Mega film studio Paramount has denounced a pledge this week by more than 4,000 actors and filmmakers, including some Hollywood A-listers, to boycott the Israeli film industry — accusing it of being complicit in “genocide and apartheid” against Palestinians.

Paramount is the first of the major movie studios to condemn the pledge, according to Deadline .

The controversial pledge was issued in an open letter signed by some top-tier actors Olivia Colman, Lily Gladstone, Emma Stone, Peter Sarsgaard, and Elliot Page, as well as director Ava DuVernay.

The letter called for the boycott, claiming Israel’s film studios are implicated in the destruction of the Palestinian people. 3

“Inspired by Filmmakers United Against Apartheid,” founded in 1987 by Martin Scorsese and the late Jonathan

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