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Hundreds of Jewish creatives and Hollywood professionals including Debra Messing and Eli Roth denounce British director Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech in open letter

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Around 500 prominent Hollywood figures have signed an open letter condemning Jewish director Jonathan Glazer Oscars acceptance speech, accusing him of likening Israel's assault on Gaza to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. 

The letter was published Monday by Variety. It was signed by luminaries such as Debra Messing, Eli Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Julianna Margulies. 

After winning the award for Best International Feature for his film Zone of Interest, British-born Glazer took to the podium and said that his movie showed '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,' he continued. 

'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?'

In response, the letter says: '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 Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer (right) condemned the war in Gaza during his Oscars acceptance speech and said, 'We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation'

The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer (right) condemned the war in Gaza during his Oscars acceptance speech and said, 'We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation'

The letter was published Monday by Variety. It was signed by luminaries such as Debra Messing, Eli Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, shown here, and Julianna Margulies

The letter was published Monday by Variety. It was signed by luminaries such as Debra Messing, Eli Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, shown here, and Julianna Margulies

Signatory Julianna Margulies has been vocal in her opposition to Hamas since October 7

Signatory Julianna Margulies has been vocal in her opposition to Hamas since October 7

Will & Grace star Debra Messing is known for her liberal political activism

Will & Grace star Debra Messing is known for her liberal political activism 

Horror director Eli Roth also signed the letter denouncing Glazer

Horror director Eli Roth also signed the letter denouncing Glazer

'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.'

The stars go on to accuse Glazer of giving '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,' the letter goes on. 

Others who signed the letter include writer Amy Sherman-Palladino and producer Amy Pascal as well as a litany of Hollywood agents and executives. 

Glazer has yet to make a comment on the new letter. 

Glazer said he hopes the film will draw attention to current conflicts in the world. 'All our choices are made to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say, "Look what they did then," rather "look what we do now,"' he said.

Sandra Hüller, one of the film’s stars, wept as Glazer’s hands shook while reading his acceptance speech. Hollywood A-lister Mark Ruffalo was also enthusiastic in his applause for the speech. 

However, one of Zone of Interest's producers, Danny Cohen, who shared the stage with Glazer condemned the remarks in an subsequent interview saying that he 'fundamentally' disagreed with them. 

'It’s really important to recognize it’s upset a lot of people and a lot of people feel upset and angry about it. And I understand that anger frankly,' Cohen said in an interview on the Unholy podcast. 

Holocaust survivor, David Schaecter wrote an open letter calling Glazer's comparison 'morally indefensible'

Holocaust survivor, David Schaecter wrote an open letter calling Glazer's comparison 'morally indefensible'

Earlier this month, the president of the Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA also slammed Glazer's comments.  

Holocaust survivor, David Schaecter, who spent three years at the Auschwitz death camp and one at Buchenwald, wrote an open letter calling Glazer's comparison 'morally indefensible.'

'You should be ashamed of yourself for using Auschwitz to criticize Israel,' said 94 year-old Schaecter.

Hüller plays Hedwig, the wife of Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), the bloodthirsty commandant of Auschwitz. The film was the United Kingdom’s submission to the Oscars.

In the film, the couple and their children go about their daily routines — living in a home just on the other side of a stone wall from the gas chambers. H

Höss spends his work days overseeing the 'processing' of trainloads of people, most sent directly to their deaths. Then he comes home, where he and Hedwig share meals, celebrate birthdays, read their kids bedtime stories and make vacation plans.

