Overview

• More than 4,000 actors and filmmakers signed the Film Workers for Palestine pledge published this week.
• Paramount said efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers would silence creators based on nationality and undermine dialogue.
• Film Workers for Palestine accused the studio of misrepresenting the pledge and reiterated it focuses on festivals, broadcasters and production companies deemed complicit.
• The Israeli Film and TV Producers Association argued the petition targets the wrong people and cited collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian artists.
• Organizers also pointed to reports that Larry Ellison will control Paramount and referenced his relationship with Israel's leadership as they pressed their case.