Hollywood ♥ Hamas
You might ask: who cares? I’m not sure I do – I’ve never heard of many of these people – but their hatred of Israel is something of which they seem proud. It’s worthy of mention how captured their minds are by leftist propaganda:
Figures from across the film and TV world, including Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy and Palme d’Or winners, have signed a pledge saying they will refuse to work with Israeli institutions and companies that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”
Such virtue!
The list of signatories — which has surpassed 1,200 names — includes filmmakers such as Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay, Adam McKay, Boots Riley, Emma Seligman, Joshua Oppenheimer and Mike Leigh, and actors including Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Ayo Edebiri, Lily Gladstone, Mark Ruffalo, Hannah Einbinder, Peter Sarsgaard, Aimee Lou Wood, Paapa Essiedu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Riz Ahmed, Melissa Barrera, Cynthia Nixon, Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem, Joe Alwyn and Josh O’Connor.
I guess I missed this, from last year, although it doesn’t surprise me that it happened:
Last year, a similar pledge was signed by more than 7000 authors and book workers, including Sally Rooney and Viet Thanh Nguyen, boycotting “complicit” Israeli publishers.
One of the comments about the Hollywood signatories: “Thank you for compiling this list of actors and the like to be avoided.”
Never heard of most of them and don’t care what they “think”.
These people are useless fantasy players, the biggest fantasy being believing they are in any way important.
Some of those Hollywood signatories are Jewish. I’m assuming they probably don’t hate Jews, though I admit I haven’t asked them. I wonder what they think should be done about Hamas, and why they think it–if they actually think anything and aren’t just posturing.
I have Jewish friends like this. Bibby is Trump, and they hate both, even though both are saving their respective countries from imbeciles like these.
Yes, I am glad of this list, since I’ll be pleased to avoid any of their projects in future.
Ah anton chigurh bardem wasnt playing a psychopath he is one
I count seven names I think I’ve seen in print. Do not recall ever seeing any of those eight in anything. Cynthia Nixon played a character in Sex and the City of which I never saw an episode; I only know she had this role because Steven Sailer referred to her and her role in one of his columns for some reason I cannot recall.
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The political opinions of people employed in motion pictures used to be much more varied than is the case today. Louis B. Mayer, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Doris Day, and Ginger Rogers were Republicans; Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis, and Tony Randall were Democrats; Katherine Hepburn campaigned for Henry Wallace. Like academe today, all is now monovox.
At lot of people there who got their start at the BBC, so no surprise at all.
Ruffalos cluelessness is legendary sargaaard often plays psychopaths but its much like that bbc list with charles dance behaving abominatively
I have not paid for a Hollywood movie ticket or DVD in 15 years. I went to a movie theatre this year to see a movie about October 7, a movie that was definitely from an Israeli perspective. A Jewish friend whose brother immigrated to Israel told me about it.
I will be on the lookout for any other Israeli movie productions to support.
I will look for a snail-mail address to write to that Israeli movie boycott group to inform them about where my movie money will be going.
Only when the axe is falling on their head, would they get a clue
On second thought not even olivia played victoria on the bbc not that long ago or netflix one of those streaming services
“Thank you for compiling this list of actors and the like to be avoided.”
Indeed.
What I don’t understand is why people in the entertainment industry do things like this. Even if they have strong opinions about social or political issues they do *not* have to take very loud public stances. When they do so members of the public are forced to make a decision. Do I buy this album? Do I watch this show or movie in which they appear?
Years ago I read a short wonderful book about levels of friendship. Ranging from “we are citizens of the same nation” to “we have a shared interest” to super close friends who sometimes know each other better than a spouse. The importance of the shared interest level of friendship is that when entertainers pull cr@p like this it divides their audience.
Instead of “hey we’re all cheering for our favorite sports team” or “we’re enjoying this movie at the theater” suddenly we are divided.
Obviously these people think no, somehow this is so terribly important, they just have to take such public stands on issues where public opinion is strongly divided.
I’m with Miguel. At some point the public needs to teach these entertainers a hard lesson. We’ve been teaching them a soft lesson for some time (their shows and movies don’t do well) and they don’t get the message. Or they get the message and don’t care. Because they know with absolute certainty the stance they take is good and taking that stance makes them a Good Person(tm).
Had these contemptible slugs been adults in 1958 they would have joined the Soviet Writers Congress condemnation of Boris Pasternak for telling the truth about the USSR. Hollywood was not created by the Jews so that they should be tormented by the hired help. Hope the 1200 have just signed the death warrant for their careers.
I saw a ” Boycott Apartheid Israel” bumper sticker a couple days ago in town. I would really like to know why the one Jewish dominated nation of Israel is considered ” Apartheid” but the multitude of Islamic nations are not ?
Jon baker:
Jew-hatred.
And Jimmy Carter, who popularized the idea in this country: see this.
I’ve been a political conservative pretty much my entire life, or at least as long as I’ve been a politically aware person in any meaningful capacity. I’ve come to expect that a large majority of the books, movies, TV shows, music, video games, and all other media that I’ve enjoyed over the years is produced by people who are in political disagreement with me at mimimum. My default assumption has always been that the political persuasion of a given creator of something I’ve enjoyed is at least left leaning until I hear otherwise (which is a rare but pleasant surprise).
Over the years I’ve mostly been able to separate the art from the artist, not dwelling too much on the occasional public political comments that given creator may make that I may find misinformed or silly. I remind myself that people with creative or artistic tendencies tend to have personalities that put primacy on emotional contextualization rather than rational, objective reasoning. To put it bluntly, in my experiance creatives tend to have a mindset that overvalues emotions and undervalues things like critical thinking and cold, rational decision making. As such I believe they’re more susceptible to peer preasure and group thinking than more non-creative personalities.
All that said, none of that excuses supporting literally violent terrorists. OK, One might quible that they’re not explicitly supporting Hamas, but there doesn’t appear to be much daylight between the rhetoric they’re using and Hamas won rhetoric (describing what’s going on in Gaza as a “genocide” is demonstably absurd).
many of these characters are notably obscure, others are working at, olivia colman has a film out revisiting ‘war of the roses’ which really doesn’t need to be,
the bottom line is being reflected in the box office of F4, weighed down by
Pedro Pascal’s stock
pantomines and other exercises, maybe bad screenwriting is as much as fault,* but also the external reality of the actor’s behavior
*the latest marvel film is shooting apparently without a script, just some scenes they cobble together
peter dinklage who may think himself worthy of this entourage, sarc, is the star of another
sort of indy film,
where the villains are the watchers of
samizdat commentary like Critical Drinker and their sponsors
I’ve heard of maybe two of these people, the rest are of the “if they fart in a forest does anyone hear it” variety.
@ Nonapod > “(describing what’s going on in Gaza as a “genocide” is demonstably absurd)”
Israel: sends warning leaflets and phone calls before bombing or attacking whenever civilians are endangered; delivers or facilitates delivery of food and necessities to the population (I would say civilians but Hamas takes most of it); has live prisoners to exchange for dead hostages, usually 100 to 1.
Israel: just took out a few Hamas leaders in a targeted bombing in Qatar with no collateral damage; blew up hundreds of Hezbollah members, with only a little collateral spillage; took out Syria’s airfields; destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities with US help.
I’m sure I’ve missed some.
Israel could kill every person in Gaza within a day if they wanted to.
Worst.
Genocide.
Ever.