Jonathan Glazer has found strong support for his public stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The Zone of Interest director visibly trembled earlier this month as he accepted the Oscar for Best International Film and called out Israels bombardment of Gaza. While hundreds of Jews in Hollywood denounced him for it, screenwriter Tony Kushner isnt one of them.

When asked Wednesday on the Haaretz Podcast if he could identify with Glazer who delivered the only Oscars speech that directly acknowledged the war in Gaza Kushner answered with palpable bewilderment: Of course. I mean, who doesnt?

What hes saying is so simple, the Tony Award winner added . Hes saying: Jewishness, Jewish identity, Jewish history, the history of the Holocaust of Jewish suffering must not be used as an excuse for a project of dehumanizing or slaughtering other people.

This is a misappropriation of what it means to be a Jew, what the Holocaust meant, and [Glazer] rejects that, Kushner, who is himself Jewish, continued. Who doesnt agree with that? What kind of person thinks that whats going on now in Gaza is acceptable.

The Zone of Interest depicts the lives of Auschwitz concentration camp commandant Rudolf Hss and his family. Intended to explore Nazi Germanys banality of evil with no escape for the viewer, it was widely acclaimed before Glazer gave his speech.

Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst, he said at the podium, adding : 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.

Glazer, who asked how the victims of Oct. 7 in Israel and those of the ongoing attack in Gaza could resist such dehumanization, has since been condemned by more than 1,000 Jewish Hollywood figures including Debra Messing, Eli Roth and Amy Pascal.