Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone Of Interest’ Oscar Speech Draws Condemnation Letter Signed By More Than 1,200 Jewish Entertainment Industry Pros – Update

UPDATED with more signatories: Reaction continues to The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech after his film won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film this month.

Some 1,215 Jewish show business professionals now have signed a letter denouncing the filmmaker’s speech, in which he decried the “dehumanization” of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. See the updated full list below.

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“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the letter states (read it in full in full below).

This list includes among its signatories Eli Roth and Amy Sherman-Palladino, Amy Pascal, Debra Messing, Gail Berman, Hawk Koch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gary Barber, Lawrence Bender, Tovah Feldshuh and Rod Lurie.

You can watch Glazer’s speech here, or read the transcript below.

Inspired loosely by Martin Amis’ 2014 novel and set outside the walls of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the UK-produced German-language film The Zone of Interest stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden separated from the Nazi concentration and extermination camp by a only a short wall. What is happening on the other side is rarely hinted at.

Here is the list of signatories to the open letter, followed by the letter itself and a transcript of Glazer’s Oscarcast speech:

A.M. Driver
Aaron Erol Ozlevi
Aaron Fishman
Aaron Teebor
Ada Bensadon
Adam Berkowitz
Adam Friedman
Adam Gold
Adam Goldworm
Adam J. Segal
Adam Kulbersh
Adam Newman
Adam Platzner
Adam Rosenberg
Adam Taylor
Adam Tsekhman
Adam Waltuch
Adam Yoelin
Adrienne Baumann
Aimee Greenberg
Airion Chantel
Alan Lazar
Alan Morley
Alan R. Cohen
Alan Siegel
Alan Younger
Alex Amsellem
Alex Anhalt
Alex Foster
Alex Horn
Alex Lebovici
Alex Litvak
Alex Meitner
Alex Simon
Alex Taub
Alex Voihanski
Alex Westerman
Alexa Eden
Alexander Rodnyansky
Alexandra Fishman
Alexis Jacknow
Ali Axelrad
Alida Michql
Alissa Goodman
Alissa Vradenburg
Aliza J. Sokolow
Aliza Rosen
Allan Spielman
Allison BIbicoff
Allison Josephs
Allison Lahav
Allison Levine
Ally Shuster
Alon Aranya
Alyssa Hill
Amanda Broder
Amanda Markowitz
Amanda Riker
Amir Levi
Amy Chapman
Amy Engelberg
Amy Ferris
Amy J Kaufman
Amy M Samuelson
Amy Pascal
Amy Rapp
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Amy Straus
Anastasia Esther
Andrea Barros
Andrea cayton
Andrea J Russell
Andrea Wiesner
Andres Grinstein
Andrew Avner
Andrew Fineberg
Andrew Gurland
Andrew Liner
Andrew Orenstein
Andrew S. Cohen
Andrew Stearn
Andrew Stringfellow
Andrew Tetenbaum
Andy Cohen
Angela Edwards
Angela Maus
Anna April-Ross
Anna Geva
Anna Golubova
Anna Raviv
Anna Ruben
Annelise Bianchini
Annie Wood
Anthony Bregman
Anzhelike Bass
Ari Ackerman
Ari Arad
Ari Dayan
