Dozens of Jewish Hollywood figures signed an open letter supporting Jonathan Glazer amidst backlash to his 2024 Oscars speech about Israel and Gaza.
Joaquin Phoenix, Ilana Glazer, Dozens More Sign Open Letter Supporting Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech, a film that centers on the Holocaust, the Jewish director criticized the dehumanization of “victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza.”.
The open letter also includes signatures from Rain Phoenix, Todd Haynes, Abbi Jacobson, Ira Sachs, Joel Coen, David Cross, Amy Berg, Hari Nef, Tom Stoppard, Kate Barlant, Nicole Holofcener, Mike Leigh, Debra Winger, Boots Riley, Emma Seligman, and more. “It has been weeks since Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech at the Academy Awards,” former Focus Pictures CEO James Schamus wrote, “But, as we’re reminded by this week’s unconscionable killing of— and of countless more Palestinian civilians — his plea for humanity has only become more urgent, as has our duty as Jewish creatives to protest the vicious smear campaign waged against him.”
Glazer’s Academy Award speech, in full, stated: “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.
That grouping — which began with 500 signatures and soon after publishing grew to 1,000 — included Debra Messing, Tovah Feldshuh, Eli Roth, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Lawrence Bender, Amy Pascal, Hawk Koch, Sherry Lansing, and more.
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