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Over 150 Jewish creatives have signed an open letter in support of Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech on Friday. The film director won the Oscar for Best International Film for The Zone of Interest, about the daily life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig. During his acceptance speech, Glazer, who is Jewish, attacked the hijacking of “Jewishness” by Israeli politicians to justify the war on Gaza, which the director denounced. “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.’ Our film shows …

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