Mila Kunis, Debra Messing and different leisure trade figures are amongst those that have despatched an open letter to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, asking that the controversial ebook and documentary Hebrews to Negroes: Get up Black America be faraway from their platforms.
The nonprofit group Artistic Neighborhood for Peace was behind the letter, claiming each Amazon and B&N allegedly “refused to take away the title and proceed to revenue from its bigotry.”
Kunis, Messing, Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik and songwriter Diane Warren have been amongst 200 signatories to the letter. It was addressed to “Jeff Bezos, James Daunt, and the leaders at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.”
The protest comes within the wake of NBA star Kyrie Irving selling the movie with a tweet, then refusing to present an sufficient apology. He was then suspended by the Brooklyn Nets and was ordered by the Brooklyn Nets to fulfill with numerous teams to make issues proper.
The CCFP mentioned the ebook and film trigger “great hurt to the Jewish neighborhood whereas spreading harmful misinformation to an impressionable public which may be inclined to its propaganda.”
“These works promote quite a few anti-semitic tropes and conspiracy theories that don’t have any foundation in actual fact, together with manufactured Hitler quotes, false claims of Jewish energy and management, that the Jewish individuals fabricated the Holocaust, and that the Jewish individuals are faux Jews,” the letter continues. “The claims made in these works have led to the persecution and homicide of thousands and thousands of Jews all through the centuries.”
Irving’s promotion has elevated gross sales of the ebook. The CCFP mentioned Amazon and B&N are “benefiting from hate.”
“At a time in America the place there are extra per capita hate crimes in opposition to Jews than another minority, overwhelmingly extra religious-based hate crimes in opposition to the Jewish individuals than another faith, and extra hate crimes in opposition to the Jewish individuals in New York than another minority, the place a majority of American Jews stay, it’s unacceptable to permit any such hate to foment in your platforms,” CCFP wrote.
The open letter ends with a plea: “We, the undersigned, demand that you simply instantly take away these works out of your websites.”
The Signatories:
Jason Adelman: Vice President, Model Innovators
Orly Adelson: President, Orly Adelson Productions
Marty Adelstein: CEO, Tomorrow Studios
Ben Adler: Musician
Michael Adler: Accomplice at Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler, Feldman & Clark
Michael Auerbach: Accomplice, Jackoway Austen
Nate Auerbach: Accomplice, Versus Artistic
Jeremy Barber: Accomplice, United Expertise Company
Eve Barlow: Music Journalist
David Baron: Rabbi, Temple of the Arts
Richard Baskind: Accomplice & Head of Music, Simons Muirhead & Burton
Aaron Bay-Schuck: CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Information
Hannah Bay-Schuck: Music Writer, Prescription Songs
Miles Beard: Government VP of A&R, Republic Information
Aton Ben-Horin: Government VP of International A&R, Atlantic Information Group
Pablo Bendersky: Producer/Artist
Hilary Bendon: Peace Accomplice, HXB LLC
Sandra Bendon: Lawyer
Steven Bensusan: President, Blue Be aware Leisure Group
Adam Berkowitz: Founder and President, Lenore Leisure Group
Luc Bernard: Director, Voices of the Forgotten
Mayim Bialik: Actress
Josh Binder: Accomplice, Rotherberg, Mohr, and Binder LLP
Neil Blair: Accomplice, The Blair Partnership
Allison Bloom
Evan Bogart: Songwriter & CEO, Seeker Music
David Byrnes: Accomplice at Ziffren Brittenham, LLP
Markell Casey: Senior Director of A&R, Sony Music Australia
Brian Celler: Bravo Charlie Administration
Pamela Charbit: A&R Supervisor, Atlantic Information
Emmanuelle Chriqui: Actress
Adam Cooper: Accomplice, Jackoway Austen
Leanne Coronel: President, The Coronel Group
Andy Corren: Writer
Raye Cosbert: Managing Director at Metropolis Music
Ben Cosgrove: CEO, Leviathan Productions
Paul Craig: Chair, Nostromo Administration
Avi Dahan: Lawyer, Boyarski Fritz LLP
Ian Daly: Head of Model Technique, Reside Nation
Greg Daniels: Author and Producer
Howard Davine: Head of Enterprise & Operations, Wiip
Josh Deutsch: Chairman/CEO – Premier Music Group
Avi Diamond: Director, Movie & TV Licensing, Warner Music Canada
Kosha Dillz: Artist
Craig Dorfman: President and Proprietor, Frontline MGMT
Helen Dosik: Professor of Sociology, California State College, Northridge
David Draiman: Frontman, Disturbed
Beth Elitzer: B. Elitzer Consulting
Talya Elitzer: Co-Founder & President, Godmode Music
Craig Emanuel: Accomplice, Paul Hastings LLC
Daniel Erlig: Accomplice, United Expertise Company
Ron Honest: Document Producer & CEO, Faircraft Inc.
