#hamdanballal — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/27421/ Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra says his home in West Bank raided by Israeli soldiers #20242025MideastWars #AdamAdra #Basel #BaselAdra #entertainment #GeneralNews #HamdanBallal #Israel #IsraelGovernment #IsraelHamasWar #lifestyle #MIDEASTWARS #MilitaryAndDefense #Movies #PalestinianTerritoriesGovernment #PoliticalViolence #RachelSzor #Religion #WestBank #WorldNews #YuvalAbraham
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We are deeply concerned by reports that #HamdanBallal, co-director of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, has been attacked in the #WestBank by the same settlers who targeted him following last year’s Oscar win. Those responsible must be brought to justice.
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Oscar-Winning ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Once Again Attacked By Israeli Settlers
#News #BaselAdra #HamdanBallal #Israel #NoOtherLand #Palestinehttps://deadline.com/2026/02/no-other-land-co-director-hamdan-ballal-attacked-again-1236726499/
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Oscar-Winning ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Once Again Attacked By Israeli Settlers
#News #BaselAdra #HamdanBallal #Israel #NoOtherLand #Palestinehttps://deadline.com/2026/02/no-other-land-co-director-hamdan-ballal-attacked-again-1236726499/
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Oscar-Winning ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Once Again Attacked By Israeli Settlers
#News #BaselAdra #HamdanBallal #Israel #NoOtherLand #Palestinehttps://deadline.com/2026/02/no-other-land-co-director-hamdan-ballal-attacked-again-1236726499/
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Oscar-Winning ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Once Again Attacked By Israeli Settlers
#News #BaselAdra #HamdanBallal #Israel #NoOtherLand #Palestinehttps://deadline.com/2026/02/no-other-land-co-director-hamdan-ballal-attacked-again-1236726499/
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Oscar-winning director Basel Adra says Israel raided West Bank home https://www.byteseu.com/1380038/ #Adra #ap #brother #DirectorBaselAdra #GazaStrip #HamdanBallal #Israel #IsraeliSettler #IsraeliSoldier #MasaferYatta #Military #palestinians #resident #village #WestBankHome
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oggi, 4 settembre, a roma (piazza vittorio): proiezione di “no other land” / in memoria di awdah hathaleen
NO OTHER LAND
Giovedì 4 settembre proiezione speciale all’Arena
Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio
in memoria di Awdah HathaleenGiovedì 4 settembre alle ore 20:30, Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio ospiterà la proiezione di No Other Land, vincitore dell’Oscar 2025 come Miglior Documentario. Ad introdurre la proiezione saranno: Riccardo Noury, portavoce di Amnesty International Italia, l’organizzazione per i diritti umani che ha dato il patrocinio al documentario, e Massimo Righetti, in rappresentanza di ANEC AGIS Lazio.
L’evento vuole ricordare il coraggio e il sacrificio di Awdah Hathaleen, co-autore e protagonista del film, brutalmente ucciso il 28 luglio scorso da un colono israeliano, colpevole solo di difendere pacificamente la propria terra.
La sua uccisione è parte di uno sterminio senza fine, che viola sistematicamente ogni diritto umano previsto anche dal codice Internazionale.
No Other Land è oggi più che mai un’opera necessaria per contrastare lo sterminio del popolo Palestinese e lo fa attraverso lo sguardo diretto di chi, come Hathaleen, non ha mai smesso di credere nel potere del dialogo e del confronto pacifico.
Padre di tre figli, insegnante, giornalista ex attivista politico, Hathaleen era un punto di riferimento per tutta la sua comunità. La sua vita – e la sua tragica morte – incarnano le tematiche centrali del documentario: la resistenza, il conflitto multigenerazionale, l’ingiustizia sistemica e il potere della testimonianza.
L’obiettivo della serata è offrire uno spazio pubblico di memoria, denuncia e consapevolezza, per restituire dignità alla figura di Awdah Hathaleen e non permettere che la sua voce sia messa a tacere. Un’occasione anche per riflettere, insieme, sul significato profondo di No Other Land e sull’urgenza di trasformare lo sdegno in responsabilità.
Un grido di dolore per dire BASTA FERMATEVI!!!!
Maggiori informazioni su: www.cinevillageroma.it
NOTTI DI CINEMA A PIAZZA VITTORIO, è un progetto realizzato da ANEC Lazio con il contributo di Regione Lazio, Arsial e Camera di Commercio di Roma, con il sostegno di: Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Cultura ed ACEA; In collaborazione con Agis Lazio Srl e CNB Comunicazione; con il patrocinio di ENPAM; con il supporto di: Associazione Piazza Vittorio APS; Mobility partner ATAC; Media partner: Radio Core de Roma, Radio Centro Suono, Antenna 1, Mymovies.it, Radio Roma (Radio Roma News e Radio Roma TV).
#AmnestyInternational #AmnestyInternationalItalia #apartheid #AwdahHathaleen #BaselAdra #cinema #Cisgiordania #film #genocidio #HamdanBallal #MassimoRighetti #NoOtherLand #occupazione #Palestina #proiezione #puliziaEtnica #RachelSzor #RiccardoNoury #YuvalAbraham
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oggi, 4 settembre, a roma (piazza vittorio): proiezione di “no other land” / in memoria di awdah hathaleen
NO OTHER LAND
Giovedì 4 settembre proiezione speciale all’Arena
Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio
in memoria di Awdah HathaleenGiovedì 4 settembre alle ore 20:30, Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio ospiterà la proiezione di No Other Land, vincitore dell’Oscar 2025 come Miglior Documentario. Ad introdurre la proiezione saranno: Riccardo Noury, portavoce di Amnesty International Italia, l’organizzazione per i diritti umani che ha dato il patrocinio al documentario, e Massimo Righetti, in rappresentanza di ANEC AGIS Lazio.
L’evento vuole ricordare il coraggio e il sacrificio di Awdah Hathaleen, co-autore e protagonista del film, brutalmente ucciso il 28 luglio scorso da un colono israeliano, colpevole solo di difendere pacificamente la propria terra.
La sua uccisione è parte di uno sterminio senza fine, che viola sistematicamente ogni diritto umano previsto anche dal codice Internazionale.
No Other Land è oggi più che mai un’opera necessaria per contrastare lo sterminio del popolo Palestinese e lo fa attraverso lo sguardo diretto di chi, come Hathaleen, non ha mai smesso di credere nel potere del dialogo e del confronto pacifico.
Padre di tre figli, insegnante, giornalista ex attivista politico, Hathaleen era un punto di riferimento per tutta la sua comunità. La sua vita – e la sua tragica morte – incarnano le tematiche centrali del documentario: la resistenza, il conflitto multigenerazionale, l’ingiustizia sistemica e il potere della testimonianza.
L’obiettivo della serata è offrire uno spazio pubblico di memoria, denuncia e consapevolezza, per restituire dignità alla figura di Awdah Hathaleen e non permettere che la sua voce sia messa a tacere. Un’occasione anche per riflettere, insieme, sul significato profondo di No Other Land e sull’urgenza di trasformare lo sdegno in responsabilità.
Un grido di dolore per dire BASTA FERMATEVI!!!!
