Tony Kushner
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Tony Kushner has come out in assist of Jonathan Glazer‘s Oscars acceptance speech, describing the British director’s feedback on the ceremony as an “unimpeachable irrefutable assertion.”
Talking on the Haaretz Podcast which was launched Wednesday, Kushner, a four-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter, was requested about his emotions about a variety of matters associated to the Israel-Gaza battle and was straight about Glazer’s speech which has been attacked by some Jewish figures in Hollywood and was the topic of a latest open letter that has signed by 1,000 folks.
In the course of the podcast, Kushner, who’s in Israel to advertise a manufacturing of Angels in America in Tel Aviv, brings up the blowback to Glazer’s Oscars speech, a speech which he described as “actually kind of unimpeachable, irrefutable assertion.” The playwright is then requested if he agrees with Glazer’s feedback, to which Kushner says, “After all, I imply, who doesn’t?”
Kushner explains, “What [Glazer’s] saying is so, is so easy. He’s saying Jewishness, Jewish id, Jewish historical past, the historical past of the Holocaust, the historical past of Jewish struggling should not be used as an excuse for a mission of dehumanizing or slaughtering different folks.”
“This can be a misappropriation of, of what it means to be a Jew, what the Holocaust meant, and he rejects that. Who doesn’t agree with that?,” he continues.
“What sort of individual thinks that what’s happening now in Gaza is suitable?,” Kushner says. “And if you end up saying out loud and in public, ‘oh it’s nice with me what they’re doing,’ since you really feel that it’s the one alternative for you since you’re a Jew is to defend all the pieces that Israel does, you recognize, disgrace on you.”
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