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‘Lies designed to demonize Jews’: Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing sign letter advocating for Israel

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The Creative Community For Peace letter calls for the end to “lies designed to demonize Israel and the Jewish people.”

Nearly 400+ people in the entertainment industry signed an open letter calling for “a rejection of extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation.” 

The Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) released a letter signed by hundreds of creatives calling for an end to “lies and antisemitic incitement” in the fallout of the Israel-Hamas War

“Hamas, Iran, and their allies and ideological sympathizers in the West have flooded the world with their hateful lies and antisemitic incitement since October 7 — lies designed to demonize Israel, the Jewish people, and their supporters,” the text of the letter reads. 

Some of the signatories included Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Sharon Osbourne, Jerry O’Connell, Patricia Heaton, and Uzo Aduba.

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75th Golden Globe Awards – Arrivals – Beverly Hills, California, U.S., 07/01/2018 – Actress Debra Messing. (credit: REUTERS/MARIO ANZUONI)

Anti-Zionist protests affect Jewish lives

The letter went on to note the effects of the war, noting the shooting of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington DC earlier this month. It also stated that the signatories believed that many people in Hollywood had been “manipulated by the constant stream of misinformation.”

The CCFP letter noted that the signatories believed that recent waves of anti-Zionist and anti-Israel protests directly endangered Jews around the world. 

“We reject the anti-Israel movement co-opting every social justice cause — outrageously claiming that to stand with the LGBTQIA+ community, or with anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-Islamophobic and anti-antisemitic movements, is to stand against Israel,” the statement read. 

400+ Entertainment Leaders Release Open Letter Calling Out Lies and Deadly Consequences of Anti-Israel Incitement

Notable entertainment leaders from around the globe including Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Mayim Bialik, Sharon Osbourne, Jerry O’Connell, Patricia Heaton, Uzo Aduba, Sherry Lansing, Haim Saban, Rebecca De Mornay, Ynon Kreiz, Rick Rosen, Gary Barber, Ben Silverman, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Leo Pearlman, Diane Warren amongst many others, demand an end to amplification of anti-Israel propaganda.

LOS ANGELES, May 29, 2025 — More than 400 entertainment leaders signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) calling for a rejection of extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation.

The letter comes in response to the deadly shooting of two young people outside a Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. and after the release of multiple open letters from the entertainment and literature communities filled with fallacious claims and incendiary accusations.

Actress Mayim Bialik said: “History repeats itself: peddling lies about Jews has deadly consequences. For the past two years, public figures and influencers with millions of followers have consistently promoted fallacious and menacing anti-Israel propaganda masquerading as advocacy. This stream of lies against the Jewish people and the Jewish ancestral homeland has now – unsurprisingly to anyone watching closely – turned deadly in the United States. This moment requires public figures to use their platforms responsibly. We implore these individuals to lend their voices to those of moral clarity, peace and tolerance, instead of division, distortion and delegitimization.”

Since October 7th, the rhetoric and actions from anti-Israel activists around the globe routinely embrace extremism and antisemitism.

Following the shooting in Washington, D.C., the suspect repeatedly yelled, “Free Palestine,” showcasing how the anti-Israel movement has been radicalized to violence.

Saban Capital Group Chairman and CEO Haim Saban said: “When public figures accuse Israel of genocide, call for intifada, or claim Jews are colonizers, they may not understand the history they’re invoking — but the people who act on those words often do. This open letter is a plea for truth, for accountability, and for responsibility — especially from those with powerful platforms.”

The letter highlights how celebrities unknowingly platform dangerous propaganda, “Some well-meaning celebrities and public figures have been manipulated by this constant stream of misinformation, which they have also helped to amplify.”

CCFP Chairman/Co-Founder David Renzer and Executive Director Ari Ingel said, For the past 600 days, the anti-Israel movement has espoused an unrelenting stream of extremist rhetoric to demonize Israel and anyone who supports the country — it’s a toxic mix of distortion, bigotry and incitement. Given the power of social media, it’s incumbent on entertainers and public figures, with their ability to influence millions around the world, to use their platforms responsibly. Without a course correction, we will only see more hate, more violence, and more innocent people targeted simply for being Jewish.”

The statement is the first of its kind – a call from the entertainment community to unequivocally condemn the anti-Israel movement’s role in scapegoating and endangering Jews around the globe.

The letter states: “Hamas, Iran, and their allies and ideological sympathizers in the West have flooded the world with their hateful lies and antisemitic incitement since October 7 — lies designed to demonize Israel, the Jewish people, and their supporters.”

The letter concludes: “We call on all our colleagues to reject this extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation so that we can all work toward a future in which all Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace and dignity.”

Signatories Include:

Debra Messing, Actress; Uzo Aduba, Actress; Julianna Margulies, Actor, Producer, Author; Jerry O’Connell, Actor; Mayim Bialik, Actor, Writer, Producer; Sharon Osbourne, Manager & TV Host; Patricia Heaton, Actress; Rebecca De Mornay, Actress; Sherry Lansing, Former CEO of Paramount Pictures; Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group; Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor; Gary Barber, Hollywood Executive; Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.; Ben Silverman; Chairman & Co-CEO, Propagate Content; Diane Warren, Songwriter; Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records; Fernando Szew, CEO, FOX Entertainment Global; Julie Greenwald, Former Chairman & CEO, Atlantic Records Group; Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music Google and YouTube; Diane Warren, Songwriter; John Ondrasik (Five For Fighting), Artist; David Draiman, Lead Singer of Disturbed, Artist; Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actress; Danny Cohen, President of Access Entertainment; Jonathan Shalit OBE, Chairman InterTalent Rights Group / Chosen Music / Project 30 Studios;  Matisyahu, Musician; Fred Savage, Actor; Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC; Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment; David Renzer, Former CEO/Chairman Universal Music Publishing; Michael Rotenberg, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment; Dean Cain, Actor; Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership;  Blair Kohan, Partner, UTA; Billy Ray, Writer, Producer; amongst many others.

Add Your Name: If you are a member of the entertainment community (only), you can sign onto the letter here: [Link]

FULL OPEN LETTER

We, the undersigned, are saying enough! Enough with the lies, and enough with the extremism.

Hamas, Iran, and their allies and ideological sympathizers in the West have flooded the world with their hateful lies and antisemitic incitement since October 7 — lies designed to demonize Israel, the Jewish people, and their supporters.

Some well-meaning celebrities and public figures have been manipulated by this constant stream of misinformation, which they have also helped to amplify.

On May 21, 2025 we saw that these lies can have deadly consequences when two young people were murdered outside a Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., as the perpetrator chanted “Free Palestine” — a chant that has now become a call to violence.

War is horrific — where far too many civilians suffer — which is why even though Hamas launched wars against Israel in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2021, the wars were short-lived.

But the gruesome Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023 changed everything.

Tragically, the suffering of civilians in Gaza is a strategy of Hamas, with one Hamas official stating that it is “a small price” to pay.

When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, it was the women and children that went underground in the metro system for safety while the men fought above ground.

In contrast, in Gaza —  after Hamas launched their genocidal war on Israel —  it was their fighters who went underground into the Gaza “metro,” while leaving women and children above ground to be used as their human shields.

This is a war Hamas started, and one that they can end by releasing the hostages, by laying down their arms, thereby freeing the Palestinians of Gaza from their tyrannical rule as well.

Yet, Hamas refuses to relent on their demand to have all of the land between the river and the sea cleansed of Jews, as they state in their own charter:

“The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’ (Article 7).

The anti-Israel campaign shares this extremism.

The anti-Israel campaign refuses to hold Hamas accountable for the death and destruction caused by their illegal and repeated use of hospitals, mosques, schools, and UN facilities to launch attacks and shield their command centers.

The anti-Israel campaign refuses to acknowledge that the vast majority of “journalists” pumping out propaganda in Gaza are, in fact, members or supporters of the terrorist organizations themselves — even joining Hamas on October 7th to help broadcast their massacre inside Israel to the world.

The anti-Israel campaign spreads the antisemitic blood libel that the Jewish state – and all the Jews that support Israel – are bloodthirsty, intentionally targeting civilians, and committing “genocide.”

The anti-Israel campaign makes outrageous claims — such as Israel seeking to murder 14,000 babies in a 48-hour period — claims so egregious they should collapse under the weight of its own absurdity. Yet, these claims are amplified by the media, in addition to celebrities who share this disinformation to their millions of followers on social media.

The anti-Israel campaign claims that Jews are colonizers, when they are indigenous to the land of Israel and have the right to self-determination in their historical homeland as enshrined by the UN Charter.

We reject all these lies.

We reject the anti-Israel movement co-opting every social justice cause — outrageously claiming that to stand with the LGBTQIA+ community, or with anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-Islamophobic and anti-antisemitic movements, is to stand against Israel.

This is all done to paint Israel — and Jews around the world — as embodying the world’s ultimate evils. This is antisemitism.

We call on all our colleagues to reject this extremist rhetoric and the spread of misinformation so that we can all work toward a future in which all Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace and dignity.

SIGNATORIES

Ari Ingel, Executive Director, Creative Community for Peace

Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records

Rakefet Abergel, Actor

Michael Abrams, Talent Manager, Constellation Media Group

Jason Adelman, VP, Brand Innovators Labs

Orly Adelson, Former President of ITV Studios, America

Marty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow Studios

Dan Adler, Producer

Uzo Aduba, Artist

Shir Aharon, Talent Manager

Michael Auerbach, Partner, Jackoway Austen

Dean Bahat, Attorney, Ziffren Brittenham LLP

Andrea Ballas, VP Communications, CBS/Paramount

Craig Balsam, CEO, RT Industries

Gary Barber, Executive

Eve Barlow, Writer

Jackie Barrie, A&R Executive

Jonathan Baruch, President, Rain

Richard Baskind, Partner & Head of Music, Simons Muirhead & Burton

Aton Ben-Horin, Executive VP A&R, Warner Music Group/CEO, Plush Mgmt.

David Bercovici-Artieda, Director/Producer, EQUINOX DREAM PROJECT

Adam Berkowitz, Founder and President, Lenore Entertainment Group

Mayim Bialik, Actor, Writer, Producer, Sad Clown Productions

Sharon Bialy, Casting Director/Co-Owner, Bialy/Thomas & Associates

Hillary Bibicoff, Transactional Entertainment Attorney, Feig Finkel LLP

David Bickel, Writer/Producer

Allison Binder, Partner, GGSS&C

Joshua P. Binder, Partner, Rothenberg, Mohr, & Binder, LLP

Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership

Evan Bogart, Songwriter & CEO, Seeker Music

Sarah Bremner, Partner, Prologue Entertainment

Joanne Bressler, SVP, Attorney

Kevin Bright, Producer, Just Bright Productions.

Drew Buckley, Group President, COO, Propagate Content

Benjamin Budde, CEO, Budde Group

David Byrnes, Partner, Ziffren Brittenham LLP

Dean Cain, Actor

Emily Cameron, Manager, Plush Management

Sarah Camlett, Agent

Civia Caroline, Industry Impact Consultant, CLiC Impact Entertainment

Markell Casey, Founder & Manager, Worldwide Tracks

Cliff Chenfeld, Co-Founder, Razor & Tie

David Chesnoff, Partner, Chesnoff and Schinfeld

Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actor

Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment

Emily Cohen, Director

Gabriella Cohen, Musician

Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music, Google and YouTube

Tanya Cohen, Partner, Range Media Partners

Leanne Coronel, President, The Coronel Group

Raye Cosbert, Managing Director, Metropolis Music

Ben Cosgrove, CEO, Leviathan Productions

Avi Dahan, Attorney, Boyarski Fritz LLP

Robin Davids, Publicity, Sony Pictures Entertainment

David Davis, Lawyer

Doug Davis, Attorney and Founder, The Davis Firm

Mirelle Davis, Artist Manager, Wind Up Bird Ltd

Rebecca De Mornay, Actress

Linda Deal, Social Work

Danielle Del, Partner, D2 Management

Jamie Denbo, Writer/Actor

Kurt Deutsch, President, Broadway Music Group

Avi Diamond, Director, Film & TV Licensing, Warner Music Canada

Michael Diamond, Talent Manager/Partner, Range Media Partners

Ro Diamond, Vice President, SDB Partners

Craig Dorfman, Owner/Manager, Frontline Management

Rachel Douglas, Manager, Range Media Partners

Brian P. Drach, Attorney, Lewis Brisbois

David Draiman, Frontman of the band Disturbed

A.M. Driver, Actress

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter

Linda Edell Howard, Attorney, Edell Howard Enterprises LLC

Jessica Elbaum, Producer, Gloria Sanchez Productions

Talya Elitzer, Co-Founder, Godmode Music

Craig Emanuel, Executive, The Kid From Downunder Inc.

Emma Engers, Agent, Emma Engers Associates Ltd

Dvora Englefield, Partner and Head of Music Artist Strategy, WME

Hannah Epstein, Agent, CAA

Rami “Kosha Dillz” Even-Esh, Artist/Comic/Filmmaker

Ron Fair, Record Producer & CEO, Faircraft Inc.

Sharon Farber, Film Composer

Eric Feig, Partner, Feig/Finkel, LLP

Joel Feigenbaum, Vice President, Warner Music Group

Patti Felker, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Jacob Fenton, Partner, UTA

Ken Fermaglich, Partner, UTA

Mark Feuerstein, Actor

Bradley Fischer, Producer

Erica Forster, COO, Pendulum

Jordan Frazes, Founder, Frazes Creative

Jennifer Freed, Artist Management

Hilary Freeman, Journalist and Author

Adam Friedman, Executive, Creative Artists Agency

Adina Friedman, Manager, Artist House

Daryl Friedman, Former Chief Advocacy & Industry Relations Officer, The Recording Academy

Siri Garber, CEO and Founder, Platform Public Relations

David Gardner, President, Artists First

Jeremy Garelick, Writer/Director/Producer

Barbara Garshman, Writer/Producer, Garshman ProductionsLLC

Andrew Genger, Manager, Red Light Management

Maya Giladi, Business & Legal Affairs, Netflix

Gary Ginsberg, Author and TV Producer

Jordan Glickson, VP, Music & Talent, Vevo

Elissa Gold, Creative Event Producer & Cultural Programmer

Michael Goldstein, Executive Producer

Michael Goldwasser, President/Co-Founder, Easy Star Records

Robert Golenberg, President, Pivot Artists Group

Jonathan Gordon, Producer

Michael Gordon, Partner, Creative Artists Agency

Andrew Gould, President, Music Publishing, Roc Nation

Marc Graboff, Media Consultant

Westside Gravy, Artist

Scott Greenberg, Manager and Partner, LBI Entertainment

Julie Greenwald, Music Executive

Daniel Grindlinger, Writer

Julie Gurovitsch, Producer, NBC

Elle Hamilton, Stuntwoman, Stuntwomen’s Association

Lynn Harris, Film Producer

Ronnie Harris, Partner, Harris & Trotter LLP

Ronny Hatchwell, Industry Relations Manager, CCFP

Patricia Heaton, Actress

Noreena Hertz, Writer

Joanne Horowitz, Talent Management/ Producer, Joanne Horowitz Management

Sammy Horowitz, Writer/Producer

Josh Howie, Comedian/Writer

Richard “BournRich” Ingram, Artist/Creative Director

Neil Jacobson, CEO, Hallwood Media

Jonathan Jakubowicz, Writer & Director

Sara Johnson, Access Consultant

Heather Kadin, President, Scripted Television, Range Media Partners

Dan Kanter, Musical Director

Michael Kaplan, Writer-Producer

Zach Katz, CEO & Co-Founder, Fixated

Melanie Kessler, Production Co-ordinator

Dana Klein, Writer, EP

Sam Kling, Chief Creative Officer for SESAC

Keetgi Kogan Steinberg, Writer/Producer/Showrunner

Blair Kohan, Partner, United Talent Agency

David Kohan, Writer-Producer

Eric Kranzler, Co-Founder, Entertainment 360

Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel Inc.

