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Budi

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Sun Oct 31, 2021, 10:25 PM Oct 2021

More than 200 celebrities sign open letter opposing efforts to boycott TelAiv LGBTQ film festival

"Your support for LGBTQ people should not depend on what country they live in.

If your support or activism for a community is conditional, then you don’t actually support that community.
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Thank you to @MilaKunisNow, @theebillyporter, @ZacharyQuinto, & the 200+ entertainment figures supporting Tel Aviv's LGBTQ Film Festival by opposing "the divisive rhetoric espoused by boycott activists who seek to misinform, bully & intimidate artists..."
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Mila Kunis, over 200 other celebrities sign letter denouncing boycott of Israel

Former NSYNC singer Lance Bass and actor Jeremy Piven also signed the open letter opposing efforts to boycott an LGBTQ film festival in Tel Aviv.

More than 200 celebrities, including actors Mila Kunis, Billy Porter, Neil Patrick Harris and Helen Mirren, signed an open letter opposing efforts to boycott an LGBTQ film festival in Tel Aviv.
The letter published Wednesday is a response to calls from activists with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to boycott the Tel Aviv International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, also called TLVFest, an annual film festival showcasing LGBTQ films that was founded in 2006.

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https://m.jpost.com/bds-threat/mila-kunis-over-200-other-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-boycott-of-israel-683315/amp
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