In a direct rebuke of a mounting effort within Hollywood to isolate Israeli film institutions, Warner Bros. Discovery has become the latest major studio to reject a prominent boycott initiative, stating that the campaign likely conflicts with the company’s anti-discrimination guidelines. The studio’s statement, issued to Variety, couldn’t have been clearer: “Warner Bros. Discovery is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful environment … Our policies prohibit discrimination of any kind, including discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or ancestry. We believe a boycott of Israeli film institutions violates our policies.” The company added that while it supports free expression, it won’t endorse actions that breach either its standards or the law. This comes in response to a boycott pledge spearheaded by Film Workers for Palestine, a group of more than 8,000 film industry figures—including actors Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Emma Stone, and Javier Bardem—to refuse work with Israeli film festivals, broadcasters, or production entities they claimed were “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Legal experts in both the UK and the United States have warned that the campaign may run afoul of civil rights and anti-discrimination laws. In the UK, the legal advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel sent letters to major studios—including Warner Bros., Netflix, and Disney—warning that participation in or enforcement of the pledge could violate the Equality Act 2010, branding it a “litigation risk.” Across the Atlantic, Washington D.C.-based Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law similarly cautioned that various state and federal civil rights laws prohibit the kind of nationality-based discrimination implied by the boycott. Paramount Pictures was the first major studio to publicly denounce the pledge. In a statement from chief communications officer Melissa Zukerman, the studio declared: “We do not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers. Silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace.” Paramount emphasized that the entertainment industry should be amplifying global storytelling—not narrowing it. Opposition to the pledge isn’t limited to the studios. More than 1,200 entertainment figures—among them Liev Schreiber, Debra Messing, and Mayim Bialik—signed an open letter calling the boycott “a document of misinformation,” accusing its backers of spreading antisemitic propaganda under the banner of activism. If Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount are any indication, studios are not eager to jeopardize legal standing—or creative freedom—on ideological crusades that may violate civil rights law.

Just two months after making headlines for questioning a same-sex kiss scene in the Disney film “Lightyear,” Snoop Dogg has fully caved to the progressive mob. The 53-year-old rapper just announced that he teamed up with the LGBT activist organization GLAAD and wrote a new song with gay pride themes for his children’s series. The recording artist, whose legal name is Calvin Broadus Jr., worked with GLAAD to promote “Spirit Day” for LGBT teens on Thursday. He teamed up with The Voice contestant Jeremy Beloate on “Love Is Love,” a song highlighted in the latest episode of Snoop’s animated children’s series Doggyland on YouTube. “Our parents are different/ No two are the same but the one thing that’s for certain is the love won’t change/ Families are special/ They are so unique/ Everybody’s got a purpose more than what you see/ We love you parents/ We love you so,” the dogs sing, including one voiced by Snoop and one new character voiced by Beloate.  Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. “It’s teaching parenthood. It’s teaching situations that kids in the world is (sic) going through right now in a beautiful way through song, dance, melody, just trying to get more clarity on how we live and the way we live. And I felt like this music is a beautiful bridge to bringing understanding,” Snoop said during an interview with Beloate that was promoted on both GLAAD and Doggyland’s Instagram pages.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by GLAAD (@glaad) “This is a program we’ve been doing for years where we involve kids,” he added. “These are things that kids have questions about so now hopefully we can help answer these questions and help them to live a happy life and understand that love is love.” The rapper went on, “It’s a beautiful thing that kids can have parents of all walks and be shown love, to be taught what love is … being able to have parents from all walks of life, whether it be two fathers, two mothers, whatever it is, love is the key.” This is a drastic about-face for Snoop, who criticized the inclusion of same-sex couples in children’s programming in August after watching the movie “Lightyear” with his grandkids. “What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere,” Snoop said before referencing the 2022 Disney film, which featured a same-sex couple.  “They’re like, ‘She had a baby with another woman.’ Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’” he went on. The rapper said he thought, “‘Oh sh**, I didn’t come in for this sh**. I just came to watch the g**damn movie.’” But his grandson wouldn’t let it go, and said, “They just said, she and she had a baby … they’re both women. How does she have a baby?”  Snoop said the whole thing “f***ed me up. I’m like, scared to go to the movies. Y’all throwing me in the middle of sh** that I don’t have an answer for.” “It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this? … These are kids,” he added. “We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.” Many of Snoop’s followers were furious over the comments and accused him of defecting to the conservative side, especially considering that he had performed at a celebratory event before President Donald Trump’s inauguration. An Instagram apology that appeared to be sent from the rapper’s official Instagram account went viral one week later, but Snoop’s rep denied that it was legitimate. Snoop never issued an official apology for the “Lightyear” comments.