Full list of signatories to the list denouncing Jonathan Glazer's speech  

A.M. Driver – SAG

Aaron Erol Ozlevi – Director

Aaron Fishman – DGA Producer / Director

Adam Berkowitz – Manager/Producer/Strategic Advisor

Adam Friedman – Creative Artists Agency

Adam Goldworm – Manager/Producer

Adam Kulbersh

Adam Newman

Adam Rosenberg

Adam Waltuch – TelevisaUnivision

Alan R. Cohen – WGA

Alex Anhalt – Sugar23

Alex Foster

Alex Horn – Author and Editor

Alex Lebovici – Producer

Alex Litvak – WGA Writer

Alex Meitner

Alida Michql – AEA

Alissa Vradenburg

Aliza J. Sokolow

Allan Spielman – RETRO69, WOODSTOCK TRIBUTE MUSICIAN AND COMPUTER DEVELOPER

Allison Lahav

Ally Shuster Agent

Alon Aranya

Alyssa Hill – WGA Screenwriter

Amanda Markowitz – SAG/AFTRA, PGA

Amy Engelberg – WGA

Amy Pascal – Producer

Amy Sherman-Palladino – WGA / DGA Writer/director/producer

Amy Straus – WGA Writer

Andrea Barros

Andrea Cayton

Andrew Avner

Andrew Stearn – PGA Producer

Anna April-Ross

Annie Wood – WGA/SAG/AFTRA Actor/Writer/Artist

Ari Ackerman

Ari Arad

Ari Frenkel – SAG Actor / Filmmaker

Ariel Nishli

Ariel Vromen – DGA Filmmaker

Ariella Blejer – WGA

Ariella Noveck

Ariyela Wald-Cohain – CDG 892 COSTUME DESIGNER

Art Levitt

Asher Weinberger

Avi Liberman – SAG/Aftra

Avital Levy

Avital Onn – Shachar Business Affairs

Aviva Pressman – AEA, SAG

Avram Butch Kaplan – DGA Jamsea Productions, Inc

Barbara Garshman – WGAE Garshman Productions LLV

Barbara Heller – SAG Actor writer producer

Barbara Lazaroff – ASID Commercial designer, restaurateur, businesswoman

Barbie Kligman – WGA

Barry Schkolnick – WGA Writer/Producer/Creator

Bart Coleman

Batia Parnass – SAG AFTRA

Becky Tahel – PGA, SAG-E Producer, Writer, Actress

Ben Cosgrove – CEO, Leviathan Productions

Ben Levin – LINK Entertainment

Ben Mor – DGA Director

Ben Younger – WGA/DGA

Benjamin Gober

Benjamin Rapoport

Bess Kargman – DGA Director

Beth Milstein – WGAW Writer

Betsy Borns – WGAW Writer/Producer

Bill Freiberger – WGA Writer

Bob Bookman

Bob Kushell – WGA

Bonnie Greenberg – Music supervisor/producer/professor

Bradley J. Fischer- Producers Guild of America Producer

Brett Gelman – Actor and Writer

Brett Gursky – Writer / Director / Producer

Brian Frazer

Brian Liebman

Bruce Burger – Music Producer and Recording Artist, RebbeSoul

Bruce Franklin – DGA Producer

Bruce Goldstein – The Cat in Manhattan

Bruce Resnikoff

Caitlin Gold – Producer

Cameron Curtis

Carin Sage – EVP, Feature Film, Skydance Prods

Carl Schwaber – SAG-AFTRA

Carmi Zlotnik

Carolyn Newman

Caryn Osofsky – SAG SAG actress and director

Chava Floryn – Filmmaker/Actress Twin Rose Media

Chuck Slavin – SAG-AFTRA Actor

Cindy Kaplan

Claudine Jakubowicz – Film Producer

