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450 Jewish Creatives and Professionals Denounce Jonathan Glazer's Oscars Speech
(Variety) Tatiana Siegel - More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech. The group's statement says: "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 use of words like 'occupation' to describe an indigenous Jewish people defending a homeland that dates back thousands of years, and has been recognized as a state by the United Nations, distorts history. It gives credence to the modern blood libel that fuels a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world." Director Jonathan Jakubowicz said, "Mr. Glazer used the memory of the victims of the gas chambers to attack those trying to rescue Holocaust survivors and their relatives from captivity and sexual slavery....His comments unfortunately gave legitimacy to the propaganda networks interested in prolonging the war to demonize the Jewish people."