Noah Schnapp to make West End debut in new play AFFLUENZA — Page 2

Skywalker3 said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "anti-semitism"

There it is.. Anti Zionism isn't anti-semitism..
It is not about being a Jew, it is about begin pro Israël.

As far as we know now, Noah isn't pro Israël (anymore).

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1) The overwhelming majority of Jews in the world identify as Zionists.
2) When your anti-zionism is rooted in falsehoods that generalize Israelis and all Zionists as "evil", you're practicing in hatred and libel against Jews.
3) When you continue to be "anti-Zionist" while refusing to understand what Zionism actually is to Jews across the diaspora, while Jews are under attack for "anti-Zionism" around the world, you're practicing in anti-semitism.
4) When you refuse to understand that Zionism does not mean you support the Israeli government's actions, you're being ignorant and blaming all Zionists (again, the overwhelming majority of Jews around the world) for the government's actions.
5) When you take the stance of an "anti-Zionist", it means that you do not believe the Jews have a right to exist in their ancestral homeland. That you do not believe Jews have a right to a safe place to call home. MANY Zionists want a two-state solution for peace. Anti-Zionists do not want Jews to have any home in that land, and deny them their ancestry to the land. This is anti-semitic, and a denial of our history.
6) When you condemn, attack, harass and bully a young American Jew for being a Zionist, despite the fact he has condemned the current Israeli government and its leader, despite the fact he has criticized the government's actions during this war, you're being an anti-semite. Because you are expecting a Jew to entirely turn his back entirely on his people, his ancestral homeland, his faith. Folks here regularly condemn Trump and our current government in America - but no one is being attacked for simply being an American. Or believing that America still has a right to exist. There's only one group being attacked in the name of criticism of the Israeli government - and that's Jews. Not just Israeli Jews, but ALL Jews.

Over the last nearly 3 years, anti-Zionism has absolutely become anti-semitism. And why is that? Ignorance, mostly. A failure to understand what Zionism actually is, and a conflation of Zionism with Netanyahu. Zionism is older than Netanyahu, and the modern state of Israel.

You can keep telling yourself whatever you want so that you can get to sleep at night. But when you attack a Jew for being a Zionist without bothering to do any deep-diving into their feelings on Israel's current government and its actions, you're being an anti-semite.

And yes, Noah is still "pro-Israel". He still believes it has a right to exist, and that Jews have a homeland there. One can be "pro-Israel" but not "pro- the current Israeli government".

Updated On: 8/19/26 at 09:25 AM

"iluvtheatertrash said:
1) The overwhelming majority of Jews in the world identify as Zionists."

That's not true, in America it's only 37%
https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/jfna-survey-finds-just-37-of-jewish-americans-identify-as-zionists

What are your sources?

According to JPPI, 82% of those surveyed are Zionists. Numbers in America have diminished because some fear the term Zionist is too associated with Netanyahu - which you have made clear you believe. It's sad that we have to reject a word that represents the idea of return because people like you choose to ignorantly equate the basic concept of Zionism with a current government.

In any case, Noah has made it clear that he doesn't support genocide or violence against civilians in general, multiple times through multiple platforms.

If anyone would like to know more about what happened with him and how things spiraled into an antisemitic/homophobic hate campaign, I encourage you to check this post that breaks it all down.

As a big fan of his work in Stranger Things, I'm excited for this next step and wish him a great run.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "Is Noah forever condemned because of something he said or did as a 17 year old kid?

Harsh."

In certain online circles, yes indeed. On X (a cesspool, to be clear) he gets worse treatment than abusers and criminals. Fortunately, he didn’t have to wait long after graduating this spring to book work. Hopefully that trend continues, and the conversation can become more about his work rather than tired controversy.

Well, I hope y'all enjoy your religious ethnostate. You've murdered a lot of people to expand it.

Georgeanddot2 said: "Well, I hope y'all enjoy your religious ethnostate. You've murdered a lot of people to expand it."

I haven't murdered anyone. You are now insinuating that any Jew in the diaspora who believes Israel has a right to exist, even those of us who condemn Bibi, even those who want a two state solution, are murderers. This is repugnant - and yes, it's anti-Semitic. You've put a blood libel on us all.

Your ignorance and hate is truly something. And your hypocrisy is showing when you only seem to care about one ethnostate, and not the others. I'd speculate why that is, but there's no need - you have made it abundantly clear.

Updated On: 8/20/26 at 08:16 AM

blug said: ""has the right to exist". EVERYBODY TAKE A DRINK!

"blood libel". EVERYBODY TAKE ANOTHER DRINK!

"accusesantisemitism when there is none" EVERRYBUDY TEK ANOTHUR DRRINNK!"

Being able to predict a reaction doesn't invalidate it, dude.

I don't know which is worse: that the moderators are allowing this thread to continue, or the holier than thou Jew hating social justice warriors.

Take this to the off-topic boards. A question was asked, and answered, about Schnapp. This is a thread about an actor doing a show, not for an argument about Zionism. Jesus.

iluvtheatertrash said: "uncageg said: "Take this to the off-topic boards. A question was asked, and answered, about Schnapp. This is a thread about an actor doing a show, not for an argument about Zionism. Jesus."

believe me, we didn't want it to go here. But Israel Derangement Syndrome is real."



And still needs to be taken to the off-topic board. Duke it out over there!

kdogg36 said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "Zionism is the belief that Jews have a right to an existence in their ancestral homeland. Zionism is older than the current state of Israel."

If that's the definition, then I'm absolutely a Zionist. But I think Zionism is generally taken to imply support for an expressly Jewish state, and, like a few others who have commented in this thread, I just can't support that. Every state should be secular and pluralistic.

Now, there are governments (including our own) that, to say the least, have far bigger blemishes on their records than this, so please don't take this as an expression of anti-Israel extremism. I have at least as much antipathy for my own government."

Then why aren't you complaining about the dozens of Muslim ethnostates, mainly created via Muslim Colonization (one of the largest and most violent colonialization movements in human history), and the MANY MANY genocides that Muslim Colonialization has committed and the multiple genocides of non-Muslims going on right now?