Adam Brody, the Jewish star of “Nobody Wants This” — a comedy about the unlikely relationship between Kristen Bell’s ditzy Gentile influencer and Brody’s rabbi — weighed in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with disastrous results during a new interview with GQ.
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Nobody → want → GQ
Shortly after insulting George W. Bush’s intelligence and suggesting against all available evidence that Hollywood had become “more conservative” as a result of “groupthink” and greed
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Hollywood → insult → groupthink
, Brody proved himself exactly what he imagines the targets of his own contempt to be: a fool motivated by self-interest.
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targets → prove → interest
“Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” Brody declared about Gaza.
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Brody → put → Gaza
It’s awful that it’s taken so much death and misery, but it does feel like it’s reaching a breaking point that it should have a while ago.”
“I’m hopeful that another administration can really do some good and correct some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.”
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it → ’ → policies
It’s beautiful, in its way: a perfect demonstration of how shallow, simple minds have lined up behind a shallow, sordid cause.
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minds → ’ → cause
The actor trading off his Jewish heritage didn’t produce a single fact in support of his poisonous blood libel — the same one that got a young Jewish couple gunned down in Washington, DC, a Holocaust survivor firebombed in Boulder and synagogue full of children targeted by a terrorist in Michigan.
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couple → trade → Michigan
The idea that he might have to apparently never crossed his mind.
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he → cross → mind
Indeed, his equally unimpressive interlocutor at GQ refrained from asking any of the natural follow-ups.
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interlocutor → refrain → ups
If it’s a genocide Israel is prosecuting, why has the population of Gaza barely changed in the three years since the start of the war there?
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population → ’ → war
Why haven’t the Palestinians signed on to any of the generous peace agreements offered up by the Israelis?
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Palestinians → sign → Israelis
Wouldn’t those opportunities have secured the “free Palestine” Brody’s heart yearns for?
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opportunities → secure → Palestine
What would a “free Palestine” look like, anyway?
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Palestine → look → What
Who would lead it?
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Who → lead → it
Didn’t Gazans put Hamas in charge after Israel withdrew from the Strip in 2005?
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Israel → put → 2005
No, Brody knew he wouldn’t have to explain his absurd assertion, empty recitation of a slogan or total disregard for less privileged Jews because on some level, he knows that Hollywood suffers from groupthink of the exact opposite kind he’s charged it with.
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he → know → it
Hence his ask — phrased in the way that a reluctant volunteer might put it — that he be included in the “pro-Palestine” camp.
It’d just be too much of a hassle, otherwise.
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The unthinking backwardness of this cause célèbre is further underlined by the campaign to set Marwan Barghouti loose.
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backwardness → underline → Barghouti
A murderer responsible for several Second Intifada attacks on Israeli civilians, the Palestinian terrorist nevertheless has the support of a group of Marvel Cinematic Universe actors including Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch and Cate Blanchett.
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terrorist → have → Ruffalo
Like Brody, they read from a tired, context-free, fact-free script to express their “grave concern at the continuing imprisonment of Marwan Barghouti.”
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they → read → Barghouti
Maybe they’ll take up Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s cause next.
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they → take → cause
Barghouti was convicted of being behind three terror attacks and the five murders they produced, in all likelihood a small sampling of his heinous crimes.
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they → convict → crimes
In one instance, a terrorist opened fire on a restaurant, lobbed two grenades into a crowd and then embarked upon a stabbing spree.
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terrorist → open → spree
Afterward, Barghouti received a call with good news: mission accomplished.
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mission → receive → news
A righteous campaign would be calling for his head, not his freedom, but that just wouldn’t be fashionable in the 90210.
Brody’s charges against his political opponents — conformity, ignorance and self-absorption — are really an admission of his own sins.
He and his friends have created a destructive, naive little bubble in which they can celebrate their monstrous idols and themselves.
But their hollow advocacy and sinister lies have consequences that would torment their consciences, if they had them.
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they → call → them
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