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Hollywood’s Ten Commandments

The Hollywood film “The Ten Commandments” is a 1956 American epic biblical drama and based on the Old Testament, the Book of Exodus. The film dramatizes the story of the life of Moses, born a Hebrew baby, yet adopted to be brought up as an Egyptian prince. Moses becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and thereafter leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. Had the film been released during the current era with Hollywood’s contemporary crop of celebrities embracing the anti-Jewish and anti-Israel progressive agenda, the drama would unfold differently…… Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two holy tablets, IPad 1 and IPad 2.

Many of Hollywood’s leading actors have in recent years consistently adopted a clearly anti-Israel agenda, with many critics claiming that their declarations have a stench of anti-Semitism masquerading as criticism of the Jews and the State of Israel. Recently, Javier Bardem a vocal and prominent critic of Israel's military actions in Gaza, repeatedly characterized them as a "documented genocide". He has used major international platforms—including red carpets, award shows, and festival appearances—to call for diplomatic blockades, and sanctions against Israel. Bardem has worn a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh at high-profile events like the Emmy Awards and stated from international stages (such as the Oscars) "No to war, and free Palestine". Jennifer Lawrence has actively expressed her opinion and spoken up against Israel’s defensive war in Gaza. Speaking at a press conference for her new film Die, My Love at the San Sebastián film festival. When asked about Israel’s violence in Gaza, Lawrence replied: “I’m terrified. It’s mortifying. What’s happening is no less than a genocide and it’s terrible.” Actor Mark Ruffalo has been a highly vocal critic of the Israeli government, strongly condemning its military actions in Gaza as a "genocide" and a "man-made disaster". Has labeled defensive military operations and blockades as ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, and deliberate starvation.

The notion that Hollywood is uniformly hostile to Jewish people and Israel stands in sharp contrast to the industry's historical roots. Early Jewish founders turned to cinema because they faced widespread discrimination and were barred from traditional American industries like banking, law, and politics. Jews built the industry from the ground up in a manner that was often dismissed by the cultural elite of the United States. These Jewish entrepreneurs brought business skills from industries like vaudeville and the garment trade to establish major studios. Jewish writers, directors, and actors have been highly influential in shaping American cinema for over a century.

Adolph Zuckor, one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures, was a Jew from Hungary. Another Jew from Hungary, William Fox, founded Fox Film Corporation. Louis B. Mayer, born in Russia, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with another Jew, this one from Austria, Marcus Loew. Warner Bros. was founded by the Jewish brothers Warner: Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack, three of whom were born in Poland (Jack was born in Canada). With David Sarnoff, a Russian Jew who founded RKO, these were the five major studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. In addition, two of the three minor studios of the time, Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures, were founded and run by Jews. Carl Laemmle, one of the founders of Universal Pictures, was a German Jew while Harry and Jack Cohn, along with Joe Brandt were Jews from New York City who founded Columbia Pictures.

During the heyday period of Hollywood, classic Hollywood movies shaped American culture; Ben-Hur (1959) Spartacus (1960), The Ten Commandments (1956), Gone with the Wind (1939), Citizen Kane (1941), and Guess who’s coming for Dinner(1967) are only the tip of the iceberg and are still considered today cinematic masterpieces that resonated within American culture for generations after their premiere. Hollywood didn’t shy away from dealing with anti-Semitism or the establishment of the State of Israel by producing films that made a major impact on American attitudes and culture; Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Exodus (1960) and Schindler's List (1993).

Hollywood’s leading actors who willingly speak against Israel’s right to defend her borders refuse to accept the simple truth that Israel’s wars have been wars of self-defense, in accordance with international law. Israel does not target civilians but does indeed target military assets such as: armed combatants/terrorists, rocket launchers, terrorist headquarters, and other infrastructure used in a military capacity. Any civilians killed during these operations is a tragedy, but, by no measure constitutes genocide or ethnic cleansing.

