Mehdi Hasan Prods John Legend Swipe at Israel
Singer John Legend seems to have joined the ranks of pop-culture celebrities with little or no expertise in the Middle East publicly airing inaccurate views on the subject.
Adams' opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” demonizes Israelis and Jews as a group but not so Arabs or Muslims. Despite controversy and generally mediocre music, the opera persists.
Showtime premium cable network vilified West Bank Jewish residents in a recent broadcast to tens of millions of viewers of its popular fictional Homeland melodrama series. Mandy Patinkin is a co-star/co-producer of the program.
Potentially millions of public radio and online podcast listeners were recently subjected to a one-sided segment of the American Public Media (APM) weekly food show The Splendid Table that vilified West Bank Jewish residents.
ABC’s Quantico melodrama series (inaugurated Sept. 27, 2015), viewed by millions weekly, seems destined to endure to the end of the TV season (May 2016). Quantico demonizes Israel and negatively portrays Jews.