Jenna Ortega voices her support for Palestine and demands to know 'where is the humanity' - just months after Scream VII co-star Melissa Barrera was fired for criticizing Israel

Daily Mail ^ | May 29, 2024 | Nic White

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Jenna Ortega has called for a ceasefire in Gaza months after her former Scream VII co-star was fired for voicing support for Palestinians...

'Masses debating over a ceasefire while thousands upon thousands of children continue being slaughtered. Where is the humanity,' she wrote...

Ortega's former Scream VII co-star Melissa Barrera was in November dumped from the horror film after making her own posts in support of Palestinians.

However, hers were more provocative than Ortega's and were deemed 'hate speech' by production company Spyglass.

'Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp,' she wrote in one Instagram story.

'Cornering everyone together, with no where to go, no electricity no water… People have learnt nothing from our histories.

'And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen. THIS IS GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING.'

Barrera, who played Sam Carpenter in the film series, in other posts labeled Israel as a 'colonized' land and appeared to repeat an anti-Semitic trope about Jewish people controlling the media.

'I too come from a colonized country,' she wrote, adding a Mexican flag. 'Palestine WIL be free.'

Another post complained she had been looking for videos from a Palestinian perspective to share, but couldn't find any on her feed.

'Western media only shows the [Israeli] side. Why do they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself... Censorship is very real,' she wrote.

Spyglass did not hold back in its condemnation of the actress in explaining why she was kicked off the film after anchoring its previous two installments.

'We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech,' it said.

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