Maggiori informazioni su: www.cinevillageroma.it
NOTTI DI CINEMA A PIAZZA VITTORIO, è un progetto realizzato da ANEC Lazio con il contributo di Regione Lazio, Arsial e Camera di Commercio di Roma, con il sostegno di: Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Cultura ed ACEA; In collaborazione con Agis Lazio Srl e CNB Comunicazione; con il patrocinio di ENPAM; con il supporto di: Associazione Piazza Vittorio APS; Mobility partner ATAC; Media partner: Radio Core de Roma, Radio Centro Suono, Antenna 1, Mymovies.it, Radio Roma (Radio Roma News e Radio Roma TV).
#AmnestyInternational #AmnestyInternationalItalia #apartheid #AwdahHathaleen #BaselAdra #cinema #Cisgiordania #film #genocidio #HamdanBallal #MassimoRighetti #NoOtherLand #occupazione #Palestina #proiezione #puliziaEtnica #RachelSzor #RiccardoNoury #YuvalAbraham
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oggi, 4 settembre, a roma (piazza vittorio): proiezione di “no other land” / in memoria di awdah hathaleen
NO OTHER LAND
Giovedì 4 settembre proiezione speciale all’Arena
Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio
in memoria di Awdah HathaleenGiovedì 4 settembre alle ore 20:30, Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio ospiterà la proiezione di No Other Land, vincitore dell’Oscar 2025 come Miglior Documentario. Ad introdurre la proiezione saranno: Riccardo Noury, portavoce di Amnesty International Italia, l’organizzazione per i diritti umani che ha dato il patrocinio al documentario, e Massimo Righetti, in rappresentanza di ANEC AGIS Lazio.
L’evento vuole ricordare il coraggio e il sacrificio di Awdah Hathaleen, co-autore e protagonista del film, brutalmente ucciso il 28 luglio scorso da un colono israeliano, colpevole solo di difendere pacificamente la propria terra.
La sua uccisione è parte di uno sterminio senza fine, che viola sistematicamente ogni diritto umano previsto anche dal codice Internazionale.
No Other Land è oggi più che mai un’opera necessaria per contrastare lo sterminio del popolo Palestinese e lo fa attraverso lo sguardo diretto di chi, come Hathaleen, non ha mai smesso di credere nel potere del dialogo e del confronto pacifico.
Padre di tre figli, insegnante, giornalista ex attivista politico, Hathaleen era un punto di riferimento per tutta la sua comunità. La sua vita – e la sua tragica morte – incarnano le tematiche centrali del documentario: la resistenza, il conflitto multigenerazionale, l’ingiustizia sistemica e il potere della testimonianza.
L’obiettivo della serata è offrire uno spazio pubblico di memoria, denuncia e consapevolezza, per restituire dignità alla figura di Awdah Hathaleen e non permettere che la sua voce sia messa a tacere. Un’occasione anche per riflettere, insieme, sul significato profondo di No Other Land e sull’urgenza di trasformare lo sdegno in responsabilità.
Un grido di dolore per dire BASTA FERMATEVI!!!!
Maggiori informazioni su: www.cinevillageroma.it
NOTTI DI CINEMA A PIAZZA VITTORIO, è un progetto realizzato da ANEC Lazio con il contributo di Regione Lazio, Arsial e Camera di Commercio di Roma, con il sostegno di: Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Cultura ed ACEA; In collaborazione con Agis Lazio Srl e CNB Comunicazione; con il patrocinio di ENPAM; con il supporto di: Associazione Piazza Vittorio APS; Mobility partner ATAC; Media partner: Radio Core de Roma, Radio Centro Suono, Antenna 1, Mymovies.it, Radio Roma (Radio Roma News e Radio Roma TV).
#AmnestyInternational #AmnestyInternationalItalia #apartheid #AwdahHathaleen #BaselAdra #cinema #Cisgiordania #film #genocidio #HamdanBallal #MassimoRighetti #NoOtherLand #occupazione #Palestina #proiezione #puliziaEtnica #RachelSzor #RiccardoNoury #YuvalAbraham
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“no other land”: proiezione a piazza vittorio, roma, 4 settembre
NO OTHER LAND
Giovedì 4 settembre proiezione speciale all’Arena
Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio
in memoria di Awdah HathaleenGiovedì 4 settembre alle ore 20:30, Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio ospiterà la proiezione di No Other Land, vincitore dell’Oscar 2025 come Miglior Documentario. Ad introdurre la proiezione saranno: Riccardo Noury, portavoce di Amnesty International Italia, l’organizzazione per i diritti umani che ha dato il patrocinio al documentario, e Massimo Righetti, in rappresentanza di ANEC AGIS Lazio.
L’evento vuole ricordare il coraggio e il sacrificio di Awdah Hathaleen, co-autore e protagonista del film, brutalmente ucciso il 28 luglio scorso da un colono israeliano, colpevole solo di difendere pacificamente la propria terra.
La sua uccisione è parte di uno sterminio senza fine, che viola sistematicamente ogni diritto umano previsto anche dal codice Internazionale.
No Other Land è oggi più che mai un’opera necessaria per contrastare lo sterminio del popolo Palestinese e lo fa attraverso lo sguardo diretto di chi, come Hathaleen, non ha mai smesso di credere nel potere del dialogo e del confronto pacifico.
Padre di tre figli, insegnante, giornalista ex attivista politico, Hathaleen era un punto di riferimento per tutta la sua comunità. La sua vita – e la sua tragica morte – incarnano le tematiche centrali del documentario: la resistenza, il conflitto multigenerazionale, l’ingiustizia sistemica e il potere della testimonianza.
L’obiettivo della serata è offrire uno spazio pubblico di memoria, denuncia e consapevolezza, per restituire dignità alla figura di Awdah Hathaleen e non permettere che la sua voce sia messa a tacere. Un’occasione anche per riflettere, insieme, sul significato profondo di No Other Land e sull’urgenza di trasformare lo sdegno in responsabilità.
Un grido di dolore per dire BASTA FERMATEVI!!!!
Maggiori informazioni su: www.cinevillageroma.it
NOTTI DI CINEMA A PIAZZA VITTORIO, è un progetto realizzato da ANEC Lazio con il contributo di Regione Lazio, Arsial e Camera di Commercio di Roma, con il sostegno di: Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Cultura ed ACEA; In collaborazione con Agis Lazio Srl e CNB Comunicazione; con il patrocinio di ENPAM; con il supporto di: Associazione Piazza Vittorio APS; Mobility partner ATAC; Media partner: Radio Core de Roma, Radio Centro Suono, Antenna 1, Mymovies.it, Radio Roma (Radio Roma News e Radio Roma TV).
#AmnestyInternational #AmnestyInternationalItalia #apartheid #AwdahHathaleen #BaselAdra #cinema #Cisgiordania #film #genocidio #HamdanBallal #MassimoRighetti #NoOtherLand #occupazione #Palestina #proiezione #puliziaEtnica #RachelSzor #RiccardoNoury #YuvalAbraham
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“no other land”: proiezione a piazza vittorio, roma, 4 settembre
NO OTHER LAND
Giovedì 4 settembre proiezione speciale all’Arena
Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio
in memoria di Awdah HathaleenGiovedì 4 settembre alle ore 20:30, Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio ospiterà la proiezione di No Other Land, vincitore dell’Oscar 2025 come Miglior Documentario. Ad introdurre la proiezione saranno: Riccardo Noury, portavoce di Amnesty International Italia, l’organizzazione per i diritti umani che ha dato il patrocinio al documentario, e Massimo Righetti, in rappresentanza di ANEC AGIS Lazio.
