Close To 200 Hollywood Execs, Stars Sign Statement Against Hamas

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Not new or clever, but the ponerological effect continues.

http://deadline.com/2014/08/sylvester-stallone-seth-rogen-avi-lerner-sherry-lansing-among-190-names-sigining-petition-against-hamas-823777/

Close To 200 Hollywood Execs, Stars Sign Statement Against Hamas: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Pascal, Seth Rogen, Richard Plepler, Sherry Lansing

Close to 200 Hollywood executives, celebrities and creatives including Aaron Sorkin, Greg Berlanti, Josh Charles, Amy Pascal, Sylvester Stallone, Seth Rogen, Kelsey Grammer, Jerry Weintraub, Ivan Reitman, HBO’s Richard Plepler, MGM’s Gary Barber, lawyer Alan Wertheimer, and pr maven Alan Nierob have put their names on a statement, criticizing Hamas. The statement was posted on the website of Pro-Israel group Creative Community for Peace and Friends. The Creative Community states that they are a comprised of individuals across the entertainment industry who “may not all share the same politics or the same opinion on the best path to peace in the Middle East. But we do agree that singling out Israel, the only democracy in the region, as a target of cultural boycotts while ignoring the now-recognized human rights issues of her neighbors will not further peace.”

Asked what prompted this, CCPF board member and talent rep David Lonner said: “There’s been a lot of confusion in the media of what’s actually going in the Gaza strip, but for those of who go to Israel, it’s not complicated at all. So there’s been a feeling for a while now of how to get a message across and uncomplicated matters, and we think this is a step in the right direction to do that.” Over the years, Lonner has guided many people in Hollywood to visit and explore Israel. “I had taken a group of executives to Israel from 2006 to 2008 – for three consecutive years I took people there – so they could be on the ground to see what was going on.” Those in the industry who went with him, he said, were Amy Pascal, Roger Birnbaum, Jon Turteltaub, and Alexander Payne, to name a few.

“When you talk to artists like Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodovar, you have to think, ‘Where do you think your movies are being watched in the Middle East? They can’t be watched anywhere else but in Israel. When you are on the ground, you realize that you are in a very free and progressive society, and it’s a region where people can’t pay to see the product that we’re making other than in Israel.”

The CCPF statement, which 190 industry people signed, is below. It will run in a number of publications and Hollywood trades, and reads as follows:

"We, the undersigned, are saddened by the devastating loss of life endured by Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza. We are pained by the suffering on both sides of the conflict and hope for a solution that brings peace to the region.

While we stand firm in our commitment to peace and justice, we must also stand firm against ideologies of hatred and genocide which are reflected in Hamas’ charter, Article 7 of which reads, “There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!” The son of a Hamas founder has also commented about the true nature of Hamas.

Hamas cannot be allowed to rain rockets on Israeli cities, nor can it be allowed to hold its own people hostage. Hospitals are for healing, not for hiding weapons. Schools are for learning, not for launching missiles. Children are our hope, not our human shields.

We join together in support of the democratic values we all cherish and in the hope that the healing and transformative power of the arts can be used to build bridges of peace."

Lana Melman, director of Creative Community for Peace and a former Paramount Television vice president, called the statement “a collaboration. Many people in the industry reached out to their friends and we were able to get more names. Our board was active and then what happened is that it snowballed. It was hard to keep track of all the people asking to sign it one point.”

Among those entertainment industry board members who were actively involved in collecting names were Lonner, Ben Silverman and Scott Packman. Lonner credits lawyers Patti Felker and Fred Toczek as being “very instrumental in putting this whole thing together.” Felker composed the text of the statement. Michael Kives at CAA was also very helpful in getting the word out to talent.

“Everyone spoke to their constituents,” said Lonner, and the list continued to grow. Other industry figures signing their names to the CCFP’s statement include Avi Arad, Dan Bucatinsky, Donald De Line, Minnie Driver, William Friedkin, Evan Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Avi Lerner, Brian Medavoy, Richard Plepler, Haim Saban, Michael Tolkin, Danny Sussman, Bernie Weinraub, Rick Yorn and Pete Yorn.

