JNS
Israeli American artist and author Noa Tishby.
Israeli actress Noa Tishby revealed on Sunday that she was dismissed from her position as Israel’s special envoy for combating antisemitism.
The move comes just weeks after she denounced the government’s judicial reform program as a “coup.”
“It is with disappointment and sadness, but an enduring determination, that I can confirm that the current Israeli government has dismissed me as Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel,” Tishby wrote in a letter posted to social media.
“It is not possible for me to know if their decision was driven by my publicly stated concerns about this government’s ‘judicial reform policy.’ But given the reality that antisemitism continues its dangerous rise globally, and the threat to Israel’s existence through delegitimization policies has not slowed, it is difficult to come to any other reasonable conclusion,” she added.
Tishby was appointed to the role in April 2022 by then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
Last month, Tishby wrote in a Hebrew-language article in Ynet of the reform initiative,
“I will say it in the sharpest and clearest way: Diaspora Jewry and Israel’s supporters in the world are shocked. They are shocked.
“With great pain they look and see how the country they fiercely defended—in Congress, in the media, on the networks or in front of foreign—is changing its face.” This is “not a reform, but a coup,”
At the time of her appointment, Lapid’s Foreign Ministry described Tishby as “a leading voice in the United States and abroad” in fighting antisemitism.
Her job was to fight antisemitism. Her statement actually promoted antisemitism. She had to go. Good on Bibi.
@John Galt III
Actually, I give Noa credit for being more insightful than your comment suggests as she made her inciteful comment about the govt she was serving. Indeed, as the Special Envoy tasked with fighting the deligimitization of the Israeli people and the Israeli govt, her comments were in fact delitigimitizing the Israeli people and the Israeli govt. As a member of Israel’s non-political govt, she knowingly engaged in a politically divisive debate only to make it more divisive and in doing so also called to undermined the integrity of the govt which she was serving. And now that they fired her, she tries to play the role of the clueless victim when in fact I would deny that she is either clueless or a victim. Instead, I would charge her, not as being an useful idiot, but as being completely cognizant of her actions, even as she allowed her political advocacy in this matter to strengthen the call by Israel’s enemies to deligitimize Israel’s democratic nature. The truth remains that this govt is leading one of the strongest voices for democracy in our current age, an age which is marked by democratic govts becoming more and more post democratic, as they ignore the results of elections and refuse to openly allow uncensored policy debate by the public – neither of which can be claimed to have been the actions taken by the current govt which Noa suggested was being undemocratic in its actions to reform the judiciary.
Yes, it’s a mystery, alright. 😀
I’m reminded of Latma/Caroline Glick’s brilliant satire: The FBi investigates the Boston Marathon Bombing. “What could the motive possibly be?”
https://youtu.be/XgTmGIXT8ow
Noa Tishby – Useful Idiot