(MENAFN) Over her support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel (BDS), an American actor has been attacked by a leading pro-Israel activist urging people not to "support her bigotry."
On Monday, Cynthia Nixon, one of the stars of the "Sex and the City" television series and movies, announced that she is planning to run for governor of New York.
Her decision was met with a Twitter outburst by high-profile attorney and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who denounced Nixon as a "bigot" for supporting an artist who refused to perform in the West Bank settlement of Ariel.
Dershowitz, who is the author of "The Case for Israel" and one of Israel's loudest voices in America, took aim at Nixon for backing Israeli actors refusing to perform in illegal settlements.
In his tirade, Dershowitz denounced Nixon as a "collaborator with Israel haters Jewish Voice for Peace and Vanessa Redgrave in boycotting Israel." He encouraged New Yorkers to "not support her bigotry." In a separate tweet Dershowitz remarked: "If you"re anti-Israel, Nixon"s your candidate."
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