AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Anti-Israel group with Irish media backing is behind campaign to block Sacha Baron Cohen's new Ali G film
A British media group born out of a pro-Palestinian "hack for Gaza" is running a worldwide campaign to keep cinemas from screening Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming film, while insisting the effort has nothing to do with the Jewish actor's support for Israel. NewsCord, a U.K.-based outfit founded in late 2023, roughly a month after Hamas's […] The post Anti-Israel group with Irish media backing is behind campaign to block Sacha Baron Cohen's new Ali G film appeared first on American Almanac .
A British media group born out of a pro-Palestinian "hack for Gaza" is running a worldwide campaign to keep cinemas from screening Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming film, while insisting the effort has nothing to do with the Jewish actor's support for Israel. NewsCord, a U.K.-based outfit founded in late 2023, roughly a month after Hamas's October 7 attack, has been flooding theaters with what it describes as tens of thousands of emails from moviegoers demanding they refuse to show Ali G: Who Iz I?, the first Ali G film in two decades. The group frames its objection as a stand against racial stereotypes. But financial disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that an Irish investor who also bankrolls an anti-Israel publication…Open