Liv Schreiber comedians, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jerry O’Connell are among the 1,200 signers of an open letter that denounces a call to the boycott of Israeli film institutions due to the war in Gaza, signed by 1,500 actors, directors and international film professionals on September 8.
Lisa Edelstein, Rebecca de Mainay, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing or Sharon Osbourne also signed this letter published Thursday at the site of the creative community of the NGO for Peace, in response to this call to Boicot, described as “attempt to silence Jewish stories and ostracted Israeli filmmakers.”
“We know the power of cinema. We know the power of stories. That is why we cannot remain silent when a story becomes a weapon, when lies are presented as truths and when artists are wrong to amplify the anti -Semitic propaganda,” they still write.
“Erroneous information”
“The commitment transmitted under Banner cinema workers for Palestine is not an act of consciousness. It is a document that contains erroneous information that advocates arbitrary censorship and the elimination of art. Censor the voices that try to find common land and express their humanity is an error, an ineffective measure and a form of collective punishment.”
In a letter published in The guardian, On September 8, the 1,500 signers of the Boicot call, including Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo, announced to stop any collaboration with the Israeli film institutions “involved in the” Gazo genocide.
“At this time in the crisis, when many of our governments authorize butcher shop in Gaza, we must do everything in our power to respond to this complicity,” they said.
Several letters signed by film, music or literature personalities have been published from the unprecedented attack in Hamas on October 7, 2023 in Israel and the Israeli devastating offensive launched in Gaza in response.
Source: BFM TV
