Hollywood execs may blacklist Cruz, Bardem for accusing Israel of 'genocide'

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78. is it okay to trot out old tropes

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When they only exist in your imagination?

WTF said that - call it blacklist, call it boycott, call negative effect on one's career - was considered because "Jews run Hollywood" except you?

All you need to do is to just shut up about this "meme" and we can talk about what was actually reported, whether it's just gossip (doubtful) or about the fact that well-known actors' statements can have an effect on the wider public and put a little dent in the mainstream consensus.

"One producer who has previously worked with Ms Cruz, told the magazine that he privately vowed never to work with the actress again." That's one. Perhaps others might follow, if they - as we are being told - cannot tolerate and qualify as "anti-Semitic" that: "The signatories of this statement, from the world of culture, declare their outrage over the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli occupation army in the Gaza Strip against Palestinian civilians."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/cruz-and-bardem-face-fury-of-hollywood-following-genocide-letter-condemning-israel-9659707.html
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stars-face-hollywood-backlash-war-723613

A secondary consequence hinted at in the articles is that these actors may no longer be able to attract the right market: "the thing any executive or producer will try to calculate before working with Penelope Cruz or Javier Bardem in the near future is what their value is in the all-important international marketplace, and what territories they might have alienated people in by what they said." IOW, they can continue to make independent movies whose audience might even share their criticisms, but no big blockbusters, and that is, of course, the producers' decision who might just follow a trend.