Spanish Actor Javier Bardem Said At The Emmys He "Will Not Work" With Anyone Who Justifies Israel’s Genocide
Wearing a keffiyeh at the Emmys, Javier Bardem said that people who are too afraid to speak up are showing support for the genocide.
Oscar-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem denounced Israel’s genocide in Gaza again at the Emmy Awards and said he “cannot work with someone that justifies or supports the genocide.”
The 55-year-old Spanish actor arrived at the Emmys wearing a keffiyeh on Sunday, Sept. 14.
Variety had asked Bardem what he would do if he found out that a company he is going to work with is in business with Israel.
“I won't work. I cannot work with someone that justifies or supports the genocide,” Bardum answered.
Bardem is a signatory of the Film Workers for Palestine pledge, which calls for a boycott of Israeli film institutions that are complicit in genocide and apartheid.
He said that their target was not individuals but companies and institutions “whitewashing or justifying” Israel’s actions.
Bardem cited the IAGS, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which studies the word genocide, which at the end of August called what is going on in Gaza today a genocide and called for commercial and diplomatic blockades and sanctions on Israel to stop it.
Bardem told reporters that he knows that he might not get work for speaking up and denouncing Israel’s genocide but that is “absolutely irrelevant compared to what’s going on in [Gaza].”
He added that people who are too afraid to speak up are showing their support for the genocide through their fear and silence.
“This thing didn't start on Oct. 7. This thing started in 1948,” Bardem concluded.
Bardem has a long history of supporting Palestine and calling Israel’s actions a genocide even before Oct. 7, 2023.
Earlier, in June, at the premiere of his latest film, “F1: The Movie,” Bardem said in another interview with Variety that while celebrating fiction and movies, he could not ignore the "real world" tragedy unfolding in Gaza and called on the US and Western European countries to take concrete actions and stop supporting Israel.
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