Larry David is no stranger to flirting with the limits of good taste. But the comic’s monologue on ‘Saturday Night Live’ caused many to accuse him of stepping over that line, with jokes about romance in concentration camps and the fact that so many of those accused of sexual harassment in Hollywood are Jewish. He…
A few weeks ago, after the Harvey Weinstein revelations left many reeling, one article on sexual harassment connected gender violence to, of all things, Zionism. In a piece on the blog Feministing called “#MeToo: Gender Violence Does Not Exist Without White Supremacy”, Mahroh Jahangiri argued that “gender-based violence does not exist without other systems of…
The recent, long overdue accountability of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment of women, and the #metoo speakout on social media, has reignited questions and concerns about power, complicity and abuse. When people envision a typical caricature of an abusive partner, often it is assumed that an abuser is a stereotypical politically conservative heterosexual male…
Mark Halperin, veteran journalist and political analyst for MSNBC and Bloomberg TV is leaving MSNBC after being accused by five women of sexual harassment, CNN reported. MSNBC announced early Thursday that Halperin — who frequently appears on their program “Morning Joe” — was leaving the network. “During this period, I did pursue relationships with women…
More than 30 women came forward to the Los Angeles Times about the sexual harassment they say they received from Oscar-nominated writer-director James Toback. Of the 38 women who spoke to the L.A. Times, 31 agreed to be named and on-the-record about Toback’s alleged behavior, dating back to the 1980s and as recently as 2008….
A blog post on a prominent feminist website argued that “gender-based violence does not exist” without systemic white supremacy, in which it included Zionism. The author was Mahroh Jahangiri, a writer for Feministing and former executive director of Know Your IX, a political advocacy group that promotes enforcement of Title IX statutes. Jahangiri wrote earlier…
(JTA) — Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino said he regrets not speaking out sooner about alleged sexual misconduct by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. Tarantino, who worked with Weinstein on some of his most successful films, including “Pulp Fiction,” said in an interview published Thursday by the New York Times that he “knew enough to do more”…
Like so many of us, I have now read many of the accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged victims, as well as the courageous descriptions of assault and harassment by other working women. Predictably, there have been some accusatory or simply obtuse articles suggesting that the women who have come forward have been themselves guilty of…
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