Eliot Spitzer gave it a good try, but Alan Dershowitz is the Rocky Marciano among Israel's fanwhore apologists. He has a column at Huffington Post declaring the blockade and attack on the relief ships legal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/isr...

But then, if the IDF had boiled the crew alive like lobsters, Dershowitz would have a column up in 24 hours or less declaring cannibalism legal.

The story was in Entertainment Weekly and it had to do with absurd rumors about casting for The Phantom Menace. The rumors included Harry Connick Jr as a Jedi and Charlton Heston as (I kid you not!) Yoda! That's why McCallum was so dismissive.

The idea that George Lucas or Rick McCallum would refuse to hire an actor because of politics is moronic. It was Lucas' idea to have Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones. Lucas and McCallum also hired Gerald McRaney to be in The Red Tails.