Damning accusations about “fake news” have permeated the two Trump administrations. The president, who admittedly has no peer in political insults, is, nonetheless, not entirely wrong.
After all, the press went full-court press in blaming him for January 6 even though DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith ultimately could not charge Trump with incitement or insurrection. If the facts had matched the legal elements, the indictment against him would not have sidestepped the storming of the Capitol.
Perhaps even more egregious is the media’s propagandist stance on the “genocide” libel against Israel in Gaza. Any reporter who includes genocide and Gaza in the same sentence, without qualification, works for a “fake news” outlet. The following language must always be appended:
“Gaza is a warzone teeming with terrorists and civilians responsible for the October 7 massacre. The legal definition of genocide does not apply to casualties of war—no matter how many casualties there might be, a number that in Gaza is itself in dispute. Genocide requires evidence of specific intent to annihilate a people, which is simply not present in Gaza, where Israel warned civilians to evacuate, created humanitarian corridors and provided aid.”
Fakery in news is nowadays being surpassed by fakery in Jews.
Hannah Gann, a teacher in Philadelphia and a pro-Palestine activist, who purported to be both Black and Palestinian, has been revealed to be a white Jewish woman. She claimed her Arab family lived in the West Bank. A former classmate defrocked Gann of her multicultural and racial pretensions. Apparently, she used makeup and fake tans to darken her skin. And she adopted an African-American dialect.
In truth, she was never anything other than a longstanding self-hating Jew with Palestinian envy.
Talk about cultural and racial misappropriation! Gann buried all that white Jewish “privilege” under a mountain of virtue-signaling rot. One thing was true, however: Her actual family does live in the West Bank—but as Jews!
Elsewhere in the world of counterfeit Jews, a growing number in the entertainment industry are forsaking their silence (and integrity) and joining the treyf traitors of their tribe, like Jon Stewart, Seth Rogen, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jonathan Glazer, who are positively drunk on a toxic brew of Jew-hating Kool-Aid.
Adam Brody, the “Jewish” actor known as the “hot rabbi” on Netflix’s rom-com “Nobody Wants This,” placed an exclamation point on where he stands on Israel’s war in Gaza. In a recent interview, he stated: “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”
He has now surpassed all the other Hollywood Jews, save for Hannah Einbinder and Wallace Shawn, who agree with Brody that Israel is a genocidal nation. Imagine that: doubling down in their disgrace—hating Israel and submerging their self-respect in a ritual bath of Palestinian love.
Brody plays a Reform rabbi on TV. Perhaps that explains it. Like many within that denomination, healing the world takes precedence over protecting their own. With such a blinkered view, Israel is always seen through hideously disfigured Hades-colored glasses.
Where and how did we end up with all these truly idiotic, morally obtuse celebrity Jews? Did none of them go to college, or is it that they didn’t know how to stand up to their antisemitic, Islamist professors? More likely, they just want to be liked and will say or do anything to preserve their seat at the cool kids’ table in the cafeteria.
Brody must have had misgivings that a war in the Middle East—involving a Jewish state he had doubtlessly never visited and couldn’t care less about—had diminished his fame. More cynically, his outrageous response to the genocide charge could catapult him to the A-List.
He was quoted as lamenting his silence, which he has now punctured: “I’m not wearing a pin, … and perhaps I should. I really admire people who do.”
How grovelingly pathetic. Expect to see him at future red-carpet appearances donning “Free Palestine” accessories. Tabloids will photograph him beside Jew-hater extraordinaire, Javier Bardem.
The week was not all bleak. Turns out certain famous people not raised Jewish, only to one day discover that they have Jewish ancestry, are not writhing in self-disgust. British soccer legend, Wayne Rooney, revealed on the Disney+ documentary, “The Real Rooneys,” that he recently learned that his maternal grandmother’s family were Polish Jews who fled to Liverpool before the Holocaust!
