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| Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz Critcise Israel |
The Oscar endearing
actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz have fuelled fuming divisions inside
Hollywood over the Gaza quarrel by accusing Israel of committing “genocide” in
the country.
Pledges to shun the
Spanish actors think to have been made secretly by a handful of crown industry
executives came after Bardem and Cruz, who are married, signed an open letter disapproving
“the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli professional army”.
The letter accused
Israel of stoking the clash by “advancing on Palestinian regions instead of retreating
to the 1967 borders”. It added: “Gaza is living through terror…..while
international society does nothing.”
The backlash was hasty
with the actor Jon Voight calling for Cruz, 40 and Bardem, 45 to “hang your
heads in shame”. He suspected they had stoked “the fire of anti – Semitism.
Ryan Kavanaugh, the head administrator of
Relativity Media, whose current films comprise The Family, starring
Robert De Niro, told The Hollywood Reporter: as the grandson of holocaust survivors,
I now that anyone calling what’s going on in Israel ‘genocide’ instead of self defense
is either ignorant and shouldn’t be commenting or is truly anti - Semitic.
Frequently, however,
Hollywood has been quiet about Gaza. Jewish luminaries such as Steven Spielberg
and Barbara Streisand have not commented – but even their stillness has been
interrupted as deep with importance. “Intense to shore up Israel in times of silence
they prefer to keep low profile when things heat up” said the Jewish Journal.
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