Rick Krim, CEO, Krim Music + Media

Sherry Lansing, Former CEO, Paramount Pictures

Estelle Lasher, President, Lasher Group

Adam Leibner, Partner/Agent, UTA

Allan Leicht, Writer

Colin Lester OBE, Chairman/CEO, JEM Music Group

Ben Levine, Partner/Link Entertainment, Link Entertainment

Robert Levine, Editor At Large, Billboard

Avi Liberman, Entertainer

Sharon Lieblein, Casting Director, Sharon Lieblein Casting

Sean Liebowitz, Agent

Robin Lippin, Owner, Lippin/Block Casting

Cory Litwin, Managing Partner, Music, Range Media Partners

David Lonner, CEO, The David Lonner Company

Jane Lush, Former BAFTA Chair and Former BBC Head of Ent.

Ben Maddahi, President, Unrestricted Publishing/Management

Gabriel Mann, Composer/Producer

Deborah Marcus, Executive, CAA

Ashlee Margolis, Founder & Managing Partner, The A List

Julianna Marguiles, Actor, Producer, Author

Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide

Rafael Marmor, Partner, Delirio Films

Matisyahu, Musician

Nancy Matalon, Manager

Debra Messing, Actor/Producer

Max Michael, Head of Asia Business Development, UTA

Darren Michaelson, Director, L25 Entertainment

Petra Miller, Account Director, Alive Activation

Gev Miron, Director

Elizabeth Much, CEO, East to West Collective PR

DJ Nash, Showrunner/Executive Producer/Director, Next Thing You Know, Inc.

Stefi Novo, Songwriter

Lisa Nupoff, Manager, iminmusic management

Jerry O’Connell, Actor

John Ondrasik, Five for Fighting

Sharon Osbourne, Manager & TV Personality

Howard Owens, Co-CEO, Propagate

Scott Packman, Founder and Managing Member, SSP Partners LLC

Sharon Paz, Manager/Founder, Paz Talent

Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment

Mark Pinkus, President, Rhino Records

Jonah Platt, Creator/Host, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt

Wendy Plaut, SVP, Celebrity Talent, Paramount Global

Rhonda Price, Managing Partner, Gersh Agency

Jeff Rabhan, CEO, Bored-of-ed.com

Sylvie Rabineau, Co-Head, Book to Film/TV, WME

Golan Ramraz, Writer-Producer, EGX Film Factory

Billy Ray, Writer/Director

David Renzer, Former CEO/Chairman Universal Music Publishing

Bruce Resnikoff, President & CEO, Universal Music Enterprises

Frederic Richter, Archive Producer, Researcher, Writer

Doug Robinson, Producer, DRP

Dan Rosen, President, Warner Music Australasia

Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, WME

Aaron Rosenberg, Partner, Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light

Erez Rosenberg, Attorney

Shani Rosenzweig, Partner, Talent Agent, UTA

Brian Ross, Writer-Producer

Gregg Rossen, Screenwriter

Michael Rotenberg, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment

Lynn Roth, Writer. Producer, Director, Lynn Roth Productions, Inc.

Joshua Rothstein, CEO/Founder, Ice Cream For Dinner

Susan Rovner, Producer, Aha Studios

Jonathan Ruggiero, Filmmaker

Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group

Wendy Sachs, Director/Producer, October 8 Film

David Sacks, Executive Producer

Laura Salvato, Director, Publicity, Paramount Pictures

Nicola Saul, Personal Assistant, Warner Music

Anna Savage, Manager, Full Stop Management

Fred Savage, Actor/Director/Producer

Leslie Schapira, Writer/Producer

William Schmidt, TV Writer

Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive & Music President, Electronic Arts

Jordan Schur, CEO & Chairman, Mimran Schur Pictures & Suretone Entertainment

Sam Schwartz, Co-principal, Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency

Teddy Schwarzman, CEO, Black Bear

Jay Schweid, Founder/CEO, ephelants / Village

Adam J. Segal, President, The 2050 Group – Publicity

Rick Senat, Producer

Stefi Shabashev, Songwriter

Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE, Chairman, InterTalent Rights Group / Chosen Music / Project 30 Studios

Carly Shear, Head of Legal, Hat Trick Productions

Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO, Propagate Content

Tamar Simon, Film Distribution/PR, Mean Streets Management

Marty Singer, Managing Partner, Lavely & Singer

Danielle Solzman, Film Critic, Solzy at the Movies

Jeff Sosnow, EVP A&R, Warner Records

Donna Spievak, VP of Strategic Marketing, Interscope Records

Halle Stanford, President, Executive Producer, 7 Crow Stories

Mimi Steinberg, Writer and Producer

Jonathan Steinsapir, Attorney

Tracy Steinsapir, President, Main Title Entertainment

Deena Stern, Marketing Executive

Caroline Stevens, Director, iSolutions Ltd

Gary Stiffelman, Founder, GSS Law

Estee Stimler, Writer

Lee Stone, Entertainment Lawyer, Lee & Thompson

Alison Stover, Actor/Filmmaker, Luminous Pictures

Daniel Sussman, Talent Manager, Brillstein Entertainment Partners

Aaron Symonds, Film Composer, AJS Music

Fernando Szew, President, Fox Entertainment Studios

Traci Szymanski, President of Co-Star Entertainment

Sharon Tal Yguado, Founder & CEO, Astrid Entertainment

Nina Tassler, Prodicer, Kismet Creative Group

Adam Taylor, President, APM Music

Suzanne Tenner, Photographer

Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson LLP

Lee Trink, CEO, Game Theory Ventures

Eric Tuchman, Writer/Producer, MGM-TV

Montana Tucker, Singer/Actress/Dancer/Social Media Activist

Noa Vinshtok, Streaming Manager, Range Media Partners/Range Music

Alex Voihanski, President, Paramount Business Group

Vera Wagman, Producer

Katie Walder, Actress

Evan Warner, Senior Partner/Agent, WME

Diane Warren, Songwriter, Producer

Joshua Washington, Artist/Producer

Jon Weinbach, President, Skydance Sports

Jenni Weinman, Strategist, The Current Co.

Nola Weinstein, Entertainment Executive

Jarred Weisfeld, President, Objective Entertainment

Joshua Weisleder, Global Music Rights

Ilana Wernick, Writer/Producer

Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC

Cindy Wiener, Music Executive, Realsongs, Realsongs

Evan Winiker, Managing Partner, Music, Range Media Partners

Cara Wodnicki, Founder, CSW Publicity

Seth Yanklewitz, Casting Director, Yanklewitz Pollack Casting

Hilary Zaitz Michael, Co-Head & Partner, Literary Packaging at WME

Kari Zalik, Publicist, Bad Parade

David Zedeck, Global Co-Head of Music, UTA

Oran Zegman, Film/TV Director, Van Zegman Films

ADDITIONAL SIGNATORIES

Mika Aharfi, Composer, Echomusicfarm

Susie Arons, President, 42West

Bob Bergen, Voice Actor

Brent Brotine, Writer

Avigail Cenci di Bello, Director of Development

Sadaf Cohen Muncy, SVP, Development and Production, HappyNest Entertainment

Adrianna Costa, Journalist/Host

Howard Davine, COO, Wiip Productions

Jon Ehrlich, Composer

Samantha Ettus, Author

Diana Golan, Make Up Artist

Heidi Haddad, Writer/Producer/Actress, Best Case Scenario Productions

Simon Halfon, Producer, Nemperor Ltd

Elizabeth Hepworth, Actress

Dana Landman, Management

Micha Liberman, President/Lead Music Editor, Mind Meld Arts, Inc.

Alexandra Lumerman, Photographer, Alexandra Lumerman Photography

Molly Madden, Manager/Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment

Arnon Manor, Producer, Chemical Soup

Laurence Miller, Producer/Commercial Director, Nimax Theatres

Brad Pomerance, Executive Vice President, Jewish Life Television/JLTV

Chris Queen, Editor, PJ Media/Townhall Media

Lisa Randleman, Actor

Fred Raskin, Film Editor

Itay Reiss, Partner, Artists First

Teme Ring, Writer, Comedians Defying Gravity

Florina Rodov, Writer

Nathan Ross, Film/TV Producer, lilyrose productions inc

Jonathan Rubenstein, Producer, Crystal City Entertainment

Jordan Rush, Writer/Producer

Yuri Rutman, Director-EP, Filmdemand

Brett Ruttenberg, SVP, imPRint

Sammy Scher, Executive Producer, Film & TV

Adam Silverman, SVP, Legal, Head of Legal for Programming and Advertising

Jennifer Smith, Music Supervisor, Rat Dance Party Inc

Susan Stremple, Producer

Richard Trank, Filmmaker, Sea Point Films and Media

Gabriela Tscherniak, Director, Cohensisters Entertainment Ltd

Dena Waxman, Executive Producer/Writer, Wax Poetic Productions

Guri Weinberg, Actor

Jay Weisleder, Producer, Fuego Films

Michele Weisler, Producer, Clearblack Films

Sherri Ziff, Writer/Producer

Elena Zilberman, SVP

Judie Aronson, Actress

Gail Banack, SVP, Travel Edge

Maya Bar-Lev, Associate Producer, ESPN

Rachel Bendavid, EVP Scripted Programming, BBC Studios LA

Ross Boyask, Writer-Director

Airion Chantel, Musician, Actress, Multi-media Artist

Hilary Cherniss, Writer

Lisa Cohen, President, Associated Booking Corp

Ben Daniels, Screenwriter

Yuval David, Actor, Filmmaker, Journalist

Shula Daws, Development Producer, Plum Pictures

Mandana Dayani, Creator, I Am A Voter and Calanet Foundation

Ron Dicurcio, President, CineFex

Stefanie Epstein, Producer

Charles Evered, Writer, Ordinance 14

Lisa Feldsher, Writer and Founder, Mind Over Media

Mollie Fermaglich, Writer

Michael Garlin, Radio Host and Comedian

Ben Goldsmith, Performing Artist & Songwriter

Malcolm Green, Filmmaker and Writer, Green AFM Ltd

Abe Gurko, Producer, Won’t Be Silent LLC

Andi Howard, President, Peak Records and Andi Howard Entertainment

Jennifer Lanter, Artistic Director, SHTARKcontrast

Fredric London, Actor

Peter Macklin, Actor/Playwright

David Prior, Writer/Director, DreamLogic Pictures

Phillip Ramati, Writer

Abbe Raven, Media Executive

Orly Ravid, Founder/Co-Executive Director, The Film Collaborative

Thane Rosenbaum, Novelist

Jeff Sackman, President, Quiver Distribution

Charlie Sanders, Attorney/Chair, National Music Council of the United States

Joseph Schick, Producer, Schick Pictures

Steven Schub, Actor/Singer/Writer

Michelle Shine, Author

Lori Silfen, Executive

Artur Sumarokov, Playwright and Cinema Critic

Beth Ellyn Summer, Author

Kimberly Wallis, Actress

Pearl Wexler, President, Kohner Agency

Arnie Zipursky, CEO, Neshama Entertainment

Lucy Abrahams, Literary Scout, Lucy Abrahams Literary Scouting

Anne-Marie Asner, Co-Founder, Animation Israel

Howard Benson, Music Producer and CEO, Judge&JuryRecords

Allison Bibicoff, Intimacy Coordinator

Jordan Bielsky, Actor and Writer

Lori Blackman-Master, Supervising Producer, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon

Aaron Brander, Editor

Anthony Bregman, Producer, Likely Story

Corey Breier, President, Yiddish Theatrical Alliance

Paul Burger, CEO, Soho Artists

Layla Chaab Bellenstein, Writer / Film & Creative Producer

Conrad Cohen, Theatre Director & Acting Teacher

Neil Cohen, Founder, 1948 Talent

Nina Colman, Writer

Matt Einstein, CEO, Producer, Tradition Pictures

Jane Elias, Writer/Actor

David Faigenblum, Producer, Concept Entertainment

David Faiman, Managing Director, Odessa Mama Records

Matt Finkelstein, Partner, ArentFox Schiff LLP

Sara Flatow, Assistant Editor, Producer

Seth Fradkoff, AmazonMGMStudiosTheatrical

Simon Friend, Producer, Melting Pot

Fritz Froehlich, Manager

Sara Fruman, Founder, Soul Evolution Media

Robert Ftiedman, CEO, Bungalow Media+Entertainment

Jeffrey Gandel, Lawyer, The Law Office of Jeffrey B Gandel

Deborah Gilels, Publicist

Elizabeth Goodstein, VP, Strategy and Content Partnerships, Madison Wells

Anna-Sue Greenberg, Producer, Facet4 Media

Matthew Greenberg, Managing Partner, Greenberg, Chopurian-Valencia & Associates, LLP

Susan Gurman, Agent, Gurman Agency

Brett Gursky, Writer / Director / Producer

Ronnie Harris, Partner, Harris and Trotter

Michael Kalifa, Sound Mixer

Annie Kaplan, Screenwriter

Mitchell James “Chip” Kaplan, Novelist

Jonathan Kier, Co-Founder, Upgrade International

Steve Kline, President/COO, Better Noise Music

Delia Kropp, Actor

Evan Lamberg, President, North America, Universal Music Publishing

Scott Lieberman, Actor, Podcast Host

Kate Mannix, Actor

Amanda Markowitz, Actor/Producer

Natalia Maus, Founder/Executive Producer, Nudnik

Berry Meyerowitz, President, Quiver Distribution

Norma Morrow, Founder/Artistic Director, Jewish Repertory Theatre of Nevada

Robyn Okrant, Writer/Actress

Chris Pollack, President/Partner, A Penny for Your Thoughts

Julia Radochia, Actor, Filmmaker

Adva Reichman, Writer, Director

Ilene Rosenzweig, Writer

Edward Sabin, Founder, Cypher Content

Ari Shagal, Bandleader/Composer, The Summarily Dismissed

Marc Sheinman, Artist /Producer-Manager, 7980 Music / Red Light Management

Matt Sherman, Talent Manager, Matt Sherman Management

Maya Sigel, Production Designer

Michael Swerdlick, Writer

Natalie Tamar, Writer, Artist

Roberto Thesea, Executive, CAA

Rebecca Thomas, Agent

Gabriela Tscherniak, Showrunner, Director, Writer

Darah Wagner Boaz, Executive Producer

Nicole Weinroth, Agent, WME

Rebecca Windsor, Producer

Ali Axelrad, Actor

Elisa Baum, Writer

John Ross Bowie, Actor/Writer

Sheva Elliot, Singer/Songwriter/Composer/Producer

Sheyna Galyan, Award-winning Author

Leslie Kendall Dye, Actress

Cathy Lawrence, Production Manager

Adrienne Ross Scanlan, Writer/Editor

Susanna Speier, Actor | Journalist | Publisher

** Note – The signers of this statement do so as individuals on their own behalf and not on behalf of their companies or organizations. All organizations and companies listed are for affiliation purposes only.

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Kneecap’s Anti-Israel Coachella Show Roils Music Industry, Jewish Groups: Multiple Warnings ‘Totally Ignored’

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Organizers were reportedly blindsided by the hip-hop trio’s “Fuck Israel” display – but one advocacy group says it sounded the alarm days in advance

Coachella organizers were warned in advance by multiple people that the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap would take an aggressive anti-Israel stance when they were booked at the festival but failed to act, according to music industry insiders who spoke to TheWrap after “Fuck Israel” messages and chanting dominated the group’s act last weekend.

 

“Goldenvoice and AEG are claiming they were blindsided by the band and had no clue,” Ari Ingel, executive director of pro-Israel entertainment nonprofit Creative Community for Peace, told The Wrap on Tuesday. “This is a lie. They knew, and they refused to act.”

 

The concert organizer Goldenvoice and its owner AEG did not return multiple attempts by TheWrap to respond.

 

Kneecap kicked up a “Free Palestine” chant during the festival’s second weekend along with shouts of “Fuck Israel” and other antisemitic messaging projected onstage, to raucous chanting by the crowd. Festival organizers have yet to comment on the display, but reportedly said privately that they were “blindsided.”

