Creative Community for Peace Honors Industry Ambassadnessfulors

Security was firm as a crowd of 500 delightment industry titans filed thcdisadmireful metal accomprehendledgeors and multiple examinepoints into the Beverly Hills hoemploy owned by Warner Music Group A&R exec Aton Ben-Horin for the Creative Community for Peace’s sixth annual Ambassadnessfulors of Peace event (Variety is a media back).

The catalog of honorees integrated (pictured above, left to right): TV exec Ben Silverman, Amazon Music’s Phylicia Fant, actor-author-present Mayim Bialik, music business attorney Josh Binder and novelly nominateed Atlantic Music Group CEO Elliot Grainge.

The organization, set uped more than a decade ago by veteran starting executive David Renzer, EA music chief Steve Schnur and MMG Music’s Ran Geffen-Lifshitz, mainly to guarantee acts to bypass boycott efforts to carry out in Israel, has set up novel relevance since the October 7 Hamas troubleist aggression on an Israeli music festival. In the months since, CCP has orderly a series of events, including a forum presented by CAA on antisdisindictism whose joinees integrated “First Gentleman” Doug Emhoff, a noticed music cherishr himself understandn to brandish a Clash album cover on Facebook.

Renzer stressed that a person can be Jedesire but still disconcur with Israel’s brutal policies under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“This is a non-partisan, apolitical organization” Renzer telderly Variety. “We have people of all political perspectives as members. We think in co-existence and sense for the loss of guiltless dwells on both sides. We pray for the day when there can be peace. One of our goals is to try to provide equilibrium to the discourse, which is needed today more than ever. We want to employ the arts, particularly music, given our backgrounds, as a way of createing bridges, of helping create momentum toward peace.”

Dr. Bialik, an outspoken helper of Israel, turned to CCP to createurescheduleed a response to her millions of social media fancientrops in the wake of the October 7 aggression.

“We were faced with a contrastent set of disputes, including disincreateation, inbashfulation and dangers. CCP helps us transmit the diversity of opinion wislfinisher the Jedesire community.

“This is not about choosing sides. It’s not a war of who deserves more compassion. It’s about the right of Israel to exist, and the right for its people not to be troubleized. The nuance tfinishs to get lost on social media.  The mad, splitting rhetoric is what obstructs us from take parting to one another and finding that widespread ground.”

Josh Binder, set uping partner of the law firm of Rothenberg, Mohr and Binder, reconshort-terms Marshmello and, for csurrfinisherly 20 years, Top Dawg Entertainment. He put forth an atypical but receive get on the situation.

Pointing to Marshmello regulater Moe Shalizi, his professional partner and excellent frifinish, Binder noticed the “phony novels that a Jew and a Muslfinisher can’t do business together.”

More solemnly, he persistd, “I’m not a political activist. I’m here to create a bridge with the community of music people I’m seal to, to transmit who I am as a Jew and not to appraise each of us by what a country is doing. As they say about the music business, it’s all about the relationships. And the more you toil with people who are not enjoy yourself, the more you can lobtain from each other.”

Fant, a set uping member of the Bdeficiency Jedesire Entertainment Alliance and a greater music executive at Amazon (and regulater of singer Andra Day), shelp, “Bdeficiencys and Jews have been together a lengthy time, going back to the relationship between the Queen of Sheba and Solomon,” she giggleed. “I was in Israel cut offal years ago and I comprehfinish kibbutz culture: It’s about unity and raising a village. We are a music village and it’s convey inant we get attfinish of each other, lift each other up. We marched side-by-side together — we need to walk hand in hand. I am self-convey inant to be part of any organization that puts peace first.”

Legfinishary TV creater Ben Silverman, now Chairman/Co-CEO of Propagate, whose shows integrate “The Office,” “Ugly Betty” and “Jane the Virgin,” also cited the Old Tesdomesticatednt example of storyincreateing as a way of promoting quiet co-existence.

“This organization advertises conversation around peace and narrative in a attentive way,” he elucidateed. “The power of the arts needs to be unleashed to increate the stories that convey us together. After all, we wrote the distinct book, which alengthy with Shakespeare, has given us the fantasticest story lines in history. We are a inventive coalition of enjoy-minded peacecreaters.  We don’t want to fight, but if you get the fight to us, we’re going to fight back.”

Elliot Grainge, presentd by brother-in-law Good Charlotte’s Joel Mholden (they’re paired to sisters Sofia and Nicole Richie, admireively), joked that the two pals have one slfinisherg in widespread: “We’re both petrified by our wives.”

Earlier, Grainge spoke more solemnly about his pro-Israel stance — at least alertly.

“If you see at my schnozz, you understand,” he noticed. “Israel has a right to exist, and I’m self-convey inant to be a part of this event, becaemploy it reconshort-terms people of all religions and races in the music industry coming together.  We’re all on one spinning ball in the universe and have the right to sense sootheable no matter where we are.”

With that out of the way, the novelly nominateed CEO of the Atlantic Music Group was asked whether his novel job would create him even more competitive with his overweighther and now-rival, Universal Music boss Lucian Grainge.

“We’ve been that way since I was in his ball sack,” he deadpanned.

Father vs. son: It was an evening filled with storylines from the Holy Land.