1,200 Hollywood Stars Sign Letter Rejecting Celebrity-Backed Israeli Film Institution Boycott: 'Lies Dressed Up as Justice'

1,200 Hollywood Stars Sign Letter Rejecting Celebrity-Backed Israeli Film Institution Boycott: ‘Lies Dressed Up as Justice’


Last month, a large number of Hollywood celebrities signed a letter in support of a boycott of Israel’s film industry over Israel’s campaign to root out the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza. This month another group of Hollywood artists have signed a letter of their own rejecting last month’s boycott pledge.

Actors including Adam McKay, Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Nixon, Tilda Swinton, and Javier Bardem had signed onto a campaign to boycott Israel’s film industry for “complicity” in what it falsely claims is a “genocide” in Gaza and looks for examples including “whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.”

This month, yet another large group of more than 1,200 members of Hollywood’s film industry are rejecting

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