 

The naked antisemitism of the moment at a music festival – with echoes of the Nova Music Festival massacre by Hamas still ringing in the air – has divided the music industry and roiled Jewish advocacy groups.

 

Ingel said he emailed Goldenvoice and AEG executives on April 13 and again April 15, according to an internal communication to his nonprofit’s advisory board obtained by TheWrap. Emails were sent to Goldenvoice CEO and president Paul Tollett, AEG/Goldenvoice COO Melissa Ormond and Goldenvoice owner and COO Jay Marciano, alerting them that the political provocateurs from West Belfast would bring what it called their strident pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas messages to the festival stage.

 

“You had a band here that is an extremist band that supports Hezbollah and Hamas that whipped this crowd of thousands into an anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, antisemitic frenzy at a music festival that could have led to who knows what,” Ingel told TheWrap. “Say there was some young kid with a Star of David on his neck. Could that kid have gotten beat up and lynched?”

Some uncensored messaging to Coachella 🤝🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/WbHZBrCZl5

— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) April 19, 2025

A representative for Kneecap did not respond to TheWrap’s outreach. The band has been known to support the ideology of terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah in the past, including the attacks of October 7, 2023.

 

In addition to his work at CCFP, Ingel is an entertainment attorney and music manager. Other music industry insiders were similarly critical of AEG and Goldenvoice.

A veteran music manager who didn’t want to be identified told TheWrap: “It was a bad f—king booking. AEG didn’t have to be geniuses to know if you book this group they’ll support Hamas. If you book Pussy Riot you should expect them to say something critical of Putin.”

 

Yet another music industry insider said they were in touch with AEG ahead of the festival, and also warned them about Kneecap: “We said this is going to be a disaster. They’ll do something crazy – and of course they did. Maybe he [Tollett] was naïve, but they f–ked up.”

 

The performance sent shockwaves through Jewish advocacy groups, including the Brigade, a community of PR executives fighting against antisemitism in entertainment.

“It is one thing for artists to use their stages to protest war and express free speech, but quite another to promote hate – and at Coachella, which is billed as a haven for inclusivity and peace,” the group said in an exclusive statement to TheWrap. “Perhaps AEG/Goldenvoice have already forgotten Nova, the site of the largest music festival massacre. And your silence AEG, it’s almost as triggering as the terror fueled display you enabled. Many in the audience and beyond cannot afford the luxury of forgetting.”

 

The band’s live feed was cut during the first weekend due to extreme remarks about Margaret Thatcher and offensive on-screen anti-Israel statements. After that, Ingel said he and CCFP colleagues reached out again, laying out “who this band was, what they stood for, what they were planning” and urged the higher ups to cancel their performance or ensure that it would not turn into a spectacle for hate and violent speech. They received no response, he said.

 

Surprisingly, Tollett, one of the co-founders of Coachella, recently visited a Los Angeles exhibit memorializing Nova, the trance music festival held in southern Israel that was attacked on Oct. 7, 2023 by Hamas militants. An estimated 380 attendees – mostly young people who had gathered to dance – were slaughtered. The meeting was said to be a poignant moment, as Tollett made the connection between the Hamas terror attack and his own music gathering.

 

Nova issued a statement reacting to the Kneecap performance – as well as the ongoing silence from Coachella’s leaders:

“When our exhibit first came to Los Angeles, the founder of Coachella himself, Paul Tollett, was one of our first visitors. He did not know our story, but after witnessing, he saw his own humanity and his own festival within ours. He sat with us, cried with us, and advocated for us. Today we will do the same for him. Coachella like Nova is a place of love.”

The Nova exhibit was a project of superstar producer and manager Scooter Braun, who defended Tollett, a personal friend, writing Sunday in an Instagram post: “Let’s not lose sight of who this man is, and let us stand with him in this moment when a group, without his knowing, took advantage of his festival and created hate in a place that’s filled with love.”

Ingel called Braun’s post out-of-bounds.

 

“While I appreciate Scooter’s sentiment and sticking up for his friend — sadly, and unfortunately —  it’s misguided,” Ingel said. “Paul and Jay Marciano — along with Melissa — were all briefed by me and CCFP about who Kneecap was, what they stood for, their affinity for terrorist groups and their plans to do a stunt like this. Those warnings were totally ignored. Silence.”

Kneecap took the stage Saturday as the words “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people” appeared above them. Other messages included “Fuck Israel” and “Free Palestine.” Later in the set, rapper and singer Mo Chara, known for his flow between Irish and English languages, led the crowd in a “Free Palestine” chant.

 

There were other warnings of trouble ahead, including during Kneecap’s first-weekend performance. The Times of Israel reported that the band’s livestream was cut off over its messaging – including a screed against the late Margaret Thatcher. After posting on X that it wouldn’t happen again, Kneecap made sure to capture and post images and video of last weekend’s performance.

Mo chara speaking to thousands of Americans at coachella.

The young people of America don’t support genocide, get out on the streets and show this to that cunt Trump. 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/fExyAn7GA6

— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) April 19, 2025

“Coachella understood that from weekend one – and still allowed it for weekend two,” Ingel said. “The only reason I can come up with is that they were scared of the backlash they may face from the anti-Israel community, and they were more scared of that than they were scared of what the pro-Israel and Jewish communities would think.”

 

It wasn’t clear whether any of Saturday’s performance came through Coachella’s livestream, but leftist social media influencer Hasan Piker joined the band onstage and streamed to his own Twitch channel with nearly 3 million followers. The band also posted several of its most strident on-stage messages on its X account.

 

Ingel said his nonprofit continues to track Kneecap as they prepare for summer tour season, with nearly two-dozen dates booked in the U.S. and beyond.

Our October US/Canada tour will see us joined by the brilliant Bricknasty on support for all shows 🔥

Only two dates with a handful of tickets left pic.twitter.com/KI1wbT7c0z

— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) April 22, 2025

Sharon Waxman and Tess Patton contributed to reporting of this story.

 

Cover Photo: London, United Kingdom – December 8, 2024: Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and JJ Ó Dochartaigh of Kneecap attend the 27th British Independent Film Awards at The Roundhouse in London.

 

Why Are Companies Still Doing Business With Kanye West?

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“Those who have … deals with Ye need to understand the message it sends and should not profit off his hate,” writes Creative Community for Peace founders

March 12, 2025

Like witnessing a bad car crash, Ye’s (formerly known as Kanye West) latest episodes of hate speech and misogyny have been painful to watch and continue to elicit shock and dismay from every corner of the entertainment world.

After an earlier disingenuous apology to the Jewish community for previous antisemitic comments and actions, Ye has now doubled down on intolerance via social media missives that include “I Love Hitler,” “I’m a Nazi,” and “I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments.” But perhaps most disturbing was his Super Bowl commercial that linked to yeezy.com, where the sole item for purchase was a T-shirt emblazoned with a Nazi swastika.

Prior to these recent events, our organization, Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), along with other organizations countering and educating about antisemitism, had already laid out the real-life consequences of his previous antisemitic actions, with the ADL claiming that numerous incidents – including violent attacks – were tied to Kanye’s previous antisemitic rants.

Many companies didn’t hesitate to immediately sever ties with him. Talent agency CAA dropped him, while Adidas severed ties. Independent studio MRC shelved a West film/documentary project, publicly stating “We cannot support any content that amplifies his platform.” In the wake of Ye’s Super Bowl stunt, e-commerce platform Shopify deleted his online account.

We echo the words of entertainment industry leaders Ari Emanuel (CEO of Endeavor) and Jeremy Zimmer (CEO of United Talent Agency) who in 2022 both stated unambiguously that no one, and no companies, should be in business with Ye. But they went further than that, as Emanuel stated that “silence is dangerous” and that “West’s business partners across the fashion and entertainment industries also need to speak out and take action.”

Yet, Fox and Fox Television Stations (FTS) so far have remained silent beyond an internal memo that we feel did not go far enough.

Fox and FTS has not made a public apology for platforming Ye after a weeklong antisemitic tirade, regardless of where his website eventually linked to.

Fox and FTS have not publicly disavowed Ye’s actions and statements.

And Fox and FTS have not agreed to donate the money paid to them by Ye to counter and educate about antisemitism. (A rep for Fox and FTS did not reply to a request for comment.)

Sadly, Fox and FTS are not alone, as several companies continue to do business with Ye and/or profit from previous business relations with him.

No companies should be in business with him. Period.

While business contracts are complicated, those who have lingering or existing deals with Ye need to understand the message it sends and should not profit off his hate and instead need to think about how they can invest those monies to effect positive change.

The Super Bowl fiasco should be a cautionary tale to all companies — that doing business with Ye is bad business.

This has nothing to do with ‘cancel culture’; free speech is a fundamental right, but it does not come without consequences.

Ye is free to say whatever he wants, but businesses should not be platforming and thus endorsing his hatred — this includes companies, agents, distributors, artists, festivals, and producers who continue to work with him.

This is not about silencing someone because of their identity or political beliefs. This is about the moral decision by businesses to continue profiting off someone who is directly sowing and amplifying hatred. There is a stark contrast between defending artistic freedom and endorsing an individual who weaponizes their platform to spread bigotry.

As the leaders of the entertainment industry non-profit organization Creative Community for Peace, we believe in the power of using arts and culture to build bridges between disparate communities to encourage a more tolerant and brighter future.

CCFP now urges all corporations and entertainers who continue to do business with Ye to ask themselves these questions: Do you believe that music and culture can be a force for positive change? If so, can you in good conscience continue to profit from someone who is unapologetically fueled by hate?

The choice you make may save lives. It will most certainly make our world a more reasonable place to begin a few rational discussions.

David Renzer
Chairman / Co-Founder, Creative Community for Peace

Steve Schnur
Co-Founder, Creative Community for Peace

Ari Ingel
Executive Director, Creative Community for Peace

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Oscar-Winning ‘No Other Land’ Undermined by ‘No Other Information’

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The documentary contrasts the hardships that Basal Adra faces as a Palestinian with Yuval Abraham’s “freedom and security” as an Israeli, conveniently ignoring that Israelis have been subjected to relentless terror campaigns for decades.

By: Ari Ingel

“No Other Land” won the Oscar for Best Documentary. 

But does it present an accurate picture of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Not quite. 

“No Other Land” is a 2024 Palestinian documentary co-directed by a group of Israeli and Palestinian activists. 

The widely acclaimed film deals with the evictions of Palestinians from the area of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, interweaving the stories of Palestinian activist Basal Adra and his friend Yuval Abraham, an Israeli journalist. 

Though Palestinians claim to have lived in Masafer Yatta “for centuries” – or even longer – the historical facts on the ground are much different.

Neither Ottoman nor British documents show any permanent Palestinian-Arab communities in Masafer Yatta. 

Likewise, aerial photos from the 1980s don’t show any permanent Palestinian structures. 

In fact, Masafer Yatta has been designated a military zone since 1981. 

As part of Area C of the West Bank, Israel has the right to exercise full military and civil control of Masafer Yatta, as agreed upon by the Israelis and Palestinians during the Oslo Accords in the 1990s. 

After a lengthy court case, in a unanimous decision from Israel’s Supreme Court, it found dating back to the 1980’s that there was neither evidence of any freestanding structures that would indicate a permanent Palestinian presence there, nor any “permanent dwellings” in the region. 

The court also noted that the Palestinian petitioners rejected any attempted compromise offered to them.

One rarely discussed issue is that just as the settler movement has been trying to create facts on the ground in Area C of the West Bank, the Palestinians too, with the help of Europeans, have been also trying to create facts on the ground by building illegally, for many decades now. 

“No Other Land” also completely decontextualizes the actions that Israel carries out in the West Bank. 

For example, it does not address the Israeli security concerns that led Israel to designate Masafer Yatta a military zone. 

Because Masafer Yatta is used for firing exercises, illegally built Palestinian structures – which, again, were built after the area was designated a military zone – pose a risk to the lives of civilians. 

“No Other Land” also presents the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, and the West Bank in general, as victims of Israeli aggression. 

And while it’s true that many Palestinians have been victimized during the conflict, the film ignores the many, many times that Palestinians have carried out actions that have heightened tensions in the conflict: namely, Palestinian terrorism that informs virtually all Israeli policies in the West Bank. 

In fact, some of the most recent deadly attacks against Israelis have come from the nearby city of Yatta, including the Sarona Market massacre (2016), where two terrorists from Yatta walked into a busy Tel Aviv market and opened fire, murdering four civilians and wounding at least seven; the murder of Dafna Meir (2016) where a terrorist from Yatta stabbed Dafna Meir to death in front of her children outside her home in Otniel; the Yavneh stabbing attack (2018), where a terrorist from Yatta entered a supermarket, grabbed an Israeli civilian, and stabbed him repeatedly in the neck and chest, leaving him critically wounded, and the Gush Etzion stabbing (2018) where a terrorist from Yatta stabbed and killed Ari Fuld, a well-known Israeli activist.

The documentary contrasts the hardships that Basal Adra faces as a Palestinian with Yuval Abraham’s “freedom and security” as an Israeli, conveniently ignoring that Israelis have been subjected to relentless terror campaigns for decades. 

In 2024 alone, Israeli security forces – the same security forces that the documentary demonizes – thwarted over 1,000 terrorist attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including bombings, shootings, stabbings, car rammings, suicide bombings, attempted kidnappings, and more. 

While highlighting the plight of Palestinians in the West Bank is important, it’s equally important not to present a one-sided, inaccurate narrative of the situation, which not only demonizes Israelis by not explaining the reasoning behind Israel’s policies in the West Bank but also fosters divisions and undermines dialogue and peace efforts. 

Furthermore, from the stage, Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham stated: “Can’t you see that we are intertwined? That my people can be truly safe if Basel’s people are truly free and safe? There is another way. It’s not too late for life, for the living.”

In an ideal world, the above statement would hold true.

However, Palestinian leadership and so-called civil society organizations have repeatedly demonstrated that they have no real interest in lasting peace or a two-state solution.

Israel’s security measures were implemented in direct response to terrorism and the continued Palestinian struggle to establish a state of Palestine in the entirety of the land between the river and the sea, instead of agreeing to live in pace and accepting a state of Palestine in just part of the land, as the Jews themselves have done. 

If Hollywood wants to understand the true security issues Israel faces, perhaps they should watch the Palestinian documentary filmed on October 7, where Hamas and other Palestinian militants broadcast to the world hundreds of hours in which they documented themselves murdering entire families, kidnapping Holocaust survivors and infants, and committing unimaginable horrors, including rape.

The horrors of October 7, 2023 exposed the devastating consequences of Israeli security failures.

In this new reality, empty platitudes, not to mention empty films, no longer suffice.

 

200+ Entertainment and Business Leaders Demand BBC Accountability

Notable entertainment and business leaders from around the globe including Ozzy Osbourne, Debra Messing, Mayim Bialik, Sharon Osbourne, Leo Pearlman, Danny Cohen, Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE, Raye Cosbert, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Neil Blair, Lyor Cohen, Brian Message amongst many others, call for the establishment of a full independent commission of inquiry into BBC

LONDON, March 6, 2025 — More than 200 leaders from the entertainment and business industries signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) calling for a full investigation into the BBC’s bias against Israel.

The letter comes in response to the airing of the documentary, “Gaza: How to Survive in a Warzone.” The BBC acknowledged the serious journalistic failings in their presentation of the documentary. Not only did they platform Hamas propaganda, but they also used British tax dollars to pay the family of a Senior Hamas official.

Partner at The Blair Partnership Neil Blair said: “This is the latest in a long line of misreporting the Middle East and sugarcoating Hamas and it shatters public trust in the BBC. The BBC has its own rules to follow, as well as the law of the land, and its approach to both has been cavalier at best. Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg and there needs to be a thorough, independent and transparent investigation process so the BBC can get its house in order and restore public confidence in its output.”

Since October 7th, the British Jewish community has consistently criticized the BBC’s coverage of Israel.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council and the Community Security Trust, which monitors antisemitism and provides security for Jewish communities in Britain, accused the BBC as being “institutionally hostile to Israel.” The recent airing of “Gaza: How to Survive in a Warzone” substantiates the ongoing critiques of the British Jewish community.

Co-CEO of Fulwell Entertainment Leo Pearlman said: “As antisemitism explodes across the globe, the spread of misinformation is not just irresponsible, it’s dangerous. When major trusted media outlets like the BBC amplify biased narratives and allow propaganda to be broadcast as truth, it fuels anti-Israel sentiment, emboldens extremists, and puts Jewish communities around the world at risk. Accurate, responsible journalism is not just an ethical obligation; it’s a matter of safety.”

The letter highlights the gravity of the moment for BBC, “This is a true crisis for the broadcaster, which it is treating as a minor inconvenience whilst its highest paid presenter is allowed to openly deny there is an issue at all.”

CCFP Executive Director Ari Ingel said, “At a time when accuracy and responsible reporting are more critical than ever, media outlets must uphold the highest standards, not serve as a megaphone for terrorist organizations. This is even more important when the media outlet is a public service broadcaster. So far, BBC’s public response does not reflect the seriousness of their mistakes. They not only failed to inform the public but misled them with Hamas-sanctioned propaganda.”

The statement is the first of its kind – a call from the entertainment and business community to unequivocally condemn the BBC’s response to this crisis. And to call for the establishment of a full independent commission of inquiry into the processes that allowed this documentary to air and to other instances of bias the past 16+ months.

The letter states: “It is time for the BBC to acknowledge that it has a systemic problem of bias against Israel of which this is the tip of the iceberg.”

The letter concludes: “This episode makes mockery of the Reithian Principle – to inform, educate and entertain—widely understood and recognized as a distillation of the BBC’s mission and as such is embedded in the BBC Royal Charter. The board and senior management should be considering their positions.”

Signatories Include:

Ozzy Osbourne, Artist and Author; Sharon Osbourne, Author, Manager, TV Personality; Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment; Mayim Bialik, Actress & Author; Debra Messing, Actress; Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership; Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment; Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor; Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE, Chairman, InterTalent/Project 30 Studios/Chosen Music; Colin Lester OBE, Founder/Chairman JEM Music; Raye Cosbert, Managing Director, Metropolis Music; Fernando Szew, President and Head of FOX Entertainment Studios; David Renzer, Former Chairman/CEO, Universal Music Publishing; Alistair Goldsmith, President, Chosen Music Ben Silverman; Chairman & Co-CEO, Propagate Content; Tracy-Ann Oberman, Actress; Noreena Hertz, Writer; Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music, Google/Youtube; Brian Message, Director, All Things Considered Management; Jonathan Strauss, CEO, Create Music Group; Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC; Doug Davis, Founder, The Davis Firm; David Draiman, Frontman of the band Disturbed; Lee Trink, CEO, Game Theory Ventures; Rebecca De Mornay, Actress

If you would like to add your name, you can do so here: [Link]

FULL OPEN LETTER

We, the undersigned are calling for a full commission of inquiry into the recent actions taken by the BBC. The BBC has now acknowledged the very serious journalistic failings in their presentation of the documentary, “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone,” and the damage it has caused to the BBC’s reputation.

It is time for the BBC to acknowledge that it has a systemic problem of bias against Israel of which this is the tip of the iceberg. This is a true crisis for the broadcaster, which it is treating as a minor inconvenience whilst its highest paid presenter is allowed to openly deny there is an issue at all.

This episode makes mockery of the Reithian Principle – to inform, educate and entertain—widely understood and recognized as a distillation of the BBC’s mission and as such is embedded in the BBC Royal Charter. The board and senior management should be considering their positions.

The unwillingness of the BBC to address these problems transparently over the last 16+ months is what has led to the debacle.

Not only did the BBC platform a Hamas propaganda documentary — that featured the family of a Hamas leader and inaccurate translations — but it is has now admitted to actually using British taxpayer money to pay the family of a senior Hamas official.

The BBC must allow for a full independent commission of inquiry to investigate the processes that led to this documentary being produced, and the pervasive anti-Israel bias that has been allowed to pervade through the BBC system unobstructed.

SIGNATORIES:

Ari Ingel, Executive Director, Creative Community for Peace

Tiran Aakel, Actor

Marty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow Studio

Annabel Anisfeld, Writer/Producer, Metalwork Pictures, Olami Productions, Cygnet Gin

Rene Anisfeld, Voluntary Worker

Ricki Askin, Music Executive

Andrea Ballas, Publicity, Paramount

Craig Balsam, CEO, RT Industries

Will Barton, Actor

Richard Baskind, Lawyer, SMB

Bellamy Bellucci, Speaker, Ballet Coach, Model, Advocate and Activist

Abraham Bengio, Agent, WME

Adam Berkowitz, Founder and President, Lenore Entertainment Group

Luc Bernard, Director, Voices of the Forgotten

Mayim Bialik, Actor, Director, Sad Clown Productions

Annelise Bianchini, Actor

Josh Binder, Partner, Rothenberg Mohr & Binder, LLP

Andrea Black, Actress/Singer/Songwriter/Author, AKR Records

Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership

Ben Bodie, Music Publishing, NWS Music Group

Dan Brunn, Founder, Dan Brunn Architecture

Roni Brunn, CEO, Form and Pattern

Adam Cailler, Chairman of Reach PLC’s Jewish Network and Daily Star Senior Reporter, Reach PLC

Emily Cameron, Manager, ATC Management

Danny Cohen, President, Access Entertainment

Kate Cohen, Producer, Straight Up Films/MK Entertainment

Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music, Google/YouTube

Jonathan Conway, Literary Agent, Jonathan Conway Literary Agency

Leanne Coronel, President, The Coronel Group

Raye Cosbert, Managing Director, Metropolis Music

Ben Cosgrove, CEO, Leviathan Productions

Eddy Cottridge, Actor

Doug Davis, Founder, The Davis Firm

Mirelle Davis, Artist Manager, Wind Up Bird Ltd

Shula Daws, Development Producer, Plum Pictures

Will Daws, Managing Director, Plum Pictures

Rebecca De Mornay, Actor

Avi Diamond, Director, Film & TV Licensing, Warner Music Canada

Laura Dodsworth, Writer

Craig Dorfman, Owner/Manager, Frontline Management

Brian Drach, Music Lawyer, Lewis Brisbois

David Draiman, Frontman of the band Disturbed

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter, big:bam:boo:film:tv

Rabbi Pini Dunner, Rabbi, Beverly Hills Synagogue

Linda Edell Howard, Attorney, Edell Howard Enterprises

Ellis Elias, Chairman, Broadley Studios Ltd.

Craig Emanuel, LFG Productions

Eric Feig, Entertainment Attorney, Feig/Finkel LLP

Jacob Fenton, Partner, United Talent Agency

Ken Fermaglich, Partner, United Talent Agency

Larry Finlay, Retired Publisher, Transworld/Penguin Random House

Bradley Fischer, Producer, Wise Owl Media

David Fishof, Producer and Music Executive

Andrew Fox, Researcher and Writer, Henry Jackson Society

Jordan Frazes, Founder FRAZES CREATIVE

Adam Friedman, Executive + Investor, CAA + Connect Ventures

Adina Friedman, Manager, Artist House

Siri Garber, CEO & Founder, Platform Public Relations

Clive Gehle, Actor/Writer

Brett Gelman, Actor/Writer, Jaddy Inc.

Andrew Genger, Manager, Red Light Management

Maya Giladi, Business and Legal Affairs, Netflix

Gary Ginsberg, Partner, 25madison

Dan Glatman, Senior Relationship Director, Digital Futures

David Glick, Founder & CEO, Edge Group

Diana Golan, Make Up Artist

Elissa Gold, Creative Event Producer and Cultural Programmer, Admin & Event Solutions Limited

Saul Goldberg, Agent, CAA

Alistair Goldsmith, President, Chosen Music

Warren Goldstein, Chief Rabbi of South Africa, UOS

Michael Goldwasser, President/Co-Founder, Easy Star Records

Julian Goodkind, CEO, Pure Sync

Elizabeth Goodstein, VP, Business Development + Strategy, Madison Wells Media

Andrew Gould, President, Music Publishing, Roc Nation

Malcolm Green, Director and Writer, Vigilante

Scott Greenberg, Manager and Partner, LBI Entertainment

Brett Gursky, Director, Magic Hour

Ronnie Harris, Partner, Harris and Trotter

Jonathan Hart, Producer

Alex Hearn, Creative Director, The Big A

Murray Hecht, Creative

Noreena Hertz, Writer

Sarah Hildering van Lith, Director, Electronic Music Virgin Music Group, Universal Music Group

Tsiona Hill, Actor

Sammy Horowitz, Writer/Producer

Josh Howie, Comedian/Writer

Sandra Jackson, Management, Phil Carson Associates

Sharon Joy, National Campaign Director, Jewish National Fund USA

Daniella Kahane, Founder, Riverside Pictures LLC

Rosie Kay, Director & Choreographer, K2CO

Richard Kemp, Writer

Charlotte Kendall, Accountant, Harris and Trotter LLP

Adam Kenwright, CEO, Kindred Partners

Lee Kern, Writer and Comedian

Melanie Kessler, Production Coordinator

Yosefa Koholany, Project Manager, Indipende

Jacob Krichefski, Actor

Dani Labi, Sales and Marketing, Dani Labi Consulting

Nicole Lampert, Journalist and Broadcaster

Colin Lester OBE, Founder/Chairman, JEM Music Group

Ray Levy, Music Consultant, Ray Levy Consultant

Sean Liebowitz, Agent, Creative Artists Agency

Danielle Livesey, Music Management, PUSH Music Management

David Lonner, CEO, The David Lonner Co.

Patty Malkin, Costume Supervisor, Universal/Warner/Netflix

Gabriel Mann, Composer/Producer

Deborah Marcus, CAA Foundation, Executive, CAA

Amanda Markowitz, Actor/Producer

Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide

Dylan Massoni, Product Manager, Paramount

Natalia Maus, Producer, Nudnik

Brian Message, Director, All Things Considered Management

Debra Messing, Actor

Darren Michaelson, Director, L25 Entertainment

Laurence Miller, Commercial Director/General Manager, Nimax Theatres Ltd

Mark Morris, Managing Director, Investream

Michelle Morris, PR, Emerald PR

Tracy Ann Oberman, Actress and Playwright

Laura Ohnona, PR, LOPR

Ozzy Osbourne, Artist and Author

Sharon Osbourne, Music Manager, Television Host, and Author

Leo Pearlman, Co-CEO, Fulwell Entertainment

Wendy Plaut, SVP Celebrity Talent, Paramount Global

Gina Powell, Producer

Golan Ramraz, Producer, EGX Film Factory

David Renzer, Former Chairman/CEO, Universal Music Publishing

Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, WME

Erez Rosenberg, Partner, Jackoway Austen

Claudia Rosencrantz, TV Producer

Nathan Ross, Film/TV Producer, Lilyrose Productions Inc.

Michael Rotenberg, Partner, 3 Arts Entertainment

Colin Schaverien, Managing Director, Prolifica

Ayelet Schiffman, SVP, Promotion, REPUBLIC

Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive & Music President, Electronic Arts

Nadia Schoenzwytt, Director

Jordan Schur, CEO and Chairman, Mimran Schur Pictures and Suretone Entertainment

Camila Seta, Executive, Brand Consulting

Ofer Shabi, Director, Soho Sonic Ltd

Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE, Chairman, InterTalent/Project 30 Studios/Chosen Music

Hillary Shaw, Managing Director, Entertainment Management

Jeremy Sigel, SVP Marketing Strategy & Operations, Paramount

Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO, Propagate Content

Tamar Simon, Owner, Mean Streets Management

Martin Singer, Attorney, Lavely & Singer

Jon Smith, Consultant, First Artist

Jeff Sosnow, EVP, A&R, Warner Records

John Spencer, Executive Director, Urban Warfare Institute

Halle Stanford, Executive Producer, The Jim Henson Company

Jonathan Steinsapir, Attorney, Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir

Caroline Stevens, Director, Isolutions Property Services Ltd

Estee Stimler, Playwright/Lyricist

Jonathan Strauss, CEO, Create Music Group

Tara Strong, Actress

Fernando Szew, Head of Studio, Fox Entertainment

Adam Taylor, President, APM Music

Inge Teeuwen, TV Producer, Inge Teeuwen Media

Karynne Tencer, Publicist, Tencer & Associates

Stephanie Thwaites, Literary Agent, Curtis Brown

Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Lee Trink, CEO, Game Theory Ventures

Laura Tropp, Publicist, Paramount Pictures

Eric Tuchman, Writer, Producer

Jonathan Turner, Chief Executive, UK Lawyers for Israel

David Ventura, Managing Director, Music Publishing

Noa Vinshtok, Range Media

Vera Wagman, Producer, Velocity + Direction

Karyn Wagner, Costume Designer, Karyn Wagner Costumes Inc

Ariyela Wald-Cohain, Costume Designer, Waco Designs

Evan M. Warner, Senior Partner/Agent, WME

Adam Wells, Director

Rebecca Wicking, Actor/Singer

Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC

Jennifer Zeller, Music Consultant, ESP

** Note – The signers of this statement do so as individuals on their own behalf and not on behalf of their companies or organizations. All organizations and companies listed are for affiliation purposes only.

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Adam Brody, Billy Crystal, Eugene Levy Among Jewish Celebrities Who Homes Destroyed in Los Angeles Wildfires

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By: Shiryn Ghermezian

Adam Brody, Billy Crystal, and Eugene Levy are among the Jewish celebrities whose homes have been destroyed and reduced to rubble by the wildfires in Los Angeles County that started early Tuesday morning and have so far killed 10 people.

Brody and his wife, actress Leighton Meester, lived in the Pacific Palisades, where an out-of-control bush fire started Tuesday morning before spreading to other neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area with the help of strong winds.

Crystal lost the Pacific Palisades house where he had lived since 1979 and raised his children.

Levy also saw his house burn down in the same neighborhood. The “Schitt’s Creek” star told the Los Angeles Times that he was caught in gridlock traffic when trying to evacuate his neighborhood. Levy, who is Canadian, has been serving as Pacific Palisades’ honorary mayor since 2021.

“Top Gun: Maverick” actor Miles Teller, who is of Russian and Jewish descent on his father’s side, had pictures of his burning home shared by media outlets. American television host and actress Melissa Rivers, who is the daughter of the late Jewish comedian and media personality Joan Rivers, also had her home destroyed by the wildfires. She talked to CNN on Wednesday about the belongings she took from her home before evacuating, and said they included her mother’s only Emmy award — won in 1990 for Outstanding Talk/Service Show Host for her work on “The Joan Rivers Show.” Rivers also grabbed items such as passports, birth certificates, and medication before evacuating her home.

“I grabbed my mom’s Emmy, a photo of my dad [the late producer Edgar Rosenberg], and a drawing that my mother had done of me and my son … I went for a drawing of my mother’s rather than a photo, because I know I can find the photos,” she said, adding of the drawing, “I can’t replace [it].”

The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center was decimated by the fire, but its 13 Torah scrolls were saved.

Other Jewish celebrities whose homes were destroyed in the wildfires include Diane Warren, Ricki Lake, and Jennifer Grey.

Warren and Levy have been honored by Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), a pro-Israel nonprofit organization that is comprised of prominent members of the entertainment industry dedicated to combating anti-Israel sentiment and antisemitism in the industry. The organization shared its condolences to victims of the wildfires in a released statement.

“We are devastated by the unprecedented destruction in Los Angeles, which has forced members of the Creative Community for Peace’s advisory board, and broader community, and even our esteemed Ambassadors of Peace honorees, such as Eugene Levy and Diane Warren, to evacuate and face the loss of their homes,” CCFP said. “We are a community of strength and resilience. Together, we will rebuild and overcome.”

Lake’s home in Malibu was destroyed on Tuesday, and she chronicled in a series of Instagram posts her family’s failed efforts to stay behind and save the house, before they decided to evacuate and prevent themselves from being engulfed in the flames.

