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the slides remain high as the violence against gender and sexual minority. i come to when osiris 2 young women were taken different routes to establish great to freedom and equality. welcome to generations haines as well. series attempts to understand and talents. b, i say, is that mobilize youth around the world, generation change on al jazeera from the oscar to b, m e y a south by southwest. this use of wood season housing seats in its own drama . i have a who is and who isn't cooling for a ceasefire, but also never to use office and insurance is doing enough. with them must have platforms to oppose the on store. on garza, i'm very impulse law and this is the street the how do we get other actors to support the doing it for night? there's so many people were in the fire. i applaud billy infinity is for use is big

moment on the red carpet, to show the compassion as a stand up for what they believe is sorry to ruin anyone. celebrity worship party. but really you want to cookie because you were a pin. she hasn't said this entire time. we are in month 5 of the genocide. she is a put anything on instagram. she hasn't made any statements. and then she shows up to this self indulgence it lead. glad handing party where they just give each other awards and tell each other how amazing they all are. and people are falling all over themselves because she wore pin in which she didn't even say anything about it . why is the bar on the floor when it comes to celebrities? i ask myself, what happens to our humanity in the, in this moment? what happens to this is the, is the power to the

number of celebrities have paid a heavy price? the speaking out on the is radius sold on gaza, sing i do a lipa as well as bella and g, g. d has been labeled venue. how much influence the brigades? but even those who stayed silent her face consequences, including backlash on social media. so are we expecting too much of celebrities office and entrances, or should they be doing more to use that platforms to take us funds? to explore this, i'm joined by a hollywood film and tv right to and direct that. com. send me an american. but all that sold back in los angeles and palestinian american content creative yada, as i am from tow, tow a new jersey and nisa mood from seattle, washington, and welcome to you. we'll thank you so much for being here. uh, i would love to kick off with you and to talk about really the pressure that exists in, in hollywood today. so you've spoken out in the past about being the only voice and

the difficulties of being the only voice in the room. so as a filmmaker, let me start by asking you how difficult is it for you to be the only voice in your community? if you are, of course, i think within my own community, i am certainly not the only voice. i mean, we have a, a, a, just an amazing swell of people speaking up around the world from all corners of the world. so that's been really beautiful, but we've in hollywood itself. it certainly does feel sometimes like i am the only voice in the room and that i am the only posting invoice on the room. so that is definitely felt and how, how do i handle it? i mean, to be very honest, i feel like it is my absolute, not just duty, but a privilege to, to encourage others to speak up and to really, really use my voice within the system to change the system. and you mentioned that

there were all people within the so making community speaking up, do you think enough celebrities and public figures are you using that platforms to speak up? do you feel emboldened by them by who already is doing that? absolutely not. i do not feel emboldened by silence. it is something that has been um, i will say something about silence. it might seem like the safe route, specifically for celebrities and for people with platforms who are afraid to lose. i don't know their brand deals. busy over it may seem the safe route, but it is not neutral. the silence is not neutral, it is aggressive, it is violent, it is devastating, and it is deadly. and is it? is that pressure? do you think these days on celebrities to speak up on gaza and i think there is more and more pressure. absolutely. uh and again, it comes from social media. it really, really does. that is the platform where people are able to hold truth to power and

are able to really connect with a or, or hold celebrities or influencers or whatever they want to call themselves to account. and you are seeing that pressure rise and rise in from that clip that you just showed. people are smart people are a tude to when someone is being real and, and is really using their voice for truth versus just performative. people are a to into this, now we understand what is the difference between performance and true, ally ship and true. speaking out for truth, yara speaking up on gauze that has been described as the last to do in hollywood, do you think that is still the case today? i do think that it might still be the case today. a lot of people are hesitant to speak up, but i do think that a lot more people are speaking of now more than before. but there's also some celebrities that don't speak up, for instance. so in a gomez had put

a story up saying that she doesn't think that a social media post will make a difference. and in that sense, i didn't think that that was the right move is having hundreds of millions of followers saying something like that. can we make people think that their voice doesn't matter when, as little as said that in this case, silence is violence and it's not taking a neutral stance. and at this point, people's lives are at stake. so i do think that one should anyone that has a platform that claims to care for the lives of people and for humanities should be speaking up no matter where they're from or what they believe. and um, i wanna ask you a nice uh about why some people on speaking off were sort of doing maybe more performative phones sorted. our see, why do you think that might be i think people don't speak up because they feel like they either don't have to. or i think a lot of times, celebrities in influencers in general, like to enhance why is themselves an act as if they don't have the same access to

