Hollywood's night of nights cannot be separated from the US' role in the genocide of Palestinians... and this year that was more blatant tha
"... While most of these films don’t bring up Israel’s occupation of Palestine directly, many of them normalise and even lionise Israel’s existence and Israeli identity. Others, like Dune Part Two and September 5 perpetuate anti-Arab racism and “terrorist” stereotyping. All of this lays an ideological groundwork in the mind of the viewer that justifies Israel’s so-called “right to exist”, and that Palestinian and Arab resistance to genocidal Israeli expansionism is, if not evil, then futile.
...On the same day that the Academy celebrated its big night, the Israeli Occupation Forces cut off aid to Gaza after the Zionist Israeli government refused to honour its end of the ceasefire agreement. As the media justice advocacy group Slow Factory pointed out on Instagram, Israel has a long history of timing escalated attacks with major US cultural events — like the Oscars — to limit media coverage of their actions. The Oscars don’t just normalise and lionise Zionism, but provide cultural cover for its violence.
It is not about when, how, or why these films were made or even who they were made by, but what these films say about Zionism, and how that benefits the West’s support of Israel. Even if zero of these films had won an Oscar, it doesn’t matter. Many still saw them, internalised them, and enjoyed them. The damage is done, and the brunt of it will be bared, as it always is, by Palestinians."
And The Oscar Goes To... Zionism! // by Merryana Salem via The Offcut.
