happened to innocent Palestinians dwelling in a dismantled Gaza. She went on to say that she started driving children to Israeli hospitals just weeks after October 7, even though members of her family were against it.

Despite the nuance and care given to such a sensitive subject, Chen's piece was quickly removed by Guernica Magazine for reasons that are still unclear. While the piece was archived and can still be read online, the site simply reads: "Guernica regrets having published this piece, and has retracted it. A more fulsome explanation will follow."

Blaze News has reached out to Chen and Guernica Editor-in-Chief Jina Moore Ngarambe for comment, but neither immediately responded to a request for comment.

Chen's story about a war-torn Middle East apparently did not sit well with pro-Palestinian activists — many of whom are within Guernica's ranks.

Sonny Bunch — the culture editor at the Bulwark — posted four screenshots to X on Sunday, appearing to show that individuals associated with Guernica Magazine planned to resign from their posts after Chen's piece was published.

Bunch wrote, "'Lefties doing ritual resignations from opinion mags because someone wrote a slightly challenging essay' remains one of my favorite Twitter subgenres."

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One such X user, Madhuri Sastry, wrote that she intended to resign as "co-publisher" from Guernica after Chen's piece was published. She also released a lengthy explanation as to why she intended to leave the outlet.

"I am resigning from my position as co-publisher of Guernica Magazine due to the publication of 'From the Edges of a Broken World.' It is, among many things, a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism and the ongoing genocide in Palestine."

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"I am deeply ashamed to see this piece in Guernica's pages, and sincerely apologize to the writers, readers, and supporters who feel betrayed by this decision. I stand by my courageous staff members who have been holding us accountable every step of the way. I am sorry we have let you down," she continued.

The X user went on to say that she was not responsible for any editorial decisions and noted that she had previously flagged a separate piece by Chen, entitled "Voices of Palestine," and suggested it not be published. Guernica appears to have taken Sastry's suggestion and decided not to publish it.

Sastry concluded her statement by calling for the resignation of "the editor-in-chief [Ngarambe], as the senior most person responsible for overseeing the processes that resulted in this publication decision." She also said that though there can be no redemption for this decision, there must "be accountability."

Shortly after members of Guernica announced that they would resign, the outlet quickly removed Chen's piece. Ngarambe has not yet provided an explanation as to why the piece was removed or why she made the editorial decision to publish it if it was not reflective of the outlet's political allegiances in the first place.

Another X user summed up Chen's piece, writing, "* Declined to serve in the IDF * Volunteered to drive Palestinian children to hospitals * Donated blood for Gaza in 2014 * Had complex feelings about the war And this is beyond the pale, really??"

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It is still not clear if those who threatened to resign have done so or if they merely threatened to do so.

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Roger Waters in Al Jazeera interview blasts U2's Bono as a 's**t' for voicing 'disgusting' pro-Israel views



Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters recently sat for an interview with Al Jazeera — a TV network widely regarded as a propaganda arm of radical Islam — and blasted U2 frontman Bono as a "s**t" for voicing "disgusting" pro-Israel views.

What's the background?

The day after terror group Hamas carried out a deadly surprise attack on a music festival in Israel on Oct. 7, U2 and Bono changed the lyrics of their anthemic song "Pride (In the Name of Love)" and honored slaughtered attendees of the Supernova festival, calling them "Stars of David."

Before U2 kicked into "Pride," lead singer Bono spoke to the audience at the Sphere in Las Vegas: "In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence … But our hearts and our anger, you know where that’s pointed. So sing with us and [for] those beautiful kids at that music festival.”

The iconic anthem began with Bono singing the usual lyrics softly and slowly while the Edge strummed an acoustic guitar. After the tune picked up speed, Bono spoke again: “Sing for our brothers and sisters who they themselves were singing at the Supernova Sukkot festival in Israel. We sing for those. Our people, our kind of people, music people. Playful, experimental people. Our kind of people. We sing for them.”

At the most poignant moment of "Pride" — when it refers to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on "April 4" under a "Memphis sky" — the lyrics were altered to honor the massacre victims in Israel: “Early morning, October 7, the sun is rising in the desert sky. Stars of David, they took your life, but they could not take your pride.”

U2 Pride (In the Name of Love), Sphere Las Vegas 10/8/2023 Live Front Row youtu.be

What did Waters say?

Although Waters said during his interview with Al Jazeera that he respects the Jewish people and the Jewish religion, he ripped what he called the "Zionist entity" — and didn't hold back against Bono, either.

“Anybody who knows Bono should go and pick him up by his ankles and shake him until he stops being a ... s**t," Waters said, spelling out the swear word instead of speaking it.

He angrily added, “We have to start speaking to these people and saying, 'Your opinion is so disgusting and degrading when you stand up for the Zionist entity.' What [Bono] did in the Sphere in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, singing about the Stars of David, was one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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Anything else?

Waters has spoken against Israel for many years and has been accused of anti-Semitism along the way.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Waters during a November interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald said of the Hamas massacre, "My first response to the attack was 'let's wait and see what happened.' My second thought was 'how on earth did the Israelis not know this was going to happen?! Didn't the Israeli army hear the explosions at the bases when Hamas blew up the border fence? There's something strange about this."

Waters added that Hamas is "absolutely legally and morally obligated to resist the occupation" and that the terror group's attack was "made disproportionate by Israelis who invented stories of baby beheading," the Post said.

The New Musical Express said Waters has repeatedly denied anti-Semitism accusations and accused Israel of "abusing the term anti-Semitism to intimidate people like me into silence."

More from the NME:

He was recently the subject of a documentary, "The Dark Side Of Roger Waters," which was produced by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and collates various incidents of alleged anti-Semitism leveled against the musician.

Rogers spoke out against the documentary with a post to his official website, dismissing the project as “a flimsy, unapologetic piece of propaganda.” He later claimed that it “indiscriminately mixes things I’m alleged to have said or done at different times and in different contexts, in an effort to portray me as an anti-Semite, without any foundation in fact.”

The documentary highlights a controversial concert in Germany back in May 2023, which was criticized by the U.S. State Department who described it as “deeply offensive to Jewish people.” The gig saw him appear on stage wearing a black trench coat with a swastika-like emblem. At the time the musician defended the choice, claiming that the segment was a statement against fascism, injustice and bigotry and called criticism of it “disingenuous and politically motivated.”

In April, Waters won a legal battle to play a concert in Frankfurt after it was initially cancelled over claims of anti-Semitism, and last month it was reported that he had been dropped by his label BMG over his comments on Israel.

What's more, shock jock Howard Stern — who is Jewish — blasted Waters for sending a scolding letter to rocker Jon Bon Jovi for performing in Israel in 2015. Earlier that year, Waters wrote musician Alan Parsons — who engineered Pink Floyd's classic album "The Dark Side of the Moon" — asking him to reconsider plans to play in Israel. Parsons' response? “Music knows no borders, and neither do I.” Israeli supermodel Bar Rafieli in 2013 ripped Waters for boycotting her country.

U2 over the weekend kept up their activism; at one point, Bono lamented the continuing violence in the Middle East and said the biblical concept of loving our enemies and our neighbors is a "divine commandment" and "not advice."

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