information and are scared to spread misinformation and whatnot. when in reality, especially in america, we all have the same access to information. and i also think a lot of celebrities in particular do not speak up because they feel as if they are going to get ostracized with in the hollywood community. and they are going to miss out on opportunities to get money. and i think at the end of the day it is really about money, which i think is incredibly disappointing when especially this is about like people's lives. so yeah, yeah. well, on the subjects of penalties which some artists, celebrities, fame, why impact them speaking up, this is acts up. michael ross report, seemingly threatening those who don't support israel with a loss of funding. i promise it's being discuss paying attention to who's being at the jewish anti semitic israel or not saying anything at all. i promise we see i'm i'm,

i'm in need a lot of jewish people see nice. see why, for, for suckers seemed like you could kind of convince us this. trust me, 6 months, 8 months, 2 years. we're remembering what painted. i don't know. i want to ask you, is this a type of pressure which you recognize? and i will say there is absolute pressure, and i want to talk about it. i will say, i don't feel any pressure from michael rapp, of course. certainly not. but i, what i want. i want everyone to notice, michael rappaport still, you know, it is, is gainfully employed. no one dropped him. he is totally fine. in fact, it's, his fiery brand is, you know, probably, uh, even doing better than ever before. but people who are not doing better than ever before, are people like my head, the he who is the top agent at c a who, you know,

got stripped of her board position, got demoted. and if it wasn't for tom cruise, you know, coming up who's she represents? she probably would have been fired simply for saying that what is happening is a genocide. you have people like systems ran and dropped by u t. a. you have people like melissa guerrero who was fired from scream 7, the movie, and the, and the list goes on and on. and if i may say for me myself, um i got a phone call from my agents the same as my head. the hills uh agency is it was my agency as well. and on monday, last monday they called me and they informed me that they are dropping me as well. now, the reasons that they gave where, you know, market situations for, for me personally, it's hard for me not to feel that the way i speak out about fullest being didn't have at least some influence on their decision to drop me. so it is, it, that the,

the pressure is very real, the consequences are very real. but i will say that just as much as there are of, you know, consequences. net, negative things to happening to people who are speaking up. there are also a swell of people who are supporting i am talking to a talent agency right now. that's extremely interested in exactly what i have to say. and we have some workers for palestine, who are a collective of artist within hollywood. the reason why the oscar started late was because of film workers from palestine because they blocked, you know, the whole tri state for, for people one of the oscar. so there is a, i think there is a um, an increasing voice with in hollywood. and it is very amazing to see, but the actual definite consequences. and um, for me myself, i think that i am totally okay with that. well on that point. uh he is a tweet uh from a filmmaker down marcus on that speech at the all school. where he said,

if you watch jonathan glazes oscar speech in his hands with his hands were shaking and they were shaking because it takes courage to speak truth to power, especially when he knew his was could unlike he would be met with backlash. any. so i want to ask you about this backlash. is there a full of counsel culture? do you think that we're observing in hollywood and beyond? i think a 100 percent. that is what we're seeing, especially with jonathan glazer. speech i saw, i think it was about 450. i believe a people in hollywood that i mean sinus right on that side. i think it was like a letter condemning. so i think laser, and if we look at what he said, he did not say anything about was that out there or crazy, right? he just said, i refute my jewishness, and hall costs we hijacked by an occupation and conflict for so many innocent people. and so he really didn't say anything about was and when i 1st heard about

a, i thought he said something way more about we need to and occupation. this is a genocide happening approach simeon. so then seeing the backlash that you've gotten when he is literally a jewish man who made a film about the holocaust. and he is now facing like defamation, essentially, and cancelled right within the hollywood space. so what kinds of phones that sort of diversity, all possible, do you think, given the circumstances, given the performance is that people are facing any so i think solidarity can show up in many different ways. i think people often like to think that solidarity can only happen in one way or another. but i think even just for example, celebrities can be re posting on their instagram stories from palestinian sources, talking about what is happening impala sign i what i've seen also in some red carpets is people wearing the post to me in flag, which i think is incredibly important especially when they're like israel's

actively trying to raise palestine as a full hold on pulse demands that palestine isn't real like yours. missy doesn't exist. and so i think just speaking about palestine, because also a great way to show solidarity is the more people that speak about palestine. the last that palestinians, for instance, will face repercussions and consequences for speaking out. yara, what do you make of some of the phones, the solidarity we've seen from pins to cease fire badges to speeches? what would you rate the different forms that we see now the for now, for instance, the ceasefire pen is like you put the ceasefire pin on you wear it for a couple of pictures, then you not a peep any other time. i don't think that that solidarity that like, i feel like we need it one amplifier across the invoices to speak up more than just where it pen because you're scared that and maybe i don't know what the intention is. maybe it's scared of backlash when the passing community maybe to show solidarity. but to stand with palestinians is not to pick what is most convenient

