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Meghan McCain blatantly mischaracterized comments made by Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Glazer when he accepted an Oscar at Sunday night’s ceremony. And even after being corrected, McCain doubled down.
Glazer directed the Holocaust-era film The Zone of Interest, which won the Oscar for Best International Feature. The film, loosely based on a book by Martin Amis, was made with cooperation from the Auschwitz museum. While accepting the award, Glazer spoke out against Israel and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza:
Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst… Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel, or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims, of this dehumanization, how do we resist?
Many took Glazer’s words — “refute their Jewishness” — completely out of context, including McCain, a former co-host of The View, who tweeted on Monday: “Lotta people in Hollywood showing their ass when a man gets on stage to ‘refute his Jewishness’ and half the room claps.”
Lotta people in Hollywood showing their ass when a man gets on stage to “refute his Jewishness” and half the room claps.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 11, 2024
Didn’t seem to matter that she — and many others — left out the second part of his statement, that he didn’t refute his Jewishness, he refuted his “Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.” (Emphasis ours.)
In one viral tweet, Newsweek opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon received a “community note” for also claiming Glazer refuted his own faith. She also did not correct the post.
Many people pointed out to McCain that her quote of Glazer was blatantly misleading:
actual quote: “we stand here as men who refute their jewishness and the holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 11, 2024
Lotta people like you showing their asses by not finishing the sentence and implying a Jewish director of an award winning movie about the Holocaust would somehow not feel Jewish.
— Yonah Lieberman 🔥 (@YonahLieberman) March 11, 2024
But when former MSNBC host Medhi Hasan corrected McCain, the political scion doubled down on her error:
No Peace, bitch. https://t.co/W2lC88IAEb
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) March 12, 2024
“No peace, bitch” has apparently become McCain’s go-to defense. She used it against senatorial candidate Kari Lake after Lake insulted her father, the late Arizona senator John McCain.
