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Debra Messing, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and hundreds of other actors, producers, and directors signed a letter denouncing the acclaimed Oscar-winning director ofOn Monday, one week after the 96th Academy Awards, more than 450 Jewish creatives in Hollywood including Debra Messing, Eli Roth, and Jennifer Jason Leigh denounced Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech for“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate...
“The use of words like ‘occupation’ to describe an indigenous Jewish people defending a homeland that dates back thousands of years, and has been recognized as a state by the United Nations, distorts history,” it goes on. “It gives credence to the modern blood libel that fuels a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world, in the United States, and in Hollywood.”used his podcast to condemn the director.
The irony here is that not only is Glazer Jewish, but he took home the Best International Film award for a story quite literally about the active and passive dehumanization of innumerable Jewish lives in Nazi-era Germany. Much was said about‘s depiction of the banality of evil during the film’s press cycle—but it can’t be said enough that Glazer’s film also encapsulated the mental gymnastics humans are capable of in justifying their actions, and in this case, wickedness.
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