When Glazer accepted the Oscar for best international picture for the Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, she criticized “Jewishness being hijacked by an occupation.”
He addressed the assembly gathered at the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, saying, “All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now.” Our film depicts the most dire form of dehumanization.”
“We present ourselves as individuals who deny their Jewish heritage and the misappropriation of the Holocaust by a profession linked to the Holocaust,” declared the Sexy Beast director and screenwriter from England.
His statement initially drew praise, but it was quickly criticized by groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and hundreds of well-known Jewish Hollywood professionals who signed an open letter denouncing it.
The letter’s text states: “We reject that our Jewish identity is being appropriated to establish a moral comparison between the Nazi government, which aimed to wipe out an entire race, and the Israeli government, which is trying to prevent its own annihilation.”
