Artists4Ceasefire
Artists4Ceasefire is a collective of actors, filmmakers, and other artists calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire during the Israel–Hamas war in Gaza, the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians and the release of all hostages.[1][2][3] The collective was started on October 20th 2023.[4]
Pin design
The Artists4Ceasefire enamel pin depicts an orange hand with a heart inside on a red background. The hand represents the "beautiful community of people from all backgrounds", the heart represents "an invitation for us to lead with our hearts" and the red background represents "urgency of the call to save lives".[5]
Others[who?] have compared the orange hand used in the design to red hand symbols including the Red Hand of Ulster (a symbol used for the Irish province of Ulster), the symbol for murdered and missing indigenous women (MMIW) and people criticising the actions of Israel in Gaza as having "blood on its hands".
The Israeli government has claimed[6] with photographic comparison, that the red hand symbol conjures associations with photos of the 2000 Ramallah Lynching:
"Most celebrities wearing red pins don’t know that the image of red hands is associated with one horrific event imprinted on the minds of
Israelis and Palestinians.
The 2000 Ramallah lynching of Israelis.
This symbolism isn’t a coincidence."[7]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Ramallah-lynch01.jpg)
This assertion has been thoroughly analyzed by Snopes[7], with the subject attracting commentary in the press[8][9].
Members of the collective
People wearing pins
Several attendees of the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony wore red Artists4Ceasefire badges including Quannah Chasinghorse, Finneas O'Connell, Billie Eilish, Mark Ruffalo, Ava DuVernay, Ramy Youssef, Riz Ahmed, Mahershala Ali, Kaouther Ben Hania and Misan Harriman.[10][11][12][13][14] In addition to the Artists4Ceasfire pins some attendees wore Palestinian flags including Milo Machado-Graner and Swann Arlaud.[15] Ramy Youssef stated in an interview at the event:[4]
We are all calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, we are calling for the safety of everyone involved and we really want lasting justice and peace for the Palestinian people.
At the 2024 Grammy Awards, musician Annie Lennox finished her tribute to Sinéad O’Connor by stating “Artists for ceasefire, peace in the world”.[16] Additonally the members of Boygenius, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, as well as Bo Burnham wore the Artists4Ceasefire pins.[17][18]
Tony Shalhoub and Ebon Moss-Bachrach wore the pins at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.[18]
At the Directors Guild of America Awards in February 2024 Mark Ruffalo wore the pin and stated “We’re not going to bomb our way to peace".[19]
Open letter signaturies
In October 2023, 55 notable artists and entertainment industry members signed an open letter as part of the collective to US President Joe Biden to demand a cease-fire.[20][21][22][23] The open letter has subsequently expanded to include 100s of notable artists.[24]
- Aaron Frazer
- Aasif Mandvi
