Seth Rogen is one of the best known Jews in Hollywood. He is funny, successful and talented, and until a few days ago he also enjoyed great affection in Israel due to his public support for the country. But his participation in one podcast changed everything. It was hard to believe that the person who was clearly heard saying shocking things about Israel and Israelis is the same one who only a few years ago signed petitions for Israel together with the great artists in the United States. 

Seth Rogen attacked not only Israel, only the Israelis, or only the American Jewish community, but all three of them and with extraordinary sharpness. He said of the Israelis that in his eyes they were "unpopular" and said that he began to think so in the Jewish summer camps in which he participated as a child. The Israeli instructors, he said, were "psychotic" and a host of other humiliating nicknames. He said of the Jewish community that throughout his life she had taught him lies about Israel. He said that he was educated about how wonderful Israel is, but when he grew up he realized that it was not as wonderful as they told him. But without a doubt the most serious thing the successful artist has said is that he does not understand why Israel should exist. How comfortable it is for him, from his safe and comfortable place, to be interviewed and say that he does not understand the need for the State of Israel. 

Many Jews and non-Jews attacked him for things and he, in dismissal, said he meant some things as a joke. That's how it is, Israel and Judaism are now another punch line in stand-up and have been reduced to the privilege of wearing a Hanukkah sweater with Star of David on TV shows, the main thing being that it brings publicity and applause. 

In a parallel world, just that week, a small media storm broke out when it was proposed in the Knesset that the State of Israel help finance Jewish institutions and schools abroad. At best, people wondered why we should pay for the education of foreign citizens, and at worst strongly opposed it. This is precisely the proof that it is not only profitable for the State of Israel to help Jewish communities around the world, but it is its duty to do so.Israel 

must face the harsh reality: opposition to it has become a hallmark of liberal circles, and over time seems to be accepted Jews should wave a sign and shout that even though they are Jews, they are not part of "them", of the "Zionists", and that they now understand, after many years of illusion, that Zionism is a crime and that Israelis are the real axis of evil. only proves how great pressure to make them one way or another.

the answer to this trend should be the same: to restore Jewish identity and identification with Israel's status as a source of pride and counterbalance the negative trends of these. can conduct symposiums on how to do this, but one thing should be By consensus: this problem can not wait.