Sharon Farber: Composer
Paul Farberman: President, Paul Faberman Leisure
Daniel Federman: Proprietor, Maccabi Tel Aviv
Eric Feig: Founder, Eric Feig Leisure & Media Legislation, Inc.
Yossi Feinberg: Professor of Economics
Patti Felker: Accomplice, Felker, Toczek, Suddleson, & Abramson LLP
Jacob Fenton: Accomplice, United Expertise Company
Ken Fermaglich: Accomplice, United Expertise Company
David Fishof: Producer and Music Government
Josh Fluxgold: President, Oneway MGMT
Erica Forster: Leisure Lawyer
Gary Foster: Principal in Krasnoff/Foster Leisure
Jordan Frazes: Founder, Frazes Artistic
Francine Freid
Adina Friedman: Mates at Work
Dara Frimmer: Rabbi, Temple Isaiah Los Angeles
Siri Garber: CEO & Founder, Platform Public Relations
David Gardner: President, Artists First
Nancy Gates: Accomplice, United Expertise Company
Andrew Genger: Supervisor, Crimson Mild Administration
Lorna Gerry
Gary Gersh: President, International Touring, AEG
Gary Ginsberg: Senior VP, SoftBank Group Corp.
Karen Glauber: President, HITS Journal
David Glick: Founder & CEO, Edge Group & Chairman, Faucet Music
Elon Gold: Actor, Comic
Nicole Goldman: EVP, Branding, The Jim Henson Firm
Alex Goldstone: Accomplice, Nameless Content material
Michael Goldwasser: Document Producer & President/Co-Founding father of Straightforward Star Information
Robert Golenberg: Accomplice at Silver Lining Leisure Productions
Jonathan Golfman: Co-President, MRC Movie
Michael Gordon: Accomplice, Artistic Artists Company
Andrew Gould: Music Government
Cary Granat: Co-Founder & Accomplice, Future Media, EMH Media
Trudy Inexperienced: Trudy Inexperienced Administration/HK
Scott Greenberg: Supervisor and Accomplice at LBI Leisure
Steve Greenberg: Founder & President of S-Curve Information
Renee Haas
Ronnie Harris: Accomplice, Harris & Trotter LLP
Jo Hart: Founder, Hart Media
Avi Hirshbein: A&R, Electrical Really feel Leisure and Ventures
Linda Edell Howard: Lawyer, Novick Legislation
Richard “BournRich” Ingram: Artist/Artistic Director
Neil Jacobson: Founder & CEO of Hallwood Media
Jordana Jaffe: Author & Producer
Brandt Joel: Agent, William Morris Endeavor
Zach Katz: President & COO, FaZe Clan
Jonathan Kellerman: Novelist
David Kendall
Ilan Kidron: Artist & Musician
Scott Kluge: President, Great Leisure
Amanda Kogan: Agent, The Gersh Company
Rick Krim: CEO, Krim Music & Media
Mila Kunis: Actress
Seth Kurland; Tv Author/Producer
Matt Labov: Supervisor/Publicist
Gabz Landman: VP A&R, Warner Chappell Music
Sherry Lansing: Former CEO of Paramount Footage
Colin Lester OBE: Founder/Chairman JEM Music Group
Jonathan Levav: Advertising Professor, Stanford College
Stephen Levinson: Filmmaker/Producer
David Levy: Former President of Turner/WarnerMedia, Founding father of Again 9 Ventures
David Levy: Accomplice, William Morris Endeavor Leisure
Cory Litwin: EVP, Hallwood Media
David Lonner: CEO, The David Lonner Co.
