‘The Hurricane’ Screenwriter Exits WGA Over Guild’s “Repugnant” Lack Of Support For Israel After Terror Attacks
24.10.2023 - 19:47
/ deadline.com
Longtime Writers Guild member Dan Gordon is resigning over the union’s lack of public support for Israel.
“I am resigning my membership in the WGA West and electing financial core status because I no longer wish to be a fellow traveler with those who hide behind the fetid veil of a morally bankrupt wokeism and stand silent in the face of a fanatical ideology no less explicit in its genocidal intent toward the Jewish people than that of Nazi Germany,” The Hurricane screenwriter said Tuesday.
In a letter sent to WGA West brass Patrick Cannon and Ellen Stutzman, the Israeli-American writer and former IDF member added: “The failure of the Guild’s leadership to issue even the mildest condemnation of the worst massacre of a religious minority in the Middle East since ISIS carried out similar atrocities against the Yezidis is appalling. It is corrosive to me as a writer and repugnant to every fiber of my being as a person of conscience.”
Read Gordon’s full letter below.
Coming just more than two weeks after what President Joe Biden called barbaric attacks on Israelis by Hamas, Gordon’s resignation also comes on the heels of the WGA membership ratifying a hard-fought new three-year TV/Theatrical contract with the studios.
In the days following the terror siege that killed more than 1400 and saw hundreds taken back to Gaza as hostages, the DGA and SAG-AFTRA have both issued statements condemning “the horrific acts of aggression against the Israeli people on Oct. 7.” Corporations like Disney, Comcast and Skydance have donated millions in humanitarian relief, while top talent, execs and others have made public their support of Israel.
However, despite open letters and private pleas from top showrunners, both the WGA West and the
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