CALL IT HYMIEWOOD

An angry Jesse Jackson reacts to the all-white Academy Award nominations, blaming it on the “Hymies that dominate the motion picture industry.”

By Ima Schmuck

Blacks are in an uproar because for the second year in a row no blacks received any Academy Award nominations. Last weekend, Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee called for a boycott of the awards ceremony.

This is not the first time blacks have voiced their complaint that people of color were being overlooked by the academy members who make the Oscar nominations. In 1996, Jesse Jackson slammed the Academy awards, claiming that the one African-American Oscar nominee out of 166 proves the movie industry is biased.

On Monday, a visibly angry Jesse Jackson chimed that, “Hollywood hasn’t progressed one bit since 1996. The Hymies that dominate the motion picture industry must share much of the blame. We should call it Hymiewood.” His reference to Hollywood as Hymiewood is reminiscent of his 1984 reference to Jews as Hymies and New York City as Hymietown.

When Jackson was asked whether the landmark Hollywood sign should be changed to Hyniewood, he replied, “Why not, that’s not a bad idea.”

Al Sharpton also piped in on the absence of black Oscar nominees. “I’m in complete agreement with Jesse,” said Sharpton. “The Hymies run Hollywood and that’s why I feel it is very appropriate to call it Hyniewood. It’s just like back in New York where all the stores and rundown apartment buildings in our black neighborhoods are owned by Jews. They own Hollywood and that’s why blacks do not get Oscar nominations. Hymiewood, I like that.”

When asked what made him think Jews own Hollywood, Sharpton replied, “Everyone knows it. Just ask Gary Oldman.”

In defending Mel Gibson, who was being pilloried for an anti-Semitic tirade, actor Gary Oldman told Playboy magazine in 2014 that Hollywood “is run by Jews.”

Anti Defamation League regional director Amanda Susskind was asked to comment on Jackson’s and Sharpton’s remarks. “There they go again,” said Susskind. “Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are well known for harboring anti-Semitic views. And while Jews are prominent in the motion picture industry, they certainly do not own Hollywood, nor do they control who gets nominated for an Oscar.”