Want to stop genocide? Stop watching Hollywood films! "How America's entertainment industry manufactured silence on Gaza
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FUCK HOLLYWOOD!
Want to stop genocide?
Stop watching Hollywood films!
"How America's entertainment industry manufactured silence on Gaza | Middle East Eye"
"The message from the top was clear: artists who speak out against Israel's actions will not work again.
Since mid-2024, industry executives and their underlings have made good on that message, aggressively surveilling arts and entertainment workers, and quickly retaliating against any who criticise Israel, the workers said.
Artists in film and television described a "blacklist culture" rife with firing and doxing.
One TV writer told MEE that leaked communications from a Hollywood PR company told staff to "look at social media" for pro-Palestine speech before hiring anyone.
The approach mirrors the Trump administration's stated policy to deny or rescind visas, particularly those of students, for pro-Palestine speech on their social media accounts.
Hollywood unions have long supported Israeli occupation and the oppression of Palestinians, and US unions have offered support to Israel since the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917. This is in keeping with the support that the AFL-CIO (the largest federation of US labour unions) has long shown for US imperialism writ large, from the war on Vietnam to the US-backed coup in Chile.
Throughout the Cold War, America’s imperialist unionism ran parallel to Israel’s labour Zionism and the apartheid-era union movement in South Africa, which organised for a time under the slogan, “Workers of the World: Unite and Fight for a White South Africa”.
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