The playwright and screenwriter, who was Oscar nominated last year for Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, has backed The Zone of Interest director
Picking up his award for best foreign language film on 10 March,He said he hoped his movie, which shows the domestic lives of Rudolph and Hedwig Höss just outside the walls of Auschwitz, where he was camp commandant, “shows where dehumanisation 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.
Kushner continued: “This is a misappropriation of what it means to be a Jew, what the Holocaust meant, and rejects that. Who doesn’t agree with that? What kind of person thinks that what’s going on now in Gaza is acceptable?”he was proud that The Fabelmans – which is based on Spielberg’s early life – sought to call out antisemitism in the US.
Yet vocal supporters of Glazer, including directors such as Boots Riley, Zoe Kazan and Asif Kapadia, were quick to come to his defence, witheditorial in Haaretz
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