When an entertainer steps outside the “progressive” fold, he or she is targeted, as Jennifer Lopez is being targeted now for ignoring calls to boycott Israel. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is a jihad-supporting initiative aimed at delegitimizing Israel by smearing it as a “racist” “apartheid” state. The ultimate goal of the BDS movement is to obliterate Israel altogether.
The social justice warrior Code Pink organization ran a petition campaign, “J-Lo Don’t Go,” which included false accusations about Israel being a human rights “abuser.”
Lopez courageously ignored the anti-Israel campaigners and “performed to a crowd of 60,000 in Tel Aviv,” and then “gushed in a post” that “Tel Aviv was incredible.”
A followup report by YNet News stated:
Jennifer Lopez did more for Israel’s image than any politician ever could…..Although Lopez probably made millions of dollars by performing in Israel, she could’ve earned that money by doing a show anywhere else in the world. Then, Lopez opted to fly El Al, like the rest of us “commoners.” She made a point not to keep a low profile.
Following the Israel visit, Lopez was scheduled to perform in Cairo, but BDS advocates called for her show to be cancelled. The BDS movement slammed Lopez in a letter filled with familiar smears and name-calling against Israel, again calling it “apartheid” and “racist”:
Jenifer [sic] Lopez’s concert in Egypt will take place but a few days after her concert in conquered Palestine, which she insisted on having despite the outcry to boycott Israel and cancel the event. The singer expressed support for the occupying country and its racist treatment of the Palestinians.
Although the concert went on as scheduled, it drew only 2,000 people.
In an era in which youth are greatly influenced by popular entertainers, let’s hope that Lopez’s example will have great impact, particularly given the fact that she operated outside the dictates of identity politics.
“Jennifer Lopez Defies Calls to Cancel Egypt Gig Over BDS Calls,” by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, August 12, 2019:
TEL AVIV – Jennifer Lopez’s concert in Egypt on Friday night went ahead but only drew a crowd of 2,000 amidst calls by anti-Israel groups to boycott the performance due to her decision to perform in Israel the week before.
The Egyptian Minister of Investment and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr, the Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali, and the Minister of Planning and Administrative Reform Hala Al-Saeed were at the event, CNN Arabic reported.
In an open letter on Monday to Orsacom Development, which organized Lopez’s Cairo concert, the BDS movement called for the show to be canceled over her performance in “conquered Palestine.”
“Jenifer Lopez’s concert in Egypt will take place but a few days after her concert in conquered Palestine, which she insisted on having despite the outcry to boycott Israel and cancel the event. The singer expressed support for the occupying country and its racist treatment of the Palestinians,” the letter said.
The group accused Orsacom Development of “normalizing the Zionist enemy and those involved in supporting its crimes.”
It further accused Lopez of “provocation” for posting an Instagram photo with “occupied Palestine” — in fact a Tel Aviv beach — behind her.
“She showed clear support for the state of occupation and its racist policies towards Palestinians,” BDS Egypt posted.
In a seeming act of defiance, Lopez continued to post photos of Israel a week after the trip.
Lopez toured Israel together with her fiancé, former baseball star Alex Rodriguez, Rodriguez’s two children from his first marriage, and Lopez’s twins she had with fellow singer Marc Anthony. They visited a number of sites, including the Western Wall.
She performed to a crowd of 60,000 in Tel Aviv.
“Tel Aviv was incredible,” Lopez gushed in a post.
Rodriguez echoed the sentiment, tweeting, “What an amazing time we are having on our first trip to Tel Aviv! The people have been wonderful and have such energy.”
He also posted a photo of the couple at the Mount of Olives with the caption: “Jerusalem, you are unforgettable. What a perfect finale to our first trip to this beautiful land.”
He added that he is “in love” with Israel….
CRUSADER says
Why should Jenny from the block, being just a maid in Manhattan, become prejudiced?
