Jonathan Glazer’s Israel-Hamas Oscars Comments Denounced as ‘Morally Indefensible’ by Holocaust Survivors

“You should be ashamed of yourself for using Auschwitz to criticize Israel,” foundation president David Schaecter writes in an open letter

Jonathan Glazer accepts the Best International Feature Film award for "The Zone of Interest" at the 96th Annual Academy Awards
Jonathan Glazer accepts the Best International Feature Film award for "The Zone of Interest" at the 96th Annual Academy Awards (Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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.”

Sharon Knolle

Sharon Knolle is an award-winning TV Reporter at TheWrap. She has covered entertainment news for more than 20 years for outlets including Moviefone, IMDb, USA Today, Variety, Us Weekly, Paste and the Sundance Institute. She can be reached at sharon.knolle@thewrap.com or on Twitter at @sknolle

Comments

One response to “Jonathan Glazer’s Israel-Hamas Oscars Comments Denounced as ‘Morally Indefensible’ by Holocaust Survivors”

  1. Amber Avatar
    Amber

    It certainly doesn’t help anything that media outlets & supposed “journalists” say that it started on October 7th, when it’s been an ongoing conflict for decades, with Israel oppressing, attacking, and murdering Palestinians the entire time. That is extremely well documented, and to say otherwise is pure lies and propaganda. Unbelievable that this is the world we live in, in 2024. We thought we left this kind of behavior in the 1940’s, but we absolutely did not. Humans are monsters. So are you, Sharon. You are a monster for contributing to the dehuminization of an entire ethnic group of people, and for participating in the erasure of history by publishing that, alone. It did not begin on October 7th. October 7th was a defense & retaliation for what had been happening for 75+ years. 

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.