{"id":456257,"date":"2025-09-27T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/456257\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:04:14","slug":"video-jennifer-lawrence-condemns-gaza-genocide-at-spain-film-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/456257\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Jennifer Lawrence\u00a0condemns Gaza &#8216;genocide&#8217; at Spain film fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> US actress and producer Jennifer Lawrence attends a press conference hours before receiving the Donostia lifetime achievement award on September 26, 2025. (Photo by Ander Gillenea \/ AFP)<\/p>\n<p>San Sebastian, Spain: Oscar-winning US actor\u00a0Jennifer Lawrence\u00a0called Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza a genocide and warned about the normalisation of lies in American politics during a Friday appearance at Spain&#8217;s San Sebastian Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s happening is no less than a genocide, and it&#8217;s unacceptable,&#8221; Lawrence told a news conference when asked about the war that has devastated the Palestinian territory for almost two years.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to her own country, the 35-year-old said she was &#8220;terrified for my children, for all of our children&#8221;, adding that &#8220;this disrespect and the discourse in American politics right now is going to be normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">US actress Jennifer Lawrence says the situation in Gaza is &#8220;no less than a genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The X-Men star and mother of two was asked how she felt, as a parent, watching so many children killed in conflicts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vpeFbWhXfs\">pic.twitter.com\/vpeFbWhXfs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\/status\/1971858600026165399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the younger generation, &#8220;it&#8217;s going to be totally normal to them that politics has no integrity&#8221;, warned the star of &#8220;Silver Linings Playbook&#8221;, &#8220;American Hustle&#8221; and &#8220;Joy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Politicians lie, there&#8217;s no empathy, and everybody needs to remember that when you ignore what&#8217;s happening on one side of the world, it won&#8217;t be long until it&#8217;s on your side as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US star was in the northern coastal city to receive the &#8220;Donostia&#8221; lifetime achievement award, with a showing of her latest movie &#8220;Die, My Love&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Co-produced by Lawrence and Martin Scorsese and directed by Lynne Ramsay, the film portrays how a couple&#8217;s happiness at having a child turns sour, following a series of works that provide a different perspective on motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence, a mother of two children, said the movie reminded her of her difficult postpartum following the birth of her second child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really bizarre, watching the movie now and seeing everything in retrospect, after feeling like I&#8217;ve been through that forest,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US actress and producer Jennifer Lawrence attends a press conference hours before receiving the Donostia lifetime achievement award&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,6860,104,26465],"class_list":{"0":"post-456257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-qatar","11":"tag-spain","12":"tag-the-peninsula"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115278293845652637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}