Clifford J. Green – WGAW Screenwriter

Cory Richman – Manager / Liebman Entertainment

Craig Emanuel – Entertainment Executive

Craig Singer – p.g.a. Producer

D.M. Harring – WGA

Dan Adler

Dan Birnbaum

Dan Kaufman – VFX Supervisor/VFX Producer

Dan Marshall – SAG-AFTRA

Dan Redfeld – AFM Local 47 Composer

Dan Signer – WGA

Dana Min Goodman

Dani Menkin

Daniel Alcheh – SCL

Daniel Grindlinger – WGA Writer

Daniel Kaufman – DGA Director

Daniel Lehrer – WGA Writer

Daniel Rosenberg – WGAE

Daniella Rabbani – SAG AFTRA AEA Actor

Danielle Pretsfelder Demchick – CSA Casting Director

Danna Rosenthal

Danny Manus Writer – Script Consultant

Danny Weiss – WGA

Dave Chameides – Local 600 and DGA Camera Operator

David Abrookin

David Bickel – WGA Writer/Producer

David Brandes – WGA writer

David Fury – WGA/DGA/SAG-AFTRA Round Swamp Entertainment

David Grae – WGA

David Haring

David Kekst

David Kendall – WGA/DGA

David Kohan – WGA Writer-Producer

David Lipper – SAG Actor, writer, director, producer

David N. Weiss – WGA Writer-Director

David Price – TV Academy Executive Producer

David Renzer – Creative Community for Peace

David S. Rosenthal – WGA

David Shore – WGAW DGA

David Zabel – WGA

Debi Pomerantz

Deborah Marcus

Debra Messing – SAG/AFTRA Actor/Producer

Deena Stern – Entertainment Marketing Executive

Dena Roth – Ampas Set decorator

Dena Waxman – Executive Producer / Writer

Diane Robin Sag

Diego Chojkier

Doug Mankoff – Producer

Eitan Chitayat – Creative Director

Eli Roth – Director/Screenwriter

Eli Steele – Producer

Elin Hampton – WGA/SAG-AFTRA Round Swamp Entertainment

Ellie Kadosh – Actress

Elon Gold – WGA SAG/AFTRA Comedian/Actor/Writer

Elyssa Nicole Trust

Emmanuelle Chriqui – SAG Actor

Erez Rosenberg – Attorney / Partner at Jackoway Austen et al

Eric Feig – Entertainment Attorney

Eric Fineman

Eric Tuchman – WGA writer-producer

Estelle Lasher

Esther Netter

Evan Silver – DGA Director / Writer

Fernando Szew

Franklyn Gottbetter – DGA Producer

Fred Raskin – ACE Film Editor

Frederic Richter

Gabriela Tscherniak – DGA Director

Gail Berman – PGA Producer

Gail Goldberg – CSA Casting Director

Gail Katz PGA – Producer

Gary Barber – Spyglass Media Group

Gary Gilbert – Gilbert Films

Geoff Silverman – Producers the Cartel Literary Management

Geoffrey Cantor – SAG-AFTRA Actor

George Gallagher – SAG-AFTRA

Gil Goldschein

Ginette Rhodes – SAG AFTRA AEA

Golan Ramraz – writer/producer

Gregg Simon – DGA Director

Guri Weinberg – SAG/AFTRA Actor

Hank Steinberg – WGA / DGA Writer / Director / Producer

Hannah Louise Shearer – WGAW Writer

Hannah Tuber

Hawk Koch – PGA, DGA, AMPAS Producer

Heshy Rosenwasser – Musician and songwriter / The Hesh Inc.

Hope Levy – Sag Aftra Actress

Howard Michael Gould – Writer

Howard Reichman – Producer/director

Howard Rosenman- SAGAFTRA MOVIE & TV PRODUCER

Iddo Goldberg – SAG Actor

Ilana Wernick – WGA Writer-Producer

Inbal B. Lessner- ACE Executive Producer/Editor

Inon Shampanier – WGA

Ivan Menchell – Writers Guild Writer/Producer

Jacey Stamler – 705 Wardrobe Supervisor

Jack Plotnick – SAG/AFTRA Actor

Jacob Fenton – UTA Agent

Jaime Becker

Jaime Eliezer Karas – DGA

James Beaman – SAG/AFTRA Actor/Writer

Jamie Bialkower

Jamie Denbo – WGA, SAG-AFTRA CO-EP Grey’s Anatomy

Jamie Elman- SAG, WGA YidLife Crisis

Jan Oxenberg- WGA

Jared Sleisenger

Jarred Weisfeld – Publishing

Jason A. Kessler – WGA Screenwriter

Jason Newman – Manager / Untitled Entertainment

Jason Venokur- WGA

Jay Kogen – wga, dga, sag-aftra WRITER/Producer/Director

Jay Shore

Jeff Astrof – WGA Writer/Showrunner

Jeff Fierson – PGA Producer

Jeff Greenberg – Gersh

Jeff Handel

Jeff Rake – WGA Writer/Showrunner

Jeffrey Braer – Former SAG/AFTRA Independent Writer/Producer & Theme Park Developer

Jenn Levine – Writer / Producer

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Maisel – WGA Playwright/Screenwriter

Jennifer Shakeshaft – SAG

Jennifer Smith – GMS (Guild Of Music Supervisors) Music Supervisor

Jeremy Aluma – SDC Theatre Director & Producer

Jeremy Drysdale – WGA Screenwriter

Jeremy Elice – Writer

Jeremy Garelick – WGA/DGA

Jeremy Goldscheider – Producer

Jeremy Lehrer-Graiwer – WGA Writer

Jeremy Padow – Screenwriter

Jerry Weil – SAG-AFTRA Actor

Jessica Leventhal – WGA

Jessica Switch – PGA Producer

Jill Kargman – WGA/SAG

JJ Adler Dga – Director

Jo LaMond – WGA

Joanie Leeds – Recording Academy

Jodi Fleisher – SAG/Aftra Actor

Jodi Lieberman – Talent Manager

Joe Pearlman

Joe Weisberg

Joel Fields – WGA

Joel H. Cohen – WGA

Joel Michaely

Joelle Boucai – WGA

Joey Jupiter-Levin – SAG/Aftra Fi-Core Actress

John Altman

John Fogelman

Jon Polk

Jon Weinbach – President, Skydance Sports

Jonah Platt – WGA, SAG

Jonathan Baruch

Jonathan Herman – WGA

Jonathan Jakubowicz – Wga Writer & Director

Jonathan Prince – WGA, DGA, SAG

Jonathan Rosen

Jonny Caplan – WGA Impossible Media

Jonny Umansky – WGA Screenwriter

Jordan Roberts – SAG-AFTRA Actor & Producer, Content Creator

Josh Schaer – WGA TV writer / producer

Josh Silver – Personal manager

Joshua Katz – WGA

Josie Davis – SAG/AFTRA

Judie Aronson – SAG-AFTRA

Judy Gols – Sag/Aftra, WGA, Actors Equity

Julianna Margulies – SAG-AFTRA Actor

Julie D. Holman – WIFT Independent film, Director, writer, and producer

Justin Arnold – SAG-AFTRA Actor

Kadia Saraf – SAG and WGA-E Actor and Writer

Karen Morse – WGA Screenwriter

Kate Cohen – DGA, PGA Producer/Director

Keetgi Kogan Steinberg – WGA Writer/Producer/Showrunner

Keith Eisner – WGA Showrunner

Ken Hertz – Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk

Keren Hantman – 1st AD

Kevin Asch

Kevin Bright – DGA Producer/Director

Kimberly Wallis- SAG/AFTRA Actor

Kory Lunsford – Producer

Lana Melman – Authors Guild Writer

Lanie Siegel

Laurie Israel – WGA, TAG

Laurie Seidman – Producers Guild Producer

Lawrence Bender- Producer

Lea Porter – The Beverly Hills Estates

Leah Gottfried

Lee Broda – SAG and PGA Producer and actress

Lee Trink

Lee Weinberg – Weinberg Gonser LLP

Leo Pearlman

Leonard Dick

Leslie Belzberg – AMPAS, PGA Self Employed

Leslie Schapira – WGA Writer/Producer

Lev L. Spiro – DGA Director

Limor Gott – Producer

Linda Burstyn – WGA

Lior Rosner – ASCAP Rosner Music Inc.

