{"id":144805,"date":"2025-09-09T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144805\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:41:07","slug":"emma-stone-joins-boycott-of-complicit-israeli-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144805\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone Joins Boycott of \u2018Complicit\u2019 Israeli Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Count her in.
\n Photo: Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

Emma Stone is one of the latest Hollywood figures to sign a pledge not to \u201cscreen films, appear at, or otherwise work with\u201d Israeli film institutions that are \u201cimplicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.\u201d Film Workers for Palestine published the pledge \u2014 which\u00a0invokes the work of Filmmakers United Against Apartheid, the 1980s initiative co-founded by Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese in response to apartheid in South Africa \u2014 in a September 8\u00a0open letter with more than 1,000 initial signatories. The full list of names<\/a> currently includes 3,000-plus actors, directors, and filmmakers, including Mark Ruffalo, Ayo Edebiri, Adam McKay, Aimee Lou Wood, Cynthia Nixon, Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jonathan Glazer, Lily Gladstone,\u00a0John Early, Shaka King, and more.<\/p>\n

Film Workers for Palestine clarified on its site<\/a> that its boycott applies to \u201ccomplicit\u201d Israeli institutions, not Israeli individuals. (According to the pledge, examples of complicity include \u201cwhitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and\/or partnering with the government committing them.\u201d) The group said that multiple major film festivals in Israel continue to partner with the Israeli government. It added that \u201ca vast majority of Israeli film production and distribution companies, sales agents, cinemas and other film institutions have never endorsed the full, internationally recognized rights of the Palestinian people,\u201d though it notes that it views a \u201cfew\u201d Israeli film entities as not complicit. \u201cFor best practices, we encourage you to seek guidelines set by Palestinian civil society,\u201d a statement on the organization\u2019s FAQ page recommends. \u201cWe also encourage film workers to ask questions and do their own research about any entity they plan to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Israeli Film and TV Producers Association criticized the Film Workers for Palestine pledge as \u201cmisguided\u201d and \u201cshortsighted\u201d in a statement to The Guardian<\/a>. \u201cThe signatories of this petition are targeting the wrong people,\u201d the statement read. \u201cFor decades, we Israeli artists, storytellers, and creators have been the primary voices allowing audiences to hear and witness the complexity of the conflict, including Palestinian narratives and criticism of Israeli state policies.\u201d The statement suggested that those who added their names to the pledge are \u201cundermining their own cause\u201d and \u201cattempting to silence\u201d the Israeli producers\u2019 group. \u201cWe will not allow this,\u201d the statement said, \u201cand will push back in our efforts to end violence and bring just peace to our region for the benefit of all.\u201d Israel\u2019s air and ground campaign against Hamas began October 7, 2023, and has since killed over 60,000 Palestinians, according to health authorities<\/a>. Nearly a third of the dead are estimated to be under 18.<\/p>\n

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