Benedict Cumberbatch cuts business ties with Mahathir Mohamad’s son Mokhzani over the leader’s anti-Semitic comments
Local media reported that British actor Benedict Cumberbatch’s company has severed business relations with Mokhzani Mahathir over anti-Semitic remarks made by his father, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Last October, in an interview with the BBC, Mahathir described Jews as “hookheads” and blamed them for troubles within the Middle East.
“If you want to tell the truth, the problem in the Middle East started with the creation of Israel. It’s an old truth. But I can’t say that,” he told the BBC Tough conversation.
The 93-year-old politician, who became prime minister for a second time last May after his coalition’s shock election victory, also expressed skepticism about the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust, saying it was four million, not six million.
Cumberbatch learned of these statements after: Daily mail As Mokhzani told the Malaysian website, a reporter contacted him for a response a few days ago Star on the Internet.
Mahathir’s Malaysia bans all Israeli citizens from attending events he organizes
Mahathir’s Malaysia bans all Israeli citizens from attending events he organizes
Mokhzani, who invested £1 million ($1.3 million) in Cumberbatch’s media company SunnyMarch Holdings in 2014, said Doctor Strange AND Sherlock Holmes The star did not want to be associated with this event in any way.
The actor said Daily mail was “shocked and disappointed” by Mahathir’s remarks, which he found “disgusting and unacceptable”. He told the newspaper he was in the process of severing business ties with Mokhzani.
Mokhzani said he met Cumberbatch when the star visited Malaysia in 2014 for the Laureas Awards. “We kept in touch after that, and he invited me to invest in his film startup,” he said.
Mahathir’s second son didn’t seem particularly frightened in regards to the severing of trade relations.
“Ben has decided that being related to me is similar as being not directly related to my father, in order that’s his prerogative,” he said.