- Abbi Jacobson
- Adam Lambert
- Adam McKay
- Afshan Azad
- Ahamed Weinberg
- Aida Rodriguez
- Aja Monet
- Alan Cumming
- Alena Smith
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Ali Adler
- Alia Shawkat
- Allison Russell
- Alyssa Milano
- Amanda Diaz
- Amanda Gorman
- Amanda Seales
- Amandla Stenberg
- Amber Tamblyn
- America Ferrera
- Aminatou Sow
- Aminé
- Amy Lou Wood
- Anand Desai-Barochia
- Andrew Ahn
- Andrew Garfield
- Andrew Thomas Huang
- Anees
- Angela Dimayuga
- Ani DiFranco
- Anna Konkle
- Annie Lennox
- Anoushka Shankar
- Aria Mia Loberti
- Arian Moayed
- Arooj Aftab
- ASAP Nast
- Ashley Lukashevsky
- Asim Chaudhry
- Atsuko Okatsuka
- Augustus Prew
- Ava DuVernay
- Ayo Edebiri
- Bassam Tariq
- Bassem Youssef
- Bella Hadid
- Belly
- Ben Affleck
- Bilal Hasna
- BLK ODYSSY
- Bobbi Salvör Menuez
- Bonnie Wright
- Boots Riley
- Bradley Cooper
- Brandon Holman
- Brian Cox
- Brian Eno
- Brigitte Lacombe
- Bruce Cohen
- Busy Philipps
- Cameron Russell
- Carl Clemons-Hopkins
- Caroline Polachek
- Cat Power
- Cate Blanchett
- Catherine Van-Davies
- Celeste Barber
- Celeste Yim
- Chani Nicholas
- Channing Tatum
- Charlotte Riley
- Charm La’Donna
- Chase Sui Wonders
- Cherien Dabis
- Chicano Batman
- Chioke Nassor
- Christine Baranski
- Cindi Leive
- Clairo
- Clean Bandit
- Connie Britton
- Cora Emmanuel
- Cree Summer
- Cynthia Nixon
- Dan Bucatinsky
- Dan Cogan
- Daniel Caesar
- Daniel Garber
- Daniel Goldhaber
- Darius Marder
- Dave Merheje
- David Clennon
- David Cross
- David Oyelowo
- Dawn-Lyen Gardner
- Deb Never
- Denée Benton
- Desi Perkins
- Dev Hynes
- Dina Shihabi
- Diplo
- DJ Snake
- Dominic Cooper
- Dominique Fishback
- Dominique Thorne
- Drake
- Dua Lipa
- Durand Jones
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach
- Edie Campbell
- Eisa Davis
- Elliott Gould
- Elsa Hosk
- Elvira Lind
- Elyanna
- Emily Gordon
- Emily Meade
- Emma Seligman
- Eric André
- Eugene Lee Yang
- Ewan McGregor
- Fai Khadra
- Farah Bsaiso
- Farah Nabulsi
- Farida Khelfa
- Fatima Farheen Mirza
- Fawzia Mirza
- Fayssal Bazzi
- Florence Pugh
- Francesca Fiorentini
- Frank Ocean
- Fredwreck
- Geoffrey Arend
- Gigi Hadid
- Gracie Abrams
- Hadar Cohen
- Hannah Ferguson
- Hari Nef
- Hasan Minhaj
- Helado Negro
- Hend Sabry
- Howard Rodman
- Ilana Glazer
- Imaan Hammam
- Imad Izemrane
- Indya Moore
- Ivan Jackson
- Jalen Noble
- James Schamus
- Jamila Woods
- Janelle Monáe
- Jay Shetty
- Jai Courtney
- Jalen Noble
- Jared Goldstein
- Jas Lin
- Jay Hernandez
- Jean Smart
- Jehane Noujaim
- Jenna Ortega
- Jenni Konner
- Jennifer Lopez
- Jennifer Saunders
- Jenny Yang
- Jeremy Allen White
- Jeremy Strong
- Jes Tom
- Jessica Chastain
- Jessie Buckley
- Jesse Peretz
- Jesse Williams
- Jim Jarmusch
- Joaquin Phoenix
- Jodi Balfour
- Joe Alwyn
- Joel Edgerton
- Joel Kim Booster
- Johan Lindeberg
- John Cusack
- John Early
- Jon Batiste
- Jon Stewart
- Jordan Peele
- Joy Sunday
- JP Saxe
- Judah Friedlander
- Judy Reyes
- Julien Baker
- Juliet Stevenson
- Juliette Binoche
- Kaitlin Olson
- Kal Penn
- Kali Uchis
- Kamie Crawford
- Kathryn Grody
- Kathy Najimy
- Katie Gavin
- Kaytranada
- Kehlani
- Kendrick Sampson
- Kenza Fourati
- K.Flay
- Khalid Abdulla
