cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20133666
By Melanie Goodfellow, Nancy Tartaglione September 7, 2024 12:04pm
““As a #Jewish American artist working in a time-based medium, I must note, I’m accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s #genocide in Gaza and 76th year of #occupation,” said U.S. director Sarah Friedland as she accepted the Luigi de Laurentiis prize for best first film for Familiar Touch.”
Not US Politics. Removed.
People who tell their own government to stop killing innocent people make the world better.
Kinda off topic but how does one say # ?
I hope she didnt say “hashtag genocide” or is this creative direction by the article?
Edit: Yeah looks like its not even part of the referenced twitter post. Weird.
She didn’t. She just said “as a Jewish American” and whomever transcribed it added the
#, I guess for the engagement, which is good because the message that Jewish people stand against ethnostates and genocide is one that unfortunately many people still need to hear.Yeah, good point, my mistake.
