Nearly 500 Hollywood celebrities signed an open letter to protest director Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars acceptance speech.
Some of the A-listers who added their names to the letter include stars Debra Messing, Eli Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianna Margulies. The document, which was published by Variety on Monday, accuses Glazer of likening Israel’s response to the Hamas terrorist attack to the actions of Nazis during World War II.
“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the letter said in part.
“Every civilian death in Gaza is tragic. Israel is not targeting civilians. It is targeting Hamas. The moment Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders is the moment this heartbreaking war ends. This…