Westman says
Smart celebrities will stay out of public politics. Not so smart ones, like Cher, will will leave a legacy they cannot undo. It is telling that while her former husband, Sonny, went on to give public service until his early death, she lived a dissipative lifestyle.
Lopez is doing the smart thing which leaves political resolution to those empowered as ambassadors for their nations.
charles william ford says
she is showing great courage
smoris says
She behaved graciously to everyone. She rightly stood up for her performance and her audience in Israel and she also treated her fans in Cairo with respect – and performing there when the government was so disgustingly hostile and overbearing took guts. Good for her. And good for the 2,000 Egyptians who also stood up for Lopez and turned out for the concert. There are at least 2,000 decent people left in Cairo. Thanks, Jenny, for making America look good. Stay safe and keep up the great work.
Dee says
Racism is so hard to overcome but I’m glad she was able to stick it out !!
She’s a lot tougher than I thought ! Safety is number one ! But showing your kids to be strong in life in any given situation and standing up for yourself is also a big plus be their voice and courage !!!!! ??
Go girl my Jenny from my block !! Like us Puerto Rican’s say WEPA !!!!
Let’s do this !! ??? ??♥️
She was born for this
Let’s get LOUD !!!!
Shelly Grunden says
I love what “smoris” says up above. Jennifer loved everyone like Jesus has regardless of their background or what others say about their peers. The battle between these two countries isnt Cairos problem, its Gods. This is Gods country not Cairos. Remember that. #loveeveryonearoundyou {2 Chronicles 20:15} “Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.”
CRUSADER says
Pink Pistols lives by a different code ~
Gatekeeping:
When someone takes it upon themselves to decide who does or does not have access or rights to a community or identity.
http://www.pinkpistols.org/about-the-pink-pistols/
PP supports the JPFO (Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership)….
mortimer says
The apartheid is from the Pally side, while Israel is completely integrated. All Israeli citizens can participate in any branch of government or public industry. Whereas, the Pallies won’t let any Jews own land in their areas. There are officially no Jews in Jordan either.
Carmen santiago says
Proud of her, she is an artist not a pawn . Thank you. Isreal they only democracy in the middle east I hope all enjoy her talent and love for people. We are proud and with you. Give them the best show we kow you can. Love you boriqua in the house ?
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Jennifer Lopez and her manager deserve much praise for this courageous action.
The fact that Egyptian cabinet ministers attended her show speaks volumes. A quiet reform is actually going on in Egypt that is not being reported by the lame-stream media. Good for them all.
Meanwhile, the fanatics rant and rave.
Muslims are actually quietly leaving Islam and then ‘reforming’ Islam while they pretend still to be in it.
A revolution is brewing that will see hundreds of millions of Muslims leave Islam suddenly and declare themselves EX-Muslims.
Brian Hoff says
Sorry Muslim are not leaving Islam in fact the Muslim in El Paso will have than second mosque after we finish building our Islamist school.
Brian Hoff says
There are now over 4200 mosues in America and the number is increasing. At the eid after the munth of fasting the Muslim in Dallas and it surban fill the civil center of Dallas as well as the concejt center as well as hotels halls for rent.
FYI says
Not surprising given it is the religion of antiChrist.
{SAHIH MUSLIM vol 5 hadith #5611;alalh’s greatest enemy is a man called MALIK AL AMLAK..}
But of course like most muslims you wouldn’t actually know that.
You don’t realize that this puts you on the wrong side of the actual God:your frontal lobes are not developed enough alas.
It’s a shame the English language skills of the islamic apologists like yourself continue to be extremely poor.
But then you muslims choose to follow a pagan Arab god LAH{“the best of deceivers” k3:54},a god who gets Astronomy and the anatomy and physiology behind human reproductive biology wrong:yes,that’s right Brian Hoff.
al lah doesn’t know how babies are made.
koran 86:6-7
You see? islam attracts the moronic.