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Hundreds of companies use the software company Benevity to connect with nonprofits, allowing employees to donate their time and money, but Benevity systematically blacklists conservative nonprofits, and those nonprofits are now speaking out. “We, the undersigned organizations, urge Benevity to immediately end the use of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘Hate Map’ and ‘Hate List’ in determining which nonprofits are eligible for corporate charitable giving and employee matching programs,” reads the letter, signed by 12 conservative groups and exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal. “By relying on these partisan designations, Benevity legitimizes a severely biased blacklist that inspires violence, urges discrimination against mainstream organizations, and undermines the spirit of charitable giving,” the letter adds. Benevity Benevity provides a platform for corporations to manage philanthropic efforts, such as providing a way for employees to donate to nonprofits before taxes, matching employee contributions, facilitating employee volunteering, and making corporate grants to nonprofits. According to its website, Benevity connects “nearly 1,000 enterprise companies” to a network of 513,000 nonprofits after vetting 2.2 million of them. It says it has managed $16 billion in grants and 99 million employee volunteer hours. In 2023, more than 2.3 million people donated through the Benevity platform, representing $3.2 billion. 1792 Exchange, a nonprofit that exposes bias in corporate businesses, has counted 224 of the Fortune 1,000 companies that use Benevity. The list includes Accenture, Adobe, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, American Express, Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Cigna, Coca Cola, Costco, John Deere, Lowe’s, Macy’s, McDonalds, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia, Paramount, Salesforce, Spotify, UPS, and many more. In 2021, then-Benevity CEO Kelly Schmitt delivered a PowerPoint presentation explicitly stating that the company had “vetted” almost “2 million nonprofits,” adding that it used the “Southern Poverty Law Center Hate List.” The conservative nonprofits’ letter notes that “there are also recent reports of employees from major corporations that Benevity’s system blocked them from donating to Turning Point USA because of the SPLC’s designation. At the same time, left-leaning political groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and Planned Parenthood remain fully eligible for Benevity’s platform.” The SPLC The SPLC gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy, but it now puts mainstream conservative and Christian groups on a “hate map” with Klan groups, suggesting they represent a similar threat to Americans. The SPLC “hate map” includes Alliance Defending Freedom, a premier conservative Christian law firm that has won multiple cases at the U.S. Supreme Court; Do No Harm, a group of doctors committed to ridding medicine of divisive racial ideologies and opposed to “gender-affirming care;” the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which monitors the threat of radical Islamist extremism; and Moms for Liberty, a group of parents demanding a say in their kids’ education. These and other groups signed the letter to Benevity. “The SPLC’s claim to be a civil rights organization cannot be taken seriously,” the signatories wrote. “Instead, it is a political weapon that targets mainstream libertarian, conservative, religious, and family advocacy organizations for ideological reasons.” The signatories claim the SPLC attacks organizations “not because of violence or extremism, but because they dissent from the SPLC’s preferred progressive orthodoxy.” Inspiring Violence The letter notes that the “hate list” Benevity uses to screen nonprofits has inspired violence. “In 2012, a gunman entered the Family Research Council’s Washington, D.C., headquarters intending to commit mass murder,” the letter states. “He later admitted that he chose his target after seeing it labeled on the SPLC’s website. By using the SPLC’s lists to vet charities, Benevity reinforces and perpetuates a dangerous mechanism that has already been used to justify violence against peaceful Americans.” The Family Research Council also signed the letter. The letter also notes that the SPLC added Turning Point USA to its “hate map” earlier this year, shortly before the assassination of Turning Point USA’s founder, Charlie Kirk. “While federal authorities have not yet confirmed whether the assassin accessed the SPLC’s website, the timing and context raise deeply troubling questions.” “SPLC leadership itself has admitted that its ultimate goal is not to educate the public but to ‘destroy’ its ideological opponents,” the letter adds. After the Kirk assassination, FBI Director Kash Patel told The Daily Signal that all of the bureau’s “ties with the SPLC have been officially terminated.” He called the group a “partisan smear machine” and said its “disgraceful record” makes the group “unfit for any FBI partnership.” The conservative groups ask Benevity to “publicly end its use of the SPLC’s hate list and hate map, adopt a viewpoint-neutral process for nonprofit eligibility, and restore access to organizations unfairly excluded.” They note that Benevity’s new CEO, Soraya Alexander, will start on Nov. 1, and add that this transition “presents a valuable opportunity” for the new CEO to champion fairness and objectivity. The conservative groups also urge corporations using Benevity’s platform to join them in asking the platform to disavow the SPLC, and to “discontinue their partnership with Benevity until these changes are made.” “Charitable giving should empower generosity, not enforce ideology,” the letter concludes. The list of signatories includes Alliance Defending Freedom, the American Family Association, the Center for Christian Virtue, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Do No Harm, the Family Policy Alliance, the Family Research Council, GenSpect, Moms for Liberty, Partners for Ethical Care, 1792 Exchange, and Them Before Us. Benevity Open LetterDownload The post The Sneaky Way Corporate America Blacklists Conservatives, and How Some Are Fighting Back appeared first on The Daily Signal.