for you. i think that we've been facing occupation for long enough in genocide, so long enough and that we need our voices to be amplified and we need our story to be told and we need people to stand with us. and i think for me personally i'm, i don't care what i lose for advocating for my people in for speaking up. and i just wish that there wasn't this like quotes thing of fear of losing everything just for speaking up about call sign. well, let's talk about what sort of diversity looks like when slabs do get stuck in check this out for schafer. what the rest of today will protest a good sources for peace advocating for scenes fire and pals. i don't think people understand how big this is. hunter schafer is one of the prime a list, jen z stars right now. not only does it put the rest of or a list called stars in, appears to shame. it shows that no matter what platform that it is worth risking it in order to stand on the right side. it has a lot of the back of that. i want to ask you do all forms of ally shape martha?

uh, yes, absolutely. all forms of ally ship matter, but not all forms of performative ally ship matter. i 1st want to give it the, hey, ya to hunter, and just how brave she is a. and it is bravery. and it is, it is people like her who, who really show us what it really means to put your privilege and your celebrity on the line for one of the most profound moments in our modern history right now in the world. so, um, so yeah, i do think all forms of ally ship absolutely matter. i'll give it a really good example. for instance, you know, if you're not like 100 who is, you know, on the line, for instance, brian cox, you know, who's, who's the lead actor in succession when he recites. if i know how to use a home, uh, and records that and post that um, that is so profound. so it doesn't just need to be, you know,

uh if you're not able to be on the front lines our so many other ways to really, really show and really amplify philosophy and, and focusing the voices. and that is a beautiful way. um, so to brian cox, i also wanted to my niece, i wanna put to you the counselor arguments some might say, well look, you know, celebrities all to spend no experts, they don't necessarily know much about this, but being off the way in on something that they might not know very much about, you know, is it we just expecting too much of celebrities and influences. and i do not think that we are, i think it's anything we are not expecting enough from them. and again, i think that there is sort of this thing about a lot of influences. and so i really like to think that, oh, maybe i'm not educated, i'm so i can't speak out about it. you do not have to be an expert on the $76.00, your occupation of palestine to know that genocide is not okay. and not that again . i don't think celebrities should be like those. so like focal point,

when it comes to talking about palestine, but i 100 percent think that they can be amplifying and up lifting calls to the invoices. and i think it's everyone's responsibility, especially for americans when our tax dollars are directly funding miss genocide in our like us as an active participant in the genocide of palestinians. but every one, every single person i believe fully needs to speak up and have like so. yeah, i just think that they, everyone has to, i don't know. let me, let me speak to that question back up. so these attainment industry has experienced a number of reckoning of the last 2 years, the rice and strikes me to move and the b l i move and do use the new alliances imagining um i, i would love to say that i do. i currently don't, i just want to be very severely honest. i still think that there are just not enough uh, courageous, brave voices. but i do hope that that that is the case with in

hollywood. but to be very honest with you. um, i do think that is the case within the world, just not within hollywood. i mean, you see, you know, just the protests. we've never seen protests like this in, in, in modern history. just people from all walks of life from all parts of the world. i'm showing up for full of things. so i think in this case, hollywood is actually going to be the one that's going to be completely out of touch with humanity and with people if they keep going like this. and um, let me ask you, you all right, do you think that's impacting the follow or is that support is? do you think that is going to be a sort of reckoning in terms of the assign base for some of these people who aren't speaking out a 100 percent? i think that for instance, when serena gomez posted again, i'm mentioning some of them is when she had posted that she doesn't think it's also media post matters. and then like her reasoning to not posting was more about

herself then about other people. a lot of the palestinians stopped supporting her. a lot of people are staying with her. for instance, taylor swift had a song that it was trending on. tick tock that people were using from the river to the sea. and you'll never find another like me. where as rallies are designed to swear, just singing to that song and dancing and saying that it will never find them other like them. and taylor swift did not speak up about any of it. but so in that sense that we and it's not only pulsing, is this not only also? is this not only arrows anyone that is broke house time, which is now i feel like is more than ever. people are cancel, cancelling and quote unquote or on song them or not supporting. and that goes 1st way to go was terms of where beauty, even her company like no one words like i'm boycotting because again, we don't agree with her sense. so i want to talk about the emergence of these new spaces and vis, use south by southwest festival build as a convergence of tech film, music education. i'm culture. and of course, among the most prominent and statement festivals in america. so also withdrawal on

