A Word from Those Who Know to Those that Don’t

To say we are a divided nation would perhaps be an understatement. It is more than political; although politics seems to be the weapon of choice, it is a spiritual divide. The battle is largely over the question of which worldview will control the morality of America. In the most recent flare up the question is, should Israel be able to defend their citizens from those outside their borders or look the other way? University students en masse have publicly taken an antisemitic stance and sided with terrorists. They are joined and encouraged by celebrities like Susan Sarandon and others who seem to know very little about what is happening beyond the progressive media. However, their taunts haven't gone unchallenged and are being responded to by those who know. For example, in Muslim-American scolds Susan Sarandon to visit a Muslim country before complaining about Islamophobia in the U.S.:

"Muslim American writer and education activist Asra Nomani strongly disagreed with Sarandon's comments about Muslims living in fear in the United States. Nomani told the actress, "Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America," in a thread on X."

The article quotes at length what she fled and how different life is for a Muslim living in the United States than in many of the Muslim countries under the rule of groups like Hamas. In Newsweek, Mouna Maroun’s article, I'm an Israeli Arab. "I'm Embarrassed and Hamas Is to Blame”:

The other question I'm frequently asked is, "Do you condemn Hamas?" Asking Israeli Arabs this question misses a fundamental aspect of just how much we're intertwined with Israeli life. Does it make sense to ask an Israeli Jew if they condemn Hamas? Of course not. This is why the world needs to understand that Israeli Arabs reject Hamas and its ideology just as much as Jews do. Another question I'm asked is, "Don't you feel bad for the Gazans and what is happening to them?" Certainly, I do. Every day, I think about the many Gazan children crying out for their mothers, just as I can't stop picturing the Jewish children in Hamas captivity. For those captive Israeli and Palestinian children crying similarly out of fear, I ask: Who is feeding them? Who hugs them when they cry? Who is telling them everything will be okay? And in this instance, Hamas is also to blame for cynically weaponizing their fear to further an agenda of terror.

It also seems cancel culture is turning on celebrities like Melissa Barrera, Susan Sarandon, and Others in Hollywood Lose Jobs, Representation Over Israel-Hamas War Comments. We support their right to free speech, but that does not mean their speech doesn’t also have consequences.

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