

Mandy Patinkin (Graphic: The Jewish Press)

Mandy Patinkin is to receive an award from the American friends of an Israeli medical center at their gala at the Harvard Club in New York next month, and the award is rankling the right guard.

The Jewish Press— the same Jewish Press that published Lori Lowenthal Marcus’s bizarre rant about Dustin Hoffman’s Semitic nose and Emad Burnat as an alleged “Israel-hater”– seems to be demonizing Mandy Patinkin in the green-bearded image above. Because Marcus is ticked that an honor is going to someone who supports boycotting the settlements, “an American Jewish celebrity who supports economic warfare against Jews living and working in Judea and Samaria.”

Working off the original image of his impassioned speech at the Peace Now Conference in Tel Aviv last spring (at which he described America as his homeland and said, “I am certain that this peace process will prevail”), the Jewish Press morphs Patinkin into the very opposite of who he is.

Look at the original:

Lori Lowenthal Marcus knows it; she says “It is hard to listen to Patinkin and imagine anything other than that he has a warm, loving soul and just wants everyone to get along.”

But the award worries her– another soldier in Israel’s delegitimization: