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Emma Stone, Jonathan Glazer join growing list of Hollywood figures boycotting Israeli film institutions
JTA ^ | September 10, 2025 | Andrew Lapin

Posted on 09/10/2025 10:14:41 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Israeli film industry leaders say the ban is counterproductive and targets “precisely those who are committed to fostering dialogue.”

A boycott circulated by film-industry luminaries targeting Israeli film and cultural institutions is picking up steam days after its release, with more big names like Emma Stone and Bowen Yang signing onto a list that now numbers more than 3,000.

A growing number of Jewish creatives are also signing on, including Jonathan Glazer, the director of the Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest” and an executive producer on the new Palestinian-led Gaza drama “The Voice of Hind Rajab.”

Abbi Jacobson, Eric Andre, “The Bear” star Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Oscar-winning screenwriter Arthur Harari and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker are among the other Jews who have joined the list. Some of the non-Jewish names now include Guy Pearce (recently Oscar-nominated for playing an antisemitic industrialist in “The Brutalist”), Harris Dickinson, Elliot Page and Peter Sarsgaard. Sarsgaard recently starred in the docudrama “September 5” about the 1972 terror attacks on Israeli Olympians; his daughter with Jewish actress Maggie Gyllenhaal was arrested at a Columbia University pro-Palestinian protest earlier this year.

The petition, circulated by the group Film Workers For Palestine, pledges “not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions — including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies — that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” It names organizations like the Jerusalem Film Festival, but says the boycott does not apply to Israeli individuals.

The group says they are inspired by a similar boycott that had targeted Apartheid South Africa. Actors Javier Bardem and Susan Sarandon helped to promote the petition on Instagram.

A boycott circulated by film-industry luminaries targets institutions like the Jerusalem Film Festival. Above, Israeli actress Gal Gadot, center, and festival director Roni Mahadav-Levin, right, attend the opening ceremony of the event in Jerusalem on June 17, 2025. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Several Israeli film associations spoke out against the boycott. The group Friends of the Israeli Film and TV Producers Association, in a statement to NPR, called the boycott “profoundly misguided” and said its signatories “are targeting the wrong people.”

“By targeting us — the creators who give voice to diverse narratives and foster dialogue — these signatories are undermining their own cause and attempting to silence us,” the group said. “We call on the international community to recognize our commitment to dialogue, peace, and giving voice to all sides of this conflict. Our stories are tools for understanding and healing, and we will continue using them to help bring an end to violence.”

Nadav Ben Simon, chair of the Israeli screenwriter’s guild, also called the boycott counterproductive. In a statement published in The Guardian, he said that Israeli filmmakers often collaborate with Palestinian creatives and that boycotts “harm precisely those who are committed to fostering dialogue and building bridges between peoples. Such measures risk silencing the very voices striving tirelessly for reconciliation and understanding.”

Addressing the boycott’s exemption for Israeli individuals, Ben Simon added, “In Israel, there is no such thing as boycotting institutions without affecting creators… There are very few Israeli films that are not funded in some way by state-budgeted institutions or foundations.”


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To: nickcarraway

As a supporter of Israel, I am not worried about all these idiots because Jews control Hollywood so they will all be blacklisted and never work in Hollywood again.

Bwahahahahaha Hahahahahaha.


21 posted on 09/10/2025 10:55:46 AM PDT by JewishRighter (NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW)
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To: JewishRighter

Reminds me of the classic Norm MacDonald joke:

“Earlier this week, Marlon Brando met with Jewish leaders to apologize for comments he made on Larry King Live, among them that “Hollywood is run by Jews.” The Jewish leaders accepted the actor’s apology and announced that Brando is now free to work again.”


22 posted on 09/10/2025 10:57:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: JewishRighter

Seriously. I looked it up, the guy mentioned in the article, Glazer, is Jewish, as were some of the others.


23 posted on 09/10/2025 10:57:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I actually like Emma Stone so this surprised me. The anti-Semitics keep outing themselves.


24 posted on 09/10/2025 11:02:48 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: nickcarraway

As if I care what these self important airheads have to say. Who do they think they are, because I haven’t a clue. We pay actors to entertain us, like the proverbial circus dog, nothing more. Sheesh, the hubris!


25 posted on 09/10/2025 11:03:14 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: rktman

The absurdity is, probably 75% of actors, writers, producers and directors are, themselves, Jews. Self hating Jews, but Jews none the less. They are an abomination. He is a Jew who is one inwardly.


26 posted on 09/10/2025 11:06:21 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative

Many Jews hate Israel and Zionists.


27 posted on 09/10/2025 11:08:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

As if she supported them anyways

Pffft

Just another media whore whoring.

Zzzzz


28 posted on 09/10/2025 11:16:56 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: packrat35

FR taught me 2 decades ago that unless a celeb is explicitly known to be on the right one can assume they are leftist or at least willing to go along with the agenda for their careers sake. The number of known right wing celebs are somewhat few and far between because to be so pretty much assures you are blacklisted.


29 posted on 09/10/2025 11:24:53 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Dilbert San Diego

As usual.


30 posted on 09/10/2025 11:35:38 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: butlerweave

Same here, I couldn’t pick any of them out of a lineup.

I wonder how much longer until AI can finally replace these ‘actors’ and we won’t have hear their high-school drop-out dime-store pamphlet opinions about life the universe and everything.


31 posted on 09/10/2025 5:02:44 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: nickcarraway

luminaries?
These are dark people.


32 posted on 09/10/2025 6:09:11 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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