How the Hamas attack of October 7 inspired Hollywoods new blacklist

This week marks three years since the worst day in the history of the State of Israel and the bloodiest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.We will never forget those massacred on October 7 or the broken hearts of their families.But too many, from Hollywood actors to post-colonial studies professors, seem determined to forget, or to twist, the truth of that day.  The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story In addition to Hamas’ brutality, something else was unleashed that day.Terrorists were still slaughtering Israelis when Jews around the world were hit with a barrage of hatred so seething and violent it caught many by surprise. Within hours, organized demonstrations, student groups and social media accounts were blaming Israel, accusing it of “genocide,” and calling kidnapping Holocaust survivors a matter of “context.” They chanted “free Palestine,” “by all means necessary,” “from the river to the sea” and even “gas the Jews.” This was no accident.

It’s the product of a deliberate campaign decades in the making that united a wide range of social and political movements, aided and abetted by Islamist states and groups, around a common cause: hatred of Israel.After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel’s enemies realized they could not destroy it militarily.

They shifted their strategy toward delegitimizing Israel’s existence.An entire ecosystem of anti-Israel, antisemitic hate was created.It was ready to be activated with a simple message.

Israel: the oppressor, an “apartheid state” and “the last bastion of colonialism.” Palestinians: the perfect oppressed underdogs, unbound by personal agency and immune to any moral scrutiny.The Jews or Zionists are cast as agents of evil. On October 8, 2023, thirty-three Harvard stud...