You’ll always be an abdool mr hoff..you belong in islam:it suits you.
I am impressed by ex-muslims:be they atheists or now christians.
at least they have seen through the nonsense of muhammed’s flying horse,allah getting the religion of Abraham wrong {Abraham was JEWISH},allah teaching the OPPOSITE of the 2nd chief commandment {leviticus 19:18} in k5:51 etc,the koran contradicting itself on the matter of intercession being permissible.
But then logic and islam were separated at birth.
islam is for the theologically challenged,the ignorant and the stupid who don’t get IRONY.
LIKE..the silly western woman who converts to islam and thinks the hijab is so cool
{the koran teaches woman’s testimony is HALF that of a man k2:282 due to what muhahamed said was “the DEFICIENCY of a woman’s mind”Sahih bukhari #2658
Ouch!taht’s one for the feminists to chew on}
The Black guy who thinks islam respects black people
{ehm..that “prophet” of yours?..was the owner,buyer and seller of African slaves sahih muslim 3901..in islam shaitan is a black man…}
The White guy who starts speaking Arabic gibberish{“Arabish'”} and thinks he is suddenly an Arab and entitled to go insane,grow a silly beard and do evil as the koran commands.
People who leave islam I respect:people dumb enough to subscribe to it are idiots.
I can’t get over the number of ex-muslim women I have encountered,all happily married to INFIDELS and bringing their kids up as infidels,free of the cult of the misogynistic,chauvinistic pagan Arab god LAH.
FYI says
did you know…?
That al lah CONFIRMS the Torah and Gospel k3:3 in which it is understood that Abraham was Jewish{see Matthew 1 the genealogy of Jesus ..the Jew}yet amazingly in the koran allah says “Abraham was not a Jew” k3:67
Did allah forget that Abraham{and Moses} were JEWISH?
Al lah claims he gave the Gospel to Jesus k5:46-47{when?When did Jesus ever have the Gospel?Ask christians to explain it to you} a book which he confirms as True:yet in k4:171 allah tells muslims NOT to believe in God’s Spirit of Wisdom{which was revealed in the Gospel, a book allah confirms as being True k3:3}
If allah CONFIRMS the Bible in k3:3 but then subsequently denies its contents in the koran…can you get it yet?That means the koran must be FALSE.
The koran contradicts itself:Al lah claims to be God and insists the koran is perfect and is so confident that he says if their are incongruities found in it then the koran cannot come from God k4:82
Here’s an incongruity for you..
k4:85 allah permits intercession
k74:48 muhammed prohibits intercession.
So is intercession allowed in islam?Who knows?
It depends on what part of the koran you read and whether it is allah or muhammed.
That’s a pretty big incongruity,which by allah’s OWN criterion of k4:82 shows that there koran is FALSE and cannot come from God:it comes from a false god..
It is astonishing people still believe the koran is “perfect”.
gravenimage says
“Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wrote:
Sorry Muslim are not leaving Islam
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Despite the vicious death penalty for apostates–which “DefenderofIslam” has always refused to condemn–quite a few Muslims *are* leaving Islam.
More:
in fact the Muslim in El Paso will have than second mosque after we finish building our Islamist school.
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This is mostly not conversion of Americans to Islam–although “Brian hoff” rather implausibly claims to be an American convert–but is instead Muslim conquerors being allowed to flood into the US.
But Muslim immigration is down 90% under Trump, which has certainly slowed things down.
More:
There are now over 4200 mosues in America and the number is increasing. At the eid after the munth of fasting the Muslim in Dallas and it surban fill the civil center of Dallas as well as the concejt center as well as hotels halls for rent.
…………………….
As of 2016 there were an estimated 2600 Mosques in the US–where did “DefenderofIslam” get his number of 4200 from? Who knows–Muslims always lie when they think it benefits them.
I also can find no corroborating evidence that Muslims took over the Dallas Civic Center for Eid, nor that they did the same with the Dallas Concert Center.