Ari Frenkel
Ari Luxenberg
Ari Mark
Ari Merkin
Ari Zudkewich
Arie Sharony
Ariel Doenyas
Ariel Nishli
Ariel Vromen
Ariella Blejer
Ariella Noveck
Ariyela Wald-Cohain
Arnold Greenspan
Arnon Z. Shorr
Art Levitt
Artie Dossick
Asa F. Smith, Esq.
Asher Kenton
Asher Weinberger
Assaf Bernstein
Audrey Eisner
Audrey Kelly
Ava Burton
Avi Abelow
Avi Liberman
Avital Levy
Avital Onn Shachar
Aviva Pressman
Aviva Skurowitz
Avram Butch Kaplan
Bar Ben-Yossef
Barbara Garshman
Barbara Heller
Barbara Lazaroff
Barbie Kligman
Barry Blumberg
Barry Cherney
Barry Isaacson
Barry Kendall Gardner
Barry Rubinowitz
Barry Schkolnick
Bart Coleman
Batia Parnass
Becky Tahel
Belle Ami
Ben Berger
Ben Cosgrove
Ben Feldman
Ben Gelmon
Ben Gleib
Ben Levin
Ben Mor
Ben Shani
Ben Younger
Benjamin Gober
Benjamin Rapoport
Benjo Arwas
Berry Meyerowitz
Bess Kargman
Beth B. Kennedy
Beth Milstein
Betsy Borns
Bettina dalton
Betty Grobman
Bill Freiberger
Bill Masters
Bob Bookman
Bob Kushell
Bonnie Greenberg
Brad Pomerance
Brad Turell
Bradley J. Fischer
Bradley Tyer
Brandi Cowl
Brenda Claveloux
Breni Friedland
Brent Weinstein
Brett Gelman
Brett Gursky
Brett St. James
Brette Simon
Brian Etting
Brian Frazer
Brian Liebman
Brian Maya
Brian Ralston
Brian Ross
Brian Witten
Bruce Burger
Bruce Feirstein
Bruce Franklin
Bruce Goldstein
Bruce Nachbar
Bruce Resnikoff
Bruce Rubenstein
Caitlin Gold
Cameron Curtis
Campbell Griffin
Carin Sage
Carl Schwaber
Carla Ross
Carly Robyn Green
Carmi Zlotnik
Carmit Levité
Carol Greenstein
Carol Ribner
Carolyn Newman
Caryn Bader
Caryn Osofsky
Cate Rubenstein
Catherine Black
Cathy Cahlin Ryan
Cathy Fielding
Cathy Lawrence
Charles Joseph
Chava Floryn
Chavi Feldman
Chris Eisenberg
Chuck Slavin
Cindy Kaplan
Claudia Chernitsky
Claudine Jakubowicz
Clifford J. Green
Cobie Jane
Cody Barnes
Corey B. Bearak, Esq.
Cory Richman
Craig Brody
Craig Dorfman
Craig Emanuel
Craig Singer
Craig Weisz
Craig Wyckoff
Cyndy Rosenthal
D.J. Gugenheim
D.M. Harring
Dafna Soltes Stein
Dalit Merenfeld
Dan Adler
Dan Benz
Dan Birnbaum
Dan C. Levy
Dan Deutsch
Dan Ilani
Dan Kaufman
Dan Marshall
Dan Redfeld
Dan Rosen
Dan Seligmann
Dan Signer
Dana Kempler
Dana Min Goodman
Dani Menkin
Daniel Abeles
Daniel Alcheh
Daniel D. Moses
Daniel Goodman
Daniel Grindlinger
Daniel Kaufman
Daniel Kremer
Daniel Lehrer
Daniel P. Astaire
Daniel Rosenberg
Daniella Rabbani
Danielle Askin
Danielle Bicer
Danielle Claman Gelber
Danielle Lauren
Danielle Pretsfelder Demchick
Danielle Solzman
Danna Rosenthal
Danny Knust
Danny Manus
Danny Weiss
Daphne Pressman
Darah Wagner Boaz
Darren Brady-Harris
Dave Chameides
Dave Weil
David Abeles
David Abrookin
David Axelbaum
David Bar Katz
David Bercovici-Artieda
David Bickel
David Brandes
David Caspi
David Cluer
David Dodd
DAVID DRAIMAN
David Eric Rosenholtz
David Faigenblum
David Filmore
David Fury
David Goffin
David Goldschmid
David Grae
David Haring
David Jaher
David Kahen
David Kekst
David Kendall
David Knoller
David Kohan
David L. Greenblatt
David Lanson
David Levine
David Levine