L’evento vuole ricordare il coraggio e il sacrificio di Awdah Hathaleen, co-autore e protagonista del film, brutalmente ucciso il 28 luglio scorso da un colono israeliano, colpevole solo di difendere pacificamente la propria terra.
La sua uccisione è parte di uno sterminio senza fine, che viola sistematicamente ogni diritto umano previsto anche dal codice Internazionale.
No Other Land è oggi più che mai un’opera necessaria per contrastare lo sterminio del popolo Palestinese e lo fa attraverso lo sguardo diretto di chi, come Hathaleen, non ha mai smesso di credere nel potere del dialogo e del confronto pacifico.
Padre di tre figli, insegnante, giornalista ex attivista politico, Hathaleen era un punto di riferimento per tutta la sua comunità. La sua vita – e la sua tragica morte – incarnano le tematiche centrali del documentario: la resistenza, il conflitto multigenerazionale, l’ingiustizia sistemica e il potere della testimonianza.
L’obiettivo della serata è offrire uno spazio pubblico di memoria, denuncia e consapevolezza, per restituire dignità alla figura di Awdah Hathaleen e non permettere che la sua voce sia messa a tacere. Un’occasione anche per riflettere, insieme, sul significato profondo di No Other Land e sull’urgenza di trasformare lo sdegno in responsabilità.
Un grido di dolore per dire BASTA FERMATEVI!!!!
Maggiori informazioni su: www.cinevillageroma.it
NOTTI DI CINEMA A PIAZZA VITTORIO, è un progetto realizzato da ANEC Lazio con il contributo di Regione Lazio, Arsial e Camera di Commercio di Roma, con il sostegno di: Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Cultura ed ACEA; In collaborazione con Agis Lazio Srl e CNB Comunicazione; con il patrocinio di ENPAM; con il supporto di: Associazione Piazza Vittorio APS; Mobility partner ATAC; Media partner: Radio Core de Roma, Radio Centro Suono, Antenna 1, Mymovies.it, Radio Roma (Radio Roma News e Radio Roma TV).
#AmnestyInternational #AmnestyInternationalItalia #apartheid #AwdahHathaleen #BaselAdra #cinema #Cisgiordania #film #genocidio #HamdanBallal #MassimoRighetti #NoOtherLand #occupazione #Palestina #proiezione #puliziaEtnica #RachelSzor #RiccardoNoury #YuvalAbraham
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“no other land”: proiezione a piazza vittorio, roma, 4 settembre
NO OTHER LAND
Giovedì 4 settembre proiezione speciale all’Arena
Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio
in memoria di Awdah HathaleenGiovedì 4 settembre alle ore 20:30, Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio ospiterà la proiezione di No Other Land, vincitore dell’Oscar 2025 come Miglior Documentario. Ad introdurre la proiezione saranno: Riccardo Noury, portavoce di Amnesty International Italia, l’organizzazione per i diritti umani che ha dato il patrocinio al documentario, e Massimo Righetti, in rappresentanza di ANEC AGIS Lazio.
L’evento vuole ricordare il coraggio e il sacrificio di Awdah Hathaleen, co-autore e protagonista del film, brutalmente ucciso il 28 luglio scorso da un colono israeliano, colpevole solo di difendere pacificamente la propria terra.
La sua uccisione è parte di uno sterminio senza fine, che viola sistematicamente ogni diritto umano previsto anche dal codice Internazionale.
No Other Land è oggi più che mai un’opera necessaria per contrastare lo sterminio del popolo Palestinese e lo fa attraverso lo sguardo diretto di chi, come Hathaleen, non ha mai smesso di credere nel potere del dialogo e del confronto pacifico.
Padre di tre figli, insegnante, giornalista ex attivista politico, Hathaleen era un punto di riferimento per tutta la sua comunità. La sua vita – e la sua tragica morte – incarnano le tematiche centrali del documentario: la resistenza, il conflitto multigenerazionale, l’ingiustizia sistemica e il potere della testimonianza.
L’obiettivo della serata è offrire uno spazio pubblico di memoria, denuncia e consapevolezza, per restituire dignità alla figura di Awdah Hathaleen e non permettere che la sua voce sia messa a tacere. Un’occasione anche per riflettere, insieme, sul significato profondo di No Other Land e sull’urgenza di trasformare lo sdegno in responsabilità.
Un grido di dolore per dire BASTA FERMATEVI!!!!
Maggiori informazioni su: www.cinevillageroma.it
NOTTI DI CINEMA A PIAZZA VITTORIO, è un progetto realizzato da ANEC Lazio con il contributo di Regione Lazio, Arsial e Camera di Commercio di Roma, con il sostegno di: Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Cultura ed ACEA; In collaborazione con Agis Lazio Srl e CNB Comunicazione; con il patrocinio di ENPAM; con il supporto di: Associazione Piazza Vittorio APS; Mobility partner ATAC; Media partner: Radio Core de Roma, Radio Centro Suono, Antenna 1, Mymovies.it, Radio Roma (Radio Roma News e Radio Roma TV).
#AmnestyInternational #AmnestyInternationalItalia #apartheid #AwdahHathaleen #BaselAdra #cinema #Cisgiordania #film #genocidio #HamdanBallal #MassimoRighetti #NoOtherLand #occupazione #Palestina #proiezione #puliziaEtnica #RachelSzor #RiccardoNoury #YuvalAbraham
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‘No Other Land’ Filmmaker Recounts Israeli Settlers Mocking Him For Oscar Win Amid Attack, Calls For Continued International Attention On Palestine
#News #Politics #AMPAS #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #Oscars #Palestinehttps://deadline.com/2025/04/no-other-land-hamdan-ballal-israeli-attack-oscar-1236377889/
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‘No Other Land’ Filmmaker Recounts Israeli Settlers Mocking Him For Oscar Win Amid Attack, Calls For Continued International Attention On Palestine
#News #Politics #AMPAS #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #Oscars #Palestinehttps://deadline.com/2025/04/no-other-land-hamdan-ballal-israeli-attack-oscar-1236377889/
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‘No Other Land’ Filmmaker Recounts Israeli Settlers Mocking Him For Oscar Win Amid Attack, Calls For Continued International Attention On Palestine
#News #Politics #AMPAS #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #Oscars #Palestinehttps://deadline.com/2025/04/no-other-land-hamdan-ballal-israeli-attack-oscar-1236377889/
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‘No Other Land’ Filmmaker Recounts Israeli Settlers Mocking Him For Oscar Win Amid Attack, Calls For Continued International Attention On Palestine
#News #Politics #AMPAS #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #Oscars #Palestinehttps://deadline.com/2025/04/no-other-land-hamdan-ballal-israeli-attack-oscar-1236377889/
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#Germany seeks to #deport #protesters
Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025
"The German state has issued deportation orders for three #EUCitizens and one #American who have attended #ProPalestinian protests.
"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including #graffiti', as well as resisting arrest and calling a #police officer a '#fascist'.
"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of #Staatsräson, (“#StateReason”). This term originates from a speech #AngelaMerkel gave to the #IsraeliKnesset in 2008, asserting that #Israeli security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.
