{"id":2201776,"date":"2024-03-19T10:51:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-hollywood-celebs-publicly-denounce-jonathan-glazers-oscars-speech\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:55:26","slug":"hundreds-of-hollywood-celebs-publicly-denounce-jonathan-glazers-oscars-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-hollywood-celebs-publicly-denounce-jonathan-glazers-oscars-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerous Hollywood Stars Criticize Jonathan Glazer&#8217;s Oscars Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhundreds-of-hollywood-celebs-publicly-denounce-jonathan-glazers-oscars-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2201776&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An\u2062 astounding \u200bwave of protest has \u2064emerged from Hollywood, with <\/span><strong>almost 500 esteemed \u2064celebrities<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u2064joining forces to voice their opposition in an open \u2064letter targeting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jonathan-glazer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jonathan Glazer&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  controversial\u200b Oscars acceptance \u200c <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/oscars\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">speech<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The star-studded list echoing this disapproval\u200d includes prominent figures like <\/span><strong>Debra Messing, \u2062Eli Roth<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><strong>Jennifer Jason Leigh<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><strong>Julianna Margulies<\/strong>. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unveiled by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/jonathan-glazer-oscar-speech-zone-of-interest-open-letter-1235944880\/amp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Variety<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the public statement fiercely critiques Glazer&#8217;s analogy,\u2064 which\u200c seemingly compares Israel\u2019s defensive actions to \u2063the reprehensible conduct\u200d of Nazis during the Second World War.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Our collective Jewish heritage\u2063 will not be exploited to draw false parallels\u2064 between the heinous Nazi \u2063ideology \u2062and \u200dIsrael&#8217;s \u2062fight \u200cfor survival,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-senators-call-for-tv-guidelines-ratings-to-label-lgbtq-content-in-childrens-programming\/\" title=\"Republican Senators Call For TV Guidelines Ratings to Label LGBTQ Content in Children\u2019s Programming\">letter declares<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The document \u2063clarifies, &#8220;While each loss of life in Gaza \u200bis deeply regrettable, it is imperative to\u2064 recognize that Israel targets <\/span><strong>Hamas<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, not civilians. An end to this \u2063tragedy hinges on Hamas \u2062ceasing hostilities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The concerned\u2062 group \u2064of celebrities emphasize that \u2063the term &#8216;occupation&#8217; misrepresents the millennia-old connection of \u2063Jewish people to their homeland, validated by the United Nations, as well as twisting the annals of\u2062 history.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glazer&#8217;s remarks are also accused of fueling the modern\u200b &#8216;blood libel&#8217;,\u2062 fostering an escalation in anti-Semitic sentiments globally and disturbingly, \u2063within\u200b the \u200cUnited \u200cStates\u2063 and Hollywood itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In these times of heightened \u2064anti-Jewish sentiment, the \u2063letter underscores\u2064 the vital \u2062significance of\u2063 Israel as\u200c a safe haven, a lesson painfully learned from the Holocaust, depicted in\u200c Glazer&#8217;s own movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glazer, a British filmmaker, was recognized \u200cat the \u200dAcademy Awards for Best International\u200d Feature for his poignant portrayal\u2062 of the \u2062Auschwitz\u200b saga in &#8220;Zone\u200d of \u200cInterest.&#8221;\u2062 This historical drama revisits \u2064the life of Rudolf H\u00f6ss and his\u2063 family, residing perilously close to the notorious camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Our artistic choices\u200d were deliberate, intended not only to\u200b reflect on the past, but\u2064 to also challenge the \u200bpresent. &#8216;Zone of Interest&#8217; confronts the ramifications of\u2064 dehumanization,&#8221; Glazer\u200c expressed in his \u2064Oscars speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As he \u200celucidated further, \u200d&#8221;We, as artists, reject the\u2063 misuse\u200b of \u200dour Jewish legacy and the\u2062 narrative of the\u200c Holocaust for \u200dany \u200bform\u2063 of unwarranted\u200b occupation or conflict. How\u200d do we stand against the devaluation of human life, whether it be the victims of October 7 in Israel \u2062or those \u2062in Gaza?\u200c That is our \u200dresistance.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since March 10th, Glazer&#8217;s speech has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-controversial-cardi-b-moments\/\" title=\"Three Controversial \u2018Cardi B\u2019 Moments\">stirred significant controversy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-to-announce-2024-run-next-week\/\" title=\"Pence to announce 2024 run next week.\">drawing harsh criticism<\/a>, including from \u2062a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/94-year-old-holocaust-survivor-issues-fiery-open-letter-denouncing-jonathan-glazer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">94-year-old Holocaust survivor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  who branded it as &#8220;grossly\u2062 inaccurate and\u2062 ethically\u2062 indefensible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 500 Hollywood luminaries, including Debra Messing and Julianna Margulies, have condemned director Jonathan Glazer&#8217;s Oscars speech in an open letter published by Variety, critiquing his comparison involving Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2201777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/Jonathan-Glazer-1-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/Jonathan-Glazer-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}