US Holocaust survivors’ foundation calls Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech ‘morally indefensible’

Director of The Zone of Interest, winner of best international film, has received both criticism and support for his Academy Awards acceptance speech

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The Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA has attacked The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer for what it describes as his “morally indefensible” Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday.

In an open letter published on the organisation’s website, the foundation’s chairman David Schaecter, wrote: “You made a Holocaust movie and won an Oscar. And you are Jewish. Good for you. But it is disgraceful for you to presume to speak for the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, who were murdered solely because of their Jewish identity.”