In response to the 4,000 film industry professionals who have pledged to boycott Israeli institutions that are “implicated in genocide,” 1,200 other entertainment leaders have signed their own open letter — this one rejecting that notion as “antisemitic propaganda” and “the erasure of art.”
“We know the power of film. We know the power of story. That is why we cannot stay silent when a story is turned into a weapon, when lies are dressed up as justice and when artists are misled into amplifying antisemitic propaganda,” the group of artists shared in a Thursday open letter through Creative Community for Peace and the Brigade.
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Signatories include Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Gene Simmons, Debra Messing, Sharon Osbourne, Greg Berlanti, Jerry O’Connell, Howie Mandel, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lisa Edelstein, Erin Foster, Anthony Edwards, Rebecca De Mornay, Sherry Lansing, Haim Saban and more.
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