On Monday, a group called Jews Against the Occupation staged a protest against Israel’s invasion of Gaza blocks away outside the Israeli consulate in New York. Among those protesting was renowned playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner. Kushner won a Pulitzer prize and a Tony Award for his play “Angels in America”, which was later made into an award-winning television mini-series. “The policy, on the part of the Israeli government, of reoccupation of Gaza, seems to me catastrophically misguided,” Kushner says. “I can’t imagine this is not going to continue to be bloody and a violation of human rights.”
On Monday, a group called Jews Against the Occupation hastily organized a response just blocks away outside the Israeli consulate in New York. Hundreds answered the call. Among them, the renowned playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner. Kushner won a Pulitzer prize and a Tony Award for his play “Angels in America”, which was later made into an award-winning television mini-series. He has authored several other plays, including “A Bright Room Called Day,” “Homebody/Kabul”; and “Caroline or Change.” He is also the co-editor of the book “Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict.” Democracy Now producers Aaron Maté and Hany Massoud caught up with Tony Kushner at Monday’s protest against the Israeli invasion of Gaza outside the Israeli consulate.