Posted on 05/16/2025 4:19:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Cannes (France) (AFP) – Hollywood heavyweights Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Riz Ahmed and Guillermo del Toro have added their names to a letter condemning the film industry's silence on what it called "genocide" in Gaza, the organisers confirmed Friday.
The petition, signed by more than 370 actors and filmmakers, also denounced Israel's killing of Fatima Hassouna, the young Gaza photojournalist featured in the documentary "Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk", which premiered at the Cannes film festival Thursday.
The organisers of the letter said the French actor Juliette Binoche, who is chairing the jury at Cannes, also added her name to the letter, along with Rooney Mara, US indie director Jim Jarmusch and "Lupin" star Omar Sy.
"Schindler's List" star Ralph Fiennes as well as Richard Gere, Mark Ruffalo, Guy Pearce, Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem, and directors David Cronenberg, Pedro Almodovar, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Leigh said they were "ashamed" of their industry's failure to speak out about Israel's siege of Gaza in the original letter.
In her Cannes speech Tuesday Binoche also referenced the Israeli hostages taken by Palestinian group Hamas in its October 7, 2023 assault on Israel, which sparked the Gaza war.
"Sicko" and "Bowling for Columbine" director Michael Moore and French actor Camille Cottin of "Call My Agent" fame are among other entertainment industry figures who have added their names to the letter since Tuesday.
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There was an old George Burns skit that lampshaded that one.
George is deeply reading Der Sturmer (the Nazi paper). Gracie walks up. “George why are you reading that garbage?!? It’s all about how the Jews have all the wealth, control Hollywood, control the USA! Control the weather!”
George just smiles. “Well, I wanted to read some good news for a change!”
Will they issue a protest warning against Planned Parenthood over the genocide of over 60 million aborted/murdered children?
People who dress up and pretend to be other people are much smarter than the rest of the proletariat. The Ministry of Truth said so.
Seriously, I’m not saying all actors and actresses are vapid, dull, uninformed, overpaid, drug addicted, perverted, narcissistic, thick skulled, depraved, and useless. No. There’s probably a good 3 to 7 of them that I wouldn’t want to slap a in the face with a 10 pound salmon.
Didn’t they get the memo that 94% of the public doesn’t care what these “Stars” think or how much faux “outrage” they choose to emote for all the cameras and likes.
Indeed the birth place of liberalism and sexual deviance.
I like many of the film performances Juliet Binoche has been in, but I don’t refer to her, a French woman, for advice on how America should be run.
“More Hollywood stars join protest letter over Gaza ‘genocide’”
More Hollywood stars prove they are completely stupid by supporting protest letter over alleged Gaza ‘genocide’
There, fixed it
Mouth breathing lackwits.
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Robert Heinlein:
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously—after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and sub-literate every time he opens his mouth.”
Most, but not all Hollywood types are nothing more than whores who will do anything for money and fame. And I mean ANYTHING.
Hollywood has always been a den of iniquity, even when churning out wholesome movies.
How much were they paid by USAID?
Anything to protect the hamas animals. Anything.
ISWYDT
Ouch!
My wife challenged me to something called ‘The Tortilla Slap’. It’s exactly what you think it is. I think she enjoyed that more than she should have…
What the Gazans did in Israel o October 7th was real genocide with the hunting down and murder of men, women, children, babies, young and old in koranic style. What is happening in Gaza is a reckoning that is way over due.
I’m not sure I know what you mean.
“Lampshading” is when you take a tired (typically TV or movie) trope of some kind and flip it intentionally in a mocking or self-aware manner.
HAS A SINGLE ONE OF THESE IDIOTS HAD A FACE TO FACE TALK WITH A SURVIVOR OF OCT 7th?
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