"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.
"In any case, the #deportation of #activists for #protesting should be opposed.
"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of #MahmoudKhalil in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of #ImmigrationLaw as a tool to silence #PoliticalDissent'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s #FirstAmendment.
"Back in February, #Berlin police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '#ArabicChanting', the playing of #ArabicMusic, or giving a speech in #Arabic. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of #antisemitic social media posts'.
Clapping
"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary #NoOtherLand won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director #BaselAdra. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at #YuvalAbraham for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'
"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director #HamdanBallal was attacked by #IsraeliSettlers in the #WestBank, and removed from an ambulance by #IDF soldiers.
"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the #repressive policies of the Israeli right."
Source:
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters#CriminalizingDissent #ProPalestineActivists #ProPalestine
#CriminalizingProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GermanyPol #GermanAntiProtestLaws
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #RightWing #StudentProtesters #Zionism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Enablers -
#Germany seeks to #deport #protesters
Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025
"The German state has issued deportation orders for three #EUCitizens and one #American who have attended #ProPalestinian protests.
"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including #graffiti', as well as resisting arrest and calling a #police officer a '#fascist'.
"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of #Staatsräson, (“#StateReason”). This term originates from a speech #AngelaMerkel gave to the #IsraeliKnesset in 2008, asserting that #Israeli security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.
"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.
"In any case, the #deportation of #activists for #protesting should be opposed.
"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of #MahmoudKhalil in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of #ImmigrationLaw as a tool to silence #PoliticalDissent'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s #FirstAmendment.
"Back in February, #Berlin police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '#ArabicChanting', the playing of #ArabicMusic, or giving a speech in #Arabic. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of #antisemitic social media posts'.
Clapping
"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary #NoOtherLand won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director #BaselAdra. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at #YuvalAbraham for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'
"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director #HamdanBallal was attacked by #IsraeliSettlers in the #WestBank, and removed from an ambulance by #IDF soldiers.
"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the #repressive policies of the Israeli right."
Source:
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters#CriminalizingDissent #ProPalestineActivists #ProPalestine
#CriminalizingProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GermanyPol #GermanAntiProtestLaws
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #RightWing #StudentProtesters #Zionism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Enablers -
#Germany seeks to #deport #protesters
Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025
"The German state has issued deportation orders for three #EUCitizens and one #American who have attended #ProPalestinian protests.
"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including #graffiti', as well as resisting arrest and calling a #police officer a '#fascist'.
"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of #Staatsräson, (“#StateReason”). This term originates from a speech #AngelaMerkel gave to the #IsraeliKnesset in 2008, asserting that #Israeli security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.
"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.
"In any case, the #deportation of #activists for #protesting should be opposed.
"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of #MahmoudKhalil in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of #ImmigrationLaw as a tool to silence #PoliticalDissent'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s #FirstAmendment.
"Back in February, #Berlin police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '#ArabicChanting', the playing of #ArabicMusic, or giving a speech in #Arabic. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of #antisemitic social media posts'.
Clapping
"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary #NoOtherLand won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director #BaselAdra. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at #YuvalAbraham for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'
"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director #HamdanBallal was attacked by #IsraeliSettlers in the #WestBank, and removed from an ambulance by #IDF soldiers.
"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the #repressive policies of the Israeli right."
Source:
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters#CriminalizingDissent #ProPalestineActivists #ProPalestine
#CriminalizingProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GermanyPol #GermanAntiProtestLaws
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #RightWing #StudentProtesters #Zionism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Enablers -
#Germany seeks to #deport #protesters
Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025
"The German state has issued deportation orders for three #EUCitizens and one #American who have attended #ProPalestinian protests.
"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including #graffiti', as well as resisting arrest and calling a #police officer a '#fascist'.
"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of #Staatsräson, (“#StateReason”). This term originates from a speech #AngelaMerkel gave to the #IsraeliKnesset in 2008, asserting that #Israeli security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.
"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.
"In any case, the #deportation of #activists for #protesting should be opposed.
"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of #MahmoudKhalil in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of #ImmigrationLaw as a tool to silence #PoliticalDissent'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s #FirstAmendment.
"Back in February, #Berlin police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '#ArabicChanting', the playing of #ArabicMusic, or giving a speech in #Arabic. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of #antisemitic social media posts'.
Clapping
"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary #NoOtherLand won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director #BaselAdra. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at #YuvalAbraham for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'
"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director #HamdanBallal was attacked by #IsraeliSettlers in the #WestBank, and removed from an ambulance by #IDF soldiers.
"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the #repressive policies of the Israeli right."
Source:
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters#CriminalizingDissent #ProPalestineActivists #ProPalestine
#CriminalizingProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GermanyPol #GermanAntiProtestLaws
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #RightWing #StudentProtesters #Zionism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Enablers -
#Germany seeks to #deport #protesters
Submitted by webadmin on 9 April, 2025
"The German state has issued deportation orders for three #EUCitizens and one #American who have attended #ProPalestinian protests.
"Berlin immigration authorities issued the orders on 31 March, demanding that the four individuals leave Germany within one month or else face deportation. Their orders cite a protest in October 2024 in which masked individuals caused 'significant property damage, including #graffiti', as well as resisting arrest and calling a #police officer a '#fascist'.
"Unusually, three of the four orders also invoke the German principle of #Staatsräson, (“#StateReason”). This term originates from a speech #AngelaMerkel gave to the #IsraeliKnesset in 2008, asserting that #Israeli security was fundamental to the purpose of the German state.
"Staatsräson is not an officially defined term or codified anywhere in the German constitution or by German courts. At least two of the protestors are appealing the decision, with their lawyer telling Al-Monitor that it is a 'political concept, not a legal concept, and therefore unlawful'.
"In any case, the #deportation of #activists for #protesting should be opposed.
"The activists’ lawyer has drawn parallels to the case of #MahmoudKhalil in the US. 'I see similarities… It is weaponization of #ImmigrationLaw as a tool to silence #PoliticalDissent'. Khalil’s case may also lead to a debate on interpretations of the US constitution’s #FirstAmendment.
"Back in February, #Berlin police broke up a protest, citing a ban on '#ArabicChanting', the playing of #ArabicMusic, or giving a speech in #Arabic. In October 2024, police raided the homes of five men, four of whom were being investigated over 'authorship of #antisemitic social media posts'.
Clapping
"And after the joint Israeli-Palestinian documentary #NoOtherLand won an Academy Award, German culture minister Claudia Roth insisted that she was only clapping for Israeli director Yuval Abraham, not Palestinian director #BaselAdra. Several politicians, including the mayor of Berlin, called for her resignation. A torrent of public criticism was aimed at #YuvalAbraham for his acceptance speech, to which he responded: 'To stand on German soil as the son of Holocaust survivors and call for a ceasefire — and to then be labelled as antisemitic is not only outrageous, it is also literally putting Jewish lives in danger.'
"Israeli politicians cited German politicians when attacking the filmmakers themselves, and only weeks later, co-director #HamdanBallal was attacked by #IsraeliSettlers in the #WestBank, and removed from an ambulance by #IDF soldiers.
"German Staatsräson is less about assuring Israel’s right to exist, and more about giving a free hand to the #repressive policies of the Israeli right."