It is also important to remind Hollywood that Genocide and ethnic cleansing always results in a significant decline of the local population in any given geographic area. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 1948, the Palestinian population of that period: Israel, West Bank (aka as Judea and Samaria), and the Gaza Strip totaled 1.4 million Palestinians. Today, that total is 5.5 million (approximately 2 million Arab citizens of Israel, 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank, and 778,000 Palestinians in Gaza). This undeniable statistic that belies any claims of genocide or ethnic cleansing against Palestinians and seems to evade the attention or even basic common sense of Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, and Mark Ruffalo and many others in Hollywood.

I feel a deep disappointed as Hollywood has evolved into a hotbed of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment unwilling to free itself from the shackles of being subservient to a false and libel progressive agenda that spreads the message that Israel is an enemy of humanity. For almost three years Israel has been at war opposite seven fronts. Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, and Mark Ruffalo and many others from Hollywood and the film industry have not uttered a single word of support, not a word of encouragement for the people of Israel, nor a word condemning the Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7, 2023 – murdering, looting, raping, and burning men, women, and children in a massacre unlike anything the Jewish people have seen since the horrors of the Holocaust. Every other sovereign nation in the world has the right to defend itself, only Israel is held to a different and double standard. Israel is denied this basic right to defend herself only because Israel is the only home of the Jewish nation, and behind their criticism is blatant anti-Semitism.

"What’s good for Russia and China Is Bad for the United States"

It would be naïve to believe that proclamations or a set of guidelines in and of themselves can solve the issue of online hate speech against Jews and Israel or the proliferation of antisemitism in recent years. Yet maintaining internal cohesion within American society, enabling Jewish Americans to live in peace with their respective neighbors, within their communities, and preserving a strong strategic alliance with Israel are all vital components of America’s national security interests-and the clearest proof comes directly from America's chief geopolitical adversaries. As documented in unsealed U.S. Department of Justice affidavits targeting Russia's Doppelgänger network (operated by Kremlin-linked firms) and threat assessment intelligence reports from Open AI, Graphika, and Microsoft tracking Chinese networks - the governments located in Moscow and Beijing are actively deploying covert digital online campaigns to stoke antisemitism to unprecedented levels and drive a wedge between the United States and Israel.

Foreign intelligence agencies recognize that classical anti-Jewish conspiracy theories-such as "secret cabals" and "puppet master" tropes-act as a low-cost, high-yield Trojan horse. By convincing Americans that their government is controlled by the State of Israel or hidden anti-American interests, these campaigns systematically erode public faith in national and local elections, national security policies, and democratic institutions.To achieve this, foreign adversaries of the United States have turned Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) into an automated engine of asymmetric warfare. Russian and Chinese operations use Large Language Models (LLMs), AI image generators, and synthetic voice cloning to churn out thousands of fake news articles across spoofed domains (like washingtonpost.pm or Holy Land Herald), deploy photorealistic caricatures, and coordinate bot swarms that amplify real-world provocations. Whether staging physical acts of violence, vandalism or flooding social platforms with multi-directional rage to pit domestic groups against American Jews, the overall objective is total civic paralysis-making Americans enemies of one another, and paralyzing U.S. foreign policy. Ultimately, if America's primary adversaries spend millions of dollars leveraging AI to incite hostility against American Jews, the State of Israel and to sabotage the U.S.-Israel relationship, the end game leads to one undeniable conclusion: protecting Jewish citizens and preserving the U.S.-Israel alliance is not merely a moral or diplomatic issue, but an essential shield for maintaining American national security.

The explosion of Jew hatred and anti- Semitic rage against the State of Israel in recent years throughout the United States can now be conclusively associated with extensive exposure to social media and the widespread use of the Internet in all spheres of human endeavor. Digital antisemitism is defined as the spread of anti-Jewish hatred, anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, and graphic harassment of Jews through online platforms. Algorithmic amplification, generative AI systems, and lax social media content moderation by mainstream internet networks/platforms such as Meta, X, TikTok, and YouTube, have enabled and technologically facilitated high-engagement emotional content, rapidly pushing extremist anti-Jewish tropes and calls to violence against American Jews into mainstream feeds. Artificial intelligence tools have been exploited to generate historical revisionism such as Holocaust denial or Holocaust distortion.

The use of Conspiracy Theories and anti-Semitic tropes has become a cost effective tool in the digital war against American Jews and American society: Medieval blood libels and fabricated global control conspiracies (like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion) are repackaged as modern memes and QAnon narratives (QAnon is a baseless far-right conspiracy movement centered on the core belief that a secret cabal of satanic, cannibalistic elites operates a global child sex-trafficking ring. The narratives claim that Donald Trump is secretly fighting this group, anticipate a mass reckoning known as "The Storm", and recycle older anti-Semitic tropes). A new report by the Gino Germani Institute traces how anti-Semitic narratives have been used by Russian power - from the Tsarist era to Vladimir Putin - as tools of disinformation and cognitive warfare aimed at destabilizing Western democracies. The report focuses on disinformation, hybrid warfare and political dynamics in the post-Soviet space.

The report also examines how anti-Semitic narratives have been integrated into Russia’s long tradition of “active measures" - influence operations designed to manipulate public opinion and destabilize Western adversaries. Why it matters? Antisemitism is not just a historical prejudice in Russia. According to the report by researcher Massimiliano Di Pasquale, it has repeatedly been used as a strategic instrument of influence operations - from Tsarist secret police to Soviet intelligence and, today, the Kremlin’s information ecosystem. The study argues that anti-Jewish conspiracy theories have become part of Moscow’s broader effort to fragment Western societies and undermine trust in democratic institutions.

And so - the October 7 invasion of Israeli communities bordering the Gaza Strip by Hamas, a Palestinian Arab terror organization (which perpetrated a barbaric mass murder of 1200 men, women, and children, mass kidnapping and sexual assault of hundreds), the responsive wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and the war initiated by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the United States, Israel, and other American allies in the Middle East resulted in online vitriol surges against the United States, American Jews, and the State of Israel. Big Tech was purposely used as an amplifier of antisemitism and conspiracies online, fuelin real-life violence against American Jews and Jewish communities.

There is no Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world, but there is a widespread global anti-Jewish conspiracy based on the principles of digital and online anti-Semitism. The first airplane that was hijacked was an Israeli airliner, and today at every airport in every country in the world, we now all line up for invasive and time consuming security checks, so the world should be concerned about the results of this cabal. The danger of dismissing the inherent threat of digital and online anti-Semitism lies in its danger not only for American Jews but for all Americans and all of Western civilization. What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews.

JD Vance be advised; being Jewish is not a provocation.

Israel is fighting a just war for its very survival. On October 7th, Israel stood on the brink of annihilation, surrounded by seven military fronts with the Islamic Republic of Iran at the head of the pack. Yet, never in modern warfare, has a nation fought for its survival with such extraordinary restraint and moral discipline against an enemy that deliberately surrounds its military forces within civilian populations, using women, children, and babies as human shields. At the very same time, a relentless campaign of lies and demonization has been waged in the United States to ensure that Israel loses, and you, Vice President Vance, have become one of its leading voices. By spreading lies about Israel, do you really believe that you are serving the best interests of the United States?

Even before the ink dried on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), between Iran and the United States, the Iranians simply couldn’t control themselves and began firing missiles and suicide drones on American military bases and adjacent Arab nations aligned with the United States, as well as hitting ships carrying oil, gas, and cargo as they attempted to pass through the Straits of Hormuz. Yet rather than call out the Iranians and confront their culture of deceit and barbaric behavior clearly and unequivocally, you Vice President Vance, chose to speak out and criticize Israel, America’s most important ally in the Middle East. You did this by stating that you are baffled by “this whole freakout in Israel", telling Israel’s leaders, “You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have." Singling out Israel and inferring that the Jewish State is provoking the Iranians because it questioned whether the MOU is sustainable and suggested that an "appeasement" strategy is doomed to failure. Israel has publicly stated that the MOU will not advance American interests in the region and will not deter the Iranians from continuing to attack America's allies. The Iranians have proven this past week that this is the case.

Sadly, Vice President Vance felt the need to double down and continue to expand on Israel's seeming “ungrateful behavior". "Wake up and smell reality," Vance delivered a blunt message to Israeli officials against criticizing the MOU with Iran. "If I was in the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have" and added "Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time." Only yesterday during a Joe Rogan interview, Vance stated that some elements within Israeli ‘system’ are ‘beyond a shadow of a doubt manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely’. Vance is very well aware that many, if not all, foreign governments try to influence the United States all the time. Israel does it as well, no different than any of the other nations of the world. Yet by singling out Israel obsessively, JD Vance is holding the Jewish nation to a different and double standard compared to other nations. Instead of blaming Israel, JD Vance should be more concerned that decision makers in the Trump administration as well as in the Department of War, and the State Department are beginning to question his "appeasement" strategy with Iran as reflected in the MOU.

By deflecting legitimate criticism that questions his claim that there is a divide in Iran’s leadership between pragmatists who want to make a deal with the US and hardliners who do not; Vice President Vance has shown that his understanding of the Iranian regime is based on wishful thinking, with a level of naivety reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain’s historical "appeasement" of Nazi Germany. Commentators like Bret Stephens alongside additional conservative political thinkers have explicitly compared JD Vance's stance to Chamberlain's 1938 Munich betrayal, where ceding territory to an aggressor was falsely framed as a path to peace. The only logical conclusion that can summarize Vance’s negotiating approach is that those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The Iranians are no different than the Nazi government and JD Vance seems to be no different than Neville Chamberlain.

To understand the extent to which Vice President Vance’s diminishing standing among his Republican supporters has tumbled, one needs to realize the implications for his expected run for the Presidency in 2028 in his recent comment that ‘his job was not to be a “public commentator" but to support the president, which he would continue to do as long as Trump’s decisions remain “legal and ethical," as they have been to date’. One can only understand this statement to be a subtle threat to his boss, President Trump. Recent polls show a steep decline in public support for Vice President Vance. His net approval rating stands at a historic low of -18%. This drop follows political fallout tied to foreign policy actions, such as the U.S.-Iran conflict, and fading enthusiasm in his home state of Ohio. Key details regarding the drop in support include historic lows: According to CNN, Vance's net approval dropped 21 points to a -18% rating, making it the weakest performance for a modern sitting U.S. vice president at this stage of his tenure in office. In Ohio, his net favorability rating is underwater, and he is 27 points underwater among independent voters. Polling from Navigator Research shows that a majority of Americans disapprove of his performance.

As for the 2028 Presidential elections, his position as the presumptive frontrunner for the 2028 Republican presidential nominee has also slipped. Other GOP figures like Secretary of State Marco Rubio have gained significant momentum meanwhile. During the 2016 Presidential elections which Donald Trump won, JD Vance privately compared Donald Trump to Hitler. At the time JD Vance stated he went "back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a--hole like Nixon... or that he's America's Hitler". Vance also referred to Trump as an "idiot" and a "moral disaster," and penned op-eds calling him "unfit" for office. . He has since reversed himself and described Trump as a successful president and a good leader.

Vance has explained his earlier views about President Trump by blaming negative media portrayals during the 2016 Presidential elections. When asked to explain this shift in perspective, the Vice President stated “they tricked me about Trump". The question that remains to be answered is whether, despite Israel’s significant contribution and unparalleled military cooperation with America’s war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, just maybe, JD Vance been tricked once again, this time concerning the Jews and the State of Israel.

Iran and the Islamic “ecosystem”

On February 28th, 2026 hundreds of American and Israeli warplanes took off simultaneously to launch the opening salvo of the war on Iran. For 40 days the two allies’ military partnership was intense, effective, and strategic. While the recent memorandum of understanding and interim ceasefire negotiated by the United States and Iran’s leaders may be signed bringing the Iranian war to an end, an almost immediate result has been a marked shift in the American-Israeli military partnership: Israel has been shut out of the negotiations with Iran. The agreement signed between the United States and Iran on June 17th deals with few, if any, of Israel’s concerns, ignoring the ballistic missile threat and totally ignoring the danger of Iran’s fundamentalist Islamic agenda against Western civilization.

In recent weeks as the confrontation with Iran has wavered between all-out war and the possibility of an interim ceasefire, the focus of the mainstream media has presented a stream of endless reports that are simplistic and misleading by explaining that the Iranian war is a regional Middle Eastern conflict. By highlighting exclusively the media remarks and responses by President Trump and his VP JD Vance, the danger that the Iranian regime poses for the nations of the world is marginalized and at times simply ignored.

