Los Angeles (QNN)- While presenting the Oscar for Best International Film, Javier Bardem began his remarks by saying, “not to war and free Palestine,” drawing a loud round of applause from the audience at the March 15 awards ceremony.
The actor appeared wearing a pin with the Spanish phrase “No a la guerra,” meaning “No to war,” along with another one supporting Palestine.
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On the red carpet of the Emmy awards this season, Bardem spoke about his passion surrounding the topic.
“Here I am today, denouncing the genocide in Gaza,” he said. “I am talking about the IAGS, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, who study thoroughly genocide and has declared it is a genocide. That’s why we ask for a commercial and diplomatic blockade and also sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide. Free Palestine.”
In February, Bardem was one of over 100 celebrity signatories to an open letter criticizing the Berlin Film Festival for “silence” on Gaza.
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“We write as film workers, all of us past and current Berlinale participants, who expect the institutions in our industry to refuse complicity in the terrible violence that continues to be waged against Palestinians,” the letter reads.
“We are dismayed at the Berlinale’s involvement in censoring artists who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the German state’s key role in enabling it.”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bardem also slammed the US-Israeli assault on Iran as an “illegal war created by Trump and Netanyahu.”
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