Source:
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-04-09/germany-seeks-deport-protesters#CriminalizingDissent #ProPalestineActivists #ProPalestine
#CriminalizingProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GermanyPol #GermanAntiProtestLaws
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #RightWing #StudentProtesters #Zionism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Enablers -
Cisjordanie : escalade des attaques de colons israéliens contre des villages palestiniens, notamment à Duma.
En 2015, un extrémiste juif y avait incendié la maison de la famille Dawabsha.
Ali Dawabsha, 18 mois, avait été brûlé vif et ses parents avaient ultérieurement succombé à leurs blessures.
#Cisjordanie #Israel #Colons #Dawabsha #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand
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Cisjordanie : escalade des attaques de colons israéliens contre des villages palestiniens, notamment à Duma.
En 2015, un extrémiste juif y avait incendié la maison de la famille Dawabsha.
Ali Dawabsha, 18 mois, avait été brûlé vif et ses parents avaient ultérieurement succombé à leurs blessures.
#Cisjordanie #Israel #Colons #Dawabsha #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand
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Cisjordanie : escalade des attaques de colons israéliens contre des villages palestiniens, notamment à Duma.
En 2015, un extrémiste juif y avait incendié la maison de la famille Dawabsha.
Ali Dawabsha, 18 mois, avait été brûlé vif et ses parents avaient ultérieurement succombé à leurs blessures.
#Cisjordanie #Israel #Colons #Dawabsha #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand
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Cisjordanie : escalade des attaques de colons israéliens contre des villages palestiniens, notamment à Duma.
En 2015, un extrémiste juif y avait incendié la maison de la famille Dawabsha.
Ali Dawabsha, 18 mois, avait été brûlé vif et ses parents avaient ultérieurement succombé à leurs blessures.
#Cisjordanie #Israel #Colons #Dawabsha #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand
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No Other Land: boycot en meer geweld
De mishandeling en ontvoering van Hamdan Ballal, co-regisseur van de film No Other Land, zet de Oscar-winnaar weer in de schijnwerpers.
Het incident laat niet alleen het gewelddadige onrecht op de Westelijke Jordaanoever opnieuw zien, maar ook de ongelijkheid tussen de Palestijnse en Israëlische makers van de film. De discussie daarover kwam al op gang nadat de film in 2024 in première ging, maar is intenser nadat hij een Oscar won. De BDS-beweging heeft de film op de boycot-lijst gezet.
Mishandeling en ontvoering
Vorige week maandag kwam het nieuws naar buiten dat Hamdan Ballal in elkaar was geslagen door Israëlische kolonisten, en daarna gewond uit een ambulance werd ontvoerd door het Israëlische leger. De eerste die het bekend maakte, via zijn X-account, was Yuval Abraham, de Israëlische co-regisseur van No Other Land. Een dag later werd hij weer vrijgelaten.
In een interview met The Guardian na zijn vrijlating een dag later, zei Ballal dat de soldaten vanaf het begin bij het incident betrokken waren, en dat ze hem met de dood bedreigden. Hij had zich, na de Iftar-maaltijd, naar zijn dorp gehaast omdat hij hoorde dat gewapende kolonisten er binnen waren gegaan. Dat gebeurde in de regio Masafer Yatta, waar No Other Land zich ook afspeelt.
Nadat Ballal als fotograaf foto’s had gemaakt, escaleerde de situatie. Hij rende naar zijn huis om zijn vrouw te waarschuwen de kinderen binnen te houden, en werd vervolgens aangevallen. ‘Ze gooiden me op de grond en een kolonist begon me op het hoofd te slaan. De soldaat begon ook te slaan, met de achterkant van zijn geweer op mijn hoofd. Daarna schoot hij in de lucht. Ik versta geen Hebreeuws, maar begreep wel dat hij zei dat hij me met zijn volgende schot zou doden. Ik dacht dat ik het niet zou overleven.’
Hij en twee andere Palestijnen werden gewond, geboeid en geblinddoekt afgevoerd. Ook tijdens zijn detentie werd Ballal mishandeld. Ballal tegen The Guardian: ‘Het was wraak vanwege onze film. Ik hoorde de stemmen van de soldaten, ze lachten me uit, ik hoorde het woord “Oscar”.’
Ontspoord geweld
Het is precies het volledig ontspoorde geweld van kolonisten en soldaten tegen Palestijnen dat No Other Land zo onverbloemd laat zien. De film heeft vier regisseurs: behalve Hamdan Ballal ook de Palestijnse filmmaker Basel Adra, en de Israëlische Rachel Szor en Yuval Abraham. De film gaat over het kolonisten- en legergeweld tegen de Palestijnen van Masafer Yatta op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever. De oorspronkelijke bewoners worden van hun land beroofd, niet alleen door geweld en de vernietiging van huizen, maar ook omdat steeds meer land zomaar militair terrein wordt verklaard, waar burgers niet mogen komen.
Basel Adra en zijn gemeenschap spelen de hoofdrol in No Other Land. De film draait ook om Adra’s samenwerking en ontwikkelende vriendschap met Yuval Abraham. Abraham is een Israëlische journalist die nadrukkelijk aan de kant van de Palestijnen staat. Hij wil het verhaal van de gemeenschappen van Masafer Yatta naar de mensen in zijn gemeenschap brengen.
De film gaat de ongelijkheid tussen de twee mannen niet uit de weg. Er zijn scenes waarin de Palestijnen aan Abraham laten weten dat het toch echt zíjn mensen zijn die hen van hun land en hun rechten berooft, dat zíjn land Palestina bezet. Dat híj weer naar zijn veilige huis kan, terwijl zíj in hun dorpen vechten voor hun land en leven. Ook Yuval en Adra bespreken hun verschillende posities, bijvoorbeeld als ze in de auto zitten en Abraham gefrustreerd is dat zijn stukken in de krant maar weinig ruimte krijgen en niet genoeg teweeg brengen. Adra’s problemen zijn een stuk groter dan dat, hij verwijt Abraham vriendschappelijk en tussen de regels door naïviteit.
De film draait inmiddels 11 weken in Nederlandse bioscopen, sinds 9 januari. Vorig jaar al won No Other Land de Berlinale Documentaireprijs én, op hetzelfde filmfestival, de Panorama Publieksprijs voor Beste Documentaire. Tijdens het IDFA afgelopen najaar won de film de publieksprijs. En als climax was daar de Academy Award voor Beste Documentaire Film, op 2 maart.
De Academy Award gaf de film vleugels. Zelfs in de VS, waar nog altijd geen grote distributeur bereid is de film naar de bioscopen te brengen, doet hij het relatief goed: volgens de New York Times staat No Other Land deze maand al drie weken in de nationale Top 25. Hij heeft inmiddels de grens van twee miljoen dollar opbrengst overschreden. En dat terwijl hij maar in 130 filmtheaters te zien is – mainstream films zijn doorgaans in duizenden bioscopen te zien.
Maar de Academy Award stuwde ook de kritiek op de film weer op. Die gaat niet alleen over ongelijkheid, maar ook over de productie achter de film. Er werd samengewerkt met Close-Up, een organisatie die volgens de BDS-beweging de Israelische bezetting actief normaliseert en daarom door veel filmmakers al wordt geboycot. Normalisatie wordt gezien als het meedoen met projecten waarin Palestijnen en Israëli’s samenwerken, waarbij de Israëlische kant niet publiekelijk de rechten van de Palestijnen erkent, en er geen gezamenlijk verzet is tegen de Israëlische bezetting, vestigingskolonialisme en apartheid.
