The Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), an influential organization in Los Angeles, is smearing the film — whose executive producers include Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, and Jonathan Glazer — as “propaganda” and “manipulation, casting doubts on the circumstances that led to her killing by Israeli soldiers.
The war crime made international news: On Jan. 29, 2024, 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her family sought to escape the violence surrounding them in Gaza – only to be met with the very thing they were fleeing from. The Israeli military brutally killed several of her family members as they attempted to flee. Then her cousin. Hind was then left alone for hours, pleading with emergency workers on the phone to help her. After agonizing hours, paramedics finally got approval from the Israeli government to rescue her.
Then the Israeli military killed Hind and the paramedics – who were found dead just hundreds of meters from her.
This sequence of events is documented in painstaking detail in ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab.’ Final voting for the Oscars ends Thursday evening.
‘Propaganda’
According to its website, the CCFP was founded in 2012 by David Renzer, the former chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing, and Steve Schnur, who is the president of music at Electronic Arts (EA) and the former chairman of the Grammy Foundation. The group describes itself as an “apolitical” organization that’s made up of “prominent members of the entertainment community,” and says it “strives to provide balance to the discourse regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.” The CCFP counts professionals from Warner Bros., Sony, Atlantic Records, Amazon, and more as members of its advisory board and networking committee. Its annual gala has been sponsored by a wide range of companies and individuals, including the foundations of Len Blavatnik, a Russian oligarch, and Casey Wasserman, chairman of the Los Angeles organizing committee for the 2028 Olympics – both of whom are featured
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CCFP were in the news September 2025:
Sharon Osbourne and Debra Messing among 1,200 stars rejecting boycott of Israeli film industry
Open letter condemns boycott pledge as antisemitic censorship, with Hollywood and global leaders backing Israeli filmmakers
Sharon Osbourne and Debra Messing are among more than 1,200 entertainment leaders to sign an open letter rejecting calls to boycott Israel’s film and television industry, denouncing the pledge as “discriminatory and antisemitic.”
The statement organised by Creative Community for Peace (CCFP) and grassroots group the Brigade was released in Los Angeles on Thursday. It comes in response to a pledge by “Film Workers for Palestine” urging colleagues to sever ties with Israeli film companies, festivals and cultural institutions.
Hollywood and global figures including Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Gene Simmons, Greg Berlanti, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lisa Edelstein, Anthony Edwards, Rebecca De Mornay and Haim Saban are among the signatories.
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