Amal and George Clooney Honoured With Humanitarian Award

 

THR is reporting that the power couple Amal and George Clooney were honoured at a virtual dinner hosted by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, where the actor received the highest honor, the Humanitarian Award, on behalf of himself and his wife Amal Clooney.

While accepting the award, Clooney said, “We have said time and time again ‘Never again,’ and we mean it. But the truth is we’re not very good at it.”

He continued, citing recent genocides and atrocities in Rwanda, Armenia, Bosnia, Myanamar, Darfur, South Sudan, the Yazidis, the Uyghurs in China. “We fail more often than we succeed, and that’s part of the problem. I fail a lot more than I’d like to. Doesn’t mean we don’t try, doesn’t that we don’t keep pushing that ball up the hill. These are never going to be easy solutions. But if we always remember the word ‘tolerance,’ that’s the key — tolerance for all races, tolerance for all religions. That’s what matters. That’s the most important part.”

THR continues:

The event, which raised $1.9 million to support the work of the SWC, its Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and its under-construction Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem (now $35 million short of its fundraising goal), was co-hosted by SWC chief Rabbi Marvin Hier and SWC board member and longtime gala co-chair Jeffrey Katzenberg.

You can read more about it here.