The point guard so many Lakers fans wanted to see in L.A. this season has been busy willfully burying himself beneath an avalanche of criticism after he promoted an antisemitic movie on social medi…
Russell Westbrook has never looked as good in purple and gold as he has this past week – and it has almost nothing to do with how well he’s been playing.
Meanwhile, the point guard so many Lakers fans wanted to see in L.A. this season has been busy willfully burying himself beneath an avalanche of criticism after he promoted an antisemitic movie on social media last week.
Even if it never seemed practical for the Lakers to try to make a trade that would send out Westbrook so they could bring in Kyrie Irving, the rumored move had Lakers fans dreaming.
A better-shooting point guard who had already won a title alongside LeBron James in Cleveland? And in place of the ill-fitting Westbrook? Yes, fans said. Yes, please.
Be careful what you wish for. Be glad you don’t always get what you want.
You didn’t want Irving.
As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, I’m loathe to add oxygen to the raging inferno in Brooklyn; I have zero desire to promote the movie or the now-Amazon-chart-topping antisemitic book on which it’s based.
Reasonable people don’t need me to tell them what’s wrong about amplifying antisemitic views. Those who want to deny the genocide of 6 million Jews, well, they’re not going to care what Vera Meyer Ricard’s granddaughter writes.
But I’ve been thinking a lot about my mom’s mom, my Dutch Jewish oma – “Amo,” I called her – who “dove” into hiding on Nov. 9, 1942, when she was 24.
She stayed hidden for the next 2½ years, existing quietly with a few others behind a faux bookcase in Amsterdam, a 10-minute walk from where Anne Frank and her family were hiding.
My Amo had tried to persuade her parents and sister to join her, but they thought the risk of running was too dangerous. She knew better: “I myself was certain that I would not let myself be led to the slaughtering table like a lamb,” she wrote in a family memoir.
