Ari Emanuel, a media executive, received an award from a major Jewish group and criticized Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his leadership post the Hamas attack. Emanuel's remarks at the Simon Wiesenthal Gala sparked controversy and shifted focus from the organization's anti-Semitism work.
By using the Simon Wiesenthal Gala for a rant against Netanyahu, honoree Ari Emanuel lost the plot. As a result, the gala became about him, and not an organization, as he himself said in his speech, that does “indispensable work to fight anti-Semitism and hate in all its forms,”…
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