MERYL STREEP BLASTS WALT DISNEY AS ANTI-SEMITIC- BUT DELIVERS A FAWNING TRIBUTE TO EMMA THOMPSON…..SEE NOTE PLEASE
Actress Meryl Streep Blasts Walt Disney as Anti-Semitic; ZOA Condemns Actress Emma Thompson
MS. STREEP ONCE BLASTED THE APPLE GROWERS WITH FALSE JUNK SCIENCE CLAIMS ABOUT ALAR. DISNEY IS LONG DEAD BUT EMMA THOMPSON IS ALIVE AND WELL AND CONTINUALLY SHILLING FOR THE “PALESTINIANS” AND BASHING ISRAEL AND THE LEGACY OF MARGARET THATCHER…..AND DOES FAR MORE HARM THAN A DEAD DISNEY….RSK
Hollywood actress Meryl Streep blasted Walt Disney as an anti-Semitic misogynist in an unusually long and scathing speech at a film awards dinner on Tuesday night, Variety reported on Thursday.
Ironically, Streep’s nine-minute speech was to honor the actress who portrayed ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers in The Walt Disney Company’s ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ Emma Thompson, who the Zionist Organization of America denounced on Thursday for her letter in the Guardian advocating for a boycott of Israel’s Habima Theater troupe, which is to perform later this year at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, in London.
Variety aptly described the scene at the awards dinner on Tuesday night: “The National Board of Review dinner is like the big pre-game to the Golden Globes, where wine bottles are uncorked in New York and don’t stop flowing until the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s gala on Sunday. But this year’s ceremony will forever be remembered for its nine-minute tour-de-force speech from Meryl Streep.”
“There was plenty of effusive Thompson praising in the speech — with phrases like ‘she’s practically a saint’ and ‘she’s a beautiful artist’ — and it ended with a poem that Streep had written for her friend titled ‘An Ode to Emma, Or What Emma is Owed.’ But Streep also made a point of blasting Walt Disney for his sexist and anti-Semitic stances.”
According to Variety, “Streep talked about how Disney ‘supported an anti-Semitic industry lobbying group’ and called him a ‘gender bigot.’ She read a letter that his company wrote in 1938 to an aspiring female animator. It included the line, ‘Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that task is performed entirely by young men.’”
Disney biographer Neal Gabler, the first writer to gain unrestricted access to the Disney archives, wrote that while many of his attitudes against Jews were common during his time, Disney’s reputation as an anti-Semite was largely from his association with groups who were clearly anti-Semitic.
In a CBS interview, Gabler said:
“That’s one of the questions everybody asks me… My answer to that is, not in the conventional sense that we think of someone as being an anti-Semite. But he got the reputation because, in the 1940s, he got himself allied with a group called the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, which was an anti-Communist and anti-Semitic organization. And though Walt himself, in my estimation, was not anti-Semitic, nevertheless, he willingly allied himself with people who were anti-Semitic, and that reputation stuck. He was never really able to expunge it throughout his life.”
Separately, in a statement on Thursday, the ZOA condemned actress Thompson and three dozen other British actors who demanded that London’s Globe Theater dis-invite Israel’s Habima for “associating itself with policies of exclusion practiced by the Israeli state and endorsed by its national theater company.”
Habima is scheduled to perform in a six-week theatrical festival at the Globe. The ZOA noted the actors’ hypocrisy for calling out Israel while failing to boycott the National Theater of China, which is participating in the same festival.
ZOA National President Mort Klein said, “We condemn Emma Thompson and her colleagues for their advocacy of boycotting Israel’s famed Habima Theater. Their call is in no way justified, or in any way less serious or worthy of condemnation, because Habima has refused to boycott a cultural center that opened in Ariel.”
“We also note the rank hypocrisy of Thompson and her ilk condemning Habima and seeking its boycott — but having no problem with the National Theater of China participating in the same festival, even though China’s observance of human rights is, to put it mildly, abysmal,” Klein said.
“Emma Thompson and these other actors are clearly people who, because they are celebrities, enjoy unmerited influence and ability to publicize their political views. This places an even greater responsibility on them to think carefully before speaking on political matters, which they have clearly failed. They deserve to be condemned and shunned by the Jewish, pro-Israeli community and all other people of goodwill. We urge everyone to boycott Emma Thompson’s current movie, ‘Saving Mr. Banks.’”
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