John Cusack Says He Was “Tricked” Into Re-Tweeting Anti-Semitic Garbage
Page Six says John Cusack is not an anti-semite. That’s according to John Cusack. You see, when he re-tweeted an anti-semitic message about Jews holding the world down, it was an “accident.” An “accident” he defended at first, but now he’s claiming it was a total accident. John didn’t mean to tweet that, it was a trick! Poor guy just can’t use technology and got got by an alt-right bot. Womp-womp!
Yesterday John re-tweeted an anti-semitic message, which was later deleted by him:
This is disgusting pic.twitter.com/4b2RlPrNfL
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 17, 2019
At first John was antagonistic when met with backlash and defended that re-tweet.
“You think Israel isn’t commuting [sic] atrocities against Palestinians?… What planet are you on? Palestinian [sic] are forced to live in an open air prison. That’s not anti semetic to say that–that recognizes their plight as part of the fight for justice.”
John got the message eventually (once his publicist or anyone around him with eyes and common sense saw what he’d done) and he came up with a bullshit excuse saying that a bot got him, which sounds like nothing but a lie since he defended that re-tweet at first.
“A bot got me- I thought I was endorsing a pro Palestinian justice retweet – of an earlier post – it came I think from a different source – Shouldn’t Have retweeted.”
And then he tweeted a much longer apology explaining himself:
Well if it needs more clarity -this can be instructive – some thought – to follow –
1. in reaction to Palestinian human rights under Israeli occupation, an issue that concerns anyone fighting for justice , I RT’d & quickly deleted an image that’s harmful to both Jewish –— John Cusack (@johncusack) June 18, 2019
& Palestinian friends, & for that I’m sorry.
The image depicted a blue Star of David, which I associated with Israel as their flag uses the same color & shape. I know the star itself is deeply meaningful to Jews no matter where they stand on Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.— John Cusack (@johncusack) June 18, 2019
2. & Palestinian friends, & for that I’m sorry.
The image depicted a blue Star of David, which I associated with Israel as their flag uses the same color & shape. I know the star itself is deeply meaningful to Jews no matter where they stand on Israel’s attacks on Palestinians— John Cusack (@johncusack) June 18, 2019
3 The use of the star, even if it depicts the state of Israel- committing human rights violations
– when combined with anti Jewish tropes about power- is antisemitic & antisemitism has no place in any rational political dialoge— John Cusack (@johncusack) June 18, 2019
4 to justify it – Would be as bad as conflating the cross with us flag when confronting US atrocities
So I get why it was a careless dumb thing to retweet – here’s some more good guidance on these issues –https://t.co/FExTgza6KV— John Cusack (@johncusack) June 18, 2019
5 I’ve been digging in deeply to the complexities of the history of antisemitism and fascism for years
Would recommend watching a film I produced called max –
And also a documentary called “the architecture of doom” I’ve been openly anti fascist for 35 + years publicly –— John Cusack (@johncusack) June 18, 2019
6 – so while I won’t take guff from anyone looking to score cheap shots on a caress mistweet- good to use my mistake to spread awareness – solidarity and peace to all
— John Cusack (@johncusack) June 18, 2019
Nice – I will don’t know how to make threads:) https://t.co/utrxcyzken
— John Cusack (@johncusack) June 18, 2019
So there you have it. He just got too heated about something else and ended up just accidentally using highly anti-semitic imagery to make a point he wasn’t even referencing to! Easy mistake, y’all. But of course the damage is done and now Roseanne Barr is coming for John since she’s a huge supporter of Israel. Although…. if he says that by “bot” he meant “Ambien,” Roseanne would put down her shank and join hands with her brother in Ambien-fueled Twitter foolery.
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