{"id":29258,"date":"2016-03-29T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=29258"},"modified":"2016-03-29T08:29:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T14:29:56","slug":"roseanne-barr-on-bds-assessing-israel-as-a-u-s-election-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/roseanne-barr-on-bds-assessing-israel-as-a-u-s-election-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Roseanne Barr on BDS; assessing Israel as a U.S. election issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN<\/p>\n<p>(JNS.org) &#8212; American actress and comedian Roseanne Barr, who gave remarks at the March 28 \u201cStop the Boycott\u201d conference in Jerusalem, told JNS.org regarding the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that \u201cpeople should listen to what Jewish people say that live here, in Israel, rather than those people that live in Chicago and especially those that aren\u2019t even Jewish.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29260\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Roseanne_Barr.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29260\" class=\"wp-image-29260 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Roseanne_Barr-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"Roseanne_Barr\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Roseanne_Barr-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Roseanne_Barr.jpg 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 269px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 269\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29260\" class=\"wp-image-29260 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Roseanne_Barr-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"Roseanne_Barr\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Roseanne_Barr-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Roseanne_Barr.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-29260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roseanne Barr speaks at the March 28 &#8220;Stop the Boycott&#8221; conference in Jerusalem. Credit: Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cJewish people need to be the ones to talk about [BDS]\u2014not [Pink Floyd\u2019s] Roger Waters or the pope. It\u2019s a Jewish subject. The rest of the people should keep their mouths shut and listen for a change,\u201d Barr said in a phone interview after the conference, which was organized by Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynet.<\/p>\n<p>In her talk at the conference, Barr said she sees pandemic anti-Semitism on Twitter. Since many social media users at first didn\u2019t realize her Jewish roots\u2014\u201cperhaps because no one thought I was Jewish being from Utah\u201d\u2014she was privy to witnessing uncensored things non-Jews say about Jews, things they might not have said if they knew they were speaking to a Jew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was shocking when I realized that what I considered criticism of Israel became garden variety anti-Semitism,\u201d Barr said. \u201cBDS is right-wing and fascist\u2026.BDS [members] do not want peace, nor do they want peace negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr, whose Israel trip was hosted by the pro-Israel education organization StandWithUs, said she thinks many celebrities are afraid to speak up for Israel because they\u2019re afraid of being maligned in the media, at conferences, on campuses, or even in synagogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people are afraid. Have you ever been shouted down by these BDS people?\u201d she said. \u201cPeople are afraid of being targeted\u2026.[They are] protecting their lives and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Roseanne%20Barr%20on%20BDS%3B%20assessing%20Israel%20as%20a%20U.S.%20election%20issue\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[496,8781,8790,8795,8788,7749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29261,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29258\/revisions\/29261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}