Popular screenwriter quits writers guild over failure to condemn Hamas attacks: 'Morally bankrupt wokeism'

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Popular Israeli-American screenwriter Dan Gordon announced his decision to become a Financial Core (Fi-Core) non-member of the Writers Guild of America West after 56 years on Tuesday, calling out the union for staying silent on Hamas' terror against Israel. "I am resigning my membership in the WGA West and electing financial core status because I no longer wish to be a fellow traveler with those who hide behind the fetid veil of a morally bankrupt wokeism and stand silent in the face of a fanatical ideology no less explicit in its genocidal intent toward the Jewish people than that of Nazi Germany," he said in a letter to WGA West's membership administrator Patrick Cannon and assistant executive director Ellen Stutzman.

In the letter, Gordon slammed the union's failure to show support for Israel as "appalling" and "repugnant," adding an excerpt from the Hamas covenant that calls for murdering Jews. "What about that ideology is unclear?" he asked. "The failure of the Guild’s leadership to issue even the mildest condemnation of the worst massacre of a religious minority in the Middle East since ISIS carried out similar atrocities against the Yezidis is appalling.

It is corrosive to me as a writer and repugnant to every fiber of my being as a person of conscience," he continued. The same day, WGA West issued a statement to its members addressing its silence on the conflict that began when Hamas terrorists launched attacks on residential areas in Israel on Oct.

7. According to Variety, nearly 400 writers signed an open letter condemning the attacks as well as the union's silence on the issue.Three hundred members of another group penned a separate letter urging unions to not weigh in.