Hollywood pushes back.
Over 1,200 actors, producers, and creators — from Liev Schreiber and Mayim Bialik to Debra Messing, Gene Simmons, and Haim Saban — just signed a powerful open letter rejecting the cultural boycott of Israel.
The statement, released by Creative Community for Peace and The Brigade, calls out the attempt to blacklist Israeli filmmakers as censorship and discrimination. It lands just weeks after Paramount publicly opposed the boycott pledge and as antisemitism and silencing of Jewish voices spike worldwide.
“Excluding Israeli filmmakers because of their identity betrays storytelling itself,” said Haim Saban. Debra Messing added that boycotts of Jews echo “a dark legacy of antisemitism.”