David Lipper
David M Bertaccini
David Manela
David Mullens
David N. Weiss
David Newman
David Ojalvo
David Price
David Pushett
David Renzer
David S. Rosenthal
David Schonberg
David Shore
David Tenzer
David Wachtenheim
David Zabel
Dean Bahat
Deb Cohen
Debbie Hall
Debbie Zimmerman
Debi Pomerantz
Deborah Calla
Deborah Gilels
Deborah Marcus
Deborah Wilker
Debra Kuperberg
Debra Lewin
Debra McGuire
Debra Messing
Dee Dee Irwin
Deena Stern
Dena Roth
Dena Waxman
Denise Zierle
Devorah Firestone
Devra Maza
Diane Gordon
Diane Robin
Diego Chojkier
Donna Maria Bertaccini
Doris Peacock
Doron Dewolf
Dorothy-Ann HP
Dory Benami
Doug Davis
Doug Mankoff
Dr Les Glassman
Dr. Dave Caplan
Eduardo Rossoff
Eitan Chitayat
Elana Marino
Elana Rose
Eldad Guetta
Elena Rostunova
Eli Hershko
Eli Roth
Eli Steele
Elie Dekel
Elin Hampton
Elizabeth Goodstein
Elizabeth Murphy LoConte, J.D.
Elizabeth Ziff
Ellen Burke
Elli Rahn
Ellie Kadosh
Elliot Schiff
Elon Gold
Elyssa Nicole Trust
Emanuel Neuman
Emanuel Nunez
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Erez Koskas
Erez Rosenberg
Eric Feig
Eric Fineman
Eric Robinson
Eric Tuchman
Erica Daniels
Erica Leon
Erik Hyman
Erik Shapiro
Erika Lieberman
Ernest R Smith
Ernie Barbarash
Estelle Lasher
Esther Netter
Esther Rosenzweig
Ethan Bearman
Eva lecerof
Evan Blank
Evan Malter
Evan Silver
Evelyn Alpert
Eyal Kaczur
Eyal Podell
Faye Detsky-Weil
Felicia Gorelik
Fernando Szew
Fonda Snyder
Frances Zealander
Frank Balkin
Franklyn Gottbetter
Fred Powers
Fred Raskin
Freddy Zalta
Frederic Richter
Gabriel Kahane
Gabriel Mann
Gabriel Roth
Gabriela Tscherniak
Gabrielle Neimand
Gail Berman
Gail Goldberg
Gail Katz
Gary Barber
Gary Foster
Gary Gilbert
Gary Jacobs
Gastón Bernstein
Gemma Swead
Geoff Silverman
Geoffrey Cantor
George Gallagher
Gerald Koval
Gérard Lartigue
Gideon Bear Hamot
Gil Goldschein
Gillian Granoff
Ginette Rhodes
Gino Cedés
Glenn Geiger-Cole
Glenn Rigberg
Golan Ramraz
Goldy Moldavsky
Greg Hoffman
Greg Starr
Gregg Simon
Gregory Mogilevsky
Guity Namvar
Guri Weinberg
Gustavo Lipsztein
Guy Moshe
Gwen Hollander
Halle Stanford
Hank Steinberg
Hannah Louise Shearer
Hannah Tuber
Harold Brook
Harris Tzvi Hartman
Hawk Koch
Heather Kadin
Henrik Kalowski
Heshy Rosenwasser
Hillel Fuld
Holly Hubsher
Hope Levy
Hopper Stone
Howard Davine
Howard Goldberg
Howard Michael Gould
Howard Reichman
Howard Rosenman
Howard Scott Stein
Howie Breslau
Iddo Goldberg
Ila Gold
Ilana D. Millrt
Ilana Wernick
Ilona Sturm
Inbal B. Lessner
Ingrid Jean-Baptiste
Inon Shampanier
Ira Finkelstein
Ira Steven Behr
Irene Weibel
Itay Reiss
Ivan Menchell
Ivor Spitalnik
Jacey Stamler
Jack David Walker
Jack Plotnick
Jack Rosenberg
Jackie Eco
Jackie Gold
Jacky Talpalar
Jacob Fenton
Jacob Stark
Jaime Becker
Jaime Eliezer Karas
Jake Ehrenreich
James Beaman
James Gavsie
James Kirchick
Jamie Bialkower
Jamie Denbo
Jamie Elman
Jamie Gulin
Jan Fleury
Jan Oxenberg
Jan Rosenthal
Janice Figman
Janice R. Brenman
Jared Chiang-Zeizel
Jared Sleisenger
Jarred Weisfeld
Jason A. Kessler