mass in an effort to show solidarity with the people of gaza. and we started this campaign. we were not anticipating mass boycotts. we just wanted to work together with the musicians, knowing that their cultural labour is what south by kind of prophets off of, and markets itself on. and the artist took it upon themselves to say, no i, i can do you one better. but if it had only been well when it started, it was just a few. and so they weren't really headlines about it because no one's going to really pay attention when $56.00, maybe a dozen artist drop out. but as the numbers kept growing, we reached, i wanna say 117. i don't remember the exact number and it's still growing as we find out people afterwards. but south by southwest, publicly, always that they had about 2000 acts. and so we removed about 5 percent, the boycott which is not insignificant. and so it really only worked because there

was that mass action kind of aspect to it where individually we're not really making a statement by boycotting but doing it together, doing it and tying it directly to, to boycott the investment sanctions move meant by palestinian society. the bigger impact we're able to make, and so at the oscars, you know, if a few people where pins, that's not nothing, i would rather see the way the pains than not. but what i'd really like to see is people say on mass, i'm not going a lot your a south by southwest alone yourself. do you think there is this imagines as new alternative spaces that divesting from is riley you observing them? yes. yes. a 100 percent. um, uh i, i absolutely do. and i think it's, it is inevitable. i think i hearken back a 2nd ago about how hollywood is becoming more and more out of touch with the

people and with humanity in general. and i think what you see, even within social media is people are hungry for real stories. they're hungry for troops. and what you're going to see, i believe, is exactly what you said, is this rise in, you know, a kind of outside the system spaces where people can actually hear real true stories. and i do think that is currently led by the hunger for a full us the stories. and so i absolutely think so nice. i want to ask you about the forms of solar that receive that you would like to see going forward. we all of course, 6 months in now to these horses, you know, if people can use up top forms, what would you like to see them doing with them? again, i think re posting on their social media is from house to me on sources and from

reliable and accurate sources is incredibly important. and i think if i go down the route of influencers, i think they have an incredible opportunity to fit palestine into their needs. as to why they are influencers and why they have large followings. and i've seen this before with influence or is doing a make up look, that is palestine themes or cooking colors, demand food, or even like learning how to do tough trees. and it's all dirty with palestinians, so i think there is a way for every single person to speak up about palestine and figure out what works best for them. and again, i think just saying genocide is bad and this, these 10 bare minimum is what people should be doing me a little. i want to ask you about these alternative sense as a power of cause. tyler perry now runs one of the largest is not the largest film production studio in the united states. you know, all we're going to see the emergence of these new senses of power in the switch refused to bow to financial constraints. and is that something that you all

possible that you'll uh, part of developing, seeing and how can now this foster it? oh yeah, absolutely. i am seeing it. and uh, and by the way, i want to say, uh, i specifically see it specifically within uh black spaces in hollywood. and i want to give reference to that. um, uh, black america leads the way a lot of the times when it comes to, you know, uh, to fight for human rights for speaking out to human rights and for really changing the system. so i wanna get a big reverence to um, to the solidarity that the black community and the black artist community has, has been given, giving the fullest any movement. that's number one, number 2, um uh i. so i myself actually was was inspired by what's been happening and i created a, an initiative specifically for exactly what you're talking about. it's called the safina filmmaker project and it's initiative specifically to raise will the cd

voices and projects to creative mentorship, resistance or alternative storytelling and alternative bases of power within the ladies on that note, i'm going to say a big thank you to the la yara and any so thank you so much for joining us today. of course, thank you for watching. remember, we went ahead from you stay in touch online on social media. i'm send us your questions and suggestions using the hash tag or the handle a stream take care. and i'll see you soon, the, the lowest payoff, the gross has destroyed many of the city's water buckets in a race against india's blooming water shortage. an engineer turn. walter conservationist takes on cities. that was one lake at the time,

catching the rain in india. that takes a like a witness documentary on a jersey to the killing of i'll just return it is shooting of the hawk. there was not an isolated event. it highlighted the whole question of press freedom of turn in a skilled one, doing their job. they were certainly aiming in the direction of the terms of the 0 world looks at the number of children, the skills into occupied palestinian territories, which has increased dramatically during the war on gods and at the problems of holding any one accountable for the desk. shooting the messenger $10.00 to 0. the latest news as it breaks. the doctors who say the witness, the killings knew exactly where to with detailed coverage. everyone is telling us they do not recognize their houses. they do not recognize their areas from the hall

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