Spain’s most notable actors, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz may be soon unemployed, well at least in Hollywood. The Guardian reported that the “The couple were among 100 film professionals to sign the open Spanish letter calling on the European Union to end Israel’s military operation in Gaza, along with director Pedro Almodovar in July.”
Now since they signed the letter to end Israel’s operation, they will face the consequences. “But their actions have sparked anger in top Hollywood executives, which has reportedly called their careers in to question. One top exec told the Hollywood Reporter that he was “furious at Javier and Penelope” and queried whether he would want to work with the couple again” the report said. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz could be blacklisted from ever working again with major movie studios. The article called ‘Stars Face Hollywood Backlash in War of Words over Israel’ stated how major studios felt towards the actor’s position towards Israel’s war crimes which they considered “Genocide”:
When the latest battle in Gaza finally is over, as someday it will be, hard feelings could linger in the corner offices of Hollywood toward the stars who have voiced anti-Israel sentiments. But will the artists who criticize Israel military strikes — particularly married Spaniards Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, who accused the country of “genocide” in a widely circulated July 25 letter — suffer career backlash in a town whose power brokers tend to be strong supporters of Israel?
Bardem and Cruz is not the only actor’s that
faced a backlash in recent years. Lethal Weapon’s
franchise stars Mel
Gibson who was stopped by police
in Malibu, California for drinking while intoxicated in 2006. The media
also reported that he made anti-Semitic remarks in the process. Gibson
was quoted as saying “”F*****g Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world… Are you a Jew?” I
do not agree with Gibson’s first part because as we all know, not all
Jews are bad people, in fact there is a great division among Jews that
are both anti-Zionist as well as those that are pro-Zionist. But many
wars were started by Israel since it’s’ creation. Israel has been
involved in at least 7 major wars in the Middle East including its War
of Independence in 1948, The Six-Day War, The War of Attrition, The Yom
Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, The Gaza War of 2008 and now Operation
Protective Edge that has caused the lives of more than 1900 Palestinians
and close to 70 Israeli’s. Not mentioning Israel’s covert operations
with its Western allies. Mel Gibson did express some truth, although he
was intoxicated. Gibson’s partner in the films Danny Glover has publicly
called for boycotting Israel. According to mondoweiss.com, The
Electronic Intifada website which was one of the first news
organizations to publish the statement which detailed why Danny Glover
along with activist Grace Lee Boggs supported the action:
We stand in solidarity with the people of
Palestine, and support their call for cultural and academic boycott of
Israel,” Glover, Boggs and ten others said in a statement first
published by the Electronic Intifada. “We immediately took action to
have the film withdrawn from the festival. The festival organizers and
film producers informed us that this was not possible and they would
move forward with the screening, over our objections. This film uplifts
the life work and legacy of Grace Lee Boggs. She has explicitly stated
her support of the boycott and believes this screening is in direct
contradiction to her legacy and ongoing work as a revolutionary
According to the statement ‘Call for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel’ put the spotlight on Hollywood:
Whereas Israel’s colonial oppression of the Palestinian people, which is based on Zionist ideology, comprises the following:
Denial of its responsibility for the
Nakba — in particular the waves of ethnic cleansing and dispossession
that created the Palestinian refugee problem — and therefore refusal to
accept the inalienable rights of the refugees and displaced stipulated
in and protected by international law;
Military occupation and colonization of
the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza since 1967, in
violation of international law and UN resolutions;
The entrenched system of racial
discrimination and segregation against the Palestinian citizens of
Israel, which resembles the defunct apartheid system in South Africa
Being called an anti-Semite labels you in
Hollywood, sort of like an omen. Bardem released a statement to rebuff
accounts of him being an anti-Semite by the MSM:
Bardem wrote:
My signature was solely meant as a plea for peace. Destruction and hatred only generate more hatred and destruction.