- Kimiko Glenn
- Kimya Dawson
- Kirsten Dunst
- Kristen Stewart
- Kit Yan
- Kumail Nanjiani
- Kylie Sparks
- Lauren Jauregui
- Lena Waithe
- Leo Sheng
- Lily Gladstone
- Lindy West
- Lionel Boyce
- LisaGay Hamilton
- Livia Firth
- Liz Garbus
- Lola Kirke
- Lorenza Izzo
- Louisa Jacobson
- Lucy Dacus
- Lupita Nyong’o
- Macklemore
- Mae Martin
- Majid Jordan
- Mandy Patinkin
- Mahershala Ali
- Manish Dayal
- Marcia Cross
- Margaret Cho
- Maria Cornejo
- Miriam Margolyes
- Marisa Tomei
- Mark Ruffalo
- Mark Rylance
- Martin Starr
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
- Massari
- Matt McGorry
- Matt Lieb
- Matt Rogers
- Maxwell Osborne
- May Calamawy
- Maysoon Zayid
- Maz Jobrani
- Megan Boone
- Melanie Martinez
- Melissa Barrera
- Michael Dorman
- Michael Malarkey
- Michael Moore
- Michael Uzowuru
- Michael Shannon
- Michael Stipe
- Michelle Wolf
- Mickey Sumner
- Miguel
- MILCK
- Milla Jovovich
- Mimi Kennedy
- Mira Nair
- Miranda July
- Misha Collins
- Mitra Jouhari
- Mo Amer
- Mohamed Diab
- Mona Chalabi
- Monet McMichael
- Morgan Spector
- Mousa Kraish
- MUNA
- Mustafa Ahmed
- Nabil Elderkin
- Naomi Scott
- Natalia Cordova
- Natalie Merchant
- Naz Riahi
- Nelly Furtado
- Nia DaCosta
- Nicola Coughlan
- Nicole Ansari Cox
- Niki Takesh
- Nikoo Nooryani
- Noah “40” Shebib
- Noam Shuster-Eliassi
- Noor Tagouri
- Nori Reed
- Omar Apollo
- Omar Metwally
- Omar Sy
- Oscar Isaac
- Padma Lakshmi
- Paloma Elsesser
- Paul Walter Hauser
- Patti Smith
- Peter Berg
- Peter Gabriel
- Phoebe Bridgers
- Poorna Jagannathan
- Poppy Delevingne
- Poppy Liu
- Priyanka Chopra Jonas
- Quinta Brunson
- Rachel McAdams
- Rachel Sennott
- Rachel Zegler
- Ramy Youssef
- Raveena Aurora
- Rianne Van Rompaey
- Richa Moorjani
- Richard Gere
- River L. Ramirez
- Riz Ahmed
- Roberta Colindrez
- Rooney Mara
- Rosaline Elbay
- Rosario Dawson
- Rosie O’Donnell
- Rose Abdoo
- Rowan Blanchard
- Run The Jewels
- Rupi Kaur
- Ruth Negga
- Ryan Coogler
- Ryan Piers Williams
- Saagar Shaikh
- Sabine Getty
- Saif Mahdi
- Sam Richardson
- Sami Zayn
- Sandra Oh
- Sara Driver
- Sara Ramirez
- Sarah Bahbah
- Sarah Jones
- Sarah E. Jones
- Sarah Snook
- Sarah Sophie Flicker
- Sarita Choudhury
- Sasami Ashworth
- Sean Miura
- Sebastián Silva
- Selena Gomez
- Sepideh Moafi
- Shailene Woodley
- Shaka King
- Shayla Mitchell
- Sherry Cola
- Shruti Ganguly
- Silas Howard
- SimiHaze
- Simon Helberg
- Simon Rex
- Sinéad Bovell
- Sinéad Harnett
- Smino
- Snoh Aalegra
- Sophia Bush
- Stella Schnabel
- Stephanie Suganami
- Stephen Dillane
- Steve Way
- Suleika Jaouad
- Susan Sarandon
- Sydney Lemmon
- Tahar Rahim
- Tala Ashe
- Tanya Selvaratnam
- Tara Grammy
- Tarek Bishara
- Tavi Gevinson
- Taylour Paige
- Tchaiko Omawale
- Tessa Thompson
- Thursday
- Tien Tran
- Tom Hardy
- Tommy Genesis
- Tony Kushner
- Tony Shalhoub
- Travon Free
- Tyler Johnson
- V (formerly Eve Ensler)
- Vic Mensa
- Victoria Monét
- Viggo Mortensen
- Vijay Iyer
- Wale
- Waleed Zuaiter
- Wallace Shawn
- Wanda Sykes
- Yara Shahidi
- Yasmine Aker
- Yasmine Al Massri
- Yumi Sakugawa
- Yusuf Cat Stevens
- Zayn Malik
- Zoe Chao
- Zoe Lister Jones
- 070 Shake
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