This was not Penn's first time getting political, the actor took a sabbatical from his role on the TV show House in order to work for the Obama administration.
Mahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008, is considered a Palestinian national poet and his works often reflect anti-Israeli sentiments.
Clearly such views are not just a moral abomination but represent a deplorable and permanent stain on the reputation of a man who won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Moves against shechita are “gathering momentum,” Shechita UK warned the Jewish community.