Natalie Portman, Justine Triet, Jacques Audiard defend Nadav Lapid against cultural boycott

A collective of film personalities including Natalie Portman, Justine Triet, and Jacques Audiard published an op-ed in Le Monde arguing that the cultural boycott of Israeli director Nadav Lapid represents an intellectual failure. They contend that Russian, Israeli, and Iranian filmmakers should not be threatened with erasure to atone for crimes committed by governments they often fiercely oppose. The signatories assert that artists should not be held accountable for their government's actions, and that boycotting individual creators undermines the principles of artistic freedom and intellectual exchange.