11/09/2025
Get • For years, antisemitism in the entertainment world has been brushed aside and repackaged as “political conscience,” “artistic freedom,” or more recently, “solidarity.”
Now, finally, a major studio is saying what should have been obvious all along: hatred has no place in a global industry built on storytelling, diversity, and empathy.
Paramount’s decision to stop working with celebrities who’ve crossed into open antisemitism isn’t censorship - it’s accountability. If an actor uses their platform to normalise lies, demonisation, and hostility toward Jews, they are stepping outside the bounds of legitimate creative discourse.
Every profession has standards.
Doctors can lose their licenses for pushing fake cures.
Lawyers are disbarred when they break the law.
So why should actors who spread antisemitic propaganda be treated as untouchable?
Paramount’s new leadership chose to draw a line while others hid behind neutral PR statements. That line was long overdue, and its message reaches far beyond Hollywood: defaming Jews and inciting against Israel are not “opinions.” They are forms of bigotry, and they carry consequences.
For too long, antisemitism has been the last socially acceptable prejudice. If Hollywood is serious about inclusion, then rejecting Jew-hatred isn’t a political stance. It’s the bare minimum of basic decency.
