Yorgos Lanthimos, Olivia Colman, Ayo Edebiri and Josh O’Connor are among 1,200 industry names vowing not to work with Israeli film companies that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” This includes events such as the Jerusalem Film Festiva, which partners with the Israeli government.
“Despite operating in Israel’s system of apartheid, and therefore benefiting from it, the vast majority of Israeli film production and distribution companies, sales agents, cinemas and other film institutions have never endorsed the full, internationally-recognized rights of the Palestinian people,” said Film Workers for Palestine. “In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror.”
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A lot of us have been saying for years that it is open season on Jews and the vast majority of the media have looked the other way.
I am furious and I am fucking heartbroken. This is modern day blood libel against our jewish brothers and sisters and it is happening in America.
Dear Members of the @PulitzerPrizes board,
My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days.
On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderly people kidnapped that day from their beds, their homes, and a music festival.
For almost 500 days I lived in terror. I was starved, abused, and treated like I was less than human. I watched friends suffer. I watched hope dim. And even now, after returning home, I carry that darkness with me - because my best friends, Gali and Ziv Berman are still being held in the Hamas terror tunnels.
So imagine my shock and pain when I saw that you awarded a Pulitzer Prize to Mosab Abu Toha.
This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Facebook and asked, “How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” He has denied the murder of the Bibas family. He has questioned whether Agam Berger was truly a hostage. These are not word games - they are outright denials of documented atrocities.
You claim to honor journalism that upholds truth, democracy, and human dignity. And yet you have chosen to elevate a voice that denies truth, erases victims, and desecrates the memory of the murdered.
Do you not see what this means? Mosab Abu Toha is not a courageous writer. He is the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier. And by honoring him, you have joined him in the shadows of denial.
This is not a question of politics. This is a question of humanity. And today, you have failed it.
Where the HELL are all the Jewish celebrities while antisemitism is at an all-time high? You’ll post a black square, a Ukraine flag, and whatever trendy cause gets you clout—but when YOUR OWN PEOPLE are being slaughtered, demonized, and erased, you go radio silent?
Pathetic.
Jewish kids are getting terrorized on college campuses, Jewish businesses are being targeted, Jewish neighborhoods are being attacked—and the people with the biggest platforms, the most influence, the loudest voices… say NOTHING. Why? Afraid of losing a movie deal? Scared some influencer will call you a “Zionist” on TikTok?
Guess what? No amount of silence will protect you when the mob turns on you. Because history has shown, over and over, that eventually, it always does.
So wake the hell up. If you can’t even stand up for your own people when they’re under attack, then you are utterly worthless. Say something. Do something. Or get out of the way while Jews fight back.