Under Jewish law: he’s a Jew. Brody and Einbinder, faced with the same bad news, would have committed hara-kiri! Not Rooney, however, who was rather delighted by the news. This despite the rampant antisemitism coursing throughout the United Kingdom.
Ironically, this football-mad island nation would be lost without its iconic Jewish players.
David Beckham can bend both a soccer ball and a knee to Jewish prayer—his ancestral religion on his mother’s side through her grandfather. This information was not new to Beckham. As a boy he wore a yarmulka at bar mitzvahs, ate chicken soup, matzah balls, and latkes at his grandparents’ home. While never a practicing Jew, he still can recite the blessing over the challah.
Despite all that Hebraic backstory that would make Jon Stewart and Seth Rogen barf, he doesn’t feel the need to trash the Jewish state in order to retain his fame—even in an avowedly antisemitic country that still worships him!
All this happened while Ireland’s national soccer team reluctantly decided to play its UEFA Nations League match against Israel. Several of its players, however, including its goalkeeper, boycotted the game in protest.
The team’s manager said, “We’re playing against genocide. We’re playing against Israel.” The goaltender offered his own insight, no doubt a consequence of too many headers and too few books. “My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.”
Wow, what a deep and original thought. The goalie slipped through a rabbit hole.
What a lost tribe Jews really are. Those Jewish all their lives deny the association if it ties them to Israel’s defense of a homeland meant as a haven for them! In some demented exercise in low self-esteem, they desperately try to prove that they hate themselves even more than their worst enemies.
What a lost tribe Jews really are. Those Jewish all their lives deny the association if it ties them to Israel’s defense of a homeland meant as a haven for them! In some demented exercise in low self-esteem, they desperately try to prove that they hate themselves even more than their worst enemies.
Meanwhile, there are those who came to their Jewish ancestry later in life—a soccer player and practicing Catholic like Rooney, authors Tom Stoppard and George R.R. Martin, and actresses Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba—who feel no impulse to erase themselves, blacken Israel, and take up arms with fashionable antisemites.
We now know that personal integrity, for a true Jew, does not depend on having become a bar or bat mitzvah.
We now know that personal integrity, for a true Jew, does not depend on having become a bar or bat mitzvah.
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 a contributing writer for White Rose magazine. His most recent book is titled, “Beyond Proportionality: Israel’s Just War in Gaza.”
The “Real News” of Fake Jews
Thane Rosenbaum
Damning accusations about “fake news” have permeated the two Trump administrations. The president, who admittedly has no peer in political insults, is, nonetheless, not entirely wrong.
After all, the press went full-court press in blaming him for January 6 even though DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith ultimately could not charge Trump with incitement or insurrection. If the facts had matched the legal elements, the indictment against him would not have sidestepped the storming of the Capitol.
Perhaps even more egregious is the media’s propagandist stance on the “genocide” libel against Israel in Gaza. Any reporter who includes genocide and Gaza in the same sentence, without qualification, works for a “fake news” outlet. The following language must always be appended:
“Gaza is a warzone teeming with terrorists and civilians responsible for the October 7 massacre. The legal definition of genocide does not apply to casualties of war—no matter how many casualties there might be, a number that in Gaza is itself in dispute. Genocide requires evidence of specific intent to annihilate a people, which is simply not present in Gaza, where Israel warned civilians to evacuate, created humanitarian corridors and provided aid.”
Fakery in news is nowadays being surpassed by fakery in Jews.
Hannah Gann, a teacher in Philadelphia and a pro-Palestine activist, who purported to be both Black and Palestinian, has been revealed to be a white Jewish woman. She claimed her Arab family lived in the West Bank. A former classmate defrocked Gann of her multicultural and racial pretensions. Apparently, she used makeup and fake tans to darken her skin. And she adopted an African-American dialect.
In truth, she was never anything other than a longstanding self-hating Jew with Palestinian envy.
