War is over — but it seems no one told the grandstanding, Israel-hating celebrities who made the “Free Palestine, ceasefire now” movement their entire personality for the last two years.
It’s been two days since President Trump announced the historic and, yes, still precarious ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Such wonderful news — an end to the fighting in Gaza and the return of Israeli hostages — should be met with applause from all sides.
And yet, there’s been relative crickets from the keffiyeh chorus of Hollywood.
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Actor Mark Ruffalo, among the loudest critics of Israel, has been very active on instagram. But has he shared any heartfelt messages about this first step toward peace? Nah, just a bunch of anti-Trump posts from his friends, including Robert DeNiro telling everyone to come out for the next No Kings Day.
Ceasefire to grease fire!
“Hacks” comedian Meg Stalter showed up to September’s Emmys with a black handbag covered in a large piece of tape with the word “Ceasefire” written on it.
Now? Nada from her on the ceasefire.
To be fair, it’s not just Hollywood celebs. Suddenly, Rep. Rashida Talib, who is Palestinian American, has better things to talk about. Greta “How dare you?” Thunberg is relentlessly posting about her useless flotilla of influencers. Nothing about the ceasefire, because that would end her genocide grift.
Last month, more than 2,000 artists signed a petition pledging to not work with Israeli filmmakers or “institutions that are complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses against the Palestinian people.”
Boldface signees included John Cusack, Joaquin Phoenix and director Ava DuVernay. This week, those three have simply shared videos criticizing Trump and the peace plan.
I expected a huge celebration from Stalter’s “Hacks” co-star Hannah Einbinder, who literally wore an “Artists4Ceasefire” pin to the Emmys and used her win to scream: “Free Palestine and f–k ICE.”
After this week’s news, she initially posted a video of her decrying Zionisim as a betrayal of Judaism and a sad meme about the Eagles losing to the Giants. By Friday night, two days after the fact, Einbinder found the right prepared post to share: “We are elated by the Gaza ceasefire news,” it reads in small type.
Larger are the words, “Now the world must hold Israel to account for 2 years of genocide.”
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. When Hamas murdered more than 1,200 innocent Israelis and kidnapped 251 hostages on October 7, 2023, there was relative silence from Hollywood’s hypocrites. And it eventually became much more fashionable to become a shameless Israel-basher.
Perhaps most shameless of all is Spanish actor Javier Bardem. He has posted a few videos of children celebrating in Gaza, but his happiness was tempered by whinging posts that the ceasefire does not address the real issue of a free Palestine.
Maybe he should take that up with boys from Hamas.
In 2014, Bardem and wife Penélope Cruz signed an open letter, published in a Spanish newspaper, accusing Israel of genocide.
When the actor received blowback, he issued a statement saying, “While I was critical of the Israeli military response, I have great respect for the people of Israel and deep compassion for their losses.”
Fast-forward to the Emmys, when he showed up in a keffiyeh and once again accused Israel of genocide.
