Jerry O’Connell – SIGNED OPEN LETTER AGAINST ISRAEL FILM BOYCOTT
Jerry O’Connell seemingly is supporting Israel by rejecting a boycott of the Israeli film industry.
If you did not see, last week, thousands of stars signed a pledge that they would not work with festivals, broadcasters, cinemas or production companies they believe are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”
In response, an open letter was signed by Jerry and others asking those who signed the first pledge to reconsider.
The open letter says, in part, “Who will decide which Israeli filmmakers and film institutions are ‘complicit’? A McCarthyist committee with blacklists? Or is ‘complicity’ just a pretext to boycott all Israelis and Zionists — 95% of the world’s Jewish population — no matter what they create or believe? History warns us. Censorship has been used to silence filmmakers before: Nazi Germany’s propaganda machine, Soviet censorship, and even Hollywood’s own blacklists. Every time it was dressed up as virtue. And every time it was oppression. Every time, its targets expanded.”