Talk about cultural and racial misappropriation! Gann buried all that white Jewish “privilege” under a mountain of virtue-signaling rot. One thing was true, however: Her actual family does live in the West Bank—but as Jews!
Elsewhere in the world of counterfeit Jews, a growing number in the entertainment industry are forsaking their silence (and integrity) and joining the treyf traitors of their tribe, like Jon Stewart, Seth Rogen, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jonathan Glazer, who are positively drunk on a toxic brew of Jew-hating Kool-Aid.
Adam Brody, the “Jewish” actor known as the “hot rabbi” on Netflix’s rom-com “Nobody Wants This,” placed an exclamation point on where he stands on Israel’s war in Gaza. In a recent interview, he stated: “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”
He has now surpassed all the other Hollywood Jews, save for Hannah Einbinder and Wallace Shawn, who agree with Brody that Israel is a genocidal nation. Imagine that: doubling down in their disgrace—hating Israel and submerging their self-respect in a ritual bath of Palestinian love.
Brody plays a Reform rabbi on TV. Perhaps that explains it. Like many within that denomination, healing the world takes precedence over protecting their own. With such a blinkered view, Israel is always seen through hideously disfigured Hades-colored glasses.
Where and how did we end up with all these truly idiotic, morally obtuse celebrity Jews? Did none of them go to college, or is it that they didn’t know how to stand up to their antisemitic, Islamist professors? More likely, they just want to be liked and will say or do anything to preserve their seat at the cool kids’ table in the cafeteria.
Brody must have had misgivings that a war in the Middle East—involving a Jewish state he had doubtlessly never visited and couldn’t care less about—had diminished his fame. More cynically, his outrageous response to the genocide charge could catapult him to the A-List.
He was quoted as lamenting his silence, which he has now punctured: “I’m not wearing a pin, … and perhaps I should. I really admire people who do.”
How grovelingly pathetic. Expect to see him at future red-carpet appearances donning “Free Palestine” accessories. Tabloids will photograph him beside Jew-hater extraordinaire, Javier Bardem.
The week was not all bleak. Turns out certain famous people not raised Jewish, only to one day discover that they have Jewish ancestry, are not writhing in self-disgust. British soccer legend, Wayne Rooney, revealed on the Disney+ documentary, “The Real Rooneys,” that he recently learned that his maternal grandmother’s family were Polish Jews who fled to Liverpool before the Holocaust!
Under Jewish law: he’s a Jew. Brody and Einbinder, faced with the same bad news, would have committed hara-kiri! Not Rooney, however, who was rather delighted by the news. This despite the rampant antisemitism coursing throughout the United Kingdom.
Ironically, this football-mad island nation would be lost without its iconic Jewish players.
David Beckham can bend both a soccer ball and a knee to Jewish prayer—his ancestral religion on his mother’s side through her grandfather. This information was not new to Beckham. As a boy he wore a yarmulka at bar mitzvahs, ate chicken soup, matzah balls, and latkes at his grandparents’ home. While never a practicing Jew, he still can recite the blessing over the challah.
Despite all that Hebraic backstory that would make Jon Stewart and Seth Rogen barf, he doesn’t feel the need to trash the Jewish state in order to retain his fame—even in an avowedly antisemitic country that still worships him!
All this happened while Ireland’s national soccer team reluctantly decided to play its UEFA Nations League match against Israel. Several of its players, however, including its goalkeeper, boycotted the game in protest.
The team’s manager said, “We’re playing against genocide. We’re playing against Israel.” The goaltender offered his own insight, no doubt a consequence of too many headers and too few books. “My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.”
Wow, what a deep and original thought. The goalie slipped through a rabbit hole.
What a lost tribe Jews really are. Those Jewish all their lives deny the association if it ties them to Israel’s defense of a homeland meant as a haven for them! In some demented exercise in low self-esteem, they desperately try to prove that they hate themselves even more than their worst enemies.