De BDS-beweging schreef in een verklaring vlak na de Oscaruitreiking dat ze No Other Land vanaf het begin hebben geboycot. Niet publiekelijk, want ze kunnen niet elke project dat Israël normaliseert aandacht geven – het zijn er simpelweg te veel – maar wel als bijvoorbeeld filmfestivals of filmmakers ernaar informeerden. Volgens de beweging hebben verschillende Israëlische medewerkers aan de film niet alleen ontkend dat Israël genocide pleegt, maar zelfs ‘extreem schadelijke en immorele statements’ gemaakt. Daarbij werd een ‘valse gelijkwaardigheid geschapen tussen de kolonisator en de gekoloniseerde’, zegt de BDS-beweging, ‘die wordt gebruikt om Israëls genocide te rationaliseren.’
Scherpe randjes
Maar er is meer. Hoe kon het dat juist déze Palestijnse film zo’n belangrijke prijs kon winnen? Het antwoord luidde: omdat het geen Palestijnse film is, maar een Israëlisch-Palestijnse film. Het is juist die combinatie die zo’n film behapbaar maakt voor het grotere publiek. En die de scherpe randjes van de speeches af haalden, werd her en der geoordeeld. Het platform Mondoweiss concludeerde dat ‘liberaal Zionisme’ de show had gestolen tijdens de Oscar-uitreikingen. Abraham’s speech, schreef Mondoweiss, ‘stelde de behoeftes van de Israëliërs centraal ten koste van Palestijnse vrijheid’, en was ‘ondermijnend voor het verzet van de Palestijnen in de film’.
De Palestijnse activist en schrijver Mohammed El-Kurd zet die dynamiek in een breder perspectief in zijn onlangs verschenen boek Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Hij vraagt zich af wie er voor de Palestijnen spreekt, wie dat recht nog heeft na decennia van demonisering, delegitimering en racisme. ‘Wie kan er ontsnappen aan het terrorisme-genre?’, vraagt hij zich af.
Hij gaat in op het genre films waarin Palestijnen en Israëliërs samenwerken. ‘De Palestijnse filmmaker’, schrijft El-Kurd, ‘wordt naar het filmfestival begeleid en mag het podium op als de charismatische side-kick van zijn gezaghebbende mede-filmmaker. (…) Het belangrijkste aan de film is niet de inhoud maar het feit] dat die door co-regisseurs is gemaakt, een modus die de wellustige aandrang van het publiek bevredigt.’
El-Kurd schrijft niet specifiek over No Other Land, maar zijn typering, waarin bijvoorbeeld ook de promotie van de film wordt meegenomen en waarin het vooral om de samenwerking tussen ‘de slachter’ en ‘de geslachte’ gaat, is raak. Zo wordt immers ook No Other Land in de markt gezet, met een poster waarin de Basel Adra en Yuval Abraham als gelijken tegenover elkaar staan.
Groot podium
Ja, Abraham stelt in speech bij de Oscaruitreiking de ongelijkheid tussen hem en Adra aan de kaak. Hij zegt: ‘We leven onder een regime waarin ik vrij ben onder civiel recht en Basels leven onder militair recht kapot gemaakt en hij geen controle over zijn leven heeft.’ Maar dan, als hij het buitenlandbeleid van de VS bekritiseert: ‘Zien jullie niet dat we onderling verbonden zijn? Dat mijn mensen alleen echt veilig kunnen zijn als Basels mensen vrij en veilig zijn?’
Maar: het Palestijnse land is en wordt gestolen, en dáár gaat zo’n statement aan voorbij. Ook de genocide wordt niet genoemd, terwijl dat op zo’n groot podium verschil zou maken.
Nadat No Other Land de Academy Award won, heeft de BDS-beweging de boycot van de film publiek gemaakt. De decennialange ontmenselijking van Palestijnen, Arabieren, moslims, zwarte mensen en inheemse volkeren door Hollywood wordt genoemd: die is op zichzelf al immoreel, maar maakt nu ook Israëls genocide mogelijk. Het groeiende profiel van de film, zéker sinds die een Oscar won, grijpt de beweging nu aan om de aandacht te vestigen op normalisatie en het gevaar ervan. ‘Het doel’, schrijft de beweging, ‘mag de onethische middelen niet heiligen.’
Co-regisseur Hamdan Ballal is inmiddels weer thuis, en herstellende.
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#erlinaleDocumentaireprijs #HamdanBallal #MohammedElKurd #NoOtherLand #TheRightsForum
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No Other Land: boycot en meer geweld
De mishandeling en ontvoering van Hamdan Ballal, co-regisseur van de film No Other Land, zet de Oscar-winnaar weer in de schijnwerpers.
Het incident laat niet alleen het gewelddadige onrecht op de Westelijke Jordaanoever opnieuw zien, maar ook de ongelijkheid tussen de Palestijnse en Israëlische makers van de film. De discussie daarover kwam al op gang nadat de film in 2024 in première ging, maar is intenser nadat hij een Oscar won. De BDS-beweging heeft de film op de boycot-lijst gezet.
Mishandeling en ontvoering
Vorige week maandag kwam het nieuws naar buiten dat Hamdan Ballal in elkaar was geslagen door Israëlische kolonisten, en daarna gewond uit een ambulance werd ontvoerd door het Israëlische leger. De eerste die het bekend maakte, via zijn X-account, was Yuval Abraham, de Israëlische co-regisseur van No Other Land. Een dag later werd hij weer vrijgelaten.
In een interview met The Guardian na zijn vrijlating een dag later, zei Ballal dat de soldaten vanaf het begin bij het incident betrokken waren, en dat ze hem met de dood bedreigden. Hij had zich, na de Iftar-maaltijd, naar zijn dorp gehaast omdat hij hoorde dat gewapende kolonisten er binnen waren gegaan. Dat gebeurde in de regio Masafer Yatta, waar No Other Land zich ook afspeelt.
Nadat Ballal als fotograaf foto’s had gemaakt, escaleerde de situatie. Hij rende naar zijn huis om zijn vrouw te waarschuwen de kinderen binnen te houden, en werd vervolgens aangevallen. ‘Ze gooiden me op de grond en een kolonist begon me op het hoofd te slaan. De soldaat begon ook te slaan, met de achterkant van zijn geweer op mijn hoofd. Daarna schoot hij in de lucht. Ik versta geen Hebreeuws, maar begreep wel dat hij zei dat hij me met zijn volgende schot zou doden. Ik dacht dat ik het niet zou overleven.’
Hij en twee andere Palestijnen werden gewond, geboeid en geblinddoekt afgevoerd. Ook tijdens zijn detentie werd Ballal mishandeld. Ballal tegen The Guardian: ‘Het was wraak vanwege onze film. Ik hoorde de stemmen van de soldaten, ze lachten me uit, ik hoorde het woord “Oscar”.’