“Ross and I lost our dream home,” she wrote in one Instagram post, referring to her husband. “This description ‘dream home’ doesn’t suffice. It was our heaven on earth. The place where we planned to grow old together … This loss is immeasurable. It’s the spot where we got married 3 years ago. I grieve along with all of those suffering during this apocalyptic event. Praying for all of my neighbors, my friends, my community, the animals, the firefighters, and first responders.”

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who is the daughter of the late Jewish actor Tony Curtis, said she is donating $1 million toward the relief efforts for the wildfires in LA.

“As the fire still rages on and @calfire @losangelesfiredepartment and all the available first responders and agencies involved in fighting fire and saving lives are still hard at work and neighbors and friends are banding together to save each other, my husband and I and our children have pledged $1 million from our Family Foundation to start a fund of support for our great city and state and the great people who live and love there,” Curtis, who had to evacuate her LA home, wrote in an Instagram post on Thursday. “I’m in communication with [California] Governor [Gavin] Newsom and [LA] Mayor [KAren] Bass and Senator [Adam] Schiff as to where those funds need to be directed for the most impact.”

At least 70,000 people have been displaced by the wildfires since Tuesday morning, and Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said late on Thursday that he expects the death toll to increase. The Palisades fire between Santa Monica and Malibu and the Eaton fire in the east near Pasadena have been ranked as the most destructive fires in the history of Los Angeles for destroying more than 34,000 acres and nearly 10,000 structures, according to Reuters.

The Jewish organization Chai Lifeline is providing resources to support victims of the Los Angeles wildfire, and the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles has created a Wildfire Crisis Relief Fund to support its neighbors affected by the fires, while also helping to facilitate shelter, warm meals, and other needs for victims. BStrong — an initiative started by Jewish entrepreneur and former reality star Bethenny Frankel in partnership with the nonprofit organization Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) — is raising funds and also providing supplies and resources to help with the relief efforts.

Cover Photo: Flames rise from a structure as the Palisades fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles, California, US, Jan. 8, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ringo Chiu

1000+ Authors, Writers, Journalists, Publishers, and Entertainment Leaders Stand United Against Cultural Boycotts

Writers from around the globe including Lee Child (creator of Jack Reacher), Bernard Henri-Lévy (Philosopher and Author), Herta Müller (Author, Poet, and Nobel Prize Award Winner), Sir Simon Schama (Historian and Author), Howard Jacobson (Booker Prize-winning Author), Simon Sebag Montefiore (Historian and Author), Adam Gopnik (Writer), Yossi Klein Halevi (Author), David Mamet (Author & Pulitzer Prize Winner), Elfriede Jelinek (Author and Nobel Prize Award Winner) join entertainment leaders, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Scooter Braun, Haim Saban, Ynon Kreiz, Ozzy Osbourne, and Gene Simmons, amongst many others, to reject boycotts against authors and literary institutions.

LOS ANGELES (October 30, 2024) — More than 1000 leaders from the literary and entertainment industry signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) in support of freedom of expression and against discriminatory boycotts.

The letter comes in response to continued efforts to boycott, harass, and scapegoat Jewish and Israeli authors and literary institutions. Among the signatories are Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and Booker Prize winners.

Booker Prize-winning author, Howard Jacobson said: “Art is the antithesis to a political party. It is a meeting place not an echo chamber. Art explores, discovers, differs, questions and surprises. Precisely where a door should be forever open, the boycotters slam it closed.”

Recent calls to boycott Israeli literary institutions follow a year filled with efforts to demonize and ostracize Jewish authors across the globe. In the last year, bookstore appearances have been canceled based on authors’ identities and book readings have been shut down. Activists have publicized lists of “Zionist” authors to harass and just last week, ads for a book with ‘Israel’ in the title were rejected.

Author of the Jack Reacher novel series, Lee Child said: “Politically targeting novelists, authors, and publishing houses based on their nationality is misguided. At a time when dialogue is paramount and when compromise can lead to peace, castigation and blanket boycotts are counterproductive. The written word, and the dissemination of it, must always be protected, especially in times of heightened tension. And to achieve peace, we must humanize one another and build bridges across communities through the open exchange of ideas. Literature allows for that. Boycotts hinder it.”

The letter highlights the unique role that writers and books play in society, “We believe that writers, authors, and books — along with the festivals that showcase them — bring people together, transcend boundaries, broaden awareness, open dialogue, and can affect positive change.” It continues, “We believe that anyone who works to subvert this spirit merely adds yet another roadblock to freedom, justice, equality, and peace that we all desperately desire.”

Actress and Author Mayim Bialik said, “Harassing authors, canceling bookstore appearances, and boycotting people based solely on their identity is disturbing and polarizing in ways that cannot be dismissed or minimized. Attempts to dictate “who” or “what” should be published have nothing to do with any path to coexistence or peace. This kind of rhetoric encourages demonization and hatred. As an author and as a creative, I believe in peace, I believe in humanity, and I believe in meaningful discourse. Silencing and sowing discord in this way reduces complex individuals to oversimplified caricatures which only hardens existing hostility and makes the hope for peace inch farther away.”

Philosopher and Author Bernard-Henri Lévy said: “I have always believed in the power of ideas and truth. I have always been in favor of debate, clash of opinions, even the confrontation of convictions. But what we have here is not a clash of opinions or a debate. Boycotting Israeli writers, publishers and festivals is pure anti-Semitism – and it’s anti-democratic and dangerous. The goal of this boycott is the delegitimization of the only Jewish state in the world—Israel. It is a moral obscenity and must be firmly condemned by all free-thinking and democratic citizens of the world.”

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore said: “The resort to witch hunt is always dangerous and ugly especially when the inquisitors are writers. History is full of examples of self-righteous cadres of self-appointed judges who tried to enforce their version of purity by excluding people. Whatever one thinks of this tragic Middle Eastern war, who judges who is good, who bad? Once started where would it stop? Who is pure enough?

The statement is the first of its kind – a call from the literature and entertainment community to unequivocally voice support against boycott attempts based on identity or litmus test.

The letter states: “Regardless of one’s views on the current conflict, boycotts of creatives and creative institutions simply create more divisiveness and foment further hatred.” The letter concludes: “We call on our friends and colleagues worldwide to join us in expressing their support for Israeli and Jewish publishers, authors, and all book festivals, publishers, and literary agencies that refuse to capitulate to censorship based on identity or litmus tests.”

CCFP Executive Director Ari Ingel said, “Authors, writers, and literary groups have faced non-stop harassment by a dedicated group of illiberal activists since October 7th. This is not just about Israeli authors. This is a coordinated campaign to bully and threaten anyone who refuses to condemn Israel, which targets Jews and their allies worldwide. These boycott calls, now being led by members of the literary community themselves, are reminiscent of the 1933 boycott of Jewish authors, when antisemites burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, alongside American works by Ernest Hemingway and Helen Keller were burned. This is where things are once again headed.”

Signatories Include:

Howard Jacobson, Booker Prize-winning Author; Lee Child, Author; Mayim Bialik, Actress & Author; Dr. Simon Sebag Montefiore, Historian and Author; Bernard-Henri Lévy, Philosopher and Author; Sir Simon Schama, Historian and Author; Yossi Klein Halevi, Author; Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright,  Author and Nobel Prize Award Winner; David Mamet, Author & Pulitzer Prize Winner; Ozzy Osbourne, Artist and Author; Sharon Osbourne, Author, Manager, TV Personality; Herta Müller, Author and Nobel Prize Winner; Dara Horn, Author; Debra Messing, Actress, Gene Simmons, Author & Artist; Julianna Margulies; Actress; Jerry O’Connell, Actor; Douglas Murray, Author; Scooter Braun, Founder/CEO, Hybe America, Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.; Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group;  Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records; Sherry Lansing, Former CEO of Paramount Pictures; Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor; Jenji Kohan, Writer/Producer; Adam Gopnik, Writer; Deborah Harris, The Deborah Harris Agency; Diane Warren, Songwriter; Anders Rydell, Author; Ilya Kaminsky, Author and Poet; Elisa Albert, Author; Aayan Hirsi Ali, Author; Lionel Shriver, Author; Noreena Hertz Author; Sir Niall Ferguson Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Author; Rebecca De Mornay, Actress; Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress; Amy Sherman-Palladino, Writer and Producer; Matti Friedman, Author; Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership; Anthony Julius, Attorney and Author; Gail Simmons, Author; Ben Silverman; Chairman & Co-CEO, Propagate Content; Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize Winner; Brett Gelman, Actor/Writer/Author/Comedian; Fernando Szew, President, Fox Entertainment Harlen Coben, Author; Jeff Garlin, Actor; David Draiman, Artist, Disturbed Frontman; Jaime King, Actress; Jonny Greenwood, Musician, Radiohead; Sam Harris, Author, Neuroscientist, PEN Award Winner; David Lagercrantz, Author; Joel Fields, Showrunner; Gary Barber, Executive, amongst many others.

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FULL OPEN LETTER

We, the undersigned writers, authors, and entertainment industry professionals reject the calls to boycott Israeli and Jewish writers, publishers, authors, book festivals and literary agencies, along with those who support, work with, or platform them.

We continue to be shocked and disappointed to see members of the literary community harass and ostracize their colleagues because they don’t share a one-sided narrative in response to the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Israel is fighting existential wars against Hamas and Hezbollah, both US, UK, and European Union designated terrorist groups.

The exclusion of anyone who doesn’t unilaterally condemn Israel is an inversion of morality and an obfuscation of reality.

History is full of examples of self-righteous sects, movements and cults who have used short-lived moments of power to enforce their vision of purity, to persecute, exclude, boycott and intimidate those with whom they disagreed, who made lists of people with ‘bad’ views, who burned ‘sinful’ books (and sometimes ‘sinful’ people).

Over the past year, planned bookstore appearances by Jewish authors have been canceled, ads for books about Israel have been rejected, book readings have been shut down, literary groups have been targeted, and activists have publicized lists of “Zionist” authors to harass.

The instincts and motivations behind cultural boycotts, in practice and throughout history, are directly in opposition to the liberal values most writers hold sacred.

Boycotts against authors and those who work with them is illiberal and dangerous.

In fact, we believe that writers, authors, and books — along with the festivals that showcase them — bring people together, transcend boundaries, broaden awareness, open dialogue, and can affect positive change.

We believe that anyone who works to subvert this spirit merely adds yet another roadblock to freedom, justice, equality, and peace that we all desperately desire.

Regardless of one’s views on the current conflict, boycotts of creatives and creative institutions simply create more divisiveness and foment further hatred.We call on our friends and colleagues worldwide to join us in expressing their support for Israeli and Jewish publishers, authors, and all book festivals, publishers, and literary agencies that refuse to capitulate to censorship based on identity or litmus tests.

** Note – The signers of this statement do so as individuals on their own behalf and not on behalf of their companies or organizations. All organizations and companies listed are for affiliation purposes only. 

SIGNED

Ari Ingel, Executive Director, Creative Community for Peace

Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/Co-Chairman, Warner Records

Tiran Aakel, Actor

Lucy Abrahams, Literary Scout

Jon Acker, Musician/Composer

Marty Adelstein, CEO, Tomorrow Studios

Corie Adjmi, Writer

Jenny Afia, Partner and Solicitor Advocate, Schillings

Elisa Albert, Novelist

David Alberts, Co-Founder, BeenThereDoneThat

Alexandra Aldrich, Author

Rotem Alima, Executive Producer, Rotem Alima Productions

Tamar Almor, Full Professor, The College of Management

Robert Alter, Writer, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Sherry Amatenstei, Author/Psychotherapist

Maya Amrami, Artist

Rebecca Amsellem, Author, Gloria Media

Melissa Amster, Book Publicist

Jillian Apfelbaum, EVP Film, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group

Sarah Aroeste, Author

Sarah Aronson, Author

Bennett Arron, Author

Robert Asahina, Author

Anne-Marie Asner, Producer & Author

Jeff Astrof, TV Writer/Producer

Moran Atias, Actor/Writer, Nine Images

Shira Atik, Poet and Translator

Eve Attermann, Literary Agent, WME

Joshua Azouz, Playwright

Jenny Lyn Bader, Playwright & Author

Jill Baer, Screenwriter

Andrea Ballas, VP Comms, CBS

Craig Balsam, Producer

Varda Bar-Kar, Director-Producer, Wild Rose Pictures

Don Barak, Filmmaker and Author, Don Barak Productions

Julie Barer, Literary Agent

Eve Barlow, Writer, Blacklisted

Cody Barnes, Actor

Archie Baron, Filmmaker and Author, Wingspan Productions

Lisa Barr, Author

Jackie Barrie, A&R, Jackie Barrie Entertainment

Nicole Barrs, Author

Fred Barton, Composer/Arranger

Will Barton, Actor

Yosef Baskin, Author

Richard Baskind, Partner, Simons Muirhead Burton LLP

Judy Batalion, Author

Elisa Baum, Writer

Brian Baumgartner, Actor, Writer

Jaime Becker, Event Producer

Gina Bellman, Actor

Shahar Ben Halevi, Author, Cornfield Media

Aton Ben-Horin, EVP, A&R, Warner Music Group and CEO, Plush Management

Jessica Benhamou, Director

Steven Bensusan, President, Blue Note Entertainment Group

Susie Berg, Sensitivity Reader, Writer, Consultant

Ram Bergman, Producer, T-Street

Johanna Berkman, Journalist

Adam Berkowitz, President and Founder, Lenore Entertainment Group

Mickey Berman, Partner/Agent, UTA

Paul Berman, Writer

Arnie Bernstein, Writer/Teacher/Speaker

Donna Bertaccini, Journalist

Paul Besterman, Actor

Mayim Bialik, Actor, Author

Sharon Bialy, Casting Director, Bialy/Thomas & Associates

Annelise Bianchini, Actor/Writer/Producer

Frances Bildner, Managing Director, Creative Wiz Kids

Julie Bindel, Writer

Josh Binder, Founding Partner, Rothenberg Mohr & Binder, LLP

Klaus Bittermann, Publisher and Writer, Edition Tiamat, Berlin

Sylvain Bitton, Entrepreneur

Georgie Black, Arts Patron

Madeleine Black, Author

Lori Blackman-Master, Supervising Producer/Head of Talent, NBC TSJF

Jonathan Blair, Partner, Simkins LLP

Neil Blair, Partner, The Blair Partnership

Sarah Blake, Author

Keren Blankfeld, Author

Jeanne Blasberg, Author

Diana Bletter, Writer, Times of Israel

Susan Blumberg-Kason, Author, The Artists Against Antisemitism

Evan Bogart, Songwriter & CEO, Seeker Music

Zoe Bohm, Publisher

David Bolchover, Writer

Joseph Bonn, Film Music Editor

Bob Bookman, Producer/Literary Manager, Smarty Pants Ventures, Inc.

