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In reply to the discussion: 'Zone of Interest' producer says he 'fundamentally disagrees' with Jonathan Glazer's Oscars speech on Israel-Hamas war [View all]maxsolomon
(33,608 posts)48. I don't disagree with Glazer. I thought it was a concise, nuanced speech.
All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present not to say, Look what they did then, rather, Look what we do now. Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the... 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist? Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film, as she did in life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance. Thank you.
He's against his Jewishness being hijacked by an Occupation (not just the Gaza incursion).
He's against the Holocaust being hijacked by an Occupation (not just the Gaza incursion).
He's against Dehumanization.
He's against the Dehumanization that led to October the 7th.
He's against the Dehumanization occurring in the Gaza incursion.
It was a speech that resonated with my own mixed feelings on I/P and Israel's strategy in Gaza, but the film itself was made long before 10/7. The "Occupation" isn't simply this current war.
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'Zone of Interest' producer says he 'fundamentally disagrees' with Jonathan Glazer's Oscars speech on Israel-Hamas war [View all]
Beastly Boy
Mar 16
OP
So dehumanization only concerns him when it's applied to Jewish/Israeli people.
Sky Jewels
Mar 16
#1
Sadly, this seems to be the case for so many Israli's and rabid far rightwingers worldwide
NYC2ATL
Mar 16
#31
Whenever you find yourself comparing a government of a Western nation to a terrorist group
NYC2ATL
Mar 16
#36
A strawman is not something "off topic"; it's claiming something has happened when it hasn't
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 20
#78
Do you blame both sides for the attack on the Israeli civilians that started the war?
Beastly Boy
Mar 16
#18
When Israel had Intel of a potential attack a year in advance but dismissed it as big talk,
elocs
Mar 16
#32
I asked you whether you blame both sudes for the Hamas attacks on the Israeli civilians that started the war.
Beastly Boy
Mar 16
#34
Next question: identify the killers on both sides who attacked Israeli civilians that started the war.
Beastly Boy
Mar 16
#41
Glazer's remarks were disgusting, disappointing, but oh so fucking predictable.
Behind the Aegis
Mar 16
#12
Questions can be a Strawman. As well as the "loaded question" and the "accusatory question".
Behind the Aegis
Mar 16
#19
What were you calling "disgusting"? And, again, why was it "predictable"? How well did you know Glazer? (nt)
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 16
#21
Yeah, so it's just that you know that most Jews outside Israel think the Israeli attack has gone too far
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 16
#25
You said you were able to know what Glazer was thinking before he said anything
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 16
#30
It was going on long before Hamas (who Netanyahu propped up to play 'divide et impera' games) existed.
Celerity
Mar 18
#54
Tit for tat, back & forth, w/ Israel doing the vast amount of the killing & land taking over the sweep of last century.
Celerity
Mar 19
#65
It's pretty hard to negotiate a peace and settlement while shooting at each other.
Ping Tung
Mar 20
#77