TABLET MAGAZINE
By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
April 3, 2015

I Probably Won’t Share This Essay on Twitter

A famous screenwriter/director and I were having lunch, doing our interview…And he asked me to turn my tape recorder off, so I did, and he said, “It’s about Israel.” He looked at me, testing me out. “I’m sort of pro-Israel.” I opened my eyes wide and said yes, I told him I was, too. Then he said, “I’m really, really pro-Israel, and I’m disgusted with what’s going on there, but what are you going to do?” He sighed, lifted his fork, and returned to the Chinese chicken salad…nodding at my tape recorder, saying I could turn it back on, that we were official again. He didn’t need to explain his reticence. It is not OK to be openly pro-Israel anymore, and I know why. My DM [Direct Message] boxes on Twitter and Facebook are filled with people like me—liberals, culture reporters, economics reporters—baffled and sad at the way the cause of Jews avoiding another attempt at our genocide has gone from a liberal one to a capital-c Conservative one. READ MORE