Dear Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival:
It is unconscionable that the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival is honoring Ed Asner at your upcoming Gala in Beverly Hills. Ed Asner is an advisory board member of Jewish Voice for Peace, a virulently anti-Israel organization that fully supports the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. This includes a cultural and artistic boycott of Israel, and everything under that umbrella. If you didn’t know, Jewish Voice for Peace: led a boycott against the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema, successfully urged Oscar-nominated actors to boycott a packaged trip to Israel, brought a Palestinian terrorist convicted of murdering two students as a guest speaker at their national convention. READ MORE
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