450 Jewish Creatives and Professionals Denounce Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech in Open Letter
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech. https://t.co/nA5zDAk9N0
- Variety (@Variety) March 18, 2024
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their mission statement:
“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.”
names on the list i recognise:
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Debra Messing, Tovah Feldshuh, Amy Pascal, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Eli Roth, Brett Gelman, Julianna Margulies
“The Americans” creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg:
“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.”
filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz:
“If Israel had existed in the 1930s and 40s, Auschwitz would not have happened. Mr. Glazer used the memory of the victims of the gas chambers to attack those trying to rescue Holocaust survivors and their relatives from captivity and sexual slavery. It’s important to call for peace, and we all do. But in this conflict disinformation prolongs the war. And his comments unfortunately gave legitimacy to the propaganda networks interested in prolonging the war to demonize the Jewish people.”
Modern Family” producer Ilana Wernick:
“His words sounded eerily similar to Vanessa Redgrave’s infamous ‘Zionist hoodlum’ 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.”