Westman says
Actually, Brian, they are. El Paso is not an accurate example of what is happening in Europe where Mosque attendence is low, and buttressed by outside money, such as from Saudi Arabia. Europe has 70 years experience with Islam.
I don’t doubt Islam is doing well in El Paso, but give it 30 years and look again. The US Christians didn’t hold half of their descendents in the past 30, and I doubt that Islam, with it’s bizarre science-logic-ignorant doctrines, can hold the youth, either. But, we’ll see.
You might notice that the Dem Pres candidates are not spending any time railing against immgration limits on certain Muslim countries anymore because even their own party voters are increasingly against bringing in potential jihadists.
It’s going to be a tough environment in which to keep the youth without reforming Islam and disclaiming the behavior of its originator. Frankly, unless the world suffers some retarding disaster, Islam will not thrive in the West for long under the old ways and beliefs. The advent of modern communication has made both the history and the core scriptures of Islam available to everyone – a two-edge sword of truth that can’t be fully whitewashed.
Rufolino says
No sign of Islam fading or collapsing in Europe !!
Mosques going up apace, and cultural and political jihad making progress in Germany, France, Britain.
Westman says
When mosques are old run down buildings or magnificent edifices built by foreign money, that is no indicator of the inactivity that occured in the past 70 years – it is only an indication of recent immigration and its lack of integration.
Give it 30 years and look again at where the next, language and nation-savy generation of Muslims, go when they don’t need Islam for a social crutch and realize it restricts their opportunity for “Jannah” in this life. This is a real problem for all religions that denigrate this life and upscale the next life while living conditions in this life keep improving.
Anyone in the West, having good health and average intelligence, can build a life equal to the basics of Jannah. That’s why the Muslim immigants come – Islam has failed them in this life.
Angemon says
“Jennifer Lopez and her manager deserve much praise for this courageous action. ”
Indeed.
James Lincoln says
Jennifer Lopez – doing the right thing! Now that’s a lady that I can respect…
I even clicked on her YouTube video “If You Had My Love.” Great stuff…
CRUSADER says
RASH decision, perhaps?
Maybe one could see the point of bypassing a trip to Israel if measles were to be a particular health concern….
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/israel-saw-4000-measles-cases-in-2018and-only-30-the-year-before
Israel Saw 4,000 Measles Cases in 2018—and Only 30 the Year Before —-
An outbreak of the highly infectious virus has been wreaking havoc on Israel’s public health protocols.
“The number of diagnosed cases in Israel soared from about 30 in 2017-2018 to almost 4,000 in 2018-2019.”
JERUSALEM—
In the frightening measles outbreak that has hit New York, the first child diagnosed was an unvaccinated ultra-Orthodox Jew who was infected while visiting Israel, where an outbreak of the highly infectious virus has been wreaking havoc on public health protocols.
With 214 confirmed cases, Rockland County, north of New York City, announced a draconian measure, barring all unvaccinated children and adolescents from public places, after emergency efforts—including the administration of almost 17,000 measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccines in less than six months—failed to quell a widening medical emergency.
Measles, caused by a highly contagious virus, is a leading cause of vaccine-preventable deaths in the world. To keep it in check, as it has been for years, more than 95 percent of any given population must be immunized. At that point there is what’s called “herd immunity,” the modern miracle wrought by mass immunizations.
Turning those numbers around, even a tiny proportion of unvaccinated persons in an insular but not completely isolated community threatens the lives of society’s most vulnerable people: the youngest, the oldest, or the immuno-compromised, such as cancer patients. And it turns out that ultra-orthodox Jews, who live in insular communities but travel widely, are vulnerable to such an epidemic.
So far, two Israelis have died in a measles outbreak that has seen the number of diagnosed cases in the country soar from about 30 in the year 2017-2018 to almost 4,000 in the year 2018-2019.
