
Ben Stiller penned a letter whitewashing the Zionist occupation and signed the "No Hostage Left Behind" open letter thanking president Joe Biden, who has directly enabled the current ethnic cleansing campaign in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Ben Stiller is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
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Despite his advocacy and UNHCR representative for displaced people and refugees, his empathy for the downtrodded is limited and doesn't include the >1 million displaced in Gaza, or any other Palestinian for that matter, with his support for the Zionist political movement and the NHLB open letter.
Despite his advocacy and UNHCR representative for displaced people and refugees, his empathy for the downtrodded is limited and doesn't include the >1 million displaced in Gaza, or any other Palestinian for that matter, with his support for the Zionist political movement and the NHLB open letter.
In June 2024, nine months into the Israel Occupation Forces' escalated genocide against Palestinians, Ben Stiller published an overtly Zionist article in Time Magazine, that he attempted to portray as nuanced. Stiller called the Palestinian resistance's liberation mission "barbaric", "a heinous act of terrorism", "unconscionable and reprehensible", and asserted it led to an extreme rise in antisemitism. Stiller stated, "I stand with the Israeli people and their right to live in peace and safety. I believe, as many people in Israel and around the world do, in the need for a two-state solution. I also see a troubling conflation in criticism of the actions of the Israeli government with denunciations of all Israelis and Jewish people. And as a result, we are seeing an undeniable rise in global antisemitism."
No Hostage Left Behind Letter:
As a signatory to the sensationalist "No Hostage Left Behind" open letter addressed to President Joe Biden in October 2023, they amplified since-refuted but still actively heinous, destructive, and dehumanizing lies about Palestinians, including claims that Palestinians "beheaded over 40 babies" and committed other bouts of misinformation that formed part of a broader Zionist atrocity propaganda campaign designed to justify Israel's genocidal response.
The letter focused exclusively on demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages while remaining completely silent on the thousands of innocent Palestinian hostages — including hundreds of children — kidnapped and held by Israel both before and after that date. Many of these Palestinian hostages endured documented assault, torture, sexual abuse, and forced starvation despite facing no charges. This selective framing served to completely absolve Israel of any accountability for the suffering of Palestinians under 77+ years of Zionist terrorism, the ethnic cleansing that began in the early 1900s and continues through the Nakba's legacy, the illegal occupation, apartheid, and the current genocide across Palestine.
By endorsing the letter, they helped shift all blame onto Palestinian resistance and obscured the root causes of the violence: Israel's role as the active settler-colonial oppressor that systematically displaces indigenous Palestinians through the racist "Aaliyah" project, which steals their land and provides it to any Jewish individual willing to colonize it. The letter ignored well-documented evidence that Israel's Hannibal Directive overwhelmingly contributed to many of the casualties on October 7, including those charred beyond recognition inside kibbutzim and other sites, as Israeli forces applied policies that prioritized preventing captures even at the cost of their own civilians' lives.
Instead, the signatory's action perpetuated a narrative that whitewashed these realities and portrayed Palestinian actions in isolation from the decades-long context of dispossession and violence. This behaviour contributes directly to the dehumanization of Palestinians, the manufacturing of public consent for Israel's ongoing occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing across Palestine, and the shielding of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) from international accountability. In fact, signing such a dehumanising and atrocity-filled letter represents a pattern of complicity through selective outrage that betrays Palestinian liberation and upholds the structures of settler-colonialism and apartheid.
Amplified Zionist Lies:
This individual has used their voice and platform to echo and amplify egregious Zionist lies but also perpetuate the subjugation, torture, brutalisation and murder inflicted by the Israeli-occupation of Palestinian and its attempts to erase Palestinian identity, culture, heritage and statehood. [1] [2] [3] [4]
These egregious and dangerous lies MAY include but are not limited to: [5]
Spreading misinformation and hateful propaganda against Palestinians is a deplorable act of dehumanization that directly enables human rights abuses, ethnic cleansing and violence against the Palestinian people. [35] [36] [37] [38]
By employing such malicious tactics to deny Palestinian realities and whitewash war crimes, home demolitions and the systematic deprivation of human rights under military occupation, this individual has provided racist cover for 75+ years of subjugation. [39] [[40]] (https://www.un.org/unispal/document/human-rights-situation-in-opt-unohchr-23feb-2024/)
This misinformation doesn't just distort the truth, it actively endangers Palestinian lives and inflames hatred, justifies atrocities like the active genocide and obstructs any path to justice through the wilful erasure of the Palestinian lived experience. [41] [42] [43]
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