“Because Jews”: Writer Michael Seitzman On Hollywood’s Divide Over Israel-Hamas War & Why He Refuses To Be Silent – Guest Column
deadline.comEditors note: Michael Seitzman is a veteran film and TV writer and showrunner. He created the series Code Black and Intelligence and penned the Charlize Theron-starring movie North Country.
In a guest column titled “Because Jews,” he shares is impassioned take on the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and its reverberations around Hollywood.
I’ve worked in Hollywood for the better part of three decades. Everyone here has rules about the stories they tell. A big one for me is, don’t ask what you need to tell the audience, ask what you can get away with not telling the audience.
This is part of a process we like to call information management. Allow me to illustrate. Last week, a letter was making the rounds in Hollywood, demanding that organizations like the Writers Guild of America not bend to “pressure campaigns to force them to align with Israel as it lays siege on Gaza.” The letter mentions, understandably, the unbearable tragedy of Wadea Al-Fayoume, the 6 year old Palestinian-American boy murdered by his family’s landlord.
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