‘Red Alert’ exposes truth after Oct 7 and Hollywood’s silence on antisemitism

I’ve spent a bully portion of my vocation supporting galore causes. And implicit astir 4 decades of making movies and TV shows, I’ve worked with radical from truthful galore antithetic walks of beingness — ethnicities, races, women, LGBTQ, etc. And this was earlier the "woke" procreation appeared. I did it due to the fact that it’s however I saw the world, not due to the fact that I was "supposed to."

Then came Oct. 8, 2023, the time aft the horrific massacre successful Israel. I started to announcement my telephone not ringing. I wasn't getting those calls from this divers radical of radical I’d been moving with astir of my life: "Are you OK?" "Do you person household oregon friends successful Israel, and are they OK?" "Can I travel implicit and bent retired with you?" The radical I usually saw posting connected Instagram were saying things like, "I’m trying to understand," "It’s complicated."

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Hamas terrorists killed civilians, including women, children and the elderly, erstwhile they attacked Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023.  (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

Trying to understand? What is determination to recognize astir thousands of terrorists invading Israel and brutally raping, murdering and taking hostages—innocent radical who were conscionable sleeping successful their beds? What is analyzable astir that?

Not lone were my peers staying quiet, but galore besides denied the atrocities that happened. Some adjacent started justifying the acts of terror. They began wearing the reddish handprint arsenic a pin — a awesome of 2 Israeli reservists who were brutally murdered and whose bodies were mutilated arsenic 1 of the Palestinian perpetrators waved his blood-soaked hand.

And the antisemitism of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, of which I’ve been a subordinate since 1995, became clear. The precise manufacture that preaches inclusion and empathy mostly turned distant erstwhile my chap Jews were being raped and murdered. Even worse, galore blamed Israel for each this.

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I was compelled to act, and the effect is my constricted scripted TV bid connected Paramount+, "Red Alert." My squad and I made it to grant the precise radical who went done this horrific experience, those who were killed and those who survived. 

Lawrence Bender is seen during the filming of his Paramount+ bid "Red Alert," which focuses connected the Oct. 7 panic attacks. (Ran Mendelson/Green Productions, Bender Brown Productions, Keshet 12, the IEF, & Paramount+)

It became a ngo to archer their stories — to amusement the information of these unthinkable heroes ignored oregon maligned by Hollywood and the remainder of the world. This amusement is the crushed we are present today. And particularly present that the surviving hostages are backmost and determination is simply a tendency to determination toward immoderate benignant of peace, it tin lone beryllium done erstwhile the information is recognized. This amusement dramatizes that truth.

We wanted to person planetary appeal, truthful we chose stories that were universally relatable. They are household and underdog stories — a middle-aged parent moving disconnected to prevention her lad and, successful the process, redeeming galore neighbors; a antheral trying to prevention his wife; a parent redeeming her 2 daughters arsenic her lad is taken into Gaza. And we person a precise important communicative of an Arab household whose begetter saves his child, himself and yet saves an IDF unit. All true. The information is, astir radical don't recognize however multicultural Israel is — and that galore Arabs were besides murdered. All these mean radical became superheroes.

A pistillate reacts arsenic the assemblage of Kibbutz Kfar Aza commemorates their members who were killed, taken hostage and who died successful captivity, pursuing the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught by Hamas terrorists, successful Kibbutz Kfar Aza, confederate Israel, Oct. 16, 2025. (Hannah McKay/Reuters)

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For me, this was a life-changing process. The actors successful the amusement are each based connected existent people, and those radical spent a batch of clip with america connected acceptable — a antheral whose woman was murdered, a parent whose girl was murdered, a pistillate who saved the beingness of 1 of our actor’s nieces. It’s intolerable not to locomotion distant arsenic a changed person.

When you spot "Red Alert," the anticipation is that you’re moved by this unthinkable play and that it helps alteration the conversation. And for my progressive friends who person gotten it truthful incorrect — who person twisted the truth, excused the panic and demonized Israel — I anticipation they statesman to recognize the existent truth, which cannot beryllium denied.

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And arsenic the quality cycles continue, years from now, you whitethorn not retrieve what happened successful immoderate fixed cycle—but "Red Alert" is present arsenic a testament to the information and the mundane heroes successful Israel.