Ontspoord geweld
Het is precies het volledig ontspoorde geweld van kolonisten en soldaten tegen Palestijnen dat No Other Land zo onverbloemd laat zien. De film heeft vier regisseurs: behalve Hamdan Ballal ook de Palestijnse filmmaker Basel Adra, en de Israëlische Rachel Szor en Yuval Abraham. De film gaat over het kolonisten- en legergeweld tegen de Palestijnen van Masafer Yatta op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever. De oorspronkelijke bewoners worden van hun land beroofd, niet alleen door geweld en de vernietiging van huizen, maar ook omdat steeds meer land zomaar militair terrein wordt verklaard, waar burgers niet mogen komen.
Basel Adra en zijn gemeenschap spelen de hoofdrol in No Other Land. De film draait ook om Adra’s samenwerking en ontwikkelende vriendschap met Yuval Abraham. Abraham is een Israëlische journalist die nadrukkelijk aan de kant van de Palestijnen staat. Hij wil het verhaal van de gemeenschappen van Masafer Yatta naar de mensen in zijn gemeenschap brengen.
De film gaat de ongelijkheid tussen de twee mannen niet uit de weg. Er zijn scenes waarin de Palestijnen aan Abraham laten weten dat het toch echt zíjn mensen zijn die hen van hun land en hun rechten berooft, dat zíjn land Palestina bezet. Dat híj weer naar zijn veilige huis kan, terwijl zíj in hun dorpen vechten voor hun land en leven. Ook Yuval en Adra bespreken hun verschillende posities, bijvoorbeeld als ze in de auto zitten en Abraham gefrustreerd is dat zijn stukken in de krant maar weinig ruimte krijgen en niet genoeg teweeg brengen. Adra’s problemen zijn een stuk groter dan dat, hij verwijt Abraham vriendschappelijk en tussen de regels door naïviteit.
De film draait inmiddels 11 weken in Nederlandse bioscopen, sinds 9 januari. Vorig jaar al won No Other Land de Berlinale Documentaireprijs én, op hetzelfde filmfestival, de Panorama Publieksprijs voor Beste Documentaire. Tijdens het IDFA afgelopen najaar won de film de publieksprijs. En als climax was daar de Academy Award voor Beste Documentaire Film, op 2 maart.
De Academy Award gaf de film vleugels. Zelfs in de VS, waar nog altijd geen grote distributeur bereid is de film naar de bioscopen te brengen, doet hij het relatief goed: volgens de New York Times staat No Other Land deze maand al drie weken in de nationale Top 25. Hij heeft inmiddels de grens van twee miljoen dollar opbrengst overschreden. En dat terwijl hij maar in 130 filmtheaters te zien is – mainstream films zijn doorgaans in duizenden bioscopen te zien.
Maar de Academy Award stuwde ook de kritiek op de film weer op. Die gaat niet alleen over ongelijkheid, maar ook over de productie achter de film. Er werd samengewerkt met Close-Up, een organisatie die volgens de BDS-beweging de Israelische bezetting actief normaliseert en daarom door veel filmmakers al wordt geboycot. Normalisatie wordt gezien als het meedoen met projecten waarin Palestijnen en Israëli’s samenwerken, waarbij de Israëlische kant niet publiekelijk de rechten van de Palestijnen erkent, en er geen gezamenlijk verzet is tegen de Israëlische bezetting, vestigingskolonialisme en apartheid.
De BDS-beweging schreef in een verklaring vlak na de Oscaruitreiking dat ze No Other Land vanaf het begin hebben geboycot. Niet publiekelijk, want ze kunnen niet elke project dat Israël normaliseert aandacht geven – het zijn er simpelweg te veel – maar wel als bijvoorbeeld filmfestivals of filmmakers ernaar informeerden. Volgens de beweging hebben verschillende Israëlische medewerkers aan de film niet alleen ontkend dat Israël genocide pleegt, maar zelfs ‘extreem schadelijke en immorele statements’ gemaakt. Daarbij werd een ‘valse gelijkwaardigheid geschapen tussen de kolonisator en de gekoloniseerde’, zegt de BDS-beweging, ‘die wordt gebruikt om Israëls genocide te rationaliseren.’
Scherpe randjes
Maar er is meer. Hoe kon het dat juist déze Palestijnse film zo’n belangrijke prijs kon winnen? Het antwoord luidde: omdat het geen Palestijnse film is, maar een Israëlisch-Palestijnse film. Het is juist die combinatie die zo’n film behapbaar maakt voor het grotere publiek. En die de scherpe randjes van de speeches af haalden, werd her en der geoordeeld. Het platform Mondoweiss concludeerde dat ‘liberaal Zionisme’ de show had gestolen tijdens de Oscar-uitreikingen. Abraham’s speech, schreef Mondoweiss, ‘stelde de behoeftes van de Israëliërs centraal ten koste van Palestijnse vrijheid’, en was ‘ondermijnend voor het verzet van de Palestijnen in de film’.
De Palestijnse activist en schrijver Mohammed El-Kurd zet die dynamiek in een breder perspectief in zijn onlangs verschenen boek Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Hij vraagt zich af wie er voor de Palestijnen spreekt, wie dat recht nog heeft na decennia van demonisering, delegitimering en racisme. ‘Wie kan er ontsnappen aan het terrorisme-genre?’, vraagt hij zich af.
Hij gaat in op het genre films waarin Palestijnen en Israëliërs samenwerken. ‘De Palestijnse filmmaker’, schrijft El-Kurd, ‘wordt naar het filmfestival begeleid en mag het podium op als de charismatische side-kick van zijn gezaghebbende mede-filmmaker. (…) Het belangrijkste aan de film is niet de inhoud maar het feit] dat die door co-regisseurs is gemaakt, een modus die de wellustige aandrang van het publiek bevredigt.’
El-Kurd schrijft niet specifiek over No Other Land, maar zijn typering, waarin bijvoorbeeld ook de promotie van de film wordt meegenomen en waarin het vooral om de samenwerking tussen ‘de slachter’ en ‘de geslachte’ gaat, is raak. Zo wordt immers ook No Other Land in de markt gezet, met een poster waarin de Basel Adra en Yuval Abraham als gelijken tegenover elkaar staan.
Groot podium
Ja, Abraham stelt in speech bij de Oscaruitreiking de ongelijkheid tussen hem en Adra aan de kaak. Hij zegt: ‘We leven onder een regime waarin ik vrij ben onder civiel recht en Basels leven onder militair recht kapot gemaakt en hij geen controle over zijn leven heeft.’ Maar dan, als hij het buitenlandbeleid van de VS bekritiseert: ‘Zien jullie niet dat we onderling verbonden zijn? Dat mijn mensen alleen echt veilig kunnen zijn als Basels mensen vrij en veilig zijn?’
Maar: het Palestijnse land is en wordt gestolen, en dáár gaat zo’n statement aan voorbij. Ook de genocide wordt niet genoemd, terwijl dat op zo’n groot podium verschil zou maken.
Nadat No Other Land de Academy Award won, heeft de BDS-beweging de boycot van de film publiek gemaakt. De decennialange ontmenselijking van Palestijnen, Arabieren, moslims, zwarte mensen en inheemse volkeren door Hollywood wordt genoemd: die is op zichzelf al immoreel, maar maakt nu ook Israëls genocide mogelijk. Het groeiende profiel van de film, zéker sinds die een Oscar won, grijpt de beweging nu aan om de aandacht te vestigen op normalisatie en het gevaar ervan. ‘Het doel’, schrijft de beweging, ‘mag de onethische middelen niet heiligen.’
