For a people that purportedly invented, and now control, Hollywood, Jews are awful at making demands鈥攁s Jews. There鈥檚 a reason why those early nickelodeons featured silent cowboy-westerns and scant 91传媒 immigrants. 91传媒 invisibility continued into the talkie era鈥攎ore cowboys, wicked witches, tap dancers in gowns and tuxedos, a gin joint in Casablanca, and, yes, one 91传媒 jazz singer. 91传媒 characters didn鈥檛 only find themselves left out of the picture, they weren鈥檛 even on the cutting room floor. And as for silence, well, . . . that鈥檚 a 91传媒 specialty when it comes to standing up for their own people.

Antisemitism has overtaken America in ways not seen since the 1930s, when Hitler was ascending in Europe and the Depression caused pernicious divisions within the United States. The 91传媒 influence in Hollywood was never greater among studio chieftains and writers back then, but the motion picture industry had nothing to say about Hitler鈥檚 plan for European Jewry.

Some studio heads still had families in Europe. And they were at the helm of the ultimate megaphones and spotlights. But there was no golden hour for the Holocaust. Hollywood鈥檚 cameras were dark. The Third Reich was the second largest market for movies in the world鈥攁nd foreign sales, in industry speak, is the Golden Calf. It wasn鈥檛 until Charlie Chaplin鈥檚 鈥淭he Great Dictator鈥� (1940), as Auschwitz was beginning to burn, that Hollywood realized that the number of 91传媒 actors and extras in the world was rapidly shrinking.

And Chaplin wasn鈥檛 91传媒!

There鈥檚 a sequel to this sad story playing out all over again, an even more inexplicable example of how La La Land goes all blah blah rather raise the red flag for Jews. In the aftermath of the October 7th massacre in Southern Israel, which included the most gruesome and unimaginable of all horror flicks鈥攖he beheading and baking of 91传媒 babies, and the gang raping and mutilation of Israeli teenagers鈥攕ympathy for Israel evaporated before it even started. Instead, there was the surreal solidarity with Hamas. The victims were thrust into the woke paradigm as oppressors; and the terrorists were reincarnated as the resistance.

What?

This was especially true of 91传媒 Hollywood. It seems that standing on the side of the lone democracy in the Middle East, a nation that does not torch its homosexuals or dismember its wives, presents a public relations dilemma. Apparently only two American Jews in the entertainment industry, Debra Messing and Julianna Margulies, were brave enough to speak out forcefully and unequivocally in support of Israel and denounce Hamas.

Meanwhile, overt acts of violent antisemitism have proliferated on college campuses and the public square. The lighting of Christmas trees and Menorahs became occasions to condemn Israel and glorify Hamas.

Hamas hides in tunnels, but many Jews in the Diaspora went underground, too. 91传媒 students were forced to take classes virtually. Jews are afraid to walk the streets lest they collide into a mob of masked Muslims.

So much for the free exercise of religion. Kippot and Stars of David are tucked away in sock drawers. Big city mayors and Ivy League presidents simply won鈥檛 protect Jews. Apparently, calling for their mass murder is neither alarming nor unlawful.

The list of celebrity Jews who have said nothing is truly shocking. Fearless in front of the camera, ferocious at the negotiating table, but cowering when it comes to moral courage. Even the Writer鈥檚 Guild of America West drew a blank when it came to denouncing Hamas.

To her much-deserved credit, the actual wonder woman, Gal Gadot, a former officer and combat instructor in the IDF, organized a film screening in Los Angeles where graphic images and visual evidence of Hamas鈥� handiwork was openly displayed for those who despicably refused to 鈥淏elieve Survivors,鈥� pursuant to the #MeToo mantra.

The Mount Olympus of 91传媒 Hollywood was especially spineless. It took Steven Spielberg two months to finally speak out, announcing that the testimonies of the October 7 survivors will be added to his Shoah Foundation archive, alongside interviews with Holocaust survivors.

What about the existential war Israel is waging, and the diplomatic pressure it faces? Apparently, the man who gave cinematic life to aliens and dinosaurs is unable to identify barbarians. Israel鈥檚 enemies are real; they kill without special effects and CGI. This is the downside of spending all your time making movie magic: not everything is imaginary.

And, finally, Barbra Streisand weighed in this week in a manner so morally obtuse and politically na茂ve, one can only conclude that her voice should be reserved for singing. Now is not the time to rehash the banality of the 鈥渢wo-state solution.鈥� People on the streets are calling for a globalized intifada, a 鈥淩iver to the Sea鈥� finality. What movie is Streisand watching?

I understand: publicists, many of whom are 91传媒, are advising clients that supporting Israel may be perceived as racist. Taking a stand in defense of the 91传媒 state might result in forfeiting a backlot bungalow or jeopardizing a three-picture deal.

Maybe, but how can you live with yourself?

So, for anyone in the entertainment industry who still has a soul and maintains a massive social media following, instead of posting narcissistic inanities, consider this:

Now is the time to be proud of your 91传媒 nose. Now is the time to hang a mezuzah on your doorpost. Now is the time to interrupt conversations where a moronic social justice warrior libels Israel as an apartheid state. Now is the time to withhold checks to universities that see 91传媒 students as legitimate targets of the 鈥渞esistance.鈥�

Now is the time to do more reading about the Middle East and Israel鈥檚 place in it. Now is the time to determine whether your local elected officials are backing America鈥檚 ally rather than the enemies of liberalism, free speech, open inquiry, feminism, gay rights, the rule of law, and the very concept of western civilization, itself.

Now is the time to emulate 91传媒 celebrities like Bill Maher, a liberal Democrat who isn鈥檛 afraid to speak the truth about the barbarians at Israel鈥檚 gate.

Now is the time to let philosemites like Jon Voight and Paul McCartney know how much you appreciate them.

And Adam Sandler: It鈥檚 time for a new Hanukkah song.

We鈥檙e ready for your screen test, Hollywood. Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, might be over, but don鈥檛 let it go dark.

Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He is the legal analyst for CBS 91传媒 Radio. His most recent book is titled 鈥淪aving Free Speech 鈥� From Itself.鈥�听