Overview

• Published Sept. 8 by Film Workers for Palestine, the pledge commits signatories to refuse work with festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies they consider implicated in abuses against Palestinians.
• Signatories include Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay and Riz Ahmed, with reported totals ranging from about 1,200 to more than 1,300 names.
• The pledge states it targets institutional complicity rather than individual Israeli artists, with guidance drawn from Palestinian civil-society criteria.
• Examples of alleged complicity include partnerships with the Israeli government, such as those linked to the Jerusalem Film Festival.
• Organizers invoke anti-apartheid cultural boycotts as precedent and reference ICJ rulings that found a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza, while Israel denies genocide allegations.