An open letter condemning ‘s
Oscars acceptance speech has been signed by more than 450 Jewish
Hollywood professionals. The group consists of actors, executives, directors, creators, producers and representatives denouncing Glazer’s made when accepting the Academy Award for best international film on March 10. “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 avoid its own extermination,” the letter reads. In his acceptance at the , Glazer read from a prepared speech to thank his partners and then make a statement addressing the current Israel-Gaza conflict. “All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say, ‘Look what they did then’; rather, ‘what we do now,’” Glazer said. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of our past and present.” Glazer, who is Jewish, added: “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,” Glazer said, pausing briefly due to applause. He continued, “Whether the victims of Oct. 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on
Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?” The open letter this week 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. The current climate of growing antisemitism only underscores the need for the Jewish State of Israel, a place which will always take us in, as no state did during the Holocaust depicted in Mr. Glazer’s movie.” A list of co-signees follows. A.M. Driver – SAG Aaron Erol Ozlevi – Director Aaron Fishman – DGA Producer / Director Adam Berkowitz – Manager/Producer/Strategic Advisor Adam Friedman – Creative Artists Agency Adam Goldworm – Manager/Producer Adam Kulbersh Adam Newman Adam Rosenberg Adam Waltuch – TelevisaUnivision Alan R. Cohen – WGA Alex Anhalt – Sugar23 Alex Foster Alex Horn – Author and Editor Alex Lebovici – Producer Alex Litvak – WGA Writer Alex Meitner Alida Michql – AEA Alissa Vradenburg Aliza J. Sokolow Allan Spielman Allison Lahav Ally Shuster – Agent Alon Aranya Alyssa Hill – WGA Screenwriter Amanda Markowitz – SAG/AFTRA, PGA Amy Engelberg – WGA Amy Pascal Producer Amy Sherman-Palladino – WGA / DGA Writer/director/producer Amy Straus – WGA Writer Andrea Barros Andrea Cayton Andrew AvnerAndrew Stearn – PGA Producer Anna April-Ross Annie Wood – WGA/SAG/AFTRA Actor/Writer/Artist Ari Ackerman Ari Arad Ari Frenkel – SAG
Actor / Filmmaker Ariel Nishli Ariel Vromen – DGA FilmMaker Ariella Blejer – WGA Ariella Noveck Ariyela Wald-Cohain – Costume Designer Art Levitt Asher Weinberger Avi Liberman – SAG Avital Levy Avital Onn Shachar – Business Affairs Aviva Pressman – AEA, SAG Avram Butch Kaplan – DGA Jamsea Productions, Inc Barbara Garshman – WGAE Garshman Productions LLV Barbara Heller – SAG Actor writer producer Barbara Lazaroff – ASID Commercial designer, restaurateur, businesswoman Barbie Kligman – WGA Barry Schkolnick – WGA Writer/Producer/Creator Bart Coleman Batia Parnass – SAG AFTRA Becky Tahel – PGA, SAG-E Producer, Writer,
Actress Ben Cosgrove – CEO, Leviathan Productions Ben Levin – LINK Entertainment Ben Mor – DGA Director Ben Younger – WGA/DGA Benjamin Gober Benjamin Rapoport Bess Kargman – DGA Director Beth Milstein – WGAW Writer Betsy Borns – WGAW Writer/Producer Bill Freiberger – WGA WriterBob Bookman Bob Kushell – WGA Bonnie Greenberg –
music supervisor/producer/professor Bradley J. Fischer – Producers Guild of America Producer Brett Gelman – Actor and Writer Brett Gursky – Writer / Director / Producer Brian Frazer Brian Liebman Bruce Burger – Music Producer and Recording Artist, RebbeSoul Bruce Franklin – DGA Producer Bruce Goldstein – The Cat in Manhattan Bruce Resnikoff Caitlin Gold Producer Cameron Curtis Carin Sage – EVP, Feature Film, Skydance Productions Carl Schwaber – SAG-AFTRA Carmi Zlotnik Carolyn Newman Caryn Osofsky – SAG actress and director Chava Floryn – Filmmaker/Actress Twin Rose Media Chuck Slavin – SAG-AFTRA Actor Cindy Kaplan Claudine Jakubowicz – Film Producer Clifford J. Green – WGAW Screenwriter Cory Richman – Manager / Liebman Entertainment Craig Emanuel – Entertainment Executive Craig
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Hope Levy – Sag Aftra Actress Howard Michael Gould – Writer Howard Reichman – Producer/director Howard Rosenman – SAGAFTRA MOVIE & TV PRODUCER Iddo Goldberg – SAG Actor Ilana Wernick – WGA Writer-Producer Inbal B. Lessner – ACE Executive Producer/Editor Inon Shampanier – WGAIvan Menchell Writers Guild Writer/Producer Jacey Stamler – 705 Wardrobe Supervisor Jack Plotnick – SAG/AFTRA Actor Jacob Fenton – UTA Agent Jaime Becker Jaime Eliezer Karas – DGA James Beaman – SAG/AFTRA Actor/Writer Jamie Bialkower Jamie Denbo – WGA, SAG-AFTRA CO-EP Grey’s Anatomy Jamie Elman – SAG, WGA YidLife Crisis Jan Oxenberg – WGA Jared Sleisenger Jarred Weisfeld – Publishing Jason A. 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