The Holocaust Survivors’ Basis USA has attacked The Zone of Curiosity director Jonathan Glazer for what it describes as his “morally indefensible” Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday.
In an open letter revealed on the organisation’s web site, the muse’s chairman David Schaecter, wrote: “You made a Holocaust film and received an Oscar. And you might be Jewish. Good for you. However it’s disgraceful so that you can presume to talk for the six million Jews, together with one and a half million kids, who had been murdered solely due to their Jewish identification.”
Schaecter added: “Try to be ashamed of your self for utilizing Auschwitz to criticise Israel. If the creation, existence, and survival of the State of Israel as a Jewish state equates to ‘occupation’ in your thoughts, then you definately clearly realized nothing out of your film.”
Glazer, together with movie producer James Wilson, received one of the best worldwide movie Academy Award for The Zone of Curiosity, concerning the each day lifetime of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his spouse Hedwig. In his speech, Glazer mentioned that he and Wilson “stand right here as males who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to battle for thus many harmless individuals, whether or not the victims of October 7 in Israel or the continuing assault in Gaza.”
On Monday the Anti-Defamation League posted a message on social media attacking Glazer’s feedback as “reprehensible”, saying: “Israel isn’t hijacking Judaism or the Holocaust by defending itself in opposition to genocidal terrorists. Glazer’s feedback on the #Oscars are each factually incorrect & morally reprehensible. They minimise the Shoah & excuse terrorism of essentially the most heinous sort.”
Glazer has additionally acquired widespread assist for his feedback, together with from Israeli navy veterans’ organisation Breaking the Silence, which posted a statement on social media saying “[Glazer] took an unequivocal stance in opposition to the cynical utilisation of Judaism and the Holocaust within the title of justifying the occupation … we refuse to just accept the convenience with which the blood and lives of civilians is used as a justification for political ideologies, or as a bargaining chip. Empathy isn’t a zero-sum sport.”
