The Radical Movement Rallying Around Mark Ruffalo
This week, Creative Community for Peace joined Yossi Klein Halevi, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Rabbi Micha Odenheimer, and Professor Jonathan Karp in releasing an open letter rejecting the accusation that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and warning of the consequences of allowing that charge to take hold.
More than 5,000 individuals, leaders and public figures from entertainment, academia, government, literature, religion, business, and civic life added their names.
Signatories include Boris Johnson, Deborah Lipstadt, Sir Niall Ferguson, Steven Pinker, Benny Morris, Shari Redstone, Sherry Lansing, Haim Saban, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Irwin Cotler, Debra Messing, Mayim Bialik, and Boy George, with support from leading Jewish organizations including the ADL and AJC.
The letter confronts a central issue that has too often been lost in public debate. Genocide has a specific legal meaning. Under the 1948 Genocide Convention, it requires specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The letter argues that applying the term to Israel without establishing that intent distorts one of international law’s gravest concepts and transforms it into a political accusation.
The signatories also warn that the consequences extend far beyond the debate over the war itself.
The great genocide lie has increasingly been used to justify the exclusion, harassment, and vilification of Jews around the world, while giving antisemitism and antizionism the language of moral and political legitimacy.
Full letter available in our bio.
This week, Creative Community for Peace joined Yossi Klein Halevi, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Rabbi Micha Odenheimer, and Professor Jonathan Karp in releasing an open letter rejecting the accusation that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and warning of the consequences of allowing that charge to take hold.
More than 5,000 individuals, leaders and public figures from entertainment, academia, government, literature, religion, business, and civic life added their names.
Signatories include Boris Johnson, Deborah Lipstadt, Sir Niall Ferguson, Steven Pinker, Benny Morris, Shari Redstone, Sherry Lansing, Haim Saban, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Irwin Cotler, Debra Messing, Mayim Bialik, and Boy George, with support from leading Jewish organizations including the ADL and AJC.
The letter confronts a central issue that has too often been lost in public debate. Genocide has a specific legal meaning. Under the 1948 Genocide Convention, it requires specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The letter argues that applying the term to Israel without establishing that intent distorts one of international law’s gravest concepts and transforms it into a political accusation.
The signatories also warn that the consequences extend far beyond the debate over the war itself.
The great genocide lie has increasingly been used to justify the exclusion, harassment, and vilification of Jews around the world, while giving antisemitism and antizionism the language of moral and political legitimacy.
Full letter available in our bio.
This isn’t the first time the Venice Film Festival has provided a prestigious platform for propaganda.
In 1935, it awarded Triumph of the Will. In 1940, the notorious Nazi antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß premiered at the festival.
Now, 91 years later, Venice has awarded its Special Jury Prize to NAZA, a film built around anonymous testimony and allegations against Israel that the IDF has denied.
Venice should know better than most what happens when propaganda is legitimized through the prestige of art and culture.
This isn’t the first time the Venice Film Festival has provided a prestigious platform for propaganda.
In 1935, it awarded Triumph of the Will. In 1940, the notorious Nazi antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß premiered at the festival.
Now, 91 years later, Venice has awarded its Special Jury Prize to NAZA, a film built around anonymous testimony and allegations against Israel that the IDF has denied.
Venice should know better than most what happens when propaganda is legitimized through the prestige of art and culture.
The fifth season of the Netflix series Fauda has arrived, and viewers are calling it emotional and heart-wrenching.
Episodes 7 and 8 tell the story of the horrors of Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacre, with viewers around the world saying they were left shaken after watching.
The series has reached #1 on Netflix in Lebanon and entered the Top 10 in 43 countries and territories, including across the Arab world.
The world has either forgotten or still does not fully understand the atrocities committed on October 7. Fauda is bringing those stories to audiences around the world, and they are stories that need to be seen.
The fifth season of the Netflix series Fauda has arrived, and viewers are calling it emotional and heart-wrenching.
Episodes 7 and 8 tell the story of the horrors of Hamas’ October 7, 2023 massacre, with viewers around the world saying they were left shaken after watching.
The series has reached #1 on Netflix in Lebanon and entered the Top 10 in 43 countries and territories, including across the Arab world.
The world has either forgotten or still does not fully understand the atrocities committed on October 7. Fauda is bringing those stories to audiences around the world, and they are stories that need to be seen.
In a recent story broken by The Rolling Stone, Macklemore has been removed from the rest of Ed Sheeran’s stadium tour after several venues allegedly told the trek’s promoter that they would not allow the rapper to perform.
In a recent story broken by The Rolling Stone, Macklemore has been removed from the rest of Ed Sheeran’s stadium tour after several venues allegedly told the trek’s promoter that they would not allow the rapper to perform.
The documentary NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, recently received a special award at the Venice Film Festival and an over 20-minute standing ovation. Yet the film relies on anonymous testimony that cannot be independently verified, including an allegation that Israel authorized a strike knowing it could kill 500 civilians, a claim the IDF has categorically denied, saying no such strike was ever planned, approved, or carried out.
There are also serious questions surrounding the sources and individuals involved in the film that deserve scrutiny, particularly when allegations this grave are being presented as fact.
When filmmakers present unverified or false allegations about a country fighting an entrenched terrorist organization in one of the most difficult urban battlefields imaginable, especially during a war already saturated with misinformation, it is not responsible storytelling. It contributes to the demonization of Israelis at a time when the consequences of that rhetoric are very real.
The documentary NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, recently received a special award at the Venice Film Festival and an over 20-minute standing ovation. Yet the film relies on anonymous testimony that cannot be independently verified, including an allegation that Israel authorized a strike knowing it could kill 500 civilians, a claim the IDF has categorically denied, saying no such strike was ever planned, approved, or carried out.
There are also serious questions surrounding the sources and individuals involved in the film that deserve scrutiny, particularly when allegations this grave are being presented as fact.
When filmmakers present unverified or false allegations about a country fighting an entrenched terrorist organization in one of the most difficult urban battlefields imaginable, especially during a war already saturated with misinformation, it is not responsible storytelling. It contributes to the demonization of Israelis at a time when the consequences of that rhetoric are very real.
Really cool to learn that Mindy Kaling has Jewish family.
Shana Tova to all those celebrating 🍎🍯
Really cool to learn that Mindy Kaling has Jewish family.
Shana Tova to all those celebrating 🍎🍯
An iconic TV moment with @missmayim & @iammaxgreenfield that showed just how beautiful and meaningful Jewish culture and representation can be.
Shana Tova 🍎🍯 to everyone celebrating. May this year bring the return of all our hostages and true peace in the region.
An iconic TV moment with @missmayim & @iammaxgreenfield that showed just how beautiful and meaningful Jewish culture and representation can be.
Shana Tova 🍎🍯 to everyone celebrating. May this year bring the return of all our hostages and true peace in the region.
Wishing everyone in our Creative Community for Peace a Shana Tova (Happy New Year).
May this year bring those celebrating joy, happiness, peace, and hope for brighter days ahead. 🍎🍯
Wishing everyone in our Creative Community for Peace a Shana Tova (Happy New Year).
May this year bring those celebrating joy, happiness, peace, and hope for brighter days ahead. 🍎🍯