Despite the insular lives led by ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, the principal reasons behind rampant propagation in Israel, according to Rotem Elizera, the health correspondent for the daily Yediot Ahronot who has spearheaded coverage of the outbreak, are non-ideological.
“In Israel you have two types of anti-vaxxers,” he explained in an interview with The Daily Beast.
The small but loud crowd of well-educated, prosperous people who question the entire medical establishment and are skeptical of conventional world views, and the larger crowd that doesn’t vaccinate its kids, who are mostly ultra-Orthodox. They simply have very low rates of compliance in general.”
In the case of ultra-Orthodox communities, he says, “most of their reasons are what you’d call practical: Let us say it is a family with seven or eight children and a parent needs to take an infant to the well-baby clinic. You have to wait a week for the appointment, find childcare for the other kids, you’re going to miss half a day of work, and it’s not like the child is in need of acute care for a galloping fever or a hacking cough. It’s just a shot. So they delay.”
According to Elizera, before measles’ resurgence as a pressing global health problem, neighborhoods such as Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim, with cramped, teeming alleyways reminiscent of pre-War Europe, had compliance rates under 50 percent.
Rabbis, responding to the crisis, have been part of the national effort to suppress the epidemic.
Last autumn, as measles started making daily news, the Ministry of Health drafted them to the cause, which brought thousands to an immunization operation, says Ketty Dor, “but it was almost too little, too late.”
“The number of patients has gone down in recent months. The eruption has moved from Jerusalem and Safed to the city of Tiberias, where there have been 80 new cases in the past month.”
Conventional anti-vaxxers are also having their moment.
In February, a student at Tel Aviv’s elite Alliance High School was discovered to have measles, causing the ministry to issue a warning to thousands of exposed students who suddenly faced the prospect of infection by a potentially deadly, highly contagious virus.
Israelis, who are covered by a national health-care system, have extremely high rates of immunizations. In Jerusalem, 96.5 percent of first-graders entered school in September 2017 with their vaccinations in order. In Arab communities, compliance is at virtually 100 percent.
Yaakov Litzman, Israel’s deputy minister of health and himself an ultra-Orthodox Jew who moved to Jerusalem from Borough Park, Brooklyn, aged 17, in 1966, posted an urgent call on the ministry’s website, in which he warned that “vaccines are a cornerstone of the prevention of dangerous infectious diseases, and in public health they make a decisive contribution to the health of children and the population in general.”
Elizera says that with measles rampaging through Europe, especially Romania and Italy, which are among Israelis’ favored weekend destinations, “this whole thing was just a matter of time.”
? Emergency —-
Measles Rages in Brooklyn as some
Yeshivas Defy Vaccine Rule
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No doubt,
Islamists would make hay from this as proof Jews are diseased!
gravenimage says
I think on average more Muslim countries are riddled with disease than is Israel.
CRUSADER says
True, but who wants to visit a muslim country?
Georg says
Muslims are treated a heck of a lot better in Israel than Jews are in Egypt. They might not want to broach the issue of who is “racist.” But hey, why not, when the media would never hold them to account?
Gina says
Very impressed that Ms. Lopez didn’t give in to the true racists!
Mr. Cohen says
Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura wrote
(in a letter to his father in year 1488 August 15):
“Jews in Muslim lands make themselves appear poor.
They go about like an impoverished, despised people,
with their heads bowed before Muslims.”
SOURCE: Pathway to Jerusalem:
the Travel Letters of Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura
(page 40) written between 1488 CE and 1490 CE
during his journey to the Holy Land,
translated by Yaakov Dovid Shulman,
year 1992 CE, 93 pages, CIS Publishers,
Lakewood, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56062-130-3
QUICK BIOGRAPHY NOTE:
Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura’s commentary
on the Mishnah is still studied very often,
by Orthodox Jews, even in our times.
