Melissa Barrera will no longer star in the film “Scream”. The actress pulled out of the project after a series of social media posts in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp.” she wrote in a post on Instagram stories. “All crammed together, no escape, no electricity, no water… People have learned nothing from our history. People are still silently watching all this happening. This is genocide and ethnic cleansing».

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A spokesperson for Spyglass, the company behind the film franchise, issued a statement saying:Spyglass’ position is crystal clear: We have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism or incitement to hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, distortions of the Holocaust or anything that blatantly crosses the lines of hate speech».