{"id":170893,"date":"2025-09-26T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170893\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:39:06","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-on-gaza-whats-happening-is-no-less-than-a-genocide-jennifer-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170893\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence on Gaza: \u2018What\u2019s happening is no less than a genocide\u2019 | Jennifer Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> has spoken up about Israel\u2019s war in Gaza<\/a> and censorship in the US.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a press conference for her new film Die, My Love<\/a> at the San Sebasti\u00e1n film festival, Lawrence responded to several journalists\u2019 questions about fraught political topics, despite a festival moderator attempting to shut them down, according to Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When asked about Israel\u2019s violence in Gaza, which many of the world\u2019s leading experts have called a genocide<\/a>, Lawrence replied: \u201cI\u2019m terrified. It\u2019s mortifying. What\u2019s happening is no less than a genocide and it\u2019s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat makes me so sad is the disrespect in the discourse of American politics right now and how that is going to be normalized to the kids right now,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be normal to them that politicians lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Israeli offensive in Gaza has killed more than 65,000 people, injured more than 160,000, and reduced much of the territory to ruin since Hamas-led attacks killed 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October 2023. About 15 of every 16 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military since it broke a ceasefire<\/a> in March have been civilians, according to data<\/a> from the independent violence-tracking organization Acled. The Guardian revealed<\/a> last month that internal data from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found a civilian death toll of 83% between the outbreak of the war in October 2023 and May of this year.<\/p>\n

Lawrence urged attendees at the film festival to \u201cstay focused on who is responsible\u201d rather than directing their anger at actors and artists, probably a nod to a recent pledge<\/a> signed by more than 400 entertainment industry figures to boycott Israeli film institutions they say are \u201cimplicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people\u201d. The pledge<\/a>, inspired by the cultural boycott that contributed to the end of apartheid in South Africa, differentiates between complicit institutions that continue to partner with the Israeli government, such as the Jerusalem film festival, Haifa international film festival, Docaviv and TLVFest, and individual film-makers. \u201cThis refusal takes aim at institutional complicity, not identity,\u201d reads the pledge, whose signees include Mark Ruffalo, Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Olivia Colman, Ava DuVernay, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall and Yorgos Lanthimos.<\/p>\n

Lawrence is not among the signees, nor has she signed an open letter<\/a>, signed by Liev Schreiber, Debra Messing, Mayim Bialik and 1,200 other entertainment figures, calling the pledge \u201ca document of misinformation that advocates for arbitrary censorship and the erasure of art\u201d.<\/p>\n

Asked her thoughts on attacks on free speech in the US, Lawrence answered: \u201cOur freedom of speech and expression is under attack and I think the world of cinema and using your voice in artistic ways, having festivals like this where we can learn from each other and realize we are all connected and matter and deserve empathy and freedom, are important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence is set to receive the honorary Donostia award at the San Sebasti\u00e1n film festival on Friday, before screening Die, My Love, on which she also served as producer.<\/p>\n

The film, directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on a novel by Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz, depicts a mother in rural America, played by Lawrence, battling psychosis that imperils relations with her husband, played by Robert Pattinson<\/a>. Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek and LaKeith Stanfield<\/a> also star in the film, set for domestic release on 7 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence has spoken up about Israel\u2019s war in Gaza and censorship in the US. Speaking at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-170893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}