Organized by non-profit Creative Community For Peace, the letter (read in full below) described the Film Workers for Palestine boycott, signed by the likes of Mark Ruffalo and Olivia Colman, as “discriminatory and antisemitic.”
The Creative Community For Peace letter, signed by others including Debra Messing and Sharon Osbourne, referred to the rival pledge as an act of “censorship” and “erasure of art.”
The letter said: “Israel’s entertainment industry is a vibrant hub of collaboration between Jewish and Palestinian artists and creatives, who work together every single day to tell complex stories that entertain and inform both communities and the world. Israeli film institutions are not government entities. They are often the loudest critics of government policy.”
It continued: “We know that many of you have good…
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