A self-hating Jew who has no business making films about the Holocaust
This has surely got to be an oxymoron, when a film director at the Oscar ceremony who's supposedly Jewish and made one about the Holocaust exploits his award win for assaulting Israel at the worst possible moment:
Update: it turns out that not only did Glazer do a terrible disfavor for victims of Islam, he didn't have the film producers' approval for his loathsome statements either. Len Blavatnik, the producer, does not share Glazer's repulsive ideologies. Hopefully, this'll be the last time the latter has anything to do with the former.
But the most talked-about Jewish moment of the night came courtesy of Jonathan Glazer, writer-director of the cerebral Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest,” who used his acceptance speech to comment on the Israel-Hamas war.Yet another showbiz creep originating from Britain who turns a blind eye to how the Hamas committed sexual violence on October 7, 2023. It goes without saying he doesn't deserve an Oscar, but as the applause at the now irrelevant ceremony makes clear, this is an ultra-leftist establishment that's doubtless desensitized to violence, to say nothing of racial bigotry and misogyny. Glazer's film can't be viewed now that he's practically tainted it. He's already received pushback from Holocaust survivors themselves:
Standing alongside producers James Wilson and Len Blavatnik during his acceptance speech for best international feature, Glazer, who is Jewish and came to Israel on a five-month program when a student at London’s Jewish Free School, denounced Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, which he said had led to “dehumanization” that had affected both Israelis and Palestinians.
“Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of our past and present,” Glazer said.
“Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza,” he added to applause and cheers.
“All the victims of this dehumanization. How do we resist?” he said, to more applause.
Glazer’s reference to Israel’s war in Gaza came after pro-Palestinian protesters snarled traffic around the Dolby Theatre as the Oscars kicked off.
Fifteen Holocaust survivors criticized film director Jonathan Glazer for his Oscar speech claiming that Israel had hijacked the Holocaust in service of the conflict, saying that he should be ashamed to have used Auschwitz to attack the Jewish State.That's why realists can't attend or pay money to see Zone of Interest now.
A survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and the only person of his 105 family members to survive, David Schaecter said that Glazer's comments were "factually inaccurate and morally indefensible."
"You chose to use the Holocaust to validate your personal opinion. You made a Holocaust movie and won an Oscar. And you are Jewish. Good for you. But it is disgraceful for you to presume to speak for the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, who were murdered solely because of their Jewish identity," said Schaecter, President of the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA. "You should be ashamed of yourself for using Auschwitz to criticize Israel."
Israel as the refuge for Holocaust survivors
The 94-year-old said that it was disgraceful that Glazer saw fit to speak on behalf of Holocaust survivors, many of whom were offered no refuge in other countries and where there was "no Jewish nation to which we could flee."
"If the creation, existence, and survival of the State of Israel as a Jewish state equates to 'occupation' in your mind, then you obviously learned nothing from your movie," said Schaecter.
Schaecter said that the current political landscape was the result of past Arab leaders who had rejected the existence of the State of Israel, and the current conflict was a result of Iran and its proxies trying to foil the peace with Israel sought by several Arab states. Iran's efforts were abetted by many who "through naiveté or malice, blame 'the occupation.'”The apparent moral equivalence Glazer employed is deeply offensive. That he would have the gall to speak for people whom he doesn't represent any more than Steven Spielberg is also reprehensible. No doubt, there's plenty of scumbags like Glazer who've taken similar approaches when it comes to European victims of Islamic rape, and even victims of 9-11. These leftist ideologues, who otherwise refuse to acknowledge the existence of said victims of the Religion of Peace, have to be condemned, and it must be made clear they cannot speak for people they disrespect. After what Glazer did, we sadly cannot watch his movie either, and what're the chances it's filled with woke ideology? Don't be shocked if it is.
The Holocaust survivor said that the current situation in Israel had nothing to do with the Holocaust, a genocide that was also preceded hundreds of years by the Jewish people's presence and right to live in the territory.
Schaecter criticized Glazer's use of the Oscars stage to compare the October 7 Massacre to Israeli self-defense.
Update: it turns out that not only did Glazer do a terrible disfavor for victims of Islam, he didn't have the film producers' approval for his loathsome statements either. Len Blavatnik, the producer, does not share Glazer's repulsive ideologies. Hopefully, this'll be the last time the latter has anything to do with the former.
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