Co-regisseur Hamdan Ballal is inmiddels weer thuis, en herstellende.
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‘No Other Land’ Directors Thank Academy Members For Coming To Defense Of Hamdan Ballal After Attack
#Documentary #News #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #AMPAS #BaselAdra #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #Oscars #RachelSzor #YuvalAbrahamhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/no-other-land-thank-you-letter-to-academy-members-1236354936/
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‘No Other Land’ Directors Thank Academy Members For Coming To Defense Of Hamdan Ballal After Attack
#Documentary #News #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #AMPAS #BaselAdra #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #Oscars #RachelSzor #YuvalAbrahamhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/no-other-land-thank-you-letter-to-academy-members-1236354936/
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‘No Other Land’ Directors Thank Academy Members For Coming To Defense Of Hamdan Ballal After Attack
#Documentary #News #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #AMPAS #BaselAdra #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #Oscars #RachelSzor #YuvalAbrahamhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/no-other-land-thank-you-letter-to-academy-members-1236354936/
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‘No Other Land’ Directors Thank Academy Members For Coming To Defense Of Hamdan Ballal After Attack
#Documentary #News #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #AMPAS #BaselAdra #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #Oscars #RachelSzor #YuvalAbrahamhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/no-other-land-thank-you-letter-to-academy-members-1236354936/
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"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologised after criticism for its failure to support the detained Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal."
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[11:11] Academy apologises to Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal
Oscars organiser The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologised following criticism for its failure to support the detained Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0329/1504731-academy-apologises-to-oscar-winner-hamdan-ballal/
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[11:11] Academy apologises to Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal
Oscars organiser The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologised following criticism for its failure to support the detained Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0329/1504731-academy-apologises-to-oscar-winner-hamdan-ballal/
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[11:11] Academy apologises to Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal
Oscars organiser The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologised following criticism for its failure to support the detained Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0329/1504731-academy-apologises-to-oscar-winner-hamdan-ballal/
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[11:11] Academy apologises to Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal
Oscars organiser The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologised following criticism for its failure to support the detained Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0329/1504731-academy-apologises-to-oscar-winner-hamdan-ballal/
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[11:11] Academy apologises to Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal
Oscars organiser The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologised following criticism for its failure to support the detained Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0329/1504731-academy-apologises-to-oscar-winner-hamdan-ballal/
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Backlash to Academy Awards response over No Man’s Land co-director’s ‘lynching’ grows; board meets.
Over 600 members of the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Science have condemned the body’s response to the attack by West Bank settlers on the Hamdan Ballal, co-director of this year’s Best Documentary Oscar winner, No Man’s Land. Ballal reported that the settlers in the West Bank referenced the Oscar during the attack, which his Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham described as a ‘lynching’. The letter, signed by stars including Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed, John Cusack, Joaquin Phoenix, Ava DuVernay, Alfonso Cuarón, Penélope Cruz, Emma Thompson, Tony Kushner and Jonathan Glazer comes after the Academy belatedly condemned the attack in a statement that didn’t mention Ballal by name and referenced the Academy membership’s “many unique viewpoints”. In response to the members’ letter, the Academy’s board has called an extraordinary meeting to discuss a new response.
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Backlash to Academy Awards response over No Man’s Land co-director’s ‘lynching’ grows; board meets.
Over 600 members of the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Science have condemned the body’s response to the attack by West Bank settlers on the Hamdan Ballal, co-director of this year’s Best Documentary Oscar winner, No Man’s Land. Ballal reported that the settlers in the West Bank referenced the Oscar during the attack, which his Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham described as a ‘lynching’. The letter, signed by stars including Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed, John Cusack, Joaquin Phoenix, Ava DuVernay, Alfonso Cuarón, Penélope Cruz, Emma Thompson, Tony Kushner and Jonathan Glazer comes after the Academy belatedly condemned the attack in a statement that didn’t mention Ballal by name and referenced the Academy membership’s “many unique viewpoints”. In response to the members’ letter, the Academy’s board has called an extraordinary meeting to discuss a new response.
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Backlash to Academy Awards response over No Man’s Land co-director’s ‘lynching’ grows; board meets.
Over 600 members of the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Science have condemned the body’s response to the attack by West Bank settlers on the Hamdan Ballal, co-director of this year’s Best Documentary Oscar winner, No Man’s Land. Ballal reported that the settlers in the West Bank referenced the Oscar during the attack, which his Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham described as a ‘lynching’. The letter, signed by stars including Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed, John Cusack, Joaquin Phoenix, Ava DuVernay, Alfonso Cuarón, Penélope Cruz, Emma Thompson, Tony Kushner and Jonathan Glazer comes after the Academy belatedly condemned the attack in a statement that didn’t mention Ballal by name and referenced the Academy membership’s “many unique viewpoints”. In response to the members’ letter, the Academy’s board has called an extraordinary meeting to discuss a new response.
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Backlash to Academy Awards response over No Man’s Land co-director’s ‘lynching’ grows; board meets.
Over 600 members of the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Science have condemned the body’s response to the attack by West Bank settlers on the Hamdan Ballal, co-director of this year’s Best Documentary Oscar winner, No Man’s Land. Ballal reported that the settlers in the West Bank referenced the Oscar during the attack, which his Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham described as a ‘lynching’. The letter, signed by stars including Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed, John Cusack, Joaquin Phoenix, Ava DuVernay, Alfonso Cuarón, Penélope Cruz, Emma Thompson, Tony Kushner and Jonathan Glazer comes after the Academy belatedly condemned the attack in a statement that didn’t mention Ballal by name and referenced the Academy membership’s “many unique viewpoints”. In response to the members’ letter, the Academy’s board has called an extraordinary meeting to discuss a new response.
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Update: AMPAS's governors have apologized for their initial statement over Israeli authorities' treatment of Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal. “On Wednesday, we sent a letter in response to reports of violence against Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal, co-director of No Other Land, connected to his artistic expression,” CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang wrote to members today. “We regret that we failed to directly acknowledge Mr. Ballal and the film by name.” They continued: “We sincerely apologize to Mr. Ballal and all artists who felt unsupported by our previous statement and want to make it clear that the Academy condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world. We abhor the suppression of free speech under any circumstances.” @Deadline has more details and context to share,
#AMPAS #Oscars #Movies #Cinema #Film #HamdanBallal #Palestine
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Update: AMPAS's governors have apologized for their initial statement over Israeli authorities' treatment of Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal. “On Wednesday, we sent a letter in response to reports of violence against Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal, co-director of No Other Land, connected to his artistic expression,” CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang wrote to members today. “We regret that we failed to directly acknowledge Mr. Ballal and the film by name.” They continued: “We sincerely apologize to Mr. Ballal and all artists who felt unsupported by our previous statement and want to make it clear that the Academy condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world. We abhor the suppression of free speech under any circumstances.” @Deadline has more details and context to share,
#AMPAS #Oscars #Movies #Cinema #Film #HamdanBallal #Palestine
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Update: AMPAS's governors have apologized for their initial statement over Israeli authorities' treatment of Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal. “On Wednesday, we sent a letter in response to reