Posted on 02/09/2024 2:39:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
Bookstores in California and Illinois scuttled scheduled events featuring the 47-year-old comedian due to harassment and intimidation from antisemitic and anti-Israel protesters, he alleges.
The Jewish actor will no longer have the chance to promote his fiction debut at Book Passage in San Francisco and The Book Stall in Winnetka. Gelman had been set to appear at the venues as part of a four-city tour for his forthcoming short story collection, “The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories.“
“The bookstores canceled because of protester intimidation,” Gelman, who portrayed Murray Bauman on the Netflix hit, told The Post. “I didn’t get a lot of specifics … [but] I definitely believe it’s because of my vocal support of Israel and because of the fact that I’m Jewish. I think that this is a completely antisemitic act.”
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Good actor. His portrayal of Murray is a scream.
Protests are a turn-off, and don’t get any sympathy from me. If you don’t like the product or person, don’t buy. Leftists fund rent-a-mob protesters and just anger other people. They’re a pain in the whatever.
I have no doubt he is correct
2 I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
Joel 3:2
As much as I despise antisemitism, I have neither empathy nor sympathy for him.
6. Let?s see who on the liberal-left stands up for him? Hillary, Kamala, Mrs. Biden, Omar and Tlaib, Joy Reid, CornRow Jackson, ???
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