Posted on 03/20/2024 7:42:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The celebrated playwright and screenwriter, a four-time Academy Award nominee, said that he thinks that what is happening in Gaza right now "really looks a lot like ethnic cleansing to me."
Tony Kushner has come out in support of Jonathan Glazer‘s Oscars acceptance speech, describing the British directer’s comments at the ceremony as an “unimpeachable irrefutable statement.”
Speaking on the Haaretz Podcast which was released Wednesday, Kushner, a four-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter, was asked about his feelings about a number of topics related to the Israel-Gaza conflict and was directly about Glazer’s speech which has been attacked by some Jewish figures in Hollywood and was the subject of a recent open letter that has signed by 1,000 people.
During the podcast, Kushner, who is in Israel to promote a production of Angels in America in Tel Aviv, brings up the blowback to Glazer’s Oscars speech, a speech which he described as “really sort of unimpeachable irrefutable statement. The playwright is then asked if he agrees with Glazer’s comments, to which Kushner says, “Of course, I mean, who doesn’t?”
Kushner explains, “What [Glazer’s] saying is so, is so simple. He’s saying Jewishness, Jewish identity, Jewish history, the history of the Holocaust, the history of Jewish suffering must not be used as an excuse for a project of dehumanizing or slaughtering other people.”
“This is a misappropriation of, of what it means to be a Jew, what the Holocaust meant, and he rejects that. Who doesn’t agree with that?,” he continues.
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What a doofus.
Holocaust Survivor Kitty Hart Revisits Auschwitz 40 Years Later (Full Documentary) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dntryh_9o8Y
Is he talking about the October 7 attack?
Turn over the attackers and the hostages, right? Then it’s all over.
Using the award speech given for a Holocaust documentary to attack Israel was the height of bad taste and ignorance.
Along with choosing Jimmy Kimmel as the host of the Oscars.
This putz exemplifies “walk into the chambers, without a struggle” outdated Jewish thinking. To survive amongst a sea of islamic lunatics, you have to be brutal yourself. Otherwise you won’t exist at all.
Kimmel is a whore. He started out on the Man Show doing incel / right wing comedy with Adam Carolla (the actual funny one of the two) and then sold out to get the big bucks on late night tv. He steals from Letterman so much he should be paying a royalty.
The guys a non-talented hack who’s only claim to fame (his “nominations”) are because of really bad Spielberg knockoffs in the last 20 years… yknow “west Side Story redux” - coz screenplay writer on that requires a lot of effort.
He also wrote his own book!
“ Kushner’s six-word memoir was “At least I never voted Republican.”
Look gaiz! He’s just so darn smart and important we should listen to him!
David Letterman seemed to borrow some schtick from Bob Shreve at WLW / WLWT, Cincinnati, Ohio - I wondered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Shreve
I am guessing, that Letterman might have caught Bob Shreve on late night WLWT TV or on WLW radio.
Letterman at Ball State:
https://www.bsu.edu/web/letterman/about
Trump probably heard Glazer’s polemic about refuting his Jewishness, led to his comment about Jews hating their religion if they support the democrat. Not entirely wrong.
How could it possibly be ethnic cleansing?
Grandstanding moron, Tony Kushner, should take a look at best picture, Oppenheimer. We nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima with the nuclear science provided by Oppenheimer. He was unfairly condemned for killing too many people by moron like Kushner.
Every war is not ethnic cleansing. Hamas targets innocent jews. Israel targets terrorists. There is the difference.
>> must not be used as an excuse for a project of dehumanizing or slaughtering other people.
“other people”? Be specific, because some people groups need slaughtering.
Like you Hollywood elites, for example. You are in serious need of a BLOODBATH. As President Trump would say...
P.S. You have already handled the dehumanizing part yourself, you self-loathing subhumans.
Letterman also stole from Paul Dixon.
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