In shocking news, an Israeli who has worked so hard to prove he’s one of the good ones, finds the self-abnegation isn’t enough.
If the BDS mob was really interested in positive change, co-existence and human rights, they wouldn’t alienate and reject the Israelis who are the most critical of the Israeli government and may act actually wield some influence - the artists. academics etc. But they’re not.
In the end, Lapid is Israeli, and that’s all that matters to BDS.
When will they learn that no matter how much you criticize Israel, you'll never be enough for them. You'll always just be an Israeli Jew.
Nadav Lapid described Israeli society as "diseased and blinded."
It wasn't enough.
He made Ahed's Knee, a Cannes Prize winning film inspired by Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian figure celebrated after assaulting an Israeli soldier and who later praised October 7.
It wasn't enough.
He built an entire film around a government questionnaire for artists, portraying Israel as a country trying to police thought and speech.
It wasn't enough.
His latest film, Yes, depicted Israelis after October 7 as swept up in nationalism and living in what he called a "moral abyss."
It wasn't enough.
He signed calls for a ceasefire after October 7th.
It wasn't enough.
He even moved to France.
It still wasn't enough.
When Marseille's FID festival selected him to head its jury, pro-Palestinian filmmakers threatened to withdraw their films until he was removed.
He had already spent years providing the indictments of Israel that these circles reward and celebrate. He had already alienated much of his own society. He had already devoted film after film to exposing what he viewed as Israel's sins. And still they wanted him gone.
You can spend every waking minute of your life criticizing Israel. It will never ever be enough. The only acceptable Israeli is one who openly endorses the disappearance of his own country. Why that position is routinely described as "pro-Palestinian" rather than anti-Israeli is a question I've never received an answer to.
One has to wonder how many times people like Lapid have to encounter this before the lesson sinks in. History is full of Jews who believed that sufficient ideological agreement would earn them an exemption from being treated as Jews.
It never did.
Why does he think he'll be any different?