2ND UPDATE, Oct. 12: A gaggle of leisure executives, producers and filmmakers Thursday launched an announcement condemning the current assaults on Israel by Hamas, which has seen the dying toll rise to 1,300 because the assaults started.
The group contains Haim Saban; Jeffrey Katzenberg; Eli Roth; producers Jonathan Glickman, Lawrence Bender and Rick Yorn; Spyglass Entertainment co-founders Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum; UTA co-founder Jim Berkus; ICM Partners’ Chris Silbermann; Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz, Paramount’s Brian Robbins; and executives Ben Silverman, Modi Wiczyk and Jason Hirschhorn.
“We denounce the brutal attacks by Hamas in Israel,” mentioned the joint assertion. “These atrocities will have a devastating impact on future generations. We unequivocally stand in solidarity with Israel in the global fight against terrorism. Am Yisrael Chai.”
UPDATE, Oct. 11: The Directors Guild of America has launched an announcement saying it “unequivocally condemns” the Hamas terrorist assaults in Israel, affirming its dedication to “supporting the Jewish people.”
“The DGA unequivocally condemns terrorism and joins the many voices in our community decrying the recent Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel and violence against innocent civilians,” the assertion reads. “We stand against the growing spread of antisemitism here in the US and abroad, and remain committed in our actions, words and deeds to supporting the Jewish people.”
PREVIOUS, Oct. 10: MRC CEO Scott Tenley, alongside founders Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu, are talking out in opposition to the actions taken in opposition to Israel by Hamas.
In a memo to their firm colleagues despatched Tuesday, the trio condemned “in the strongest possible terms the actions of Hamas and all terrorism.”
The trio cited comparable statements in assist of Israel together with from President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and the New York Times Editorial Board.
Others within the Hollywood and leisure group have spoken out in opposition to the assaults, which started over the weekend. More than 1,000 deaths have been reported by officers in Israel and nearly that many extra within the Gaza Strip.
“There is no moral equivalence for terrorism and there is no hedging on Hamas. You are seeing pure evil play out,” the MRC trio wrote right now.
Read the memo in full under.
Several business occasions within the area have been halted because the assaults started. The El-Gouna Film Festival in Egypt has been postponed, whereas Sean Penn’s satire C.A.U.G.H.T. has been pulled from the upcoming Mipcom market amongst current strikes.
Dear Colleagues,
We write to you this morning as reviews proceed to flood in from Israel. 260 massacred youngsters at a music competition. 100 massacred farmers. Kidnapped grandparents, infants. Parents referred to as by their youngsters’s captors to allow them to hear them being raped and murdered. And new reviews of dozens of decapitated infants and kids.
When we handled the Kanye documentary, we spoke about our need for peace between Israel and Palestine.
This isn’t about that. Hamas has no trigger and no nation. It doesn’t characterize the Palestinian individuals any greater than Isis represents Syrians or Taliban represents Afghans. They aren’t freedom fighters. They weren’t elected democratically and truthfully. These teams solely know barbarism, violence, and dying. They are as harmful to the individuals they management as they’re to their enemies. These actions are all the time borne from hatred, however particularly now they’re borne from a determined need to damage the peace course of that has gained momentum between Palestine, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the US.
If you might be pro-peace, you might be in opposition to Hamas. MRC condemns within the strongest attainable phrases the actions of Hamas and all terrorism. Like President Obama, President Biden, Representative Ritchie Torres, leaders of over 50 nations and your entire New York Times Editorial Board – a lot of whom have criticized Israel prior to now – right now we stand unequivocally with Israel.
And we don’t neglect the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who crave peace however are beneath Hamas rule. We stand with you too within the battle in opposition to Hamas.
There isn’t any ethical equivalence for terrorism and there’s no hedging on Hamas. You are seeing pure evil play out.
We have assets for anybody that wishes to ship support to all these affected in Gaza and in Israel.
Scott, Modi and Asif
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