===================================
The Koran requires the “abasement and poverty” of Jews:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Islam
gravenimage says
Jennifer Lopez boycotted in Cairo after refusing to cancel performance in Israel
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Kudos to “Jenny from the block”!
SAFI says
The irony with those “apartheid state” accusations is that it is the Muslims who’d love to segregate. And it’s the same story everywhere not just in Israel. Of course as with other inhuman aspects of islamic “culture” it’s rooted in scripture (do not take jews and christians as friends, etc)
dsinc says
Mohammad, if he ever existed, realized that “believers” had no chance against the Jews whose IQ was way higher than Muslims, who were shackled by their belief in Islam, that the only way out of their sorry state was no kill the Jews and take their stuff. The rest is history.
Ren says
It is better to perform for the Jews than the muslims.
CRUSADER says
“All about the Benjamins!”
Netanyahu that is !!?
Relic says
A Rod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFjCIBcv10
OREN WYSOCKI says
egypt Israels peace partner. They don’t want war with Israel, they just Israelis to make peace with the arabs muslims of Israel. But the muslims of egypt and the gulf know that it is impossible for the Jews to make peace with the arab muslims of Israel. They print the same books calling for death to the Jews, as the arabs of Israel do, they send money to the arabs of Israel to kill Jews with. All egyptians know this, just like all gulf arabs know this. So why do they demand that the Jews of Israel make peace with the arab muslims of Israel when the egyptians and the saudis have no intentions of standing up to the muslim ‘mainstream’? They could arrest those sending money to Israel to sponsor muslims killing Jews, they could arrest the most religious of the community going to gaza and Israel in order to become martyrs. They could say on their news, all muslims should stop supporting war against Israel so that peace can be achieved, so A peace deal can be reached, so the war with the Jews our peace partner can end. Instead they say they pray G-d will destroy the Zionist entity. They do none of the things that would help bring about peace. They know that arab muslim sovereignty over Judea and Samaria will give simple arab weapons access to ben Gurion airport, Tel Aviv and Haifa. Do they agree to implement the long term reforms to alter arab muslim society in egypt, the gulf or the middle east? Do they start treating non muslim minorities as equals, showing their intentions to no longer war against the infidels including the Jews? Do they promise to speak out against the rape of non muslim women, the beatings of non muslims? Do they say they will now start respecting the rights of the secular to not believe in G-d, or the secular and the religious to not believe in islam? Do they say they are going to desensitize muslims into accepting criticisms of islam, A rational prerequisite to being A part of any modern civilization? None of these things and many more are being dealt with or discussed. Our supposed peace partner, only desires not to be attacked directly, they are perfectly willing to say they support terrorism against the Jews in rallies for the people, they will do nothing to stop the flow of terrorism, funds, or weapons for that goal. The entire peace with the arab muslims is nothing but another farce, meant to keep the Jews of Israel from saying anything that would upset american politically correct sensibilities, like pointing out that muslims are violent, insecure, and have their own plan to resolve inequality in the world, and it includes the extermination of the Jews, just like hitler and the nazis planned. Just dont say that in silicon valley, because they will have security escort you out of the building for being an islamaphobe. In G-d I trust.
jca reid says
Talk about behaving like petty spoiled children!! If their ideology was not so dangerous to the world it would be laughable. By the way,….. how many Jewish/non – Muslim MP’s are there in then Egyptian Parliament? Or indeed, in any Muslim majority country?
Ginger Snap says
Bless you J Lo for your integrity and believer in the value of freedom! You were very brave and hopefully your actions will give strength to other entertainers who don’t have the courage to stop drinking the koolaid in Hollywood.
Horseman says
These muslims are a pain in the planet’s ass.
Tony46 says
More balls than Bernie andall the DemoncRats put together..
AOC your country fellow could learn from you
Lourdes says
Nothing stop a puertorrican woman like her specially a threat.
Ole Pederson says
I never liked her, but for this she has my respect!