Javier Bardem walked the red carpet at the 2025 Emmy Awards wearing a keffiyeh scarf and voicing his support for Film Workers for Palestine. Speaking to Variety’s Marc Malkin, Bardem said he “cannot work with someone who justifies or supports the genocide.”
“Here I am today, denouncing the genocide in Gaza,” he told Malkin on the red carpet. “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 the week leading up to the Emmys, 3,900 industry names signed an open pledge that was organized by Film Workers for Palestine and declared the signees will not work with Israeli institutions and film companies that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” The pledge states that examples of complicity include “whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.”
Human Rights Glance
Conditions in overcrowded coastal encampments for displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are so desperate that some people who fled Israel's new offensive on famine-struck Gaza City in recent days are heading back toward the falling bombs, they said.
The Israeli military has issued an evacuation order covering the entirety of Gaza City for the first time during the current round of fighting, ahead of a planned offensive to take over and occupy the city.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned residents of Gaza City to leave straight away, as Israel said it would ramp up air strikes on the territory hours after six people were shot dead in Jerusalem.





