Liron Artzi

Lisa Edelstein – SAG/AFTRA, DGA, WGA Actor, director, writer

Lisa Ullmann – Producer and Social Impact

Loni Steele Sosthand – WGA Writer, Producer

Lori Alan SAG-AFTRA – Actress/producer/writer

Lorin Green

Loris Kramer Lunsford – Producer

Lynn Harris – PGA:AMPAS Producer

Lynn Roth – WGA, DGA Writer/Director/Producer

M.J. Kang – WGA, SAG-AFTRA Writer, Actor

Mandana Dayani

Mandy Mitchell – Wardrobe Stylist

Marc Guggenheim – WGA, DGA, PGA, Animation Guild Writer/Producer

Marci Liroff – AMPAS Intimacy Coordination

Marcus J Freed – SAG-e

Margrit Polak – Talent Manager

Mark Feuerstein – SAG, DGA, WGA Actor

Mark Moskowitz – Producer

Mark Pellegrino – SAG Actor

Mark Reisman – WGA

Mark Schiff

Marni Flans

Marty Adelstein – PGA Tomorrow Studios

Matt Ritter – SAG Screenwriter/Producer/Actor

Matthew Hiltzik

Matthew Salsberg – wga writer producer

Matti Leshem – WGA Writer, Producer

Max Jacoby

Maya Lasry

Melissa Byer- WGA

Melissa Center – Actor, Filmmaker

Melissa Greenspan – Sag-aftra

Melissa Rosenberg – WGA Showrunner

Melissa Zukerman

Menachem Silverstein – Comedian

Micha Liberman – 700 editors guild Owner Mind Meld Arts

Michael Auerbach

Michael B. Kaplan – WGA

Michael Berns – WGA Writer/Producer

Michael Borkow – WGA

Michael Diamond – Talent Manager / MGMT Entertainment

Michael Glouberman

Michael Konyves

Michael Lewis – Agent

Michael Malone

Michael Pelmont – Manager

Michael Rapaport – Actor/Disruptor

Michael Robertson Moore

Michael Sobel

Michal Schick

Micky Levy – WGA Writer/Director

Mikhail Nayfeld – Heroes and Villains Entertainment

Mimi Steinberg – Writer/producer

Miranda Bailey – Sag – pga – academy member Cold iron pictures

Mitchell Akselrad – WGA

Montana Tucker

Moran Atias – SAG Actress producer

Nancy Cohen – WGA Writer/Producer

Nancy Spielberg – Producer

Natalie Marciano – President/ Producer

Natalie Shampanier – WGA

Nathan Firer

Neil A. Cohen

Nick Greene – SAG

Noa Tishby – SAG Author

Noam Ash – Writer, actor

Odeya Rush

Omri Lahav

Ophira Dagan – Producer

Oren Safdie – WGA ST. OLAF COLLEGE

Ori Elon Shtisel- Screenwriter

Pam Reynolds – AMPAS / Executive branch Amazon MGM Studios

Pamela Davis – WGA

Patrick Moss – WGA

Paul A Mendelson – WGGB Screenwriter and author

Paul Weitzman – Literary Agent

Peter Lenkov – WGA

Phyllis Strong – WGA

Po Kutchins – Showrunner

Rabbi David Wolpe – Sinai Temple/ Harvard U

Rabbi Marvin Hier

Rabbi Steve Leder – Wilshire Boulevard Temple

Rabbi Yonah Bookstein

Rachel Kamerman – Art Directors Guild local #800

Rachel Kaplan – PGA

Rachel Seymour

Rahman Daneshgar

Rakefet Abergel- SAG AFTRA

Rami Rivera Frankl – DGA

Raphael Margules

Raymond Leon Roker – Creator

Rebecca Mall – CMO

Rebecca Thomas – Agent

Rena Strober – Sag-Aftra Actor

Rhonda Price

Rina Mimoun – WGA

