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Why Hollywood needs a reckoning over its pro-Israel cancel culture

In 2005, not long after the disastrous US invasion of Iraq, liberal Hollywood felt comfortable enough to target then-US President George W Bush.

One of the biggest award contenders that year was Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana, a political drama exploring the questionable facets of America’s addiction to oil. 

George Clooney played a worn-out CIA operative tasked with assassinating an Arab prince who earns US ire by awarding a lucrative oil contract to the Chinese

Clooney earned his first and only Academy Award for Syriana and during a famous acceptance speech, declared: 

“We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while, I think. It's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular.

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