While I was critical of the Israeli
military response, I have great respect for the people of Israel and
deep compassion for their losses. I am now being labeled by some as
anti-Semitic, as is my wife [Penélope Cruz] – which is the antithesis of
who we are as human beings. We detest anti-Semitism as much as we
detest the horrible and painful consequences of war
The Hollywood Reporter also said that
numerous pro-Israel celebrities had supported Israel’s operation in Gaza
and even long-time actor Jon Voight expressed anger over what Bardem
and Cruz had said about Israel:
Among Hollywood figures, the typically
outspoken Howard Stern, Joan Rivers and Bill Maher have expressed
support for Israel in the conflict, which has killed more than 1,800
people, mostly Palestinians. And Ray Donovan actor Jon Voight penned an
open letter Aug. 2 demanding that Cruz, 40, and Bardem, 45, “hang your
heads in shame.” Wrote Voight: “I am asking all my peers who signed that
poison letter against Israel to examine their motives. Can you take
back the fire of anti-Semitism that is raging all over the world now?”
A conflict of interest also has hit the
entertainment industry as well, concerning actor George Clooney and his
Fiancée Amal Alamuddin, the London-based international law and human
rights lawyer turned down an offer from the United Nations to
investigate Israel’s war crimes in Gaza regarding Operation Protective
Edge. If you remember, George Clooney was one of the celebrities that
supported a movement called ‘Save Darfur’ that started in 2004. It was
founded by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and American
Jewish World Service in an event called the ‘Darfur Emergency Summit in
New York City’ that was held at the CUNY Graduate Center. Keith Harmon
Snow wrote an article for Global Research in 2007 summarized the truth
about Hollywood’s hypocritical concerns about Africans called‘Darfurism, Uganda and the U.S. War in Africa’ and said:
Hollywood personalities dubbed
“actorvists,” including Mia Farrow, Don Cheadle and George Clooney, have
helped to whip up the “Save Darfur” hysteria. From Elie Wiesel to Barak
Obama, people are “outraged” by genocide that the Bush Administration,
we are told, is reluctant to stop. And it is hysteria, in the true
definition of the word, but it did not simply rise out of a sudden
concern for a bunch of Africans in some far-off God-forsaken place (as
it is portrayed)
Save Darfur was a campaign backed by
Military-Industrial Complex, religious Jewish and Christian
organizations according to Snow’s article:
Debunking the claims of a “genocide
against blacks” or an “Islamic holy-war” against Christians, Darfur’s
Arab and black African tribes have intermarried for centuries, and
nearly everyone is Muslim. The “Save Darfur” campaign is deeply aligned
with Jewish and Christian faith-based organizations in the United
States, Canada, Europe and Israel. These groups have relentlessly
campaigned for Western military action, demonizing both Sudan and China,
but they have never addressed Western military involvement—backing
factions on all sides
The point here is that actors working in
Hollywood do not want to upset the establishment. Many actors and
actresses are careful not to criticize Israeli actions against the
Palestinians; in fact many had visited Israel regardless of the numerous
war crimes it has committed.
Will Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz’s
comments destroy their careers? According to the Hollywood Reporter,
movie executives always look for the bottom-line and that is how much
money they can make? For Bardem and Cruz, if they do not have any major
Hollywood roles in the years to come, then it is most likely that they
have been put on the blacklist:
One top producer who has worked with Cruz
says he privately has vowed not to hire her again. Still, even
Kavanaugh doesn’t foresee the letter hurting either of their careers as
long as the audience for their work doesn’t turn. Or, as another
producer points out: “I think the thing any executive or producer will
try to calculate before working with Penelope Cruz or Javier Bardem in
the near future is what their value is in the all-important
international marketplace. And what territories they might have
alienated people in by what they said. It might not be that many. But
it’s really all about business.”
Kavanaugh is correct to point out that it is
about business after all. What happens to Bardem and Cruz’s acting
careers although they are quite popular worldwide still remains to be
seen. The power brokers in Hollywood are pro-Israel, and if you want to
remain in the celebrity spotlight, you must be politically correct.
Zionist Jews do run Hollywood just ask Joel Stein of the Los Angeles
Times when he wrote an article called ‘Who runs Hollywood? C’mon’ and
said the following:
I have never been so upset by a poll in
my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television
industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964.
The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month,
sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just
shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood
Hollywood has an agenda, and it is called
propaganda. It has demonized various groups based on ethnicity, race,
religion and even political beliefs since its existence. One book that
is worth reading is Jack Shaheen’s ‘Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood
Vilifies a People’ which explores how Hollywood operates. Hollywood has
produced great films throughout its history, some have had some
positive messages. However, most of Hollywood’s films are based
on Washington’s war agenda or to sell an idea or a product. The world
should support more independent films, why not? The world has already
made a pivotal move towards independent media.
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