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(A7) More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals on Monday signed an open letter denouncing British Jewish director Jonathan Glazer’s anti-Israel remarks at his victory speech at the Oscars, Variety reported.
The list of co-signees includes actors Debra Messing and Tovah Feldshuh, executives Gary Barber and Gail Berman, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, directors Eli Roth and Rod Lurie), producers Lawrence Bender, Amy Pascal, Hawk Koch and Sherry Lansing and many others.
Other co-signees include Jennifer Jason Leigh, “La La Land” producer Gary Gilbert and “The Americans” creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, according to Variety.
At the #Oscars ,
Jonathan Glazer speaks out against Israel’s weaponization of the Holocaust to commit genocide against the Palestinian people.“We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation.” pic.twitter.com/Fl0RtQTMRr
— Suppressed Voice. (@SuppressedNws) March 11, 2024
“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,” the letter read.
“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,” it added.
Glazer declined to comment.
