ZOA Condemns Oscar to Anti-Semite Who Called Israel ‘Cancer’
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned a decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to award an honorary Oscar to French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who will be receiving an award for his lifetime contribution during the second annual Governors Awards.
In a statement released by ZOA, it described Godard, 79, as “a virulent anti-Semite of long-standing.” ZOA brought several examples of what it called Godard’s “unremitting obsession with Jews”.
In 1968, said ZOA, Godard called Jewish producer Pierre Braunberger “sale juif” (“filthy Jew”); in a 1976 documentary he contrasted the lives of a French and Arab family and featured flickering images of Golda Meir and Adolf Hitler, proposing them as comparable tyrants.
According to the statement, Godard has also defended the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, described the State of Israel as “a cancer on the map of the Middle East,” and has justified acts of Arab terrorism by saying that “Israel is a paradoxical form of Nazism’s historical resurgence.”