Overview

• Organizers say the pledge, published Sept. 8–9, has surpassed 3,000 signatures after early media counts ranged from roughly 1,200 to just over 2,100.
• Signatories include Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Ayo Edebiri, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed, Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem, Ava DuVernay and Yorgos Lanthimos.
• Participants vow not to screen or work with Israeli film institutions deemed complicit—naming festivals and broadcasters such as the Jerusalem and Haifa film festivals, Docaviv and TLVFest—and organizers stress the focus is institutions, not individuals.
• The pledge cites International Court of Justice findings on a plausible risk of genocide and invokes the South African anti-apartheid cultural boycott as precedent.
• Israel’s Film & TV Producers Association calls the boycott “profoundly misguided,” saying it targets creators who often critique government policy and urging an end to violence and the release of hostages.