Meanwhile, there are those who came to their Jewish ancestry later in life—a soccer player and practicing Catholic like Rooney, authors Tom Stoppard and George R.R. Martin, and actresses Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba—who feel no impulse to erase themselves, blacken Israel, and take up arms with fashionable antisemites.
We now know that personal integrity, for a true Jew, does not depend on having become a bar or bat mitzvah.
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 a contributing writer for White Rose magazine. His most recent book is titled, “Beyond Proportionality: Israel’s Just War in Gaza.”
Did you enjoy this article?
You'll love our roundtable.
Editor's Picks
Israel and the Internet Wars – A Professional Social Media Review
The Invisible Student: A Tale of Homelessness at UCLA and USC
What Ever Happened to the LA Times?
Who Are the Jews On Joe Biden’s Cabinet?
You’re Not a Bad Jewish Mom If Your Kid Wants Santa Claus to Come to Your House
No Labels: The Group Fighting for the Political Center
Latest Articles
Au Revoir, France
To Begin Again
Abraham’s God in the Age of Atheism
AJU Reopens Ziegler School Admissions, Seeks to Reimagine Rabbinic Education
Show Us How It’s Done – A poem for Parsha Lech Lecha
Weinberg: The Secret German Life of a Jewish Last Name
The Anti-Zionist Agenda at the Heart of UC Ethnic Studies
The classroom becomes an instrument for advancing political causes rather than a place where those causes are freely examined and debated.
The Beauty of the Slow and Steady
What could our lives look like if we embraced the infinitesimal as infinite?
Ziegler School Welcomes Prominent Rabbi, O.C. Federation Names CEO, Pico-Robertson Cleanup
Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community.
A Moment in Time: Beyond the Chuppah
A Bisl Torah ~ The Company You Keep
Does the company we keep enable our name to be a blessing? Are we doing enough to make our name as great as God intends?
Because We Can
Print Issue: The View From Israel | October 23, 2026
Three years after Oct. 7, a country trying to heal is still waiting for a full accounting of what went wrong.
Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Taff’s Daughter Follows Her Father’s Footsteps
Second of two parts
‘The Nuremberg Women’: The Untold Stories of Eight Women Who Witnessed History
“These women were pivotal to both the process and the outcome of the trial. Yet they were marginalized on many occasions, literally reduced to footnotes.“
A Very Jewish Stew: Toscano Hamin
This Hamin Toscano recipe reminded us of a Tuscan wedding soup.
Table for Five: Lech Lecha
Shield Of Abraham
The View from Israel
Three years after Oct. 7, Israel is still waiting for a full accounting of what went wrong.
Albie Selznick’s Unlikely Connection to David Bowie Inspires New Solo Show
Selznick saw his idol David Bowie perform live when he was 15 and made up his mind that he wanted to create a show of his own and work with Bowie.
Is the New Facebook Film Equal to the Original?
“The Social Reckoning” isn’t about a power struggle, but shows that powerful companies are reluctant to change unless there is pain.
Larry David Is Spot-on in His Satire of the DSA
In his article about his proposals for the Democratic Socialists of America, he jokes that “The DSA has great respect for religious traditions.”
Remember and Be Grateful
Memory is the mother of gratitude. If we do not remember our past, it is difficult to improve our present or build a better future.
Michael Broukhim’s Journey to a Deeper Judaism
What began as a personal exploration of Judaism eventually became intertwined with Broukhim’s professional life.
Rosner’s Domain | No Surprise Is Also an Election Surprise
It’s worth paying attention to what is – or isn’t – happening to our “large” parties. They are quite small, or at least that’s how they appear in the polls even as Election Day draws near.
Lech Lecha: The Journey of Growth and the Process of Becoming
We need not know where every decision will lead before taking the first step. Sometimes acting upon our deepest convictions is itself the beginning of wisdom.
From Atop the Pulpit
New opportunities and challenges have always come and gone. But pulpit clergy with their years of training, education and perspective on life, generated from atop the pulpit, are especially well suited for whatever lies ahead.
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.