While many on social media thanked Messing for sharing stories about the hostages and their families, she spoke only about one side of the conflict, including the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the tens of thousands of thousands of people who have invaded by Israeli forces. He was also criticized for not mentioning Palestinians. she killed it.
“Collaborating with colonial forces that are forcing people from their homes and killing thousands of civilians is not exactly ‘activist’,” Messing said in a comment on his Instagram. there were.
Ingel said more than 2,000 artists and industry leaders, including Gal Gadot, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jerry Seinfeld, Mayim Bialik, Chris Pine and Michael Douglas, wrote CCFP’s open letter in support of Israel. It is said that he signed.
The letter “calls on the entertainment community to speak out strongly against Hamas, support Israel, refrain from sharing misinformation about the war, and force the terrorist organization to return innocent hostages to their families. “We want them to do everything they can.”
Ingel says celebrities who have expressed support for Israel are facing “condemnation.” He pointed to a protest outside the Syracuse theater where Seinfeld performed. Equally problematic, he said, was the “silence” of individuals and organizations after Hamas attacks. He noted that the Writers Guild of America has waited more than two weeks to comment on this atrocity.
“I think a lot of Jews in the entertainment community felt abandoned, not just by the silence, but by the condemnation,” Ingel says.
“Taking a stand” vs. “Nagging, nagging, nagging”
At the famous March on Washington in 1963, the late activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte told the crowd that he believed artists were “exposing” society itself. Sometimes that means revealing things that are difficult to hear.
Jane Fonda did it often throughout her life. In 1973, when she spoke to KQED about the Vietnam War, she asked: “What’s the point of exterminating a people?” Fonda said, “My father fought in World War II against people who wanted to exterminate a people.Today, our fathers fought.” I don’t think we should deny everything.”