John Boyne, Author

Frédéric Brahami, Author, Directeur d’études, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

Scooter Braun, Founder/CEO, Hybe America

Jamie Brenner, Novelist

Jonathan Brent, Hiss Professor of History and Literature, Bard College

Howard Bressler, Author

Paul Brest, Professor Emeritus, Stanford Law School

Kate Brookes, Author

Caroline Brower, Author, Caroline Freedman Personal Training

Jennifer S. Brown, Writer

Rebecca Bruckenstein, Author/Editor

David Buchwald, Assistant Director

Benjamin Budde, CEO, Budde Group

Zeeva Bukai, Writer/Novelist, published by Delphinium Books

Julie Burchill, Writer

Paul Burger, CEO, Soho Artists

David Byrnes, Partner, Ziffren Brittenham

Stuart Cabb, Managing Director, Plum Pictures

Beverley Calvert, Artist

Emily Cameron, Manager, EmCam Arts

Michelle Cameron, Author

Emma Canning, Company Director, Engers Portelli

Allard Cantor, Partner, Epicenter

Inti Carboni, First Assistant Director

Talia Carner, Novelist, HarperCollins

Mike Carr, Producer

Liane Carter, Author

Geoffrey Charin, Author

Richard Charkin, Publisher

Phyllis Chesler, Author, Emerita Professor of Psychology

David Chesnoff, Partner, Chesnoff and Schonfeld

Lee Child, Author

Lee Child, Author

Historian Chinn, Co-founder/Producer, Lightbox

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, Author, Journalist

Emmanuelle Chriqui, Actress

Claudia Clare, Artist and Writer

Sarah Claxton, Author

Adam Cohen, Head of Development, Noah Media Group

Danny Cohen, Entertainment Investor, Access Entertainment

Gary Cohen, Writer & Filmmaker

Kate Cohen, Producer/Director, Straight Up Films

Sharon Cohen, CMO, Common Sense Networks

Sir Ronald Cohen, Author/Businessman

Tanya Cohen, Partner, Range Media Partners

Hazel Collins, Company Director, Hazel Collins Design

Rosie Collins, TV Development, Miramax

Nina Colman, Writer

Jonathan Conway, Literary Agent

Raye Cosbert, Managing Director, Metropolis Music

Ben Cosgrove, CEO, Leviathan Productions

Paul Craig, Manager, Nostromo Management

Pamela Crystal, Co-Chair, BFAMI

Leah Cypess, Author

Miriam Dagan, Journalist

JR Dahan, Writer, Author

Christina Dalcher, Author

Linda Dangoor, Author

Sarah Darer Littman, Author

CJ Daugherty, Author

Sye Davidson, TV Producer

Doug Davis, Founder, The Davis Firm

Mirelle Davis, Artist Manager, Wind Up Bird Ltd

Kat Davis Solomon, Author

Shula Daws, Development Producer, Plum Pictures

Will Daws, Managing Director, Plum Pictures

Rebecca De Mornay, Actress/Director

Jamie Denbo, Writer/Producer, ABC

Reinhard Denke, Screenwriter, Amicus Pictures

Deborah Desser, Author/Writer, TULU PUB LLC

Leanne Deutch, Talent Producer, 16 Mile Talent

Benjamin Deyo, Author

Avi Diamond, Director, Film/TV Sync, Warner Music Canada

Laura Dodsworth, Author

Naomi Donne, Make Up Designer Film/TV/Theatre

Craig Dorfman, Talent Manager/Producer, Frontline Management

Rachel Douglas, Manager

David Draiman, Frontman, Disturbed

Erika Dreifus, Author

Wendy Dreskin, Author, Retired Journalist

William Dreskin, Author, Photographer, Musician

Jeremy Drysdale, Screenwriter, big:bam:boo:film:tv

Eli Eban, Professor, Jacobs School of Music

Linda Edell Howard, Lawyer, Edell Howard Enterprises LLC

Lisa Edelstein, Actor, Filmmaker

Zehara Eden, Business Affairs, WME

Angela Edwards, Artist

Sarah Einstein, Writer

Jessica Elbaum, Producer, Gloria Sanchez Productions

George Eltman, Senior Editor, The Deborah Harris Agency

Craig Emanuel, Ryan Murphy Productions

Dvora Englefield, Head of Music Artist Strategy, WME

Andrea Epstein, Communications Executive, CBS Studios

Estelle Erasmus, Journalist

Josh Erlick, Dramatherapist

Michael Etherton, Chief Executive, UK Jewish Film

Samantha Ettus, Author

Rami “Kosha Dillz” Even-Esh, Hip Hop Artist/Comic

Blake Ezra, Photographer and Writer, Blake-Ezra Photography Ltd.

Robert Faggen, Ph.D., Author

David Faigenblum, Producer, Concept Entertainment

Sharon Farber, Composer, Score by Score Music

Miriam Farbey, Author

Eric Feig, Attorney, Feig Finkel LLP

Lisa Feldsher, Partner/Writer, Mind Over Media

Patti Felker, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP

Anne Fenton, Chair, Lumina Search

Jacob Fenton, Partner, UTA

Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford

Ken Fermaglich, Partner, United Talent Agency

Amy Ferris, Author

Lauren Feuer, Author

Michael Feuer, Dean, George Washington University

Ruchama Feuerman, Author

Rachel Fidler, Actor/Producer, Echoes

Molly Fiedler, Producer, Klazer Consulting

Ross Filler, Artist, Remedy

Ellen Filreis, Author, Petits Trésors

Emma Fine, Scripted Coordinator, Cineflix

Karen Fine, Author

Larry Finlay, Retired Managing Director, Transworld/Penguin Random House

Sholly Fisch, Author

Debbie Reed Fischer, Author

Richard Fischoff, Producer

David Fishof, CEO, Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp

Wayne Fitterman, Partner, WME

Olga Flor, Author

Dr. Amanda Foreman, FRSA, Historian, Columnist, Presenter

Michael Foster, Economist, Fostermco Limited

Andrew Fox, Author

Emily Fox Kaplan, Author

Seth Fradkoff, Marketing, AmazonMGM Studios

Julia Franck, Novelist and Essayist

Alli Frank, Author, Alli and Asha Productions

Valerie Frankel, Author

Shulamit R Frankel Rudowski, Artist

Jordan Frazes, Founder, FRAZES CREATIVE

Stacey Freed, Writer

Dov Freedman, CEO, Curious Films

Hilary Freeman, Writer

Ariel Frenkel, Actor/Filmmaker

Jacqueline Friedland, Author

Adina Friedman, Manager, Artist House

Aimee Friedman, Author

Daryl Friedman, Former Chief Advocacy and Industry Relations Officer, Recording Academy

Matti Friedman, Author

Matt Gallagher, Author

Cecile Ganansia, Founder Director, Canopy Collections

Siri Garber, CEO, Platform Public Relations

David Gardner, President, Artists First

Jeff Garlin, Comedian

Nancy Gates, Partner, UTA

Charlie Gatsky Sinclair, President of Brands & Entertainment, Uncommon Creative Studio

Julie Gelfand, Associate Director

Danielle Geller, Author

Brett Gelman, Actor/Writer/Author/Comedian, Jaddy Inc.

Yfat Reiss Gendell, Literary Agent, YRG Partners

Andrew Genger, Manager, Red Light Management

Ilse Gerhardt, Journalistin, Autorin, Veranstalterin vo0n Kulturevents, Sängerin jiddischer Liedkultur, IG Literatur Kärnten

Geula Geurts, Literary and Foreign Rights Agent, Deborah Harris Agency

Adina Gewirtz, Author

Jessica Ghitis, Writer/Educator, Museum of Tolerance

Stuart Gibbs, Author

Joe Gibson, Author

Gary Ginsberg, Author, Partner, 25madison

Karen Glaser, Features Editor, Jewish Chronicle

Udi Glaser, Guitar Composer

Jaimie Glasson, Executive Producer

Ben Gleib, TV Host, The Young Turks

David Glick, Founder, Edge Media

John Glusman, Vice President and Executive Editor, W.W. Norton & Company

Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Artist

Bracha Goetz, Author, Growing IMPACT Publications

Margarita Gokun Silver, Author

Judy Gold, Author, Comedian

Julie Gold, Screenwriter

Justine Gold, Deputy Head of Marketing, Simon & Schuster UK

Trudy Gold, Educational Programmer and Lecturer, Lockdown University

Lee Goldberg, Author

Natalie Goldberg, Producer

Rachel Goldberg, Director

Harriett Goldenberg, Psychotherapist, Trainer and Author

Victoria Goldman, Author

Ben Goldsmith, Chief Executive, Menhaden Plc​

Zac Goldsmith, Politician

Cary Goldstein, Publisher, Bloom

Dana Leslie Goldstein, Playwright/Lyricist/Librettist, Theater Garden, Ltd.

Michael Goldwasser, President, Easy Star Records

Adam Goldworm, CEO & Founder, Aperture Entertainment

Robert Golenberg, President, SLE

Jonathan Golfman, Co-President Film, MRC

Lynne Golodner, Author, Scotia Road Books

Nora Gomringer, Author

Thea Goodman, Author

Dana Goodyear, Author, Journalist, Podcast Host,

Siam Goorwich, Writer

Adam Gopnik, Author

Dan Gordon, Author/Screenwriter/Playwriter/Director

Howard Gordon, Author/Television Writer

Michael Gordon, Agent, Creative Artists Agency

C. Gordon, Author

Jordan B Gorfinkel, Author/Artist

Franklyn Gottbetter, Producer, Creative Necessity, Inc

Diane Gottlieb, Author

Andrew Gould, President, Music Publishing, Roc Nation

Manick Govinda, Arts Writer, Curator, Artist’s Mentor

Neil Grant, Executive Producer

Michael Gray, Producer, Carmaklyn Productions Inc.

David Greenberg, Historian, Writer, Professor, Rutgers University

Jeff Greenberg, TV Lit Agent/Senior VP, Gersh

Scott Greenberg, Manager and Partner, LBI Entertainment

Steve Greenberg, Founder/CEO, S-Curve Records

Jan Greenfield, Author

Yardenne Greenspan, Literary Translator, Writer

Melissa Greenwood, Writer

Naomi Greenwood, Editor

Heidi Grey, Writer

Elvira Gross, Editor

Tom Gross, Writer & TV Journalist

Gabriel Grossman, Author

Sabine Gruber, Author

Marc Guggenheim, Writer/Producer, Legalscribe Entertainment, Inc.

Allyson Gur-Aryeh, Writer

Michael Gurin, Author

Georgia Gwynne Gruber, Writer, Darklight Entertainment

Stacy Hackner, Lecturer, UCL

Roya Hakakian, Writer and Public Scholar, Moynihan Center, CCNY

Miriam Halahmy, Author

Martine Halban, Director, Halban Publishers

Simon Halfon, Producer, Nemperor Ltd

Rachel Hall, Writer/Professor, SUNY

Vicky Hamburger, Executive Producer

Emily Hamilon, Producer

Kenny Hamilton, Music Executive/Entrepreneur, CSH Management Group, Inc

Alison Hammer, Author, Berkley (Penguin Random House)

Rachel Harow, Writer

Rebecca Harper, Artist and Associate Lecturer, UAL

Richard Harper, Writer and Lecturer

Deborah Harris, Director, The Deborah Harris Agency

Lynn Harris, Producer, 6th & Idaho

Ronnie Harris, Partner, Harris & Trotter LLP

Toby Harris, Director, 100% Records

Harris Hartman, Partner, Sloane Offer Weber & Dern LLP

Kelly Hartog, Author

Ariana Harwicz, Author

David Hazony, Author, Director and Senior Fellow, Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities

Murray Hecht, Actor

Wendy Heller, Lawyer, Heller Law Group

Jeffrey Herf, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park

David Herman, Director, Double Shot Films

Andrej Hermlin, Bandleader and Musician

Jaime Herndon, Writer and Editor

Elisheva Herrera, Executive Director, The American Jewish Theatre

Noreena Hertz, Writer

Henry Herz, Author

Laurina Hildering, Writer, Pentaprogram

Sarah Hildering, Director, Dance & Electronic, Universal Music Group

David Hirsh, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London

Madison Hirshberg, Manager, Netflix

Aayan Hirsi Ali, Writer, Activist and Former Politician

Kitty Hoffman, Author

Bruce Hoffman, FRHistS, Author, Center for Jewish Civilization & Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University

Barbara Honigmann, Author

Jessamyn Hope, Author/Novelist

Jill Hoppenheim, Producer

Dara Horn, Author

Simon Horne, Executive Producer

Anna Horowitz, Agent, WME

Joanne Horowitz, Talent Manager/Producer, Joanne Horowitz Management

Sammy Horowitz, Writer/Producer

Louis Huglin, Senior Counsel, Entertainment Law

Gregg Hurwitz, Novelist

Ed Husain, Author

Frank Hyman, Author

Eva Illouz, Professor and Author, EHESS

Rich “BournRich” Ingram, Artist

Jess Irish, Associate Professor of Media Arts & Design, Parsons School of Design

Judy Ironside MBE, Founder and President, UK Jewish Film

David K. Israel, Composer and Author

Davina Jackson, Artist

Meredith Jacobs, Author

Howard Jacobson, Novelist and Journalist

Neil Jacobson, Founder, Hallwood Media

Michèle Jaffé-Pearce, Artist

Jonathan Jakubowicz, Writer & Director, Epicentral Studios

Brenda Janowitz, Writer

Agnes Jarek, Producer

Edie Jarolim, Author

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright and Novelist (2004 Nobel Prize in Literature),

Tiffany Jenkins, Writer and Author

Jennifer Joel, Agent, CAA

Marti Johns, Author

Sara Johnson, Access Consultant, Casarotto

Alden Jones, Writer

Anthony Julius, Author

Heather Kadin, President, Scripted Television, Range Media Partners

Jonathan Kadin, Producer

Moshe Kahn, Literary Translator

Tami Kamin Meyer, Writer

Ilya Kaminsky, Author

Elaine Kandel, Makeup Artist

Avram Butch Kaplan, Producer, Mase Kaplan Produtions, Inc./Jamsea Productions, Inc.

Michael Kaplan, Writer-Producer

Mitchell James Kaplan, Author, Simon & Schuster

Jaime Eliezer Karas, Director/Writer/Producer, Traveling Republic of Karasovia

Dorian Karchmar, Literary Agent, WME

Jeremy Kareken, Writer/Actor, No Monkey LLC

Kimberly Karp, Writer

D Kasriel, Author & Editor

Alejandro Katz, Publisher

Hayley Katz, Media Lawyer, ZH

Zach KatzCEO & Co-Founder, Fixated

David Christopher Kaufman, Columnist and Books Editor, New York Post

Eve Kay, Executive Producer

Rosie Kay, Choreographer, K2Co/Director, Freedom in the Arts

Ysabel Kaye, Set Decoration Buyer, Jackson River Films Ltd

Shirit Kedae, Journalist

Karen Kedmey, Editor

Richard Kemp, UK-AWIS

Tony Kent, Author

Mary Gordon Kerr, Author, High Tide Publishing, LLC

Erica Keswin, Author, OPR LK

Keya Khayatian, Agent, UTA

Justice Kibbe, Filmmaker

Harper Kincaid, Author

James Kirchick, Author

Michelle Kirschner-Grant, Producer

Sharon Klaff, , Campaign4Truth

Yossi Klein Halevi, Writer, Shalom Hartman Institute

Sam Kling, Chief Creative Officer, SESAC

Ann Koffsky, Author

Keetgi Kogan Steinberg, Writer/Producer, ITP

David Kohan, TV Writer/Producer/Showrunner, Komut Entertainment

Jenji Kohan, Writer, Showrunner, Tilted Productions

Marc Koralnik, Literary Agent, Lipman Agency

Tally Koren, Singer-Songwriter

Zoe Korsner, Production Executive

Kym Kovary, Musician/Video Creator/Radio Show Host

Mark Krais, Lawyer

Esther Krakue, Journalist and Writer

Enrique Krauze, Editor, Letras Libres

Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.

