Roseanne Barr is going to Israel with her friend and advisor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and his World Values Network next month, and will address the Knesset (Parliament) on Jan. 30.
“I very much look forward to my trip as a lover of Israel and friend of Rabbi Shmuley and ambassador of the World Values Network,” Barr said in a statement. “While I intend to further my own knowledge of Jewish and Israeli history, I have important work to do as a voice against the insidious and anti-Semitic BDS movement.
“We are in an age where Israeli innovation is ascendant and changing the world in areas of medicine, technology, media and the arts,” the embattled former “Roseanne” star said. “Israel is an oasis of openness, freedom, democracy and tolerance amidst a desert of brutality from an age gone by. I want to shout this from the heights of the Galilee to the halls of the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital city.”