Ben Maddahi: SVP A&R, Columbia Information
Imran Majid: Co-CEO, Island Information
Gabriel Mann: Composer/Producer
Susan Markheim: Full Cease Administration, The Azoff Firm
Orly Marley: President, Tuff Gong Worldwide
John Mass: President at Content material Companions, LLC
Nancy Matalon: VP of A&R, Spirit Music Group
Debra Messing: Actress
Artwork Mollen: Doctor
Sadaf Muncy: SVP, Improvement & Manufacturing, HappyNest
Spencer Neumann: CFO at Netflix
Joel Nickerson: Rabbi, Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Julia Nickerson
Leetal Nissenbaum: SVP of Synchronization and Licensing, Big Music & Iconic Artists Group
Lisa Nupoff: Supervisor at IMIN Music
Tracy-Ann Oberman: Actress
Scott Packman: Founder and Managing Member, SSP Companions LLC
Mandi Perkins: Artist, Composer, Writer
Jonah Platt: Actor, Author
Mike Praw: Music Government
David Renzer: Former Chairman/CEO of Common Music Publishing
Sydnee Rimes: Vice President of Present Programming at ABC Studios
Hanna Rochelle: Founder, Purple Productions, LLC
Alex Rockwell: Author/Producer
Zoe Rogovin: SVP, Non-Fiction Programming, Showtime Networks Inc.
Dan Rosen: President of Warner Music Australasia
Rick Rosen: Co-Founder, Endeavor
Erez Rosenberg: Lawyer, Jackoway Austen
Shani Rosenzweig: Accomplice, United Expertise Company
Michael Rotenberg: Accomplice, 3 Arts Leisure
Autumn Rowe: Songwriter, Artist
Piper Rutman
Haim Saban: Chairman and CEO, Saban Capital Group
Asif Satchu: Co-CEO, MRC and Producer
Jacqueline Saturn: President, Virgin Music
Ayalet Schiffman: SVP, Head of Promotions, Island Information
Paul Schindler: Senior Chair of the New York Leisure and Media Observe, Greenberg Traurig LLP
Steve Schnur: Worldwide Government & Music President, Digital Arts
Jordan Schur: CEO & Chariman, Mimran Schur Footage and Suretone Leisure
Sam Schwartz: Accomplice, Gorfaine/Schwartz Company
Michael Seitzman: Producer, Maniac Productions
Camila Seta: Government, Model Consulting
Stefi Shabashev: Songwriter
DJ White Shadow: Producer/Artist
Iliza Shlesinger: Comic
Noah “Westside Gravy” Shufutinsky: Artist
Jeremy Silver
Ben Silverman: Chairman and Co-CEO, Propagate Content material
Ralph Simon: Chairman & CEO, Mobilium International Restricted
Marty Singer: Lawyer, Lavely and Singer
Danielle Solzman: Movie Critic, Solzy on the Films
Jeff Sosnow: EVP A&R, Warner and Reprise Information
Nancy Spielberg: President, Playmount Productions
Donna Spievak: VP of Strategic Advertising, Interscope Information
Halle Stanford: President of Tv & Government Producer, The Jim Henson Firm
Nancy Steingard: Producer & Accomplice/Co-Founder, PatMa Productions
Jonathan Steinsapir: Accomplice, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP
Justin Sternberg
Gary Stiffelman: Founder, GSS Legislation
Rachel Strassberger: Supervisor, Grassroots Music
Aaron Symonds: Movie Composer
Traci Szymanski: President, Co-Star Leisure
Nina Tassler: Producer & Accomplice/Co-Founder, Patma Productions
Adam Taylor: President, APM Music
Scott Tenley: Chief Enterprise Officer, MRC
Geffen Sonnenfeld Toar
Niv Toar: Composer
Fred Toczek: Accomplice, Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson LLP
Eric Tuchman: Author, Producer
Oded Turgeman: President, The Working Room
Alex Voihanski: President, Paramount Enterprise Group
Jeremy Vuernick: President of A&R, Capitol Music Group
Diane Warren: Songwriter, Producer
Joshua Washington: Artist/Producer
Jon Weinbach: President, Skydance Sports activities
Nola Weinstein: International Head of Model Experiences & Engagement, Twitter
Modi Wiczyk: Co-CEO, MRC & Producer
Evan Winiker: Managing Accomplice, Vary Media
Jeffrey Winter: Government Director, The Movie Collaborative
Yale Wolman: Agent, CAA
Sharon Tal Yguado: Founder & CEO, Astrid Leisure
David Zedeck: International Head of Music, United Expertise Company
Bradley Zweig: Government Producer/Author