Jacob Krichefski, Actor

Michael Kuhn, Chair, Qwerty Films Ltd

Roger Kumble, Director

Joshua Kuperard, Publisher, Bravo Ltd

Ilana Kurshan, Author, The Deborah Harris Agency

Susan Kusel, Author, Librarian

David Kustow, Trustee, BFI Trust

Lindsay Kutner, Agent, Revolution Talent

Rob Kutner, Writer

julia Kuttner, Writer/Reporter

Adi Lahat, Actress

Tova Laiter, Producer, Avida Entertainment

Deborah Lakritz, Author

Nicole Lampert, Writer

Anita Land, Director, Anita Land Ltd

Dana Landman, Manager

Sherry Lansing, Philanthropist, The Sherry Lansing Foundation

Jen Lanter, Artistic Director, Shtarkcontrast

Lihi Lapid, Author, HarperCollins US & Ketter Publishing Israel

Estelle Lasher, President, Lasher Group Talent Management

Maya Lasker Wallfisch, Author

Keith Lauchlan, Publisher, Hendon Press

Dirk Laucke, Author

Danielle Lauren, CEO, Future Proofing Storytelling

Byrd Leavell, Co-head of Publishing, UTA

Marcus Leaver, Founder and Group Publisher, Gemini Books Group

Caroline Leavitt, Author, Algonquin Books

Adam LeBor, Author

Norman Lebrecht, Author

Stefanie Leder, Writer

Steve Leder, Rabbi and NY Times Bestselling Author, Wilshire Boulevard Temple

Debby Lee, TV Executive, Debby Lee Associates

Marsha Lee, Writer

Teddy Leifer, Producer, Rise Films

Paula Lejbowicz, Publishing Lawyer

Matti Leshem, Producer

Lisa Leshne, Business Owner, Literary Agent, The Leshne Agency

Beverley Lester, Author

Colin Lester OBEFounder/Chairman JEM Music Group

Elliott Lester, Director, Millwall

Efrat Lev, Foreign Rights Director, The Deborah Harris Agency

David Levene, TV Producer, Full House Media

Mark Levenson, Author

Michael Leventhal, Publisher, Green Bean Books

Elliot Levey, Actor

Gilli Levi, Director, Salisbury Group Limited

Monica Levinson, Producer, All of Us

Josh Levs, Host, They Stand Corrected

Caroline Levy, Producer, Carno Productions

David Levy, CEO, Back Nine Ventures

David LevyFormer President of Turner/WarnerMedia and Co-CEO / Founder, Horizon Sports & Experiences

Miranda Levy, Journalist and Author

Yael Levy, Author

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Philosopher and Author

Dassi Lewis, Journalist, Jewish Link

Stephanie Lewis, Creative Executive

Aliza Licht, Founder, Author, and Podcaster, Leave Your Mark

Nina Lichtenstein, Author, Maine Writers Studio

Sean Liebowitz, Agent

Koura Linda, Founder & CEO, Space Dream Productions

Graham Linehan, TV Writer and Director, Journalist,

Susie Linfield, Professor, New York University

Maureen Lipman, Actress/Writer

Jonathan Lipsey, Songwriter, Sony Music

Vivian Liska, Professor, University of Antwerp

Stephanie Liss, Playwright/Artistic Director, The American Jewish Theatre

David Lonner, CEO, The David Lonner Company

Dany Louise, Singer-Songwriter

Howard Lovy, Author, Howard Lovy LLC

Sidura Ludwig, Author

Gabriela Lugo, Writer/Director/Producer, Revek Entertainment

Jane Lush, TV Executive/Former BAFTA Chair, Kalooki Pictures

Alexandra Machinist, Agent, CAA

Sue Macy, Author

Ben Maddahi, President, Unrestricted Publishing & Mgmt

Juliana Maio, Author, Lighthouse Productions

Orly Malka, Publishing Associate, Kuperard

David Mamet, Playwright, Filmmaker, and Author

Gabriel Mann, Composer

Renske Mann, Author

Arnon Manor, Senior Vice President, Visual Effects, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Natalie Marciano, Producer, Rebel Entertainment

Deborah Marcus, Executive, CAA

Ashlee Margolis, Founder, The A List

Judith Margolis, Creative Director, Bright Idea Books

Julianna Margulies, Author

Orly Marley, President, Tuff Gong Worldwide

Josh Marlowe, Owner, Hafadai Inc

Winston Marshall, Musician

Nicholas Martin, Screenwriter

Alex Marwood, Author

Estelle Maslen, Musician

Fiorella Massey MBE, Author

Mara Maxfield, VP, Global Brand Partnerships, Warner Bros. Pictures

Josann McGibbon, Screenwriter

Barry McPherson, Exec VP of Talent, Independent Artist Group

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Professor of History, The New School

Robert Menasse, Author

Debra Messing, Actor/Producer

Nicholas Meyer, Author

Susan Meyer, Professor/Author, Wellesley College

Sonya Michel, Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies Emerita, University of Maryland, College Park

Harriet Levin Millan, Author, Drexel University

Ali Millar, Author

Laurence Miller, Theatre Producer, Nimax Theatres

Michele Miller, Writer

Sharon Miller-Gold, Foreign Rights Director, Bonnier Books UK

Avishai Milstein, Author & Director

Judith Minkove, Author

Yehudah Mirsky, Author

Keren Misgav, Theatre Producer

Daniel Mizrachi, Director, London Film School

Fonya  Mondell, Producer/Director, Fonfilm Productions

Bel Mooney, Journalist and Author, Daily Mail

Charlie Moore, Producer, Filmstein

Roger Moorhouse MA, FRHistS, Writer and Historian

Georgina Morelle, Head Agent, Smile Casting Talent Agency

Melvyn Morley, Author and Playwright

Ros Morris, Author/Historian

Tony Morris, Media Lawyer, LEVEL

Karen Morse, Screenwriter

Patrick Moss, Writer, Moroccan Boychik

Deke Moulton, Author

Herta Muller, Nobel Prize Laureate,

Douglas Murray, Author

Masimba Musodza, Author

Melissa Myers, Producer, MM Media

Talia Myers, TV Agent, UTA

Silvia Nacamulli, Author

Monica Nagler Wittgenstein, Literary Critic

Ruby Namdar, Author

DJ Nash, Writer/Director/Producer, Next Thing You Know Productions

Lori Nash, Managing Editor, Metascience

Nicole Nathan, Author

Sam Neal, Editor

Kasia Neiman, Producer, RatPac Entertainment

Constanze Neumann, Author

David Nevins, Producer

Adam Newman, Director, Aramima Capital Ltd

Anne Newman, Editor

Elizabeth Newman, Partner/Manager, Literate Management & Production

Lesléa Newman, Author

Stacy Nockowitz, Author

Amanda Norman, Children’s Book Designer, Mandy Norman Designs

Lisa Nupoff, Manager, iminmusic management

Sara Nuss-Galles, Writer

Jerry O’Connell, Actor/Host

Tracy Ann Oberman, Actress and Playwright

Gary Ogin, Scriptwriter, Motif Productions

Daniela Olsen, Director, Obsidian Eye

Cosh Omar, Actor/Writer

John Ondrasik, Five for Fighting

Judith Ornstein, Author

Ozzy Osbourne, Artist and Author

Sharon Osbourne, Music Manager, Television Host, and Author

Ilan Ossendryver, Photojournalist, Ic-creations

Anya Ostrovskaia, Theatre Director

Hendrik Otremba, Author

Lizzie Oved Scheja, Executive Director, Jewish Culture in Sweden

Zibby Owens, CEO, Zibby Media

Fania Oz-Salzberger, Author, Professor, University of Haifa

Cynthia Ozick, Writer

Scott PackmanFounder and Managing Member, SSP Partners LLC

Hynek Pallas, Author

Jonathan Papernick, Assistant Professor, Emerson College

Sarah Passick, Literary Agent

David Patrikarakos, Author and Journalist

Leo Pearlman, Managing Partner, Fulwell 73

Rozemarijn Pegt, Actor/Writer

Esmeralda Peleman, CEO, Peleman

Sarah Pelz, Executive Editor, HarperCollins

David Permut, Producer, Permut Presentations, Inc.

Gillian Philip, Writer

Linda Phillips Ashour, Author

Daniel Pinder, Music Editor

Mark Pinkus, President, Rhino Records

Ronit Plank, Writer/Teacher/Editor/Podcaster

Jonah Platt, Host, Being Jewish with Jonah Platt

Robert HP Platz, Composer

Wendy Plaut, SVP, Music & Celebrity Talent, Paramount Global

Agnets Pleijel, Author

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Author and Activist

Neal Pollack, Author

Meryl Poster, Founder, Superb Entertainment

Jacob Potashnik, Screenwriter

April Powers, Former Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illstrators (SCBWI)

Sophia Poznansky, Director, Noh Theatre Company

Tad and Meredith Quill, Actors

Sylvie Rabineau, Co-Head, Book to Film/TV, WME

Doron Rabinovici, Author

Heidi Rabinowitz, Podcast Host, The Book of Life Podcast

Golan Ramraz, Writer/Producer, EGX Film Factory

Weina Randel, Author

Rebecca Raphael, Writer

Ron Rappaport, Writer/Producer, That’s A Rapp Productions

Rebecka Ray, Actor

Joshua Redlich, Associate Director, Publicity & Media Strategy, Random House Children’s Books

Larry Reibman, Cinematographer

Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, George Washington University

Itay Reiss, Talent Manager, Artists First

Eleanor Reissa, Author, Actor, Singer, Director

David Renzer, Former Chairman/CEO, Universal Music Publishing

Bruce Resnikoff, President & CEO, Universal Music Enterprises

Alyssa Reuben, Agent, WME

Dave Rich, Author

Tim Rich, Poet

Marnie Riches, Author

Frederic Richter, Producer, Writer & Consultant

Scott Rindenow, Director/Associate Director

Robert Rinder MBE, Author, Criminal Barrister

Cindy Rizzo, Author and Consultant, Cindy Rizzo Consulting

Wendy Robbins, Executive Producer

Andrew Roberts, Historian

Gareth Roberts, Writer and Journalist

Cathy Robson, Foreign Rights

Jennifer Rofé, Literary Agent, Andrea Brown Literary Agency

Jill Rogoff, Musician

Mike Rogoff, Translator, Author

Joshua Rom, Journalist, Writer, and Broadcaster

Chloe Rose, Publicist

David Rose, Journalist and Author, UnHerd

Dan Rosen, President, Warner Music Australasia

Jonathan Rosen, Author

Rick Rosen, Co-Founder, Endeavor

Sharon Rosen Leib, Author/Freelance Journalist

Aaron Rosenberg, Partner, Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light

Marion Rosenberg, Personal Manager

Claudia Rosencrantz, TV Producer

Alvin Rosenfeld, Professor, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University

Shira Rosenfeld, Creative Producer, Piva Entertainment

Scott Rosenfelt, Writer/Producer/Director, 8th Street Films, Inc.

Alyssa Rosenheck, Author/Photographer, Alyssa Rosenheck Photography

Rhonda Rosenheck, Author and Publisher, Exsolutas Press

Shani Rosenzweig, Agent, UTA

Nick Ross, Production Director

Adrienne Ross Scanlan, Author & Editor

Rena Rossner, Literary Agent, The Deborah Harris Agency

Michael Rotenberg, Manager, 3 Arts

Lynn Roth, Writer, Director, JDOG Films LLC

Joshua Rothstein, CEO/Founder, Ice Cream For Dinner

Howard Roughan, Author

Susan Royston, Author

Claudia Rubenstein, Director, Jewish Literary Foundation

Gail Rubinfeld, Artist

Anders Rydell, Author

Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group

Howard Sackstein, Author, Journalist, Podcaster

Rochel Saks, Manager, SAKS&

Muriel Salem, Director of Art Collection, Cranford Collection

Laurie Saloman, Health Journalist

Michael Saltz, Attorney, Jacobson Russell Saltz Nassim & de La Torre, LLP

Damian Samuels, Director/Writer, DamSam Productions

Marc Samuelson, Producer, Route 24 Ltd

Lisa Ann Sandell, Author

Jordie Saperia, Author, Purple Glasses Media

Sarah Sassoon, Author

Jacqueline Saturn, President, Virgin Music

Fred Savage, Actor and Director

Sir Simon Schama, Historian

Hana Schank, Author

Leah Scheier, Author

Matthew Schellhorn, Concert Pianist

Jane Scher, Author

Rabbi Naftali Schiff, Founder and Chief Executive, Jewish Futures

Ayelet Schiffman, SVP Head of Promotions, Island Records

Barry Schkolnick, Writer/Producer/Creatoor, Schoolboy Productions

Ralf Schnell, Literary Scholar, University of Siegen

Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive & Music President, Electronic Arts

Sabine Scho, Author

Sue Schraer, Psychotherapist, Author, and Poet

Orit Schreiber, Art Consultant and Curator

Jordan Schur, CEO & Chairman, Mimran Schur Pictures & Suretone Entertainment

Maxine Schur, Author

Gabriela Schutz, Artist

Daniel Schwartz, Professor of History and Judaic Studies, The George Washington University

Mindy Schwartz, Writer, 4 Legged Balance

Sam Schwartz, Partner, GSA Music

Jay Schweid, Founder/CEO, ephelants/Village

Ellen Scolnic, Author, The Word Mavens

Santa Sebag-Montefiore, Author

Ellen Sed, Author

Deli Segal, Writer

Hon. Evan J. Segal, Author

Karen Segal, Retired Editor

Dan Seligmann, Producer

Lisa Selin Davis, Author

Victoria Selman, Author

Simon Selmon, Author, Writer, Dancer, All Your Dance Needs Limited

Rick Senat, Producer, E H Senat and Partners

Dan Senor, Columnist and Writer

Guy Shalem, Filmmaker, GxS Entertainment

Zeruya Shalev, Author

Ellen Shallman, EVP, Universal Pictures

Denise Shannon, President, Denise Shannon Literary Agency, Inc.

Michal Shany, Entertainment Attorney

Maria Shapiro, Foreign Rights Agent, The Deborah Harris Agency

L.S. Sharrow, Author

Sandra Shashou, Artist

Avner Shavit, Film Journalist, Walla

Hillary Shaw, Manager, Shaw Thing Management Ltd

Carly Shear, Head of Legal, Hat Trick Productions

Sam Shemtob, Director, Name PR

Amy Sherman-Palladino, Writer/Director, Amazon Studios

Heidi Shertok, Author, Alcove and Embla and Faro Editorial

Iliza Shlesinger, Comedian

David Shore, Writer

Lionel Shriver, Author, HarperCollins

Richard Shtiller, Literary Attorney, Law Offices of Richard Shtiller

Leigh Shulman, Author, Mentor, Cloudhead, LLC

Jeremy Sigel, SVP Marketing Strategy & Operations, Paramount

Dan Signer, Writer-Producer

Jeremy Silver, Author

Michael Silver, Actor/Writer/Director, Big Daddy’s Knee Prods.

Viviane Silvera, Artist

Deana Silverberg, Writer

Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO, Propagate Content

Robert Silverman, Author

Gail Simmons, Author

Gene Simmons, Artist, KISS

Alex Simon, Writer, Wanderer Productions

Gregg Simon, Director/Producer, Wenley Inc.

Ralph Simon, Chairman & CEO, Mobilium Global Limited

Tamar Simon, Film Distributor, Publicist & Talent Manager, Mean Streets Management

Jake Wallis Simons, Editor, The Jewish Chronicle

Marc Simonsson, Dramatic Rights Agent, SoloSon Media Limited

Martha Simpson, Author and Librarian

Marty Singer, Managing Partner, Lavely & Singer

Gary Sinyor, Writer/Director, Magnet Films

Leora Skolkin-Smith, Writer, The Fiction Studio

Barry Skolnick, Director

Carol Skolnick, Author and Editor

Brad Slater, Agent, WME

Joseph Sloman, Writer

Victoria Slotover, Author

Jennifer Smith, Music Supervisor, Rat Dance Party Music Supervision

Joan Smith, Author & Journalist

Jon Smith OBE and Janine Smith, JS Consulting

Amy Sohn, Author,

Justine Solomons, Director, Byte The Book

Danielle Solzman, Film Critic, Solzy at the Movies

Jeff Sosnow, EVP, A&R, Warner Records

Aton Soumache, Producer

Dina Spechler, Associate Professor of Poltiical Science, Indiana University

John Spencer, Author, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, Madison Policy Forum

Philip Spencer, Emeritus Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Kingston University

Nancy Spielberg, Producer, Playmount Productions

Yael Staav, Director, Allsorts Projects

Halle Stanford, President of Television, The Jim Henson Company

Benjamin Stein, Author

Johanna Stein, Writer, Mammoth Creative

Mandy Stein, Producer, Plain Jane Productions Inc

Mimi Steinberg, Writer/Producer

Jonathan Steinsapir, Attorney, Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP

Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winner

Abby Stern, Author and Journalist

Jonathan Stern, Screenwriter

Michaela Stern, Artist, Starting Over Theatricals

Rachel Stern, Writer

Chana Stiefel, Author

Gary Stiffelman, Founder, GSS Law

Estee Stimler, Playwright/Lyricist

Lee Stone, Lee & Thompson

Rebecca Stone, VP, Production, Fox Entertainment Studios

Henya Storch, Author, Publicist, Storch Agency

John Strawson, Emeritus Professor, University of East London

Peter Strom, Author

Tara Strong, Actress

Andrew Stuart, President, The Stuart Agency

Geoffrey Suddleson, Partner/Co-Head Unscripted Television, United Talent Agency

Richard Susskind, Author

Per Svensson, Writer

Aaron Symonds, Film Composer

Fernando Szew, President, Head of Studio, Fox Entertainment

Debra Tammer, Comedian, Across The Pond Productions

Vivek Tandon, Author

Tal Tav, Actor

Adam TaylorPresident, APM Music

J.B. Taylor, Author/Book Designer, Thunderwing Studio/The Librarian

Nic Taylor, Creative Director/Designer, Thunderwing LLC

Karynne Tencet, Publicist, Tencer & Associates

Suzanne Tenner, Photographer

Rebecca Thomas, Agent

Steph Thwaites, Literary Agent

Noa Tishby, two times NY Times best-selling author

Lucy Tobin, Journalist

Fred Toczek, Partner, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson LLP

Paul Trijbits, Producer, Magical Society

Jonathan Tropper, Author

Eric Tuchman, Writer-Producer, MGM-TV

Ben Turner, Director, Fulwell 73

Gabe Turner, TV/Film Producer, Fulwell 73

Jonathan DC Turner, Barrister, Three Stone

Merri Ukraincik, Writer

Ellen Umansky, Author

Rachelle Unreich, Author

Eric Underwood, Author

Stuart Urban, Writer/Director/Producer

Magda Uzan, Writer

Sharyn Vane, Writer

Danya Vasquez David, Author

Vladimir Vertlib, Author

Grachelle Villar, Art Consultant

Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath, Senior Director of Knowledge, Ideas and Learning/Author

Noa Vinshtok, Streaming, Range Music

Dana Vowinckel, Author

Galina Vromen, Author

Bruce Wagner, Writer

Elissa Wald, Writer/Editor/Publisher, Never Alone

Katie Walder, Actress

David Waldman, EVP Domestic Publicity & Awards, Paramount Pictures

Michael Walzer, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Evan Warner, Partner, Unscripted TV WME

Diane Warren, Songwriter, Producer

Joshua Washington, Artist, Composer, Music Teacher, Activist, JoDavi Music LLC

Tom Watson, Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

Jemma Wayne, Author

Jon Weinbach, President, Skydance Sports

Cynthia Weiner, Author

Matthew Weiner, Writer/Director

Rochelle Weinstein, Author, Lake Union Publishing

Jacob Weisberg, Executive Chair, Pushkin Industries

Susan Weiss, Artist

Valerie Weiss, Director

Mai Weisz, Actor and Writer

Adam Wells, Director

Ilana Wernick, Writer/Producer

Laura Wertkin, Creative Director, CAMBA, Inc.

Ron West, Partner, Thruline Entertainment

Naomi Westerman, Writer

Svante Weyler, Publisher

Bernard White, Actor

Modi Wiczyk, Co-Founder, MRC

Leon Wieseltier, Editor, Liberties Journal

Rebecca Wilson, Actor, Writer, and Fight Director

Jana Winograde, Television Executive

Jo Wioofe, Event Producer, Zev Events

Caryn Wiseman, Executive Agent, Andrea Brown Literary Agency

Sara Wiseman, Artist

Jennifer Withers, Talent Agent, StevensonWithers Associates Ltd

Cara Wodnicki, Founder, CSW Publicity

Iona Wolff, Photographer, Iona Wolff Photography

Rabbi David Wolpe, Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi, Sinai Temple

Samantha Woodruff, Author

K Woods, Producer

Michele Woods, Supervising Sound Editor for Film and TV

Stacey Woods, Writer

Shirin Yadegar, Journalist, LA Mom magazine

Sharon Tal Yguado, Founder & CEO, Astrid Entertainment

Leslie Young, Principal, CEO, Bulldog Creative Media

Neil Young, Writer

Nadhim Zahawi, Former Chairman of the Conservative Party

Hilary Zaitz Michael, Literary Packaging Agent, WME

Kerri Zane, Executive Producer, Kerri Zane Enterprises

Maciej Zaremba, Author

Paul Zawadzki, Researcher-prof., Université ¨Paris1 Panthéon Sorbonne

David Zedeck, Global Head of Music, UTA

Hannah Zeilig, Researcher, LCF University Of The Arts

Lucy Zilberkweit, Arts PR Consultant

Arielle Zilkha, Artistic Director, Psychonaut Theatre

Ofer Ziv, President, Lion House Agency, LLC

Cady Zuckerman, Audiobook Narrator

Julie Zuckerman, Author

Malachi Zweers, Author

ADDITIONAL SIGNATORIES:

Raanan Ben Tovim, Author, Poet

Amir (Aviel) Or, Poet

Noa Achinoam Nini, Singer, Songwriter, Poet

Orly Adelson, Producer, Orly Adelson production

Ross Albert, Film Editor

Bonnie Alesna, Author

Krishna Alexandra, Musical Theatre Writer/Composer

Greg Allon, Writer

Steph Altman, Composer, Mophonics

Aron Angel, Editor

Josh Anthony, Author, Tactical Group

Anke Apelt, Author

Bob Armstrong, Author

Rotem Atar, Translator, Poetry Place

Nate Auerbach, Partner, Versus Creative

Arthur Aughey, Author

Beth Aviv, Author

John Aziz, Writer

Suzanne Balaban, Book Publicist, BMM Worldwide

David Banks, Author

Sarah Banks, Author

Trevor Baxendale, Writer

Zachary Beckmam, Producer

William Bee, Children’s Author/Illustrator

Jessica Beer, Editor, Residenz Verlag

Michel Bergmann, Author

Devorah Berman, Author

Luc Bernard, Videogame Director

Andrew Bernstein, Writer

David Bernstein, Author, Professor, George Mason University

Matthew Biberman, Author

Anne Birkenhauer Molad, Translator

Nechama Birnbaum, Author

Sarah Blau, Author

Mia Bloom, Author & Professor, New America

Yoav Blum, Author

John Boughton, Author

Jan Bowman, Author & illustrator, Jan Bowman Illustration

Yevgeniy Breyger, Author

Verity Brown, Author

Lisa Brühlmann, Author, Script Writer

Zoe Buckman, Artist

Richard Butchins, Author/Filmmaker/Artist

Michael Calvin, Author

Sarah Camlett, Theatrical Agent, ITG

Lucy Catherine, Writer

Esteban Cisneros, Author

Lisa Cleff, EP, Creative Consultant, Producer

Louisa Clein, Actress

Martin Cloutier, Author

Harlan Coben, Author

Conrad Cohen, Theatre Director

Ellis Cohen, Songwriter, Brass Monkey

Richard Cohen, Executive Producer

Tziporah Cohen, Author

Ornit Cohen Barak, Literary Editor, Modan

Marina Colacicchi-Garber, Poet, The New Review

Michael Corwin, Author

Sandy Danto, Stand Up Comic

Jeffrey Danzer, Author, Sugar Leaf Media, LLC

Katrina Darling, Author

Jerald Darvishzadeh, Author

Sheryl Davidoff, Author

Elliot Davis, Writer/Psychotherapist

Eliran Dayan, Author

Geoffrey Deane, Writer

Steven Dexter, Theatre Director/Writer

Lois Diamond, Author

Ro Diamond, Talent Agent, Partner, SDB Partners

Michele Dimont, Editor

James Dreyfus, Actor

Rosemary Dun, Author and Creative Writing Tutor, Little Brown Book Group of Hachette

Lauren Edmondson, Author

CJ Ehrlich, Playwright

Dana Elazar-Halevi, Author

Yotav Eliach, Author & Lecturer, Dialog Press

Iris Eliya, Poet

Romi Elk, Author

Emma Emma, Agent, Emma Engers Associates Ltd

Joel Engel, Author

Tony Eprile, Author

Helen Epstein, Author

Roi Ezagui, Cinematographer

Sharon Feinstein, Author

Uri Fink, Author

Tommy Finkelstein, Head of Business Affairs & General Counsel, Independent Artist Group

Greg Fishbone, Author

Jonathan Foreman, Author

Emma Forrest, Author

Vincent Franco, Photographer

Robin Frankel, Writer

Sally Freedman, Author

Ben M.A Freeman, Author

Melanie Fried, Book Editor

Deborah Fried-Rubin, Poet

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CCFP Hosting Author Ben M. Freeman and Attorney David Byrnes in Conversation

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On Monday, Nov. 4, Creative Community for Peace will be hosting its fall vanguard gathering featuring a conversation with author and educator Ben M. Freeman and top entertainment attorney David Byrnes.

On Monday, Nov. 4, Creative Community for Peace will be hosting its fall vanguard gathering featuring a conversation with author and educator Ben M. Freeman and top entertainment attorney David Byrnes. CCFP’s Executive Director Ari Ingel will be moderating the event called, “Israel, Antisemitism, and the Entertainment Industry,” which is set to take place at a private residence in Cheviot Hills.

Freeman is the founder of the modern Jewish pride movement, as well as author of “Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People” (2021) and “Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride” (2022). He’s currently working on a third book, “The Jews: An Indigenous People,” to be released in February of next year, and he’s an outspoken advocate on X and Instagram. 

As an entertainment attorney, Byrnes, a partner at Ziffren Brittenham LLP, has represented prominent people like Kelly Clarkson and Beyoncé, and the estates of Kurt Cobain, Tom Petty and the Ramones. 

“Vanguard events bring experts on antisemitism and entertainment together,” said Ingel. “Having both Ben and David speak helps bridge and coalesce the conversation on the Jewish experience within entertainment.”

The CCFP executive director praised Freeman as a “fantastic writer and a thoughtful public intellectual” who is “helping to reshape the conversation and public perception about antisemitism and the Jewish connection to Israel.” He said that Byrnes, “works with some of the biggest music talent in the industry, many of whom have performed in Israel, despite being targeted by BDS activists online.”

Since it was founded in 2011, CCFP has worked to support artists who wish to perform in Israel and fight boycotts of the Jewish state from groups like BDS. Following Oct. 7, it put out videos of celebrities – both Jewish and not Jewish – standing up for the Jewish community and Israel, and it’s held several events and sponsored community-wide solidarity gatherings.

Recently, they were one of the sponsors of the Jewish Federation Los Angeles’ Oct. 7 memorial featuring Mayor Karen Bass, Mayim Bialik, Scooter Braun and Moran Atias, among many others. They also encouraged people to attend the Nova exhibit, and they will be holding a screening of “October H8te,” a documentary that Debra Messing produced about the explosion of antisemitism over the past year. 

For the Nov. 4 event, CCFP is requesting an $18 donation per person, which includes the conversation, networking opportunities for entertainment professionals and food and drinks. 

“We hope [attendees] learn about some of the ongoing challenges facing Israel and the Jewish people, and connect with a broader community committed to peace,” Ingel said. “We also encourage their participation in conversation and hope they leave with a sense of connection with one another and a renewed resilience to stand against antisemitism and anti-Israeli attitudes.”

It’s important to hold the upcoming event, and others for the community, because the next generation of entertainment industry leaders need to be educated on issues surrounding Israel and antisemitism, according to Ingel. 

“That’s why we launched the Vanguard initiative – to educate, curate connection and build awareness around the most pressing issues facing the Jewish community, particularly within the entertainment industry,” he said. “Through increased awareness, we hope to continue to build momentum within the entertainment community to stand for peace and against antisemitism.”

 

Bisan Owda’s Claims of IDF Executing Palestinians Prompt New Calls to Rescind Her Emmy

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The activist Palestinian journalist identified a line of men detained by the IDF as a “death queue” without providing evidence for her claims

By: Mike Roe

A post from activist Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda made unsubstantiated claims calling an image of men captured by the Israeli military a “death queue,” renewing outrage around her Emmy win last month for a documentary on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Photos and video shared by Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Avichay Adraee indicated that the IDF and the Israeli Security Agency conducted an operation that led to the arrest of terrorists, shared alongside images and video. Owda alleged Saturday that the men were being lined up to be killed or taken hostage. She did not provide evidence for her speculation.

“As a well-documented member of the youth propaganda wing of the PFLP terrorist group, it is not surprising that she is spreading blood libels and disinformation, making these outrageous claims,” Ari Ingel, executive director of pro-Israel Jewish entertainment nonprofit Creative Community for Peace, told TheWrap.

Owda has previously been identified as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated by the United States as a terrorist organization since 1997. She has been seen in video speaking at PFLP rallies and was explicitly referred to by the organization as a member in 2018.

The group issued a call for Owda’s Emmy nomination to be withdrawn in August, but they were unsuccessful in their efforts.

“What is truly troubling is that the NATAS Emmys decided to legitimize someone with terrorist ties, and so now people believe what she says and think that what she posts is credible,” Ingel continued. “NATAS should rescind her award and apologize.”

Owda won at the 2024 News & Documentary Emmys in the Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form category, alongside Qatari-owned media outlet AJ+, for their series “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive.” Owda is a journalist, activist and filmmaker best known for her work on social media platforms including Instagram (4.7 million followers) and TikTok, in which she documents her experience during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

In her post, Owda wrote, “I don’t know if this post is to ask for your solidarity. We tried it, and nothing stopped Israel’s thirst for the blood of my people, or it was not enough for that!”

The language used by Owda has been criticized for it containing elements of blood libel, the false notion that Jews kill non-Jews to use their blood in rituals. Critics have pointed to allegations that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians as helping to spread this trope.

“But this is to show how horrific our world is, and how alone my people are in the face of the monster,” Owda continued. “**I once heard a story that I did not like, about a village where everyone was vile and despicable, so they threw the only man in the village who had noble morals off the mountain. They killed him because he reminded them of their ugliness. **

“This is what is happening with the Palestinians today, unfortunately. The queue you see now in this photo taken an hour ago in Jabalia / North Gaza is the death queue,” Owda’s post continued. “The Israeli terrorist army separates the females from the males (men and male children sometimes)… They order the women to leave and take the men to a far place, with their hands tied and blindfolded and they are often placed in a deep hole.. and we all know what happens later.”

She continued to make a variety of speculative claims about what happened to the men after their arrests. “Either they bury them alive, as happened in the north and Khan Yunis during the first ground invasion, or they execute them on the ground, or they take them hostage, as happened to 10,000 who subsequently suffered torture, murder, organ theft, and rape. What do you think? What is the most likely scenario?”

“I feel disgusted with all human ideals and values. The Zionist colonizers in 2024 are doing this before your eyes,” Owda wrote, before going on to praise the men seen in the photos as she concluded her post. “What oppression and pain, these men survived and protected their families from all kinds of death over the course of a year and until the last moment, and they refused to leave their homes, and now they are being annihilated in this way. They are depopulating northern Gaza by killing the entire population!”

Owda also won a Peabody Award for “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive” earlier this year. PFLP, which became known in the 1970s for its airplane hijackings, also participated in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of over 1,200 Israeli citizens and the kidnapping of hundreds of others.

The CCFP argued when Owda and AJ+ were nominated that the nomination violates NATAS’ Code of Ethical Conduct, which states that “NATAS and its Chapters have zero tolerance for discrimination, harassment or illegal, dishonest, unethical or otherwise harmful conduct.”

As a member of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, the pro-Israel nonprofit argues that her Emmy nomination “could reasonably be construed as contrary or detrimental to the best interests of the Academy.”

Owda has also been criticized for promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories as the World Health Organization worked to vaccinate Gaza residents from polio, including criticism from fellow Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary. Owda called on Palestinians not to vaccinate their children while not providing any evidence that the vaccinations were anything other than actual vaccinations meant to protect from the disease.

Palestinian filmmakers previously defended Owda after the call for her Emmy to be rescinded, accusing Hollywood of “racism and censorship.”

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