‘The Hurricane’ Screenwriter Exits WGA Over Guild’s “Repugnant” Lack Of Support For Israel After Terror Attacks
deadline.comLongtime Writers Guild member Dan Gordon is resigning over the union’s lack of public support for Israel. “I am resigning my membership in the WGA West and electing financial core status because I no longer wish to be a fellow traveler with those who hide behind the fetid veil of a morally bankrupt wokeism and stand silent in the face of a fanatical ideology no less explicit in its genocidal intent toward the Jewish people than that of Nazi Germany,” The Hurricane screenwriter said Tuesday.
In a letter sent to WGA West brass Patrick Cannon and Ellen Stutzman, the Israeli-American writer and former IDF member added: “The failure of the Guild’s leadership to issue even the mildest condemnation of the worst massacre of a religious minority in the Middle East since ISIS carried out similar atrocities against the Yezidis is appalling.
It is corrosive to me as a writer and repugnant to every fiber of my being as a person of conscience.” Read Gordon’s full letter below.
Coming just more than two weeks after what President Joe Biden called barbaric attacks on Israelis by Hamas, Gordon’s resignation also comes on the heels of the WGA membership ratifying a hard-fought new three-year TV/Theatrical contract with the studios.
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