450 Jewish celebrities denounce Oscar winner's anti-Semitic speech: better late than never

I suspect Hamas, while hating Jews, has a modicum of respect for Jews who fight back and no respect for Jews who denounce Jews for fighting back. So with that said, I wonder how Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer would have done in Nazi Germany back in the day, or in Israel on October 7, 2023. 

Glazer directed the movie "Zone of Interest" a Holocaust flick and won an Oscar. 

In his speech, Glazer denounced his, and the idiots who stood next to him on stage, their Judaism. By doing so he apparently was making an attempt to virtue signal how he's too good to be a Jew, probably because in fighting back the genocidal Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorists, Israel [aka those Jews] appears to be winning the war. Not surprisingly, the trained seals in the audience clapped to signal their virtue and support of the self-loathing Jew.

While it took most of them over five months to take a stand, 450 Jewish individuals in the entertainment industry denounced Glazer's disgusting acceptance speech about the Israel-Hamas war. Among them were Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies and Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tovah Feldshuh, Lisa Edelstein and Brett Gelman, top producer Amy Pascal, and filmmakers Eli Roth and Rod Lurie.

"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," an open letter first reported Monday by Variety read. "Every civilian death in Gaza is tragic. But 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 signatories continued, "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."

"There was no concern for how Jewish people are going to react to a speech like that, to that applause to those red pins, when not even our hostages are being mentioned, and it’s just incredibly hurtful, incredibly painful," Gelman told Variety. "It’s truly baffling to me that people were choosing to be silent that night."

It really shouldn't baffle anyone--the silent ones are the cowards. They play the game of denouncing racism and hatred but they are all hat, no balls. But at least Glazer's speech was enough of a catalyst to get them on their feet in protest.

"Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst," Glazer said. "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 the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza - all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?"

No, they stood there as anti-Semites who deny the reality of the October 7th massacre of innocent Israelis.

Glazer's words were repudiated by one of his film's executive producers, Danny Cohen, who said last week, "I just fundamentally disagree with Jonathan."

Now that was a powerful renouncement of Glazer's Jew-hatred. 

The speech was condemned in an open letter by The Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation.

"I watched in anguish Sunday night when I heard you use the platform of the Oscars ceremony, to equate Hamas's maniacal brutality against innocent Israelis with Israel's difficult but necessary self-defense in the face of Hamas's ongoing barbarity. Your comments were factually inaccurate and morally indefensible," Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA president and 94-year-old Holocaust survivor David Schaecter wrote to the POS Glazer.

"The ‘occupation’ of which you speak has nothing to do with the Holocaust. The Jewish people's existence and right to live in the land of Israel predates the Holocaust by hundreds of years. Today's political and geographic landscape is the direct result of wars started by past Arab leaders who refused to accept Jewish people as their neighbors in our historic homeland. Now that several Arab countries are making peace with Israel because security and prosperity are better for all people, Iran and its terrorist proxies started another war, abetted by too many, who, through naïveté or malice, blame ‘the occupation.’"

"Worse is that you chose to use the Holocaust to validate your personal opinion. You made a Holocaust movie and won an Oscar. And you are Jewish. Good for you. But it is disgraceful for you to presume to speak for the six million Jews, including one and half million children, who were murdered solely because of their Jewish identity," Schaecter continued. "And it is disgraceful for you to presume to speak for those of us who personally saw the world stand silent as our mothers, father, brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins were murdered. We actually had nowhere to go - no possible place for refuge. No country would accept us even though world leaders knew full well that thousands of Jews were being murdered every day. There was no Jewish nation to which we could flee. You should be ashamed of yourself for using Auschwitz to criticize Israel."

Am Yisrael Chai, mother-lovers!

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