Jewish Director at Oscars: Israel’s ‘Occupation’ Caused ‘Conflict for so Many Innocent People’
Many wore “Artists4Ceasefire” pins. A few dropped the masks and only addressed Gaza when asked about the pin because we all know they don’t care about Israel.
We can always rely on Hollywood to get on the wrong side of politics at awards shows.
Anti-Israel attitudes appeared everywhere at the Oscars.
Anti-Israel Protest in Acceptance Speeches
Jonathan Glazer, who is Jewish, won an Oscar for his Holocaust drama.
Jewish. Holocaust movie.
What does he do? He decries Israel’s “occupation” of Palestine, casually blaming the Jewish State for everything that has happened in the area since its formation (emphasis mine):
“All of our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, rather, look what we do now,” Glazer said of his Holocaust drama in his Oscar acceptance speech. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at it’s worst. It 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 the 7th in Israel, or the ongoing attack on Gaza, or the victims of this dehumanization. How do we resist?”
#TheZoneofInterest wins best international feature film at the 2024 #Oscars pic.twitter.com/G3xEejQakT
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 11, 2024
Anti-Israel Protest
Of course, they had to protest before the Oscars, causing delays and chaos.
Pro-Palestinian protesters are marching in the direction of Dolby Theatre where the #Oscars are set to take place
🎥: @SamBraslow pic.twitter.com/nKI8cys0lw
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 10, 2024
Breaking: Leftist protesters in support of Palestinian nationalism have gathered in Hollywood to try to shut down the #Oscars red carpet ceremony. pic.twitter.com/1fd0Kd6OkN
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) March 10, 2024
#Oscars2024 Pro-palestine Protesters CONFRONT lines of LAPD cops at Oscar's Red Carpet chanting "Ceasefire Now!"
Video by Michelle Lhooq [email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/3B2wNfsmQ6
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) March 11, 2024
Hundreds, if not more than 1,000 protesters, gathered Sunday afternoon near Sunset Blvd and Highland Ave to protest Israel’s war in Gaza ahead of #Oscars.
LAPD issued a dispersal order to try to clear the roads, but the sizable crowd remained.
More: https://t.co/vqTCdzuR5X pic.twitter.com/jJ6pAXBqvK
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) March 10, 2024
Artists4Ceasefire Pins
A lot of people wore pins that said Artists4Ceasefire. Yup. Over 400 celebrities signed the petition. The statement from the organization included Israel and the hostages, but come on. We all know who would benefit from a ceasefire…Hamas.
One artist slipped off the mask:
Rami Youssef on wearing a red pin at the #Oscars to support Artists for Ceasefire.
"We're calling for immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We're calling for peace and lasting justice for the people of Palestine. It's a universal message of, 'Let's stop killing kids. Let's not… pic.twitter.com/446M0VHxlo
— Variety (@Variety) March 10, 2024
BREAKING: Actor Ramy Youssef speaks for Palestine on the #Oscars Red Carpet:
“We all call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We really want lasting justice and peace for the people of Palestine”
"We just want to say, 'Let's stop killing Kids.' 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/Rh5CW1OyUA
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) March 11, 2024
Billie Eilish is wearing an "Artists for Ceasefire" pin on the Oscars red carpet.
Photo credit: Alberto Rodriguez / Getty Images pic.twitter.com/WOiHNNKtF8
— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) March 10, 2024
mahershala ali and mark ruffalo both wearing artists for ceasefire pins!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/p1Sgbd6upO
— sam 🌟 (@satelliteonfilm) March 11, 2024
Beautiful Ava DuVernay wearing an ‘Artists for Ceasefire’ pin on the #Oscars red carpet. pic.twitter.com/20257ys1z8
— AvaDuVernayfans (@avaduvernayfans) March 10, 2024
Former drama students are so brave. If they’d been at the music festival they’d have been raped, mutilated, kidnapped, and dragged through the streets. Stick your pins up your sanctimonious asses.https://t.co/CPbOf6K6Qg
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) March 11, 2024
One man wore a Palestine flag pin. One observer on Twitter applauded this move because they’re not hiding behind supposed bipartisanship.
Swann Arlaud from Anatomy of a Fall shows his support for Palestine at the Oscars night 🇵🇸🖤#FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/mndolEU2c2
— ً (@XIVOXI) March 10, 2024
A real pin. The artists for ceasefire pins were fine but it's possible to make where you stand incredibly clear. https://t.co/yQY6r0Fc8p
— veda ❀ (@bellalugosii) March 10, 2024
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So brave of these overpaid emoters: if they had really wanted to show the courage of their convictions, they would have all worn brown shirts and armbands.
Too big and unfashionable. But instead of those red pins they should have been honest and gone for swastikas.
Or maybe the hammer and sickle.
Great bullseye though….but not worth the effort.
I’ll give ya credit when credit is due for this one, Milhouse… you nailed it.
The Islamic crescent would also be appropriate.
Were their Jewish brown shirts in Germany? Or, just in Hollywood?
Scary that so many young Americans believe the October 7 atrocities were somehow justified. I’m assuming the little cretins would be happy to see the same done to Trump supporters. Sociopaths at best. Psychopaths at worst.
So much virtue signaling, so little time.
I guess the Jewish Ghettos had their fair share of NAZI collaborators, too.
All aboard!
“ I guess the Jewish Ghettos had their fair share of NAZI collaborators, too.”
This point struck me too.
However, the Israelis are losing the propaganda war. It seems that they are not even trying to engage.
They should launch a public relations offensive that asserts that they are more than willing to end hostilities after the release of all hostages and surrender of Hamas. They should take out ads in the major newspapers, cable channels, Facebook, etc. They should fund counter-demonstrations in DC, NY, Minneapolis, etc.
They should not cede the propaganda war.
Be a waste of time. Israel needs to understand that no amount of PR will change the minds of the rabid racists out there who detest the existence of Jews.
Better off doing what needs to be done to get rid of Hamas and ignore the voices of those who would have happily helped with the killing on October 7.
The point is to move the people who are movable.
The messaging to move people who are vaguely on the fence is different from the messaging to move people even moderately “pro” or “con.”
I gotta find that book again, that laid this out so well. Came out during late-Obama admin. Aimed at kids, as a handbook for making activism fun.
I’d say they are doing well now, may it continue. The most important thing is to wipe out Hamas and, if possible, move the Palestinians elsewhere. They’ll never get along, they cannot be next to Israel.
And there will be enough people in the world who object to that, who want to ensure that Israel is never safe and whole, that they should just not worry about the noise, and proceed.
“I guess the Jewish Ghettos had their fair share of NAZI collaborators, too.”
It’s not so hard to think of all these Beautiful People as fetal Soroses.
Sigh. Once again, Soros, for all his faults, was NOT a Nazi collaborator.
Of course he wasn’t. He just inventoried the belongings of Jews in preparation for confiscation. Because he believed that if he didn’t do it, someone else would.
I wonder under what authority he and his merry band of misfits worked to secure confiscation of the property of Jews.
I guess that makes rape OK, because if the rapist didn’t do it, someone else would.
Thanks so much for the distinction.
And so he could have left things out and helped people keep some things, hide some things. But he never says he did any of that. He was maybe worse than the person who would have replaced him if he didn’t do it.
No, he didn’t.
He had no “merry band” of anything, and he did no such work.
No, he couldn’t, because he was not taking anything away, nor helping anyone take anything away.
He didn’t even literally see anything being taken away; the man who was hiding him was not a nazi and didn’t take anything from anyone, his job was to take inventory of property that had already been seized. So Soros would never have seen the seizure itself, he merely understood that it had happened. And of course he could see the general misery around him, and the crimes being committed in general, not by his guardian. He understood that all of that could easily happen to him, if anyone should suspect that he wasn’t who he was pretending to be.
Nope. Soros wasn’t a nazi. Soros, a Hungarian Jew who pretended to be a Christian to escape the Holocaust, went out with along with his “Protector” that swore Soros was his godson and participated in the confiscation of Jewish property. And apparently feels absolutely no guilt or shame for doing so. His feeling is that if it wasn’t him doing it then it would just have been someone else so his participation isn’t a big deal.
And this is the guy you want to defend. Disgusting.
George Soros admits Nazi collaboration in 60 Minutes interview [<–Link to Youtube Video}
No, he didn’t. Did you actually listen to the interview? And did you actually listen to what he said, not what the interviewer said? No, you didn’t. You came to it already “knowing” what you expected to hear, and you “heard” it, but it’s not there. At no point did he say that he had participated in anything; that is the interviewer’s assertion, which just a few seconds later he explicitly contradicted: “Of course, I wasn’t doing it”. “I was only a spectator.” “I had no role in taking away that property.”
He said that he doesn’t feel guilty for having survived. That is a good thing. Survivors’ guilt is an emotional disorder that people go to therapy to try to cure themselves of. Nor does he feel guilty for what he saw the nazis doing to other people, because he wasn’t the one doing it. Again, that is a healthy attitude, and it an emotional disorder to feel guilty for what someone else does. The correct attitude is “That could just as easily have been me, and thank God it wasn’t”.
He certainly didn’t say that if he didn’t steal someone’s goods someone else would; that was about his later work in the markets, where if he didn’t exploit an opportunity for arbitrage someone else would.
Soros
Clausewitz once described war as politics by other means. Given the pure hatred in the area and endless posturing, it finally becomes that other means. Are innocents killed and injured in a war? Duh.
Nice of Hollywood to straighten me out. Here I thought that Gazans were the victim of collateral damage because: (1) they elected Hamas; (2) they support Hamas and regularly demonstrate their commitment to the death of Israel and the US; (3) they supported the 10/7 orgy of murder, rape, and kidnapping; (4) Hamas uses “innocent” Gazans as human shields (remember, a moderate Gazan is someone whose run out of ammunition); (5) Hamas refuses to return the hostages it hasn’t yet gotten around to murdering; and (6) Hamas refuses to surrender and face justice. I have as much sympathy for Gazans as I do for German and Japanese civilians in 1945–zero. But now I can see where I was wrong!
Fortunately, Netanyahu understands that Israel is in a battle for its existence. Biden and his buddies in Hollywood are both evil and stupid. Go Israel–giving Israel military support is one of the few things Biden spends money on with which I agree,
As it turns out, a large %, probably a majority of Gazans are suffering from terminal stupidly.
Last two movies I’ve seen out of Hollywood were overrated stinkers.
I’m ready to see the actors get into fistfights. I would pay to see that.
If they weren’t such effeminate (men), I would suggest swords.
My first thought.
I remember the real men of Hollywood that actual went to War in WW2
These are not men
Pretty disgusting bunch
For the most part, Hollywood has made itself irrelevant, the Oscars have all been about actors patting themselves on the back.
Oscars turning trashy again.
for a change?
Let’s all remind ourselves what was reported here on LI not long ago.
“Thousands of Gaza “civilians” participated in the carnage. We’ve all seen the videos of captives dragged and driven through the streets of Gaza as thousands of “civilians” spat on them, and punched and beat the already dead bodies.
One aspect of this brutality was the raping of dead women.“
Rami Youssef: “Let’s stop killing kids.”
No comment on how many of those “kids” are 14-17 year old young men carrying AKs and RPGs, wearing black scarves, chanting “Death to Israel!”, and actively trying to abduct, rape, and kill you.
Stop killing kids? Youssef means “stop killing Gaza’s future footsoldiers”. It’s OK to kill Israeli kids, including babies and toddlers.
Don’t forget the clowns on LI who were unwilling to acknowledge that terror against Jews is wrong, refused to show any compassion. It follows that they deserve no compassion. There should not be any mercy for Pales.
So no “Release the hostages” pins?
Who knew?
“We’re leftists. We always support those who want us dead.”
Oh, the Oscars were last night?
One notable highlight I just saw on our local news, last night was the first time a Ukrainian director ever received an Oscar.
He made a film documenting the first 20 days of Russia’s invasion.
He was NOT wearing an Artists4Ceasefire or Palestine pin when he accepted his award.
As always, the outsiders have a better grasp on reality.
People who have actually lived under totalitarian systems like fascism or communism have a clear view of the evil—unlike the posturing know-nothing terrorist lovers in Hollywood, on campuses, and populating the filthy Democrat Party.
Russia is a country that has officially supported Hamas, meeting with them at least twice since Oct 7
But Russia is our friend! We must support Russia in its war against Ukraine!. Ukraine is our enemy! Russia is our friend! We must abandon our support for Ukraine! At least this is what I read in the comments on LI.
Cripes. What a tool you are.
Illiteracy can be cured.
But Tucker Carlson says that Russia is just like us! We need to be their friends! Even if they support Hamas! Go Russia!
So brave to blame the Jews. Well at least the assholes now have a membership pin, making them readily identifiable as assholes. I think all of these fools should take their message to Gaza in a “show” of support. They could have a benefit concert/show for terrorists. TerrorAid2024
The Jew killers in the 1930’s and 1940’s had membership pins, too.
Readily identifiable.
It was called “Totenkopf.”
Unfortunately, far too many Jewish Hollywood types think in this mannerhttps://www.commentary.org/articles/eli-lake/asajew-brief-history/
Thank you for the reference to the Commentary article
These Jewish Hollywooders are what the folks at JPFO call bagel brains.
Good article…but I would say they have brains like matzoh brei…all scrambled
Pretty sure Glazer would be one of the in-camp collaborators, helping Nazis pick who to gas as a way of saving his own worthless hide.
A modern day House Knee Grow with better clothes.
Limousine Libs are such virtue signaling frauds.
I wonder how long before Biden trots out, ‘If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Jewish’.
He’s fine to refute his Jewishness, but then he should not profit on his Jewishness or speak for Jews.
He did not refute his Jewishness. The selective bolding of some of his text is Mary Chastain’s own, and I was wondering whether it would mislead anyone. Read it again while ignoring the bolding, and you will see.
Really? What does – “Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness” – mean?
It means you have read a quarter of a sentence. That is not what he said. You have been misled by Ms Chastain’s odd choice of which words to render in bold.
As General Honoree said, “You can’t fix stupid”!
“General Honoree?” Is that a new DEI Oscar category?
That was Ron White.
LTG Russel L. Honoré – “don’t get stuck on stupid.”
I am absolutely for a cease fire in Gaza. The pins calling for a cease fire should bring that idea to light.
In Variety’s X post on Rami Youssef’s wearing the pin they quote him saying:
First, the idea that “no one ever looked back at a bombing campaign and thought it was a good idea,” is absolutely ignorant of history. The simplest refutation of that idea is that the dropping of the atomic bombs literally saved millions of Japanese lives and hundreds of thousands of Allied lives.
He is correct that the ceasefire needs to happen. It should happen. But it is not the Israelis that are clogging up the works toward a ceasefire. It is Hamas.
It is not the Isrealis who initialed this latest conflict. It was Hamas and by extension. the so called “Palestinian people.”
We have to wonder how many cops and security guards were at the Oscars and what their response to people with guns murdering and raping people.
I guarantee it would not be to condemn the security people and the cops for firing back and killing the attackers yet that is what the actors want from Israel. “Just sit there, let your people be killed and raped, and it will be fine.”
As I said, I am all for calling for peace in Gaza. Too many people are suffering and dying.
Now go deal with the people causing that instead of blaming Israel for defending their country, their homeland and their citizens.
There was a ceasefire on October 6
Indeed, a formal ceasefire despite ongoing rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel.
“lasting justice for the people of Palestine”
Hamas is getting a lasting peace now, let it continue.
“First, the idea that “no one ever looked back at a bombing campaign and thought it was a good idea,””
Plenty of people, plenty of times looked back on a bombing campaign and thought it was the least bad idea available, and often thank Bog it worked, or they wouldn’t be alive to look back and think anything.
One would imagine that people who have climbed themselves up the enormous pile of cow-flop to the pinnacle of Hollywood would understand distasteful trade-offs.
Once you start enjoying the sodomy, the trade-offs morph.
Peace – the cessation of againstness.
They used hostages as sex slaves and then executed them for being whores. This is what these people are supporting.
The emphasis you added is misleading, and if you look at oldschooltwentysix’s comment above you will see how s/he was misled by it. Please correct it.
Even without the emphasis, it’s a despicable statement. But, I agree that the emphasis includes part of a phrase and not the entire phrase.
And it does so to give the quote an entirely misleading construction.
Phew!!
I’m just relieved to know that no one was watching this crap.
Fortunately I didn’t even know it was on or whether it was 6 months away. People who make their living pretending to be someone else, patting each other on the back. How glamorous!
I am sure ….. well, I am hoping that most American Jews do not agree with these freaks.
This is the same director who hired non-Jews for the major Jewish roles in the movie. Not too surprising I suppose. “Oh but it’s not about Judaism!”. Then why did you make your Oscar speech about it?
There’s nothing wrong with hiring non-Jews to act Jewish characters, so long as you also see nothing wrong with hiring actors to act characters who are not of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that isn’t immediately apparent or can be covered over with sufficient makeup, etc.