Hollywood: Thousands of Celebrities Pledge to Boycott Israeli Film Institutions

On Monday, September 8, 1,200 actors and directors pledged to stop working with Israeli film institutions, accused of being "implicated in the genocide against the Palestinian people" in a letter published in the Guardian . The following day, nearly 600 personalities joined them, including Jonathan Glazer, Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone. The letter has since surpassed 3,900 signatures. "At this time of crisis when many of our governments are authorizing the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything in our power to respond to this complicity," they wrote in a text also signed by Tilda Swinton, Xavier Dolan, Mark Ruffalo, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay, as well as Eyo Edebiri, Josh O'Connor, Javier Bardem...

The campaign, initiated by the Film Workers for Palestine group, is inspired by the cultural boycott that contributed to the end of apartheid in South Africa, and claims to target "institutional complicity, not identity." It aims to stop all collaboration with festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies guilty, according to the signatories, of "exonerating or justifying genocide and apartheid," or of being complicit in them by "