Sandler’s presence in particular fueled criticism from anti-Israel voices, who argued it was significant that someone who has described himself as “very pro-Israel” officiated the wedding. Sandler has discussed his friendship with Swift and Kelce publicly, saying that it developed through his daughters, who are Swift fans.
Swift has largely avoided wading into polarizing political issues, and her outlook on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a source of confusion for many fans, who have struggled to interpret her silence on the topic at a time when many celebrities have publicly voiced support for Gaza. Her decision not to publicly criticize Israel is seen as having bolstered her popularity among Israelis. At the same time, some pro-Palestinian fans have decried her silence and protested at her concerts, while others have speculated that she is privately pro-Palestinian but has avoided speaking out for fear of alienating fans.
“For all the Swifties defending Taylor Swift regarding her silence on Palestine she had Adam Sandler… a well-known Zionist, officiate her wedding so I think we know where she stands now,” tweeted an account called Land Palestine that had nearly 2 million followers on Instagram before being suspended last year.
“They’re all Zionists, clearly, and no doubt about it,” tweeted the Oxford University student Kate Crawford, a prominent pro-Palestinian voice on X who identifies as partly Jewish.
That’s a really weird movie because yeah, he’s playing an Israeli agent. But, he’s an Israeli agent who gets disillusioned with Israel and leaves for NYC, so kinda critical of Israel. But, Palestinians are presented as terrorists and their grievances are overly simplified, so chauvinistic. But then the Israelis and Palestinians in NYC team up against their true common foe, landlords and their white supremacist lackeys, so almost an intersectional class-based message. But then we end with an American dream, the conflict would end if all Israelis and Palestinians left the Levantine and become small business owners in America message, so idealistic nonsense. Whole thing is an ideological mess.
hebrew hammer was always the superior movie.
The criticism and disillusionment this movie depicts, not that I've seen it, is NO different to WALL-E: abstracted critique alienated from all class analysis, designed purely to meet KPI figures against a "target demographic" just like The Avengers or any other entertainment.
See my Effort post
That the Israelis in the film all speak Yiddish, which is common among American Jews, instead of Hebrew which is the predominant language of Israelis, adds weight to your argument.
It’s not Yiddish or even real Yeshivish (Judeo-English)- it’s kind of a linguistic caricature of what spoken Hebrew sounds like to Americans.
Interestingly enough, The fake “Kazakh” in Borat is mostly SBC speaking modern Hebrew.