“Jew hatred won the day” is such a stupid, ugly thing to say about a Jewish artist who made that film, of all films, and spoke sincerely about his faith and his politics, whether you share them or not.
glazer argued that his jewishness and the memory of the holocaust was not for others to co-opt as justification of violence today. he even cited 10/7 victims before gazans. and for ~that~ hundreds of rich people are lining up to ensure he never works in hollywood again
they won’t openly denounce the idf gunning down palestinians trying to get some flour but they will openly denounce a jewish filmmaker saying violence and oppression is bad
1. Lately I have been paying more attention to the groups of my fellow Jews who are describing themselves as persecuted because of the global objections (by other Jews and the rest of the world) to the brutal slaughter in Gaza.
Dehumanization of Palestinians has always been the goal of Israel's occupation, and Glazer was courageous and coherent in refuting its extremist government's co-opting of Jewish identity and the Holocaust to justify its genocide. The signatories are on the wrong side of history.