Tony Kushner Backs Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech

Tony Kushner has come out in support of Jonathan Glazer‘s Oscars acceptance speech, describing the British directer’s comments at the ceremony as an “unimpeachable irrefutable statement.”

Speaking on the Haaretz Podcast which was released Wednesday, Kushner, a four-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter, was asked about his feelings about a number of topics related to the Israel-Gaza conflict and was directly about Glazer’s speech which has been attacked by some Jewish figures in Hollywood and was the subject of a recent open letter that has signed by 1,000 people.

During the podcast, Kushner, who is in Israel to promote a production of Angels in America in Tel Aviv, brings up the blowback to Glazer’s Oscars speech, a speech which he described as “really sort of unimpeachable, irrefutable statement.” The playwright is then asked if he agrees with Glazer’s comments, to which Kushner says, “Of course, I mean, who doesn’t?”

Kushner explains, “What [Glazer’s] saying is so, is so simple. He’s saying Jewishness, Jewish identity, Jewish history, the history of the Holocaust, the history of Jewish suffering must not be used as an excuse for a project of dehumanizing or slaughtering other people.”

“This is a misappropriation of, of what it means to be a Jew, what the Holocaust meant, and he rejects that. Who doesn’t agree with that?,” he continues.

More to come…

Tony Kushner has come out in support of Jonathan Glazer‘s Oscars acceptance speech, describing the British directer’s comments at the ceremony as an “unimpeachable irrefutable statement.”

Speaking on the Haaretz Podcast which was released Wednesday, Kushner, a four-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter, was asked about his feelings about a number of topics related to the Israel-Gaza conflict and was directly about Glazer’s speech which has been attacked by some Jewish figures in Hollywood and was the subject of a recent open letter that has signed by 1,000 people.

During the podcast, Kushner, who is in Israel to promote a production of Angels in America in Tel Aviv, brings up the blowback to Glazer’s Oscars speech, a speech which he described as “really sort of unimpeachable, irrefutable statement.” The playwright is then asked if he agrees with Glazer’s comments, to which Kushner says, “Of course, I mean, who doesn’t?”

Kushner explains, “What [Glazer’s] saying is so, is so simple. He’s saying Jewishness, Jewish identity, Jewish history, the history of the Holocaust, the history of Jewish suffering must not be used as an excuse for a project of dehumanizing or slaughtering other people.”

“This is a misappropriation of, of what it means to be a Jew, what the Holocaust meant, and he rejects that. Who doesn’t agree with that?,” he continues.

More to come…