WIKILEAKS DOCS SHOW TOP HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS WORKING WITH ISRAEL TO DEFEND ITS WAR CRIMES As Israel was launching a deadly assault on Gaza, killing thousands of civilians and displacing more than 100,000 people, many of Americas top TV, music and film producers were organizing to protect the apartheid states reputation from widespread international condemnation.
Together, the Sony Archive a cache of emails published by Wikileaks prove that influential entertainment magnates attempted to whitewash Israeli crimes and present the situation as defending itself from an impending genocide, liaised with Israeli military and government officials in order to coordinate their message, attempted to cancel those who spoke out against the injustice, and put financial and social pressure on institutions who hosted artists criticizing the apartheid governments actions.
AS ISRAEL ATTACKS, HOLLYWOOD PLAYS DEFENSE
[Israels message] Must be repeated ad infinitum until the people get it, wrote Hollywood lawyer and producer Glenn D. Feig, in an email chain to many of Tinsel Towns most influential executives. This was in response to the unprovoked 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza, one of the bloodiest chapters in over half a century of occupation.
Named Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli military engaged in seven weeks of near-constant bombing of the densely populated coastal strip. According to the United Nations, over 2,000 people were killed a quarter of them children. 18,000 houses were destroyed, leaving more than 100,000 people homeless.
The Israeli military deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure, knocking out Gazas only power plant and shutting down its water treatment plants, leading to economic, social and ecological devastation in an area Human Rights Watch has labeled the worlds largest open air prison.