The pin was designed by Artists4Ceasefire, an organization that wrote a letter asking President Biden to demand a cease-fire as well as the release of hostages and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the region. More than 380 actors, musicians and filmmakers have signed the letter. Signatories including actors Ruffalo and Ebon Moss-Bachrach have worn the pin at other events this year.
Jonathan Glazer, director of “The Zone of Interest,” a historical drama set during the Holocaust that won the award for best international film, used his acceptance speech to condemn the violence in the Middle East.
“All our choices are made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, ‘Look what they did then,’ rather ‘look what we do now,’” he said. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present.”
Glazer, who is Jewish, added that “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.”
He asked: “How do we resist?”