The Iranian regime is led and comprised of extreme fundamentalist Islamic Clergy who live by a vision of Islam spreading everywhere and taking over the nations of the world. For the Iranian regime, attacking the State of Israel or closing down shipping choke points like the Strait of Hormuz a critical route for global oil exports or even attacking the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, are all part of a campaign to deflect world attention from Iran’s true intentions. The war with Iran has contributed to a renewed surge in Islamic terror throughout Western nations and has accelerated patterns of creeping Islamic fundamentalism throughout the United States and the European continent: stage by stage, neighborhood by neighborhood, school by school, sports club by sports club, and local elections by local elections.

Iran aims to impose the law of the Sharia everywhere and does not recognize other religions such as Judaism or Christianity. The Islamic leadership of the Iranian regime will use any means, barbaric as they are, to impose what they consider Islamic justice. During the early days of the Iranian war, the Iranian leadership sent Islamic military and police forces into the streets of Teheran and other cities throughout Iran to end the mass demonstrations of its own citizens protesting against their own Iranian regime. The lethal response was upwards of 50,000 killed, thousands executed, tens of thousands wounded, tens of thousands imprisoned and tortured. The Iranian regime has no hesitancy to starve its own population, idle their vehicles due to the scarcity of gasoline, live with daily electrical shortages and blackouts, limit the use of running water in home faucets. The Iranian regime has no hesitancy in sacrificing millions of its own people in never ending wars and conflicts with neighboring nations and with the United States, if necessary as it has already proven during previous conflicts with other neighboring nations. Only this week, an Iranian court sentenced a prominent singer named Parastoo Ahmadi and a group of seven fellow artists to 74 lashes each after they livestreamed a performance on YouTube, according to her videographer and local media.

If Iran had the ability to acquire or develop a nuclear capability, they would unquestionably use this weapon of mass destruction not only against Israel but against the Western nations of the world including the United States. Iran has lost her ability to threaten the United States militarily due to the massive aerial bombings by the American and Israeli air forces this past February. The Iranian loss of her nuclear option has only motivated the Iranians to intensify their efforts in undermining American society from within by participating in a broad Islamic coalition that includes Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, and assorted non-state organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood.

This radical Islamic coalition works slowly and quietly with a proven playbook that has been very effective in Europe. You start with the poor, and the forgotten, you offer a simple job, you offer a sense of community and belonging, you offer a personal development workshop run by a soft-spoken Muslim man who quotes the "Prophet". For the first time these lost souls, and alienated Muslim Americans feel cared for. Within a relatively short period these young American Muslims adopt a religious identity and have become members of the Muslim ecosystem.

This ecosystem has its own schools, clinics, legal advisors, banks, butchers, matchmakers, and funeral services. A complete Muslim society within the larger American society where you can be born, educated, married, employed, treated when sick, and buried when dead as a true Muslim. Becoming radicalized is just around the corner, and it’s inevitable.

As of 2017, 20 states in the United States, mostly in the South and Midwest reported that Islam is the largest non-Christian religion in their state. As of 2026, the three largest Muslim populations in the United States are New York metro area (724,475), California (504,056), Illinois (473,792). Today, the city of Houston, Texas has over 90 Islamic centers. To fully understand the implications of these numbers, all one has to do is see the changes in London, England, a city run by a Muslim Mayor since 2016. Today, London has been transformed into a Muslim city with veteran Londoners abandoning an environment that has more in common with the streets of Egypt or Pakistan than Britannia.

It won’t look like a takeover; it will look like civic participation. A Muslim coalition affiliated candidate runs for the local school board on a platform of community representation and educational equity. A mosque-linked association applies for a municipal grant to run a youth sports program. A soft-spoken man in a suit attends a town hall meeting and asks reasonable questions about housing policy, nothing alarming, and nothing illegal. Just citizens, participating in democracy. However, they are not there as citizens, they are there as operatives, executing a strategy to place Muslim coalition affiliated individuals inside public institutions, advance them through the bureaucratic ranks, and use their positions to redirect resources, shape policy, and gradually replace American values with Iranian and Muslim values.

This is the only end game in town.