“To censor the very voices trying to find common ground and express their humanity, is wrong, ineffective, and a form of collective punishment,” the letter released on Thursday by the non-profit organizations Creative Community for Peace and The Brigade states. Among the high profile signers of the open letter are Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Gene Simmons, Debra Messing, Sharon Osbourne, Greg Berlanti, Jerry O’Connell, Howie Mandel, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sherry Lansing and Haim Saban.
Their intervention follows around 1300 Hollywood filmmakers, actors and creatives backing a pledge to not work with Israeli film institutions and companies that were “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” Among the Film Workers for Palestine supporters to sign the pledge are Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed, Hannah Einbinder, Cynthia Nixon,…
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