From the article.
Spielberg also directly addressed the current conflict in Gaza for the first time, saying: “We can rage against the heinous acts committed by the terrorists of October 7th and also decry the killing of innocent women and children in Gaza.”
Also this was interesting:
Spielberg has not signed the open letter criticising Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar acceptance speech.
What was the speak in a nutshell? Calling it genocide
It was something like they made this movie to reflect atrocities in the past and present, and they refute to be connected to Israel who is committing their acts in the name of all the jewish
“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, all [are] victims of this dehumanization.”
To add - the media reported only the part which said "we refute our Jewishness", without the additional context. Hence the controversy.
Yes, I also think it could have been worded a little more clearly. But definitely not Glazer's fault that he was misrepresented.
Nobody signed that letter. It was a change.org petition and one of the names was Riverto Thesea (rivier to the sea)
But can we decry the genocide being committed by Israel or will be try to downplay it with weasel words.
Right. He got close to calling that out without saying the word genocide which it absolutely is. I am truly shocked that in my lifetime I am seeing the same atrocities committed toward the Jewish people, now being committed by them on others. Really a sad underscore of human nature. I guess what goes round comes round.
Yeah this is what bothers me the most, and no doubt fuels the 'maybe Hitler was right' tinfoilers. Israel isnt doing the Jewish any favours right now.
Yeah he's right. That first part can be about America or the world at large, not specifically Gaza.
What first part are you referring too?
What's in the headline about antisemitism.
Your comment isn't very clear about what you're trying to say.
In remarks reported by Deadline, Spielberg said: “Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
I wish people would put a bit more thought into that when they repeat it
@fluxion I agree. I think he has put thought into it. That's why this was worth posting.
The people in here who think he's supporting the genocide unfortunately didn't read past the first paragraph.
It's infuriating. Every top level comment I've seen is showing they can't read more than a few sentences without commenting.
Twitter is wall to wall bots. I wonder how many are on lemmy.
Honestly good point.
We like to assume thoughtless content must mean bots, but I think real people are plenty likely to read that first paragraph and jump straight in to comments.
Much less oversight on Lemmy.
I don't get why people are surprised about his views. He made Munich, a movie where Israeli government uses bunch of guys to take revenge against Palestinian terrorists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_(2005_film)#Controversies
Yeah, the actual term was State sponsored extra-judiciary assassinations. Just so we are all on the same page just to call a spade a spade.
There's a difference between killing Palestinians terrorists and killing Palestinians
His protagonists were second guessing themselves even when they were killing the terrorists.
I don't understand what is it that you're trying to say here.
I'm just pointing out that what people are mad about, is not them fight against terrorists.
Oh yeah, but what does Ja Rule have to say about this?
Oh god, won't somebody please call Ja!
Decry the killing of innocent women and children, but none of the men in the pile were found innocent.
It's easy to condemn antisemitism. Do you condemn Israel?
Not only did you not read the article, you didn’t even read the summary on the lemmy post.
Sounds like he just did
Disappointing language... Describing one as heinous, then following with decry makes the far larger scale atrocities in that conflict come across as a tacked on footnote in his speech. While its essentially a genocide happening as we speak, by the people who claim to lead the people he was speaking about.
Felt like it was going somewhere only to end with weakness.
Spare me
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