Signatories, including Debra Messing, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nancy Spielberg, accuse The Zone of Interest director of fuelling ‘a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world’, in which he renounced his “ Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people”.
Echoing Glazer’s words, 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.” Signees include Debra Messing, Eli Roth, Amy Pascal, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Julianna Margulies and Nancy Spielberg – a producer and the sister of Steven Spielberg. The statement continued: “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.”Glazer’s speech at the Oscars, accepting the award for best foreign language film alongside producer James Wilson and financier Len Blavatnik, was received warmly in the Dolby theatre, with enthusiastic applause from the likes of Mark Ruffal
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