Back in 2015, Jewish liberals were upset that Ava DuVernay’s take on Martin Luther King had excised  Abraham Joshua Heschel from the Selma march. (It’s odd that after a few generations, they still hadn’t gotten the message and expected recognition.)

4 years later, fresh off her failed attempt at hijacking A Wrinkle in Time for Disney, DuVernay interviews Rep. Omar.

DuVernay’s chat with Rep. Omar is full of cheerful empowerment rhetoric without ever addressing the elephant in the room, anti-Semitism.

But if, as some defenders claimed, Ava DuVernay had no idea who Heschel was, there’s no way she could not know about Omar’s anti-Semitism. This time around the omission, the elision, is deliberate. Once again, this is not something that DuVernay wants to talk about because it doesn’t fit in with her large racial nationalism. Her identity politics have no room for either interfaith or interracial alliances, or for addressing the bigotry of her allies.