For the entertainment industry, which has already been roiled this year by a bitter, historic double strike of writers and actors, the outbreak of violence has created a new set of fault lines.
Nerves are fraying. Relationships are being strained to the breaking point. Words are being wielded like weapons. In the weeks since Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israel, amid a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and growing fears of further escalation of the conflict, reverberations and recriminations have spread around the globe to college campuses, corporate boardrooms and the streets of many major cities.
'It's part of our raison d'être to take moral stands in the world for things that that demand those stands, and at the very least, not to be silent.' In its Tuesday email, guild leaders tried to tamp down the furor, writing, 'When we made the difficult choice not to make a statement, it was not because we are paralyzed by factionalism or masking hateful views. We are American labor leaders, aware of our limitations and humbled by the magnitude of this conflict.
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