Film Workers for Palestine Respond to Paramount's Israel Boycott Claim: 'Intentionally Misrepresenting the Pledge'

Film Workers for Palestine, the group that includes at least 4,000 signatories of an open letter in which actors such as Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix pledged they would not work with Israeli companies "complicit in genocide," issued a statement Sunday refuting Paramount's condemnation of that effort, in which the studio said it amounts to "silencing individual creative artists." Paramount may be "intentionally misrepresenting the pledge in an attempt to silence our colleagues in the film industry," the group told TheWrap on Sunday. The statement reads in full: . . .