I’m switching this year to:

Biologist here. We can respond to this. These trees offer more to the planet than younger trees (more CO2 absorption, deeper roots, more biodiversity etc) and it takes hundreds of years to replace them. Make a quick call to your representatives demanding protection for older forests. (Planting new trees in cities is…

I’m actually quite progressive (I wonder why you think antisemitism is only opposed by conservatives?), which means I’m against discrimination against all groups not just the ones I like. I witnessed it first had in the Stanford Senate when debating the BDS resolution. When counter proposals for divestment with any…

A) No, I am not naive. I am a60 year old Jew who has been to Israel, knows both Arabs and Israelis and has a fairly nuanced opinion that finds neither side to be totally right or wrong. I do believe that the vast majority of Palestinians and Israelis just want peace.

Remove the two terror organizations - Hamas and Hezbollah - that dominate Palestinian politics and you will find that negotiations are quick and to everyone’s satisfaction. That is the primary thing Israel keeps asking for - an end to the rocket and terror attacks.

Correct you are. However, too many “anti-Zionists” are actually anti-semites in the same way that too many Trump supporters are actually racists.

I am not defending the settlements, although I am not convinced they are illegal. What I am saying is that a lot of the people who are BDS are also anti-semitic and it gives them great cover. Not all of them, but enough to be a concern.

See, I’m anti-settlement, but I’m also anti-BDS because they tend to demonize Israel as a whole and say that it shouldn’t exist instead of understanding the reason for the existence of Israel, but being against the current regime.

It is not anti-semitic to have issues with Israel as a nation. It is not anti-Semitic to take issue with the ongoing political issues there.

Not fond of the BDS movement at my school ‘cause we have a relatively large population of orthodox Jewish students, so the Doctoral Student Council decided that the vote for BDS should be at like 4:30 on a Friday in winter. So that was sketchy and caused an uproar...also, this was CUNY and so one of the things that…

A lot of them reveal themselves to be antisemitic in nature through the debates that occur on college campuses in the push for BDS passage. Examples in the past year include University of Minnesota and Stanford.

BDS supporters are a coalition that exists in a spectrum. There are many reasonable supporters who would like to see an end to the occupation and see BDS as a means of pressuring that. At the same time, there are elements of the BDS movement that openly support violence and elimination of Israel as a state. There have…

As a Jew, I am not as worried about the what of BDS as I am about the why. And the why is obvious and very problematic. The fact that BDS is taking hold on campuses across the country and includes the anti-semitic rhetoric that is the why of BDS is way more of a problem than some Nordic bank being a Nordic bank and…

If a company, town, university, student union or country wishes to boycott Israel, they should be able to boycott Israel.

Yeah, it’s been a part of the film’s wiki entry for years. It’s not exactly a secret. Better late than never, I suppose, but it’s an insult over injury that this collective realization over how incredibly fucked up this was came after Schneider died.

I didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage. I wanted Maria to feel, not to act, the rage and humiliation.

“I hired an actress, but I wasn’t going to let her *act*. Jesus, why would I trust a professional woman to do her job? That’s not the point of a hot young actress! An actress needs to be taught that she’s not a professional, she’s not an artist, she’s just an object, and the best way to do that is to treat her…

I actually had the opposite reaction. This person’s “conversational” history definitely points toward Trolldom.

Can I get out of this conversation before it gets more ridiculous?

I’m glad you work with teen girls :) I bet you’re great at it and a very excellent guiding presence for them. I’m an actor but because I was also a child actor I coach other kids as well, mostly to see if it’s what they want to do and help them out regardless (like if they hate it and have extreme stage parents I…