Hollywood Jews are like turkeys for Christmas
The world has grown accustomed to the tiresome spectacle of Hollywood’s liberal luvvies using the Oscars as a platform to make political speeches – and Jonathan Glazer was unfortunately no exception.
Glazer is the director of ‘ The Zone of Interest’, a German-language film about the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz whose house was immediately outside the camp. The film is a powerful study of the banality of Nazi evil. It won a well-deserved Oscar for Best International Film. Receiving the award, Glazer was joined on stage by fellow Jews, producer James Wilson and financial backer Leonard Blavatnik.
‘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,” Glazer declared, “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?”
That statement is so mindboggling in its contorted, morally bankrupt, virtue-signalling ignorance that one wonders if Glazer has studied any history at all.
One cannot help but compare Glazer to Marius von Mayenburg, whose play Nachtland is having a short run in London. Nachtland tells the story of Nicola and Philipp, German siblings who find a painting by A. Hitler in their father’s attic. In an effort to find a Nazi provenance for the painting so that they can sell it for a fortune, the family’s past associations with Martin Bormann are revealed. It is up to Philipp’s Jewish wife Judith to make the moral case for why the family should not be making money from the blood of dead Jews.
Nicola brings up the Palestinians in order to tell Judith to ‘learn from the lessons of history’.
‘Isn’t it surprising that the Jews of all people should know better than to ‘erect camps, build walls and kill innocents’, she declares.
Judith retorts: ‘If you think you can talk about Israel and point fingers as if it has nothing whatsover to do with Germany, then (…) I’m not going to do your homework for you, and I can’t give you absolution …with your vain perpetrator cult…look it up yourself, al-Husseini, Arafat, Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas charter.”
Interestingly enough, these words, written before the 7 October Hamas massacre, were cut out of the script on the night I saw Nachtland. The director clearly thought that, spoken against the background of the current Israel-Hamas war, they would prove too controversial for some in the audience. But they are in the playtext.
Marius von Mayenburg knows what Jonathan Glazer could not be bothered to find out: that there there is a direct link between the Holocaust, the Palestinian Nazi collaborator Haj Amin al Husseini and the Nazi-inspired Muslim Brotherhood, whose Gaza branch – Hamas – was founded in 1987 by Ahmed Yassin.
Like turkeys voting for Christmas, the Hollywood glitterati who sport their Free Palestine pins and abjure their Jewishness have no idea that they are actually supporting a form of antisemitism that would murder them – as Jews – if it could.
It takes a non-Jewish German to have the moral clarity that Glazer and Co so clearly lack.
