“Your Silence Is Considered A Stand”: Screenwriters Guild Of Israel Slams WGA For Staying Quiet Over Conflict
deadline.comThe Screenwriters Guild of Israel (SGI) has slammed the WGA for its silence over the conflict raging in the nation. SGI Chair Nadav Ben Simon is understood to have contacted the guild’s 600-strong member base yesterday with a statement, which has also been posted on X (formerly Twitter).
The statement, which can be read in full below, blasts the WGA for failing to “find in their hearts enough courage to speak out against a terrorist organization that is currently holding 200 hostages, some of them toddlers and babies, snatched from their cribs as their mothers were raped in the same room in front of their eyes.” “Your silence is considered a stand,” adds the statement. “It is a shame that a professional writers’ guild cannot reach a consensus and find the words to condemn an act of terrorism, an act of unprovoked crime against humanity, against innocent civilians, women, children, the disabled, and the elderly.” The SGI added that the “silence” is “completely contrasted by the loud support demanded from the SGI and their members just a few weeks ago.” The issue of the WGA’s response to the brutal Hamas attacks that left some 1,200 civillians dead and around 200 kidnapped has been a hot-button one over the past few days.
While the DGA and SAG-AFTRA have issued separate statements of support, a number of senior showrunners including Eli Roth and Ellen Rapoport expressed disappointment that the WGA had not spoken via an open letter posted on Medium last week.
Deadline subsequently revealed that the WGA was meeting members Friday to discuss the issue but a “consensus is out of reach,” according to WGA West boss Meredith Stiehm, who said on Saturday that no comment will be made publicly.
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