Why I will be boycotting the Academy Awards

With great interest last week, I followed the saga of the African-American boycotts of the Oscars. They aren’t totally wrong — after all, Will Smith, one of the biggest names in the boycott movement, was only nominated for best actor twice. And the fact that he lost twice (to other African-Americans) had to be a display of racism. Everyone knows that the reason he wasn’t nominated this year had nothing to do with the fact his performance wasn’t considered as good as the other nominees, but because the Academy didn’t want the minority who would beat him out (again) to win an Oscar.

But that is not my concern. This year for the first time in my life, I will be boycotting the Academy Awards, on Feb. 28. It’s a move I feel I have to make because for the second year in a row the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presentation is fleecing the Jews.

Just look at the names of the nominees, there’s not a Schwartz, Rosenberg, Bloomberg, or Cohen among them. But it’s much more than that, the not only have left out “members of the tribe,” but they made a conscious effort to insult us Jews

Just look at the Best Actor list — Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”), Matt Damon (“The Martian”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”), Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”), Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl”).

Steve Jobs? Come on, his father was a Muslim for Pete’s sake. The Revenant? We Jews already did our 40 years in the wilderness with Moses — besides what Jewish mother would allow her son go hunt in the wilderness, and get raped by a bear yet? Trumbo? An obvious reference to the untrue stereotype that Jews are communist. The Martian? PULEEESE. No Jewish mother would let her son go to another planet without preparing a care package with a year’s supply of her brisket (and some kugel).