Sara Nathan
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By Sara Nathan
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March 20, 2024, 12:35 p.m. ET
I used to be on the Oscars when director Jonathan Glazer made his speech after profitable somewhat bald man for his Holocaust movie, “The Zone of Curiosity” — and I used to be livid.
Glazer stood up and in entrance of tons of of celebrities stated, “Our movie reveals the place dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s formed all of our previous and current.
“Proper now, we stand right here as males who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to battle for therefore many harmless folks.
Jonathan Glazer drew ire from Hollywood Jews after giving a speech that equated the Holocaust with the Israel-Hamas conflict following his Oscars win.
Jonathan Glazer accepts the Oscar for Greatest Worldwide movie for “The Zone of Curiosity” as producer James Wilson and billionaire financier Len Blavatnik stand behind him. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
“Whether or not the victims of October — whether or not the victims of October the seventh in Israel or the continued assault on Gaza, all of the victims of this dehumanization, how will we resist?”, he added, with producer James Wilson and billionaire financier Len Blavatnik standing behind him.
I used to be enraged: Glazer, my fellow Jew, had equated the worst atrocity of the twentieth century to the battle to avoid wasting a Jewish homeland.
But within the Dolby Theatre, stars together with Mark Ruffalo applauded, whereas Sandra Hüller, an actress within the film, wept.
Lastly, on Monday, and other than a number of outspoken Jews like Mayim Bialik and Michael Rapaport, Hollywood caught up with the anger which had burned inside me for days.
A raft of Jewish stars together with Debra Messing, Eli Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Julianna Margulies, put their identify to a letter which eloquently tells Glazer what he obtained so very improper — and turns his phrases towards him.
The gates of the Nazi focus camp at Auschwitz, Poland. The signal above them is “Arbeit Macht Frei” – “Work Makes You Free.” Jonathan Glazer stated he didn’t help Jews and Israel utilizing the Holocaust to sanction the Israel-Hamas conflict in his Oscar speech. AFP by way of Getty Photos
Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell, winners of the Oscar for Greatest Unique Tune for ‘What Was I Made For?’ from “Barbie”, wore crimson pins to help a ceasefire. FilmMagic
“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the aim of drawing an ethical equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of individuals, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its personal extermination,” they are saying within the letter, signed by 500 Jewish creatives.
“The usage of phrases like ‘occupation’ to explain an indigenous Jewish folks defending a homeland that dates again 1000’s of years, and has been acknowledged as a state by the United Nations, distorts historical past.”
Glazer offers “credence to the trendy blood libel” they are saying.
Mark Ruffalo, who was nominated for Greatest Supporting Actor for “Poor Issues,” additionally wore a crimson pin on the Oscars crimson carpet — and applauded for Glazer. Getty Photos
Former “Will & Grace” star Debra Messing signed the letter hitting again at Glazer. Messing has overtly supported Israel.
“The present local weather of rising anti-semitism solely underscores the necessity for the Jewish State of Israel, a spot which can at all times take us in, as no state did throughout the Holocaust depicted in Mr. Glazer’s movie,” they add.
Glazer has but to make a touch upon the brand new letter. Certainly, he has but to touch upon his speech in any respect.
Even the film’s producer, Danny Cohen, a former senior government on the BBC, has disowned Glazer’s feedback, saying he “essentially” disagrees.
Filmmaker Eli Roth additionally signed the letter, which was supported by 500 Jews within the artistic business. Mondadori Portfolio by way of Getty Photos
“Lots of people really feel upset and offended about it. And I perceive that anger frankly,” Cohen stated in an interview on the “Unholy” podcast. Cohen messaged me this week to say, “I’m eager for the main target to return as quickly as doable to the exceptional movie itself.”
If solely the applauding celebrities had thought of what Glazer was actually saying.
However was it a shock that they didn’t?
Julianna Margulies – who has spoken in regards to the problems with anti-semitism in Hollywood – additionally signed the notice hitting out at Glazer’s speech. Getty Photos
Jennifer Jason Leigh was one other signatory of The Hollywood letter. Getty Photos
As I seemed round on the Oscars, I may see no yellow ribbons calling for the secure return of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7.
However there have been crimson pins, representing a bleeding hand, pushed by the Artists4Ceasefire group and being worn by Ruffalo and others: Billie Eilish, her brother Finneas and the director Ava DuVernay.
The Israel authorities claimed on X that the crimson fingers have been really a reference to the lynching of Israeli troopers. “This symbolism isn’t a coincidence,” it stated.
No-one in good conscience can sanction the homicide of infants, kids, wives and moms; innocents, whether or not in Israel or in Gaza.
Director Ava DuVernay additionally sported a crimson pin for a ceasefire on the Oscars. Getty Photos
However Glazer didn’t have to equate the Israel-Hamas conflict with the Holocaust.
There isn’t a-one in Israel whom I’ve spoken to who desires this battle. No-one who desires to go to mattress at evening and fear in regards to the sound of the rockets screaming via the air. Nobody who desires extra family members, mates, and mates of mates misplaced.
This can be a horror present – anybody will agree.
However Glazer didn’t have to take the story of hundreds of thousands of victims and — as if it have been putty in his fingers — mould it into one thing that fitted his political imaginative and prescient.
Glazer beams alongside Dwayne “The Rock”: Johnson and Dangerous Bunny after profitable the Oscar for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie. REUTERS
Worse, in a city that was constructed by Jews, somebody — and a Jew at that — ignored the historical past we all know so nicely: that Israel’s existence can’t be severed from the loss of life of six million Jews.
There’s a meme doing the rounds that claims, “A Zionist Jew and an Anti-Zionist Jew stroll right into a bar. The bartender says ‘We don’t serve Jews’”.
And it’s true.
A video seize reveals an armed militant main a person away throughout the Supernova music competition on October 7, 2023. Hamas gunmen killed round 250 individuals who attended the outside music competition. ANONYMOUS/AFP by way of Getty Photos
Christian Friedel within the Oscar-winning “The Zone of Curiosity”, which is ready simply outdoors the partitions of Auschwitz. Courtesy Everett Assortment
I can’t want to change Glazer’s thoughts — hopefully we’re nonetheless allowed our personal ideas — however what I might need to clarify is that this battle introduced by Hamas towards Israel is a battle to rid the world of Israel AND Jews.
Let’s not neglect, as he appeared to, that Hamas known as for a Jewish genocide in its unique constitution.
If Hamas’ fashionable model of the cattle truck got here to ship Glazer off one other Auschwitz, what would he do then?
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