Rinat Arinos

Rob Kutner – WGA Writer-Producer

Rob Lee PGA

Robert Kaplan

Robert Lantos – PGA Producer

Robert Rovner- WGA Writer/Producer

Robin Lippin – Local 399 and CSA casting director

Robyn Bluestone

Rochel Saks – Manager

Rod Lurie – DGA, WGA

Roger Kumble – WGA

Ron Rappaport – WGA

Ron West- Thruline Entertainment

Rona Geller

Ross Greenberg

Ross Novie – DGA Director / 1st AD

Rosser Goodman – PGA Circle Content

Rotem Alima – Executive Producer

Ryan Guiterman – Writer-Director

Salvador Litvak

Sam Feuer – SAG/AFTRA Actor/Producer

Sam Sandak – WGA Writer / Producer

Sam Wasserman – Producers Guild, Academy of Television Producer

Samantha Ettus – Founder, 2024 New Voices

Sami Kolko – SAG AFTRA Actor / Producer

Sammy Horowitz – WGA Writer

Samuel Franco – WGA

Sarah Afkami – WGA Writer

Sari Sanchez – SAG-AFTRA Actor/ Writer

Saul Blinkoff

Scott Kaufman

Scott Levine – DGA Producer

Scott Melrose – Talent Agent

Scott Mitchell – Rosenberg CEO, Platinum Studios Inc.

Scott Rosenbaum

Scott Rosenfelt – WGA, DGA Writer/Producer/Director

Sepideh Makabi – Director

Seth Fisher

Seth Kurland- WGA Writer/Producer

Seth Rudetsky – Sag/Aftra, WGA East Actor, radio host, writer, musician

Shaked Berenson – pga

Shani Atias – SAG AFTRA Actress

Shanni Suissa – CEO, Jews Talk Justice

Sharon Bialy – CSA, Academy of Motion Pictures Member Casting Director

Sharon Lieblein – CSA, teamsters local 399 Casting Director

Sharona Beck

Shauna Perlman – Agent

Sheer Aviram – Actress / Writer / Director

Shep Rosenman – Attorney

Sherry Lansing – Producer

Shie Rozow – Picture Editors Guild Composer, Music Editor

Shir Samari

Shira Rosenfeld – Creative producer

Shira Yoram – Producer

Simcha Jacobovici – Filmmaker

Sophie Kargman – DGA Director

Spencer Berman – Producer

Stacey Tenenbaum – CSA

Stacy Sarner – The Walt Disney Company

Stella Evans

Stephanie Liss – WGAW, DRAMATISTS GUILD Writer

Stephen Levinson – WGA-E

Steven E Gordon – 839 and 800 Director Wild Canary

Steven Marmalstein – WGA

Stuart Acher – Director/Writer

Sue Steinberg

Susan Rovner

Susan Rudick- SAG-AFTRA Actor

Tamar Pelzig

Tamar Simon – BAFTA Film Distributor and Publicist

Tamara Becher-Wilkinson – WGA

Tara Strong – SAG/ACTRA Actress

Terry Serpico – SAG AFTRA, WGAE Actor, Writer,Director

Tiffany Haimof – Wasserman / Senior Director, Business Affairs

Tiffany Lo WGA

Tovah Feldshuh – SAG-AFTRA-EQUITY ACTOR

Traci Szymanski

Tracy-Ann Oberman – Actor

Victoria Gordon

Vincent LeGrow

Wendy Engelberg – WGA

Wendy Sachs – WGA Director/Producer

Yael Swerdlow – Video Game Industry CEO/Founder Maestro Games SPC

Yahm Steinberg – Actor

Yuri Rutman – SAG

Yuval David – SAGAFTRA, AEA Actor, Director, Journalist

Ziba Terrio

Zusha Goldin – Celebrity Photographer

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