Over 450 Jewish creatives, professionals, and executives working in Hollywood criticized 'The Zone of Interest' director Jonathan Glazer.
Glazer accepted the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film for his work, which tells the story of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Hoss and his family as they live outside the concentration camp.
The speech may have been applauded by the Oscars crowd, but for over 450 Hollywood professionals of Jewish descent, the words of the 58-year-old director give “credence to the modern blood libel that fuels a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world,” “Every civilian death in Gaza is tragic. Israel is not targeting civilians. It is targeting Hamas. The moment Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders, is the moment this heartbreaking war ends. This has been true since the Hamas attacks of October 7th,” it continued.
“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,” it read. “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 film.”“I just fundamentally disagree with Jonathan on this,” Cohen said.
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