Posted on 10/12/2023 10:39:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
During an impassioned segment on MSNBC, Donny Deutsch slammed Hollywood and corporate America for their silence amid Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israel.
“I don’t understand the silence from Hollywood. I don’t understand the silence from corporate America. I don’t understand the silence from the academics. And I don’t understand the silence from so many politicians,” Deutsch said, speaking with anchor Nicolle Wallace.
Deutsch, who is Jewish, was previously a host on MSNBC and CNBC. The television personality and political analyst now hosts the podcast “On Brand With Donny Deutsch.”
“There is not context here. This is about the slaughtering of Jews,” Deutsch said. “It’s a level of heinousness we can’t even understand… beheading a baby, taking a nine-month old hostage, raping and dragging a dead woman through the town, killing elderly people. It goes back to my question again: Why the silence in this country from our institutions? Hollywood?”
Deutsch’s comments come as Israel has been under attack since Hamas’ surprise ambush on October 7, firing thousands of rockets from Gaza. Not since the Holocaust has there been a massacre of Jews this large. At least 1,200 people have died in Israel, including at least 22 U.S. citizens, and more than 100 civilians have been kidnapped and held hostage. On-the-ground reports have included gruesome details such as children being “butchered” in front of the their parents, and women being raped next to the slain bodies of their friends.
President Joe Biden has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization, and has expressed unwavering support for Israel as it now retaliates in Gaza where at least 1,100 people have died.
On MSNBC, Deutsch held Hollywood celebrities and corporate leaders to task for not speaking out in support of Jewish people.
“They’re afraid they’re going to offend part of their audience, but I don’t understand Hollywood’s quietness,” Deutsch said.
During the segment, Deutsch brought up a viral post that has been circulating on social media, calling out the top ten most-followed Instagram accounts in the world for not speaking up about the war in Israel: Christiano Ronaldo, Leo Messi, Selena Gomez, Kylie Jenner, Dwayne Johnson, Ariana Grande, Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Collectively, those celebrities have roughly four billion followers on the platform. “Not one of you have shown your support for the Jewish people,” the post said. (Since the post began to garner attention, Johnson, Kardashian and Bieber have posted about Israel.)
On MSNBC, Deutsch said, “The Top 10 most well-known Instagrammers who have four billion followers — half the country.” He continued, “Anti-semitism is the biggest to young people. But also, corporate America. Where are the CEOs? A few have spoken out. How is this not just outrage across the board?”
Deutsch compared Hamas’ mission to the Nazis when speaking with Wallace.
“Let’s be clear about it: Their reason to be Hamas has nothing to do with a two-state solution, has nothing to do with Netanyahu, has nothing to do with escalation or retaliation, it has nothing to do with human rights,” Deutsch said. “It has to do with the massacre and the killing of Jews on this planet. That’s their mission.”
“You can have context over here where you talk about both sides, where you talk about the complex issues, where you talk about the oppression on both sides, where you can empathize with the Palestinian plight,” he continued. “But there is no context here. There was no context to 9/11. We have to be able to talk about it in absolute terms.”
When contacted by Variety, Deutsch said he decided to speak out “because anti-semitism is about silence. Where are the loudest voices?”
For Christ’s Sake, doesn’t Donny Deutsch know that $ money $ trumps ideology, religion or even humanity. All ten, he named and many others are afraid of losing some of their supporters and losing supporters means losing money. So all they have to do is, not do or say anything to offend Muslims and the other religions will just keep on listening.
Not a peep out of Meathead?
They remain silent because, #1, they're all party-line stooges or because they aren't but don't want to lose their careers; and #2, because they supported defunding the police while hiring loads of extra security for their gated communities and whatnot.
It’s about access. Today’s entertainment personalities cannot afford to go against the wishes and attitudes of those that employ them lest they fall from grace and are no longer welcome to the easy life of making movies, pretending to be people they are not.
Sarah Silverman dropped out of Democrat Socialists in America. Life time member. She told them to go F themselves. They approached her about condemning Israel. Slow to learn, but finally she has.
“It’s a level of heinousness we can’t even understand…”
Yep. Something “new” in warfare except the moslems have been doing it for 1500 years.
If he doesn’t understand the silence, he is very stupid.
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It’s interesting to note the number of far left loons trying to distance themselves from their fellow clowns in the party that hates Israel.
It’s interesting to note the number of far left loons trying to distance themselves from their fellow clowns in the party that hates Israel.
No, Donny Doosh will go on hating and wanting YOU dead.
Clearly it’s the fault of white, straight Christian men with a southern accent.
What the trope no longer in effect?
He will still vote for the Hamas/Iran-enabling party in 2024.
Thanks Donny
Donny Deutsch is a jew, so, to him, everything is about the jews.
Muzzies are attacking anything not muzzie. Israel is a perfect target being in the middle of all those muzzie nations. The muzzies also killed people who are not jews, but DD isn’t mentioning those victims.
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