Javier Bardem I will receive this Friday Donostia Prize with which the San Sebastian Festival recognizes his entire career and, although he appreciates it and is delighted to receive him, he assured that he had “party spirit“, that “the way the world is”, it is “impossible” for him to celebrate anything. The actor spoke these words in front of the press accredited to the San Sebastian competition after a long reflection on the Israel attacks Gaza and after having assured that, “unfortunately” in the world “there are two sides” and that you have to choose one because “there are unacceptable things This cannot be ignored.”
Bardem insisted that it was time to Netanyahu and Hamas be judged on the suffering of Palestinians. “What is happening is dehumanizing and terrible. The government of Israel is the most radical in the history of this country and is committing crimes against humanity. Hamas’s merciless attacks on October 7 do not justify the global and massive punishment that the Palestinian population is suffering,” he stressed.
He said the United States and the United Kingdom must “change their behavior of unconditional support“in Israel and assured that”society is beginning to understand“that criticism of Israel “has nothing to do with anti-Semitism” nor that directed against Hamas with “Islamophobia.”
“It is important to recognize that the The Israeli government is not representative of the Jewish community “nor the Israeli people,” said Bardem, who also called on politicians to include the issue of climate change in their agendas. Bardem is clear that he must support those who “defend civil and social rights and not those who cancel them.”
