Jewish Actors Sign Letter to Film Academy Claiming Jews Are 'Underrepresented' in Hollywood
Jews are an "underrepresented" group in Hollywood and must be labeled a "protected class" under the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' new DEI standards, Jewish entertainment figures argued in an open letter to the Academy on Tuesday.
The entertainers, organized by Jew in the City's Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation, said that they support the Academy's goal of discriminating against whites but argued Jews should not be considered white because they have a separate "genetic identity."
Though some Jews are "white-passing," that's only because they "carry the DNA of their foremothers' oppressors," the group claimed.
"The absence of Jews from 'under-represented' groupings implies that Jews are over-represented in films, which is simply untrue," they stated. "There are very few films about Jews, aside from ones about the Holocaust."
From The Hollywood Reporter, "Julianna Margulies, Greg Berlanti, Mayim Bialik Among 260 Signatories of Letter to Film Academy Critiquing Jewish Exclusion from Diversity Standards":
Amid Israel's ongoing war with Hamas, Jewish entertainment figures have come together to issue an open letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences criticizing their exclusion from being specified as an underrepresented group.
"An inclusion effort that excludes Jews is both steeped in and misunderstands antisemitism," reads the letter, organized by the group Jew in the City's Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation. "Jewish people being excluded from the Motion Picture Academy's Representation and Inclusion Standards is discriminating against a protected class by invalidating their historic and genetic identity."
The Academy's standards, unveiled in 2020 as part of its Aperture 2025 diversity initiative, describes a number of identities that it considers "underrepresented groups": women, LGBTQ+, having cognitive or physical difficulties or being deaf or hard of hearing, as well as underrepresented racial or ethnic groups. The standards, which ask productions to submit self-identifying demographic information about its cast and crews in order to qualify for Best Picture consideration, do not ask for religious status. The JITC letter explains that being Jewish is not always a matter of faith. "While many mistakenly believe that Judaism is only a religion, Jews are actually an ethnic group, with a varied spiritual practice that not all observe. Jews are an indigenous people to the Middle East with a continuous presence there for over 3000 years."
The racial or ethnic backgrounds outlined in the Academy standards are Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, Black/African American, Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native, Middle Eastern/North African, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. The final bullet point in the list of racial or ethnic groups qualifying for the standards is "other underrepresented race or ethnicity."
[…] Around 260 people have signed the letter so far, including Greg Berlanti, Josh Gad, Mayim Bialik, David Schwimmer, Julianna Margulies, Debra Messing, Friends executive producers Marta Kauffman and Kevin Bright, Michael Rapaport, Tiffany Haddish, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Brett Gelman, Mark Feuerstein, Emanuelle Chriqui, Iliza Schlesinger, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, House creator David Shore, Will & Grace creator David Kohan, former NBCUniversal TV and streaming chair Susan Rovner, former MGM chair and CEO Gary Barber, producer Gail Berman and producer Nancy Spielberg.
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Kek. The hubris. These people are probably the most narcissistic sub-group of our species. They're probably the most narcissistic lifeforms in our galaxy. They actually came out and had the temerity to say they're "under-represented in Hollywood." None of these actors or actresses hadanyproblems playing "White" roles, but now that DEI has made them "White" all of the sudden, they want to change the rules. Listen to the rant of Julianna Margulies about Black people. It's a top kek.