The Holocaust Survivor’s Foundation blasted “The Zone of Interest” director Jonathan Glazer’s comments made Sunday night during the Oscars ceremony as “morally indefensible” in an open letter obtained Monday by TheWrap.
“You should be ashamed of yourself for using Auschwitz to criticize Israel,” foundation president David Schaecter wrote in the missive, which was signed by the 18 members of the foundation’s U.S. executive committee.
The 94-year-0ld Schaecter, who stated that he was the only one of his 105-member family to survive the Holocaust, wrote, “I watched in anguish Sunday when I heard you use the platform of the Oscars ceremony to equate Hamas’ maniacal brutality against innocent Israelis with Israel’s difficult but necessary self-defense in the face of ongoing barbarity.”
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