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More than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest" Oscar speech.
The list of co-signees provided to Variety Monday morning covers a broad swath of the industry including actors (Debra Messing, Tovah Feldshuh), executives (Gary Barber, Gail Berman), creators (Amy Sherman-Palladino), directors (Eli Roth, Rod Lurie), producers (Lawrence Bender, Amy Pascal, Hawk Koch, Sherry Lansing) and representatives (UTA's Jake Fenton, Gersh's Jeffrey Greenberg, attorney Craig Emmanuel). About 50 more individuals have added their names since the open letter was first published.
The group's statement says: "We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination."
Glazer declined to comment.
With such high-profile co-signees as Jennifer Jason Leigh, "La La Land" producer Gary Gilbert and "The Americans" creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, the statement adds, "The use of words like ‘occupation' to describe an indigenous Jewish people defending a homeland that dates back thousands of years, and has been recognized as a state by the United Nations, distorts history. It gives credence to the modern blood libel that fuels a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world, in the United States, and in Hollywood."
The missive comes in response to director Jonathan Glazer's controversial acceptance speech at the Oscars on March 10 after his Holocaust film "The Zone of Interest" won best international film. With producer James Wilson and financier Len Blavatnik standing behind him, Glazer said: "All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now. Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It's shaped all of our past and present. Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October - whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?"
"His words sounded eerily similar to Vanessa Redgrave's infamous ‘Zionist hoodlum' speech," says "Modern Family" producer Ilana Wernick of Glazer's speech. "Only this time there was no Paddy Chayefsky to stand up and say the right thing. Sadly, Jew hatred won the day. That's why so many of us in the industry reached out to each other. It was a very sad, very scary night. Writing the letter wasn't just cathartic for us. It's something we had to do."
"Stranger Things" and "Fleabag" actor Brett Gelman echoed that sentiment. "There was no concern for how Jewish people are going to react to a speech like that, to that applause to those red pins, when not even our hostages are being mentioned, and it's just incredibly hurtful, incredibly painful," says Gelman. "It's truly baffling to me that people were choosing to be silent that night." (Several Oscar attendees including Ruffalo and Billie Eilish wore an Artists4Ceasefire pin.)
Damn, so many hollywood jewish celebs are for the killing of babies!!!
Is it fukk Modern Family and Stranger Things going forward?
Shyyttttttttt
The list of co-signees provided to Variety Monday morning covers a broad swath of the industry including actors (Debra Messing, Tovah Feldshuh), executives (Gary Barber, Gail Berman), creators (Amy Sherman-Palladino), directors (Eli Roth, Rod Lurie), producers (Lawrence Bender, Amy Pascal, Hawk Koch, Sherry Lansing) and representatives (UTA's Jake Fenton, Gersh's Jeffrey Greenberg, attorney Craig Emmanuel). About 50 more individuals have added their names since the open letter was first published.
The group's statement says: "We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination."
Glazer declined to comment.
With such high-profile co-signees as Jennifer Jason Leigh, "La La Land" producer Gary Gilbert and "The Americans" creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, the statement adds, "The use of words like ‘occupation' to describe an indigenous Jewish people defending a homeland that dates back thousands of years, and has been recognized as a state by the United Nations, distorts history. It gives credence to the modern blood libel that fuels a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world, in the United States, and in Hollywood."
The missive comes in response to director Jonathan Glazer's controversial acceptance speech at the Oscars on March 10 after his Holocaust film "The Zone of Interest" won best international film. With producer James Wilson and financier Len Blavatnik standing behind him, Glazer said: "All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now. Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It's shaped all of our past and present. Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October - whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?"
"His words sounded eerily similar to Vanessa Redgrave's infamous ‘Zionist hoodlum' speech," says "Modern Family" producer Ilana Wernick of Glazer's speech. "Only this time there was no Paddy Chayefsky to stand up and say the right thing. Sadly, Jew hatred won the day. That's why so many of us in the industry reached out to each other. It was a very sad, very scary night. Writing the letter wasn't just cathartic for us. It's something we had to do."
"Stranger Things" and "Fleabag" actor Brett Gelman echoed that sentiment. "There was no concern for how Jewish people are going to react to a speech like that, to that applause to those red pins, when not even our hostages are being mentioned, and it's just incredibly hurtful, incredibly painful," says Gelman. "It's truly baffling to me that people were choosing to be silent that night." (Several Oscar attendees including Ruffalo and Billie Eilish wore an Artists4Ceasefire pin.)
Damn, so many hollywood jewish celebs are for the killing of babies!!!
Is it fukk Modern Family and Stranger Things going forward?
Shyyttttttttt
come on bruh...you better than this...