Just a few days after 1000 rabbis as well as 14000 faculty member sent a letter to Netanyahu, asking him to immediately stop the horror of a war contradicting essential values of Judaism as they understand it, some 1,000 musicians, writers, actors and others had signed a petition demanding Israel stop the war in Gaza.

The petition, titled “Stop the Horror in Gaza,” accuses Israel’s leaders of deliberately starving Gazans and killing innocent Palestinians, ratcheting up simmering anti-war sentiment with harsh rhetoric largely outside Israel’s mainstream until now.

“Against our values and will, we find ourselves complicit in the horrific actions carried out by our government in Gaza: the killing of children and civilians, policies of starvation, mass displacement, and the senseless destruction of entire cities,” the signatories write.