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Mosby

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Tue Mar 19, 2024, 04:47 PM Mar 19

Over 1,000 Jewish Creatives and Professionals Have Now Denounced Jonathan Glazer's 'Zone of Interest' Oscars Speech..

Over 1,000 Jewish Creatives and Professionals Have Now Denounced Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’ Oscars Speech in Open Letter

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.”

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/jonathan-glazer-oscar-speech-zone-of-interest-open-letter-1235944880/
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Over 1,000 Jewish Creatives and Professionals Have Now Denounced Jonathan Glazer's 'Zone of Interest' Oscars Speech.. (Original Post) Mosby Mar 19 OP
I like this word "Creatives" to describe artists, creators, etc. in the many fields where artistic SWBTATTReg Mar 20 #1
Don't people understand according to neo anti-semites, Israel is North Korea, Nazi Germany, and Apartheid South Africa AZLD4Candidate Apr 1 #2

SWBTATTReg

(22,156 posts)
1. I like this word "Creatives" to describe artists, creators, etc. in the many fields where artistic
Wed Mar 20, 2024, 01:00 PM
Mar 20

design etc. flourish.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,747 posts)
2. Don't people understand according to neo anti-semites, Israel is North Korea, Nazi Germany, and Apartheid South Africa
Mon Apr 1, 2024, 06:02 AM
Apr 1

combined, only 100 times worse because it's run by people the world has scapegoated for centuries.

Add my name to the Hollywood Creatives that support this letter.

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