You Can’t Handle the Truth”
By Paul Miller
Edited Version Originally published in the New York & California Post
36,500 dead Iranian citizens. Killed by security forces for protesting against the regime in Tehran during its Jan. 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, according to Iran International’s Editorial Board. Eyewitness testimony from medical professionals inside Iran describe unimaginable horrors, including bodies piling up, many still connected to medical devices, revealing the inability of hospital staff to keep up with the dead.
Surely it’s safe to assume that the human rights brigade in Hollywood would be scurrying for the cameras, decrying these crimes against humanity. Right?
You would expect Hollywood stars such as Mark Ruffalo, Angelina Jolie and Cynthia Nixon to be leading a choir of “A” list entertainers, using their bully pulpits, in solidarity with the people of Iran and eviscerating the Mullahs. But Tinseltown’s human rights choir has no soundtrack on Iran.
If you can’t blame Jews, it’s not news. If you can’t vilify Donald Trump, it didn’t happen.
This is the motto that Hollywood’s cast of “social justice” warriors should put on their virtue-signaling business cards.
Jewish immigrants, who fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe at the turn of the last century, who founded the Hollywood of today, are spinning in their graves. The movie industry they created has become a safe space for antisemites.
When over 1200 Jews were raped, tortured and murdered in Israel by the terrorist organization Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, Hollywood’s most vociferous human rights activists were silent.
While many Jewish and non-Jewish entertainers publicly condemned Hamas and took to social media platforms to support the people of Israel, the Hollywood leftists, who are the face of the entertainment industry and condemn the Jewish state and President Trump at every opportunity, only spoke out when Israel went after Hamas in Gaza. The fact that Israel was attempting to rescue their citizens held hostage and Hamas was hiding behind civilians, never crossed their lips.
When the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said, “the world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied,” she was sharing her perspective of the world’s mindset 25 years after the Holocaust. Over 50 years later, Hollywood’s elitists are fresh out of pity for the massacred Jewish children and infants.
If their antisemitism weren’t shameful enough, hundreds of members of Hollywood’s LGBTQ community have sided with “Palestine,” and remained silent over the death toll in Iran. Think about that.
Iran has executed over 7,000 men and women since the 1980s, including teenagers as young as 14, for simply being gay or suspected of homosexuality. Hollywood’s powerful and proud gay community remains silent against the regime in Tehran. This is the same government that funded the Oct. 7 massacre that led to Israel’s having to go into Gaza, which they decry at every opportunity. This is the same government that runs Gaza through their terror proxy Hamas, which shares with the world video of LGBTQ Palestinians being thrown off rooftops in Gaza.
Hollywood’s hypocrisy and yes, I’ll say it, hatred, does not end with the Jewish state. No individual is more despised by the entertainment world than President Trump.
Last month, Hollywood’s social justice warriors had an opportunity at the Golden Globe awards to show their solidarity with the people of Iran and Venezuela. But that would require showing a modicum of support for President Trump. And in Hollywood you can’t have that.
The people of Venezuela are no longer subjected to the tyranny of murderous dictator Nicholas Maduro, and the credit goes to Mr. Trump.
Even though the world waits to see how Iran plays out and exactly who will govern Venezuela and whether democracy will prevail there, for the first time in decades, both oppressed citizenries actually have hope. But Hollywood isn’t interested in showing solidarity with people who are oppressed and executed for voicing dissent if it means putting Israel or Mr. Trump in any sort of positive light.
Between 24-hour news channels and the impact social media has on a global scale, entertainers with millions of followers can have a real, positive impact on humanity. But if that means supporting the rights of Jews to defend themselves or not portraying President Trump as evil incarnate, humanity be damned.