Jason Beekman
Jason Gurvitz
Jason Janet
Jason Newman
Jason Venokur
Javier Gaztelumendi
Jay Kogen
Jay Shore
Jeff Astrof
Jeff Ehrenreich
Jeff Fierson
Jeff Frumess
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Handel
Jeff Kesselman
Jeff Kitt
Jeff Pinkner
Jeff Rake
Jeff Sackman
Jeff Schimmel
Jeffrey Borell
Jeffrey Braer
Jeffrey L Stein
Jeffrey Reiss
Jen Judge
Jena Finn
Jenette Goldstein
Jenn Levine
Jennifer Apple
Jennifer Brooksbek
Jennifer Goldhar
Jennifer jason leigh
Jennifer Maisel
Jennifer Shakeshaft
Jennifer Smith
Jennifer Smolka
Jeremy Aluma
Jeremy Broekman
Jeremy Drysdale
Jeremy Elice
Jeremy Garelick
Jeremy Goldscheider
Jeremy Haft
Jeremy Kagan
Jeremy Lehrer-Graiwer
Jeremy Padow
Jeremy Powell
Jerry D Schneider
Jerry Weil
Jeryll Adler
Jesse Baritz
Jesse Samuels
Jesse Schiller
Jessica Leventhal
Jessica Mordsley
Jessica Ruth Freedman
Jessica Sherman
Jessica Switch
Jill Kargman
Jill Melody
Jill Moray
Jill Selkowitz
Jill Shinderman
Jillian Federman
JJ Adler
Jo LaMond
Joanie Leeds
Joanna yarnell
Jodi Cohen
Jodi Fleisher
Jodi Lieberman
Joe Bolser
Joe Montifiore
Joe Pearlman
Joe Preston
Joe Weisberg
Joel Blasberg
Joel Fields
Joel H. Cohen
Joel Michaely
Joelle Boucai
Joey Jupiter-Levin
John Altman
John Auerbach
John Fogelman
Jon Kean
Jon Polk
Jon Weinbach
Jonah Platt
Jonathan Baruch
Jonathan Fener
Jonathan Geffner
Jonathan Gordon
Jonathan Herman
Jonathan Jakubowicz
Jonathan Lipnicki
Jonathan Posner
Jonathan Prince
Jonathan Rosen
Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Yunger
Jonny Caplan
Jonny Umansky
Jordan B. Gorfinkel
Jordan Bielsky
Jordan Frazes
Jordan Kurland
Jordan Roberts
Jordana Halpern
Jose Zisman
Joseph Helmreich
Joseph Steinberg
Josh Fisher
Josh Goldin
Josh Kogan
Josh Litman
Josh Schaer
Josh Silver
Joshua Abramson
Joshua Avi Weiss
Joshua Katz
Josie Davis
Joy Darash
Jt Diaz
Judd Rubin
Judie Aronson
Judy Gols
Julia Shur
Julia Victoria
Julian Gross
Julian Roberts
Julianna Margulies
Julie D. Holman
Julie Polkes
Julie Slotnik Sturm
Juliet Wolf
Justin Arnold
Justin Horowitz
Kadia Saraf
Karen Morse
Karen Payne
Kari Hollend
Karynne Tencer
Kate Cohen
Katie Walder
Katy Krassner
Keetgi Kogan Steinberg
Keith Eisner
Ken Fermaglich
Ken Hertz
Ken Toltz
Kenin M. Spivak
Keren Hantman
Kevin Asch
Kevin Bright
Kevin Lawrence
Kimberly Ehrlich
Kimberly Karp
Kimberly Wallis
Kory Lunsford
Kosha Dillz
Koura Linda
Kurt Haas
L J Cross
Lachlan Saville
Lana Melman
Lanie Siegel
Larry Chernoff
Larry Deutchman
Laszlo Nagy
Laura Bray
Laura Wolner
Laurel Levey
Lauren Cohn
Lauren Cooper
Lauren Fox
Lauren Sands
Lauren Weidman
Laurent Touil-Tartour
Lauri Wolff
Laurie Graff
Laurie Israel
Laurie Seidman
Lawrence Bender
Lawrence Kaplan
Lea Majer
Lea Porter
Leah Gottfried
Leah Huete de Maines
Leah McGrady
Leah McSweeney
Leah Sydney
Leah Whitehill
Lee Amir-Cohen
Lee Broda
Lee Kaplan
Lee Trink
Lee Weinberg
Leeann Williams
Leigh Jacobson
Lena Roklin
Leo Pearlman
Leo Schaff
Leonard Dick
Leora Rosenberg
Leora Rosner
Les Cahan
Leslie Belzberg
Leslie Goldberg
Leslie Oren
Leslie Schapira
Lev L. Spiro
Levi Coleman
Levi Kaminkowitz
Liane Pritikin
Liat Ron
Liel Dahan
Lili Mirojnick
Lilian Dayan Cimadoro
Limor Gott
Linda Burstyn
Linda Wagner
Lior Rosner
Liron Artzi
Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Feldsher
Lisa Gershon
Lisa Goldstein
Lisa Greene
Lisa Shapiro
Lisa Ullmann
Liz Hartzman
Logan Scrot
Loni Steele Sosthand
Lori Alan
Lori Ginsberg
Lorin Green
Loris Kramer Lunsford
Lynda Eisenstat Dorf
Lynn Harris
Lynn Roth
Lynn Zamick
Lynn Zises
M.J. Kang
Madison Montgomery
Malcolm Green
Mandana Dayani
Mandy Mitchell
Mara Jacobs
Marc Blitstein
Marc Dorwitt
Marc Erlbaum
Marc Guggenheim
Marci Liroff
Marcus J Freed
Margaux Susi
Margrit Polak
Mariana Belfer
Marianne Fabri
Marilee Albert
Marisa Book
Marisa Scheinfeld
Mark A. Altman
Mark Feuerstein
Mark Ira Kaufman
Mark Jacobovitch
Mark Kaufman
Mark Lieber
Mark Liflander
Mark Moskowitz
Mark Pellegrino
Mark Reisman
Mark Rohde
Mark Schiff
Markus Kublin
Marla Friedson
Marni Banack
Marni Flans
Marnie Briskin
Marta Rubenstein
Martin Blankemeyer
Marty Rudoy
Marty Adelstein
Matt Luber
Matt Orenstein
Matt Ritter
Matthew Hiltzik
Matthew Koss
Matthew McPherson
Matthew Mishory
Matthew Salsberg
Matthew Tyler Vorce
Matthew Weiner
Matti Leshem
Max Jacoby
Maya Lasry
Meg Ross
MEITAL AZULAY
Melissa Baer
Melissa Byer
Melissa Center
Melissa Greenspan
Melissa Maguire
Melissa Romero
Melissa Rosenberg
Melissa Schreiber
Melissa Zukerman
Menachem Silverstein
Meredith Pollick
Micha Liberman
Michael Auerbach
Michael B. Kaplan
Michael Berner
Michael Berns
Michael Borkow
Michael Burgher
Michael Chamoy
Michael Chase Walker
Michael Diamond
Michael Ehrenberg
Michael Fishman
Michael Garin
Michael Glouberman
Michael Goldstein
Michael Horwitz
Michael Konyves
Michael Lewis
Michael Malone
Michael Miller
Michael Pelmont
Michael Rapaport
Michael Robertson Moore
Michael S. Parris
Michael Schwartz
Michael Schwarz
Michael Sobel
Michael Tessler
Michael Wegrzyn
Michael Younesi
Michael Z Wechsler
Michal Schick
Michèle Ohayon
Michelle Finkelstein
Michelle Kaufer
Michelle Lerman
Micky Levy
Mike Fishbein
Mike Karz
Mike Marcus
Mikhail Nayfeld
Mimi Steinberg
Miranda Bailey
Miriam Arni
Miriam Durrie-Kirsch
Miriam Levi
Miriam Rosenthal
Miriam Spritzer
Mirjam Benaiah
Mitchell Akselrad
Mitchell James Kaplan
Mitchell Peck
Mojca Killer
Molly Kasch
Monica Osborne
Monise Neumann
Montana Tucker
Mor Zucker
Moran Atias
Moti Vacknin
Murray Cass
Myriam Querub
Nancy Cohen
Nancy Spielberg
Naomi Aaronson
Nash DoubleMint Dean
Natalie Marciano
Natalie Shampanier
Natasha Yuzefovich
Nathalie Hoffman
Nathan Firer
Neil A. Cohen
Neil Blair
Neil Turitz
Nicholas Britt
Nick Greene
Nicky Austin
Nicola Posener
Nicole Blau
Nicole Czarnecki
Nicole Kohanof
Nicole Rocklin
Nicole Segre
Noa Tishby
Noah Smith
Noam Ash
Noam Friedlander
Nomi Waksberg
Nurit Ilana Zabludovsky
Oded Turgeman
Odeya Rush
Olaf Isele
Olivia Michael
Omri Horowitz
Omri Lahav
Omri Rose
Ophira Dagan
Oren Castro
Oren Safdie
Ori Elon
Orly Ravid
Ornit Barkai
Pam Cofre
Pam Reynolds
Pamela Davis
Pamela Eisen
Pamela Goldstein
Pamela Roth
Patricia Randell
Patrick Hamza Twomey
Patrick Moss
Paul A Mendelson
Paul Almond
Paul Bazo
Paul Greenberg
Paul Weitzman
Pearl Gluck
Pearl Wade
Penka Kouneva
Penny Allen
Perry Birman
Peter Block
Peter Burman
Peter Landesman
Peter Lenkov
Peter Samuelson
Phil Leavitt
Philip Kaltman
Philip Oppenheim
Phyllis B.Levitas
Phyllis Strong
PJ Gacg
Po Kutchins
Rabbi Andrew Allan-Bentley
Rabbi David Wolpe
Rabbi Marvin Hier
Rabbi Steve Leser
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein
Rachael Shapiro
Rachel Greenberg
Rachel Kamerman
Rachel Kaplan
Rachel Lewkowicz
Rachel Nissim
Rachel Seymour
Rachel Weingarten
Rafael Marmor
Rahman Daneshgar
Rakefet Abergel
Rami Rivera Frankl
Randi Sidman-Moore
Raphael Margules
Raquel Barnatan
Raqueli Dahan-Gonen
Raymond Leon Roker
Rebecca Koven
Rebecca Mall
Rebecca Thomas
Rebecca Windsor
Regina Nemni
Reinhard Denke
Remy Bohrer
Rena Strober
René Ifrah
Rev Rach
Rhonda Price
Rica Mendes
Rich Freeman
Richard Gabai
Richard Potter
Richard Trank
Rick Benattar
Riki Juster
Rina Mimoun
Rinat Arinos
Riverto Thesea
Rob Kutner
Rob Lee
Rob Levi
Rob Simon
Rob Worsoff
Robert Glaser
Robert Golenberg
Robert Kaplan
Robert Lantos
Robert Mark Kamen
Robert Metz
Robert Rovner
Robin Carus
Robin Lippin
Robin Newman
Robyn Bluestone
Robyn Wiener
Rochel Saks
Rochelle Seldin
Rod Lurie
Roger Kumble
Roi Wol
Roman Kopelevich
Ron Marans
Ron Mendelsohn
Ron Rappaport
Ron West
Rona Geller
Ronit Asheri Sandler
Rose Rosen, CSA
Ross Boyask
Ross Greenberg
Ross Novie
Ross Siegel
Rosser Goodman
Rotem Alima
Roy Schwartz
Roye Segal
Ruben Talberg
Russel Harvey
Ryan Bender
Ryan Gaines
Ryan Guiterman
Ryan Kavanaugh
Ryan Sassouni
Ryan Winterstern
Sadaf Cohen Muncy
Salome Breziner
Salvador Litvak
Sam Feuer
Sam Glassenberg
Sam Sandak
Sam Wasserman
Samantha Ettus
Sami Kolko
Sami Posner
Sammy Horowitz
Samuel A. Levine
Samuel Franco
Samuel J. Reich
Samuel Kincaid
Samuel Kochman
Sandie Donovan
Sandra Paine
Sandy Lerman
Sara Ingram
Sarah Afkami
Sarah Barker
Sari Sanchez
Saul Blinkoff
Scott Cross
Scott Kaufman
Scott Levine
Scott Melrose
Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Scott Rosenbaum
Scott Rosenfelt
Sean Michael
Sebastian Allberg
Seno Bril
Sepideh Makabi
Sergio Posternak
Seth Allman Bloom
Seth Fisher
Seth Fradkoff
Seth Kurland
Seth Nesenholtz
Seth Rudetsky
Shael Rosenbaum
Shahar Ben-Yosef
Shaked Berenson
Shana Meyerson
Shani Atias
Shanni Suissa
Shannon Younessi
Shara Ashley Zeiger
Sharlene Levin Martin
Sharon Bialy
Sharon Diamondstein
Sharon Eisenberg-Cytrynbaum
Sharon Farber
Sharon Lieblein
Sharona Beck
Shauna Perlman
Shawn M. Fonk
Shawn Pelofsky
Sheer Aviram
Shep Rosenman
Sherri Goldstein
Sherry Lansing
Shie Rozow
Shir Samari
Shira Rosenfeld
Shira Yoram
Shirly Brener
Shoshana James
Shoshana Schvarcz
Sima Galanti
Simcha Jacobovici
Simcha Weinstein
Simon Halfon
Sine Packbi
Siri Garber
Sophie Kargman
Soxi Melamdowitz
Spencer Berman
Spencer Klein
Stacey Levin
Stacey Perry
Stacey Pianko
Stacey Sher
Stacey Tenenbaum
Stacy Sarner
Stefanie Epstein
Stella Evans
Stephanie Davis
Stephanie E. Felsburg
Stephanie Liss
Stephen Levinson
Stephen Morgan
Sternberg Harriet
Steve Elzer
Steve Fagan
Steve Saragossi
Steve Silver
Steve Weiss
Steven E Gordon
Steven Kopp
Steven Marmalstein
Steven R. Schimmel
Steven Schub
Stuart Acher
Stuart Goldstein
Stuart N.Brotman
Stuart Rojstaczer
Sue Kramer
Sue Steinberg
Summer Silverman
Susan Kaplan
Susan Rovner
Susan Rudick
Suzanne Zucker Webb
Syd Recce
Sylvie Shapira
Szegő Edit
Tal L Kapelner
Tali Reuben
Talia Hoz
Tamar Lea Hazout
Tamar Pelzig
Tamar Simon
Tamara Becher-Wilkinson
Tara Strong
Tchavdar Georgiev
Teri Weinberg
Terry Serpico
Teryn Fogel
Tiffany Haimof
Tiffany Lo
Tim Milgram
Tobias Hochstein
Todd Felderstein
Todd Wider
Tommaso Cardile
Toni Gandel
Tony Munson
Tovah Feldshuh
Traci Szymanski
Tracy Quinn
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Trenton B. Magid
Tumama Entanga Simmons
Tyson Bidner
Val Stulman
Vanessa Rodriguez-Goldberg
Vickie Knowles
Victoria Gordon
Vincent LeGrow
Warren Lewis
Wendy Engelberg
Wendy Sachs
Willa Horowitz
William Schmidt
William Tyler Smith
Yaakov Carriger
Yael Swerdlow
Yahm Steinberg
Yaniv Fituci
Yuliya Eydelnant
Yuni Sher
Yuri Rutman
Yuval David
Zachary Taylor
Ziba Terrio
Ziv Sade
Zoey Tur
Zusha Goldin

STATEMENT FROM JEWISH HOLLYWOOD PROFESSIONALS

We are Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals.
 
We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination.  

Every civilian death in Gaza is tragic. Israel is not targeting civilians. It is targeting Hamas. The moment Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders, is the moment this heartbreaking war ends. This has been true since the Hamas attacks of October 7th.

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 gives credence to the modern blood libel that fuels a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world, in the United States, and in Hollywood. The current climate of growing antisemitism only underscores the need for the Jewish State of Israel, a place which will always take us in, as no state did during the Holocaust depicted in Mr. Glazer’s film.

Jonathan Glazer: Thank you so much. I’m going to read, I’m afraid.

Thank you to the Academy for this honor and to our partners A24 Films for access and Polish Film Institute, to the Stead Museum for their trust and guidance, to my producers, actors, collaborators.

All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now.

Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of our past and present. Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.

Whether the victims of October — whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist? Alexandria, the girl who glows in the film as she did in life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance. Thank you.

Variety first posted the news on the open letter.

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