Several big names in Hollywood are taking a stand, including Cynthia Nixon, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed and Olivia Colman.
More than 1,200 actors, filmmakers and industry figures signed a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions.
The pledge was released by Film Workers for Palestine, and states that the signers will not work with festivals, broadcasters, cinemas or production companies they believe are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”
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Other major names on the list include Josh O’Connor, Melissa Barrera, Ayo Edebiri, and Tilda Swinton.
“In this urgent moment of crisis…we must do everything we can to address complicity in the unrelenting horror,” the statement reads. (Click here to read the pledge in full.)
The campaign was inspired by a 1987 movement led by Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese, pushing the U.S. film industry to refuse collaboration with apartheid South Africa.
There was also a controversy earlier this year involving the Academy and supporting a Palestinian director.
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