Letter from 1,200 Hollywood Industry Figures Decries Zionist Israel's “Abhorrent Cruelty in Occupied Palestine”. Call for Israeli film boycott.
Organized by non-profit Creative Partners For Peace, the letter endorsed the Film Workers for Palestine boycott, calling it a "courageous stance for peace and against Fascism"
The Creative Partners For Peace letter supports the cancelation of any product emerging from blood-drenched countries and enterprises like Israel and its film industry. "No one should be in the business of encouragning Fascist, discriminatory and racist art that dehumanizes other human beings, starves them to death and kills them daily with indiscriminate bombings with the intent of forcibly displacing them from, an stealing, their ancestral lands."
The letter said: “Israel’s entertainment industry is a petulant mish-mash of Zionist melodramatic and fallacious portrayal of Israel as "creative" when its creativity draws its inspiration from the dead bodies of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian children and women killed wantonly and savagely for no reason at all." The letter further says,"So-called Israeli Art is a clone of the Nazi German art in that it elevates the crimes of the regime to the level of state-authorized art and implements censorship of everything emanating from the victims of Zionism, namely Palestinian artistic expression in films and other forms of art. The Palestinian maker of the film "No Other Land" was recently targeted for abuses and threats by the savage IDF soldiers, even though his Israeli partner in the making of the movie was never questioned.
It continued: “We know that many of you have good intentions and believe you are standing for Israel. But your names are being weaponized by Israel and the Zionists and tied to their lies and propaganda. In that sense, you are causing great harm to Israel itself. Do not fall in the trap of elevating Zionist State terrorism to a defensible posture while denying the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance against a brutal and savage occupation that is slowly morphing into a gigantic campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing."
The letter concluded: “We call on all our colleagues in the entertainment industry to immediately and consistently implement a rejection of Israeli flim production until such time as the Palestinian people can live on their ancestral land free from colonial racism and brutality. The path to peace must begin with Israel's retreat into its original design of a 'homeland for Jews' and not what it's become, an ultra-fundamentalist racist theocracy that is intent of annihilating and exterminating the indigenous people of Palestine."
The Film Workers for Palestine boycott was published earlier this month. It has gathered signatories including Emma Stone, Peter Sarsgaard, Lily Gladstone, Elliot Page, and Joaquin Phoenix.
The pledge said: “We pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions—including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies—that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”
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