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(Pictured above: Not Boots Riley. Also not a Rabbi.)
There’s a moment in Howard Jacobson’s novel, ‘The Finkler Question’, where a celebrity (whose identity is not hard to guess) “found out he was Jewish at all in the course of making a television programme in which he was confronted on camera with who he really was. In the final frame of the film, he was disclosed weeping before a memorial in Auschwitz to dead ancestors who, until that moment, he had never known he’d had. ‘It could explain where I get my comic genius from,’ he told an interviewer for a newspaper, though by then he had renegotiated his new allegiance. Born a Jew on Monday, he had signed up to be an ASHamed Jew by Wednesday and was seen chanting, ‘We are all Hezbollah’ outside the Israeli embassy on the following Saturday.”
Nothing spurs celebrities to discover their Jewish roots like the opportunity to cheer for the murder of Jews.
So Boots Riley, a ‘filmmaker’ (if we’re being generous) whom you never heard of is making headlines for protesting against Israel as part of a ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ hate mob.
Hundreds of protesters took over the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland on Monday night, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Video from inside the federal building, shared on X (formerly Twitter), showed the slew of protesters, many of whom were wearing matching shirts that read “Jews Say Ceasefire Now” and “Not In Our Name.”
Among the protesters, much of whom appeared to be with Jewish Voice For Peace, was Sorry to Bother filmmaker Boots Riley, who shared several updates from the inside over social media.
“The govt of Israel does not act on behalf of, nor represent, Jewish people.” he said via X. “A bunch of us are only leaving if it’s in handcuffs.”
I’m sorry, who exactly is “us”?
Boots Riley is the son of a black father and a half black mother. He’s never shown any predilection for claiming to be Jewish until he had the opportunity to rally for Hamas while wrapping himself in the ethnicity of his lone Jewish grandmother. But he did discuss his love for Communism.
Who does Boots Riley believe “Jewish people” are? Let’s hear it from his Jew-hating mouth.
It’s the thing with this scripture. At the time when all that stuff was written, there wasn’t Christians and there wasn’t Islam yet. The folks that lived there, the ancestors of the Arab folks that are Palestinian were Jews back then, so the folks that they’re trying to kick out, the Arab Muslims that they’re trying to kick out, their ancestors were the ones that were there during the time of the scripture and who converted to Islam. The Ashkenazi folks that are mainly running Israel are descendants of people in Europe who didn’t convert to Judaism until later.
This is Nation of Islam stuff. It’s gutter antisemitism which claims that Jews are fake Jews and Muslims are the real Jews. This is some of the stuff that the black nationalists who murdered Jews in New York and New Jersey believed.
This is the crowd that ‘Jews for Peace’ draws.
(Good thing that Andrew Esensten and J, the Jewish News of Northern California, decided to use Boots Riley as their face of opposition to Israel’s self-defense against Hamas.)
Boots Riley isn’t alone. There are a whole lot people who decided to be Jewish just in time to support the murder of Jews. On Seinfeld, a dentist converted to be able to tell Jewish jokes. In real life, they fake convert to be able to kill Jews.
TruthLaser says
There should be a Boots Hill for anti-Semites. The statement Boots made is totally without facts. Even if true, it does not justify the actions of Hamas.
Taylor says
Leaving aside the moral dimension for a moment, the sheer stupidity of some people is astounding. And then to add arrogance to ignorance?
Greg says
In the 1967 Mel Brooks movie, “The Producers,” a desperate Broadway producer did a send-up of the Nazi Fuhrer in a musical skit entitled “Springtime For Hitler.” For plot twist reasons, he wanted the musical production to fail. Surely, no one would applaud such vile burlesque. Wrong. Then and now, a Jew-hating aesthetic ideal is applauded in the movies and wherever else the Democ-rat political party calls the tune. Nowadays, “Springtime For Hitler” has undergone a life-imitating-art revival in “woke” world that could be called, “From The River To The Sea.” Hey, Hey DOJ, how many Jews have y’all killed today?
Cat says
There are American Jews of the `”cringe denomination” such as Justice Kagan who displayed her identity confusion and, in my opinion, self hatred with awkward jokes about Jews in very public venues.
I attended an art lecture by what was supposed to be a very esteemed professor who was of this cringe denomination. I don’t remember why she was showing Mel Brooks movie clips but she showed the one where Jewish (rabbi attired) men leave the Spanish Inquisition and jump into a swimming pool after nuns who become Busby Berkley bathing beauties. This professor completely misunderstood the meaning and kept babbling embarrassingly. It was one of the worst cringes Ive experienced but there are have been many.
And today the cringing has become deadly……….again.
dani says
which is why those two words – useful idiot – are SO appropriate for these imbeciles
Algorithmic Analyst says
Sounds like fractured history from Boots.
NAVY ET1 says
1) A celebrity that no one’s heard of isn’t a celebrity.
2) Surprising to me, there have been quite a few actual celebrities (many of whom I didn’t even know were Jewish) who’ve come out in support of Israel. Some are young and are supporting in deference to their fans, which speaks volumes to me.
3) The gutter antisemitism from the Nation of Islam will still be around after Israel is through cleaning up Gaza because it’s like a fungus that bleach won’t kill. Fortunately, this particular fungus has very little impact on the effectiveness of the IDF or Netanyahu’s wartime strategies.
4) While it’s obviously true that an evil wind is currently blowing in the direction of the Jews, those of us who’ve studied our bibles knew to expect it, know what it signifies and know Israel will be saved out of it.
cedar9 says
These are the same people that assisted Adolph and the boys. These are the same people that never fought back when it was needed. Ignore them, they will end up as fodder for the death march. Meanwhile the fight will be won by their betters.
Cassandra says
Riley identifies as a communist.[2]
Fixed it for him,
Kasandra says
The blacks are the actual Jews. The Arabs are the actual Jews. I guess everybody is the actual Jew except actual Jews. Crazy.