The Famous And The Jews: Fact-Checking Time

In response to a little video posted on YouTube in March titled "What do famous people think about Zionist Jews?", which I obviously don't want to show you, I have taken the liberty to examine the various quotations made in the video, browsing Yahoo! and Wikipedia for sources. This is going to get interesting. Remember to mosey on along if you don't want to read it.

- Reverend James Traficant (1941-2014): All the available evidence regarding his supposed remarks about Jews is too insufficient for me to judge.
- Actress Vanessa Redgrave: Perhaps the best answer to the questions surrounding the remarks are from someone on Yahoo! Answers: "it means she's anti-Zionist, Judaism is a religion, by defending the Palestinians she's taking a political stand against a movement (the Zionism). and no the two are different, it's true all Zionists are Jewish, but not all Jewish are Zionists, actually, there are Jewish people who are opposed to the creation of the state of Israel, we couldn't call THEM anti-Jewish Jewish, now could we?"
- The Beatles: I'm leaving this one to this article.
- John Lennon: Many Jews have recommended Ze’ev Maghen's Imagine – John Lennon & the Jews – A Philosophical Rampage which offers an explanation on the thought bubbles we so often have had. I haven't read it yet but I think that it partly explores John Lennon's own relationship with the Jews. (don't take my word for it at all!) The claims that John had some antisemitism up his sleeve came from Albert Goldman's long-discredited "biography" The Lives of John Lennon, the same book that a guy named Eric Holmberg also got his info on John Lennon.
- Mel Gibson: We cannot deny that Gibson blurted out many a bad thing about the Jews. The questions that are left to his would-be interviewer's discretion are: "Does he regret ever saying what he did about Jews?" and "Can the Jews ever forgive Mel Gibson for his horrible badmouthing?".
- Gary Oldman: Anti-Semites of the world were given new fuel thanks to his 2014 remarks to Playboy, wherein he remarked that Hollywood is a 'town run by Jews'. The remarks (rightly) caused public outrage and he apologized for them, having been quoted as saying:

I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in the Playboy interview were offensive to many Jewish people. Upon reading my comments in print I see how insensitive they may be, and how they may indeed contribute to the furtherance of a false stereotype. Anything that contributes to this stereotype is unacceptable, including my own words on the matter.

If, during the interview, I had been asked to elaborate on this point I would have pointed out that I had just finished reading Neal Gabler's superb book about the Jews and Hollywood, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews invented Hollywood. The fact is that our business, and my own career specifically, owes an enormous debt to that contribution.

I hope you will know that this apology is heartfelt, genuine, and that I have an enormous personal affinity for the Jewish people in general, and those specifically in my life. The Jewish people, persecuted thorough the ages, are the first to hear God's voice, and surely are the chosen people.

- Sean Ali Stone: Jewish-born political commentator who converted to Shia Islam in 2012. In an interview with CNN, Stone said that he accepted Muhammad as the seal of the prophets. In an interview with Bill O'Reilly, he added Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements about Israel had been misunderstood. The evidence for his remarks about Jews, as with those made by Traficant, have been too insufficient for me to play judge to them.
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: The remarks made by him in that video linked were correctly attributed. He made these remarks to Mike Wallace in a 1976 interview for CBS' 60 Minutes.
- Hugo Chávez: Likewise, these are undeniable. He had an appalling track record as world leader, especially with Jews in his native Venezuela.
- Jimmy Carter: The former president (and cancer survivor!) has had a, um, complex relationship with the Jews over the years, as I can attest.
- John F. Kennedy: Per The Jewish Week - "Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Jews in America have little memory of JFK’s Jewish relationships. “JFK and the Jews” had little to do with the Jews, and everything to do with Israel. Looking back at his legacy, as the Nov. 22 anniversary nears, American Jews have good reasons, therefore, to mourn."
- Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011): Staunch anti-Semite was dominant in Libya's politics from 1969 until his death and was the subject of a pervasive cult of personality. With all that said, let me be the one to tell you that he ordered his ambassador to Italy killed for revealing that his mother was Jewish.
- Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997): One of my go-to websites as a Jewish person is JeworNotJew.com, whom I'd kindly leave this one up to.
- Bobby Fischer (1943-2008): A chess grandmaster, Fischer was the eleventh World Chess Champion and was known for a string of violently anti-Semitic remarks in his later years; he was arrested in Japan and held for several months for using a passport that had been revoked by the U.S. government. Eventually, he was granted an Icelandic passport and citizenship by a special act of the Icelandic Althing, allowing him to live in Iceland until his death in 2008, from, contrary to anti-Semitic videos circulating on the WWW, was from renal failure. There may be some light at the end of the tunnel though, as he is still considered to be the greatest chess player of them all.
- Russell Brand: Another one for The Jewish Journal to disclose. Brand himself had written an article about the subject of Antisemitism for The Huffington Post.
- George Galloway: You're on your own for this one; all I'm gonna say is that he supported the Palestinian side of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, took an anti-Zionist stance, was involved in the Viva Palestina aid convoys, and even walked out of a debate after realizing that his opponent was an Israeli citizen!
- Dr. David Duke: VERY well-known for his antisemitism, as we've all been aware by now.
- Immortal Technique: A few notable tracks of his are laced in anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist vortexes.
- Lowkey: A man knows he's in trouble when the Jewish Chronicle calls him a "potential nightmare" for being a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and furthermore for describing Zionism as colonialism and ethnic cleansing.
- Dodi Al-Fayed: His father Mohamed Al-Fayed claimed that there was a criminal conspiracy to kill Princess Diana, and that she was engaged or pregnant at the time of her death, these are among the various claims concerning her death which have almost never been mentioned elsewhere, except, of course, on Neo-Nazi websites, which I cannot link to, and remain unsubstantiated today.
- Aaron Russo (1943-2007), had six films receiving Academy Award nominations and two receiving Golden Globe Award nominations; his last film, America: Freedom to Fascism, is a political documentary that, like the man himself in later years, was critical of the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Reserve System and warned about the coming of the New World Order. It's been said that he was Jewish though, so where did the supposed "NWO" thing come from? Hrm . . .

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