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David Mouriquand

‘Profoundly misguided’: Israeli film industry responds to filmmaker boycott pledge

The Israeli Producers Association has issued a statement, following the news earlier this week that more than 1,300 artists, including Hollywood and international A-listers like Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed and Javier Bardem, have signed a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

The artists – actors, directors, screenwriters and producers – have signed a pledge created by Film Makers for Palestine and decry the “unrelenting horror” in Gaza, further urging the industry to "refuse silence, racism, and dehumanisation and to do everything humanly possible to end complicity in their oppression".

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