This statement follows a number of flaring opinions on the conflict in Israel. On Saturday, more than 300 survivors and descendents of the Holocaust signed a petition condemning Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinian people via the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. On Thursday, filmmaker Ken Loach gave a speech at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where Palestinian directors Abdel Salam Shehadeh and Ashraf Mashharawi were being lauded, calling for an “absolute boycott of all the cultural happenings supported by the Israeli state.” Pro-Israel op-eds from Jon Voight and Kavanaugh (whose name is also on this list) were published in recent weeks, spurred by a Pro-Palestinian open letter which included signatures from Spanish actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. Both later clarified their stands in personal statements to the press, specifying that they were only calling for peace in Gaza, not accusing Israel of genocide. On Aug. 17, Russell Brand, in his online video series The Trews, called for for six companies to divest holdings in Israeli military operations that “support and facilitate the oppression of people in Gaza.”

The Creative Community for Peace was initially started by David Renzer, former chairman of Universal music publishing who is now head of Spirit Music Group (a music publishing company).

I know that portions of this are already on SOTT (two in particular) but I thought to post it anyway. Judging from the comments, not everyone is buying this garbage and are making it clear. 21st century Nouveau-zio-Nazis are quite something...

 

[mkrnhr]

It's a very stupid move because they only give confirmation to all those who say that Hollywood is controlled by "Jews" (we might say by Zionists but that's not how people usually phrase it). It seems that these recent events in Gaza and Ukraine serve as a revealing to the degree of ponerization of certain people, as if the polarization in this sense becomes more and more evident.

 

[Alana]

It's a very stupid move because they only give confirmation to all those who say that Hollywood is controlled by "Jews" (we might say by Zionists but that's not how people usually phrase it). It seems that these recent events in Gaza and Ukraine serve as a revealing to the degree of ponerization of certain people, as if the polarization in this sense becomes more and more evident.

I think they use Hollywood as a weapon of spreading the propaganda, because they know that most people would look up to stars. They are not even shy about their intentions:

Jews who control Hollywood openly tell stars: Don't utter the "Palestine" word if you want to keep your career alive

It's official: Right now the No. 1 rule in Hollywood is that you can talk about anything political - except Israel's attack on the Christians and Muslims in Gaza, Palestine. That's not a conspiracy theory from critics of Israel or Jew-hating neo-Nazis. Instead, that was the thesis of a candid article in the August 1 edition of The Hollywood Reporter (THR), influential trade journal of the entertainment industry.

In fact, the article was bluntly titled: "Rule 1: Talk About Anything Political in Hollywood . . . Except Gaza."

That such an article would appear in a magazine considered "must" reading for those in show business was a not-so-subtle warning that anyone who violates that rule is in for a tough road ahead.

Noting several celebrities had expressed sympathies for the plight of Gaza, THR commented ominously that - "for now at least" - powerful Jewish moguls in Hollywood were simply dismissing those entertainers as being "uninformed." However, continue speaking out this way and there will be trouble.

Adding breezily that it is commonplace for Hollywood executives "to be on a first name basis with prominent Israeli politicians and business leaders," THR cooed that this intimacy with Israel explains why so many Hollywood figures who otherwise have much to say about a lot of political issues are silent about Gaza - with only a few exceptions.

Those exceptions - which caused a stir in Jewish circles and a big buzz in Hollywood - included such well-known names as husband-and-wife acting team Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz (both Academy Award winners) and two-time Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodavor, who joined dozens of fellow Spanish actors, directors, musicians and writers in an open letter condemning the assault on Gaza, describing Israel's policies as "genocide."

Meanwhile, American actor Jon Voight jumped into action, charging Bardem, Ms. Cruz and their colleagues with "inciting anti-Semitism," which, of course, brought denials from the accused. Ms. Cruz rushed to explain she was "not an expert" and shouldn't be misunderstood.

See more on SOTT link.

That they come out so openly about it might mean that the few actors who made a stance for Gaza might have had an effect on people. I say, we go out there in the social media and support those few, even if they got intimidated and retracted afterwards.

 

[mkrnhr]

I think they use Hollywood as a weapon of spreading the propaganda, because they know that most people would look up to stars. They are not even shy about their intentions:

It is. The bad move is to make it public that they asked these celebrities to spread this nonsense. Lots of people worship celebrities, and it would have been smarter for them to make it seem as if it was spontaneous. It only shows how desperate they've become, which is a good sign.

That they come out so openly about it might mean that the few actors who made a stance for Gaza might have had an effect on people. I say, we go out there in the social media and support those few, even if they got intimidated and retracted afterwards.

Yes, information guerilla, using the ptb's tools against them is the way to go.