These Palestinian filmmakers didn鈥檛 need any excuse to crush an artist. All they needed to know was that Lapid was Israeli. Never mind that he supports boycotting the country they hate.
Only humans can create things from scratch. Machines are brilliant at taking that 鈥渟cratch鈥� and running with it, but if there’s no human content in its digital brain, a machine is useless in front of a blank page.
I鈥檝e been a sports nut my whole life, so it was no big deal to be up in the middle of the night to follow a major sporting event.
Maybe hiding the fear was my own personal missile. Maybe it was my own defiant message to the Jew-hating murderers in Tehran.
For about an hour or two, you鈥檙e asked to absorb centuries upon centuries of kings, armies, religions and empires taking turns trying to control the center of the world.
Maybe it鈥檚 because our 250th birthday is right around the corner. Or maybe it鈥檚 a statement of defiance, a way of telling Jew-haters I鈥檓 giving them the very opposite of what they want.
Israelis seem to have a special affinity for that electric energy of the here and now. Maybe that is how the country has made it this far鈥� millions and millions of 鈥淲hat do we do now?鈥�
I was no longer on my laptop writing about Israel-hatred. I was on a street corner confronting that hatred. If I could write in my columns about the need for a winning attitude, this was now my chance to show it.
It鈥檚 not easy to think about love during times of crisis. When the battles facing us are so hard, we don鈥檛 look for emotions that appear soft. When we鈥檙e surrounded by hate, we don鈥檛 run to something like love.
Emphasizing Israel鈥檚 value to America must become a community-wide effort. From the ADL to the AJC to the Federation system to Hillel and every pro-Israel activist group in the country, the collective priority must be to strengthen the U.S.鈥擨sraeli relationship.
