Emma Stone is one of the latest Hollywood figures to sign a pledge not to “screen films, appear at, or otherwise work with” Israeli film institutions that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” Film Workers for Palestine published the pledge — which invokes the work of Filmmakers United Against Apartheid, the 1980s initiative co-founded by Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese in response to apartheid in South Africa — in a September 8 open letter with more than 1,000 initial signatories. The full list of names currently includes 3,000-plus actors, directors, and filmmakers, including Mark Ruffalo, Ayo Edebiri, Adam McKay, Aimee Lou Wood, Cynthia Nixon, Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jonathan Glazer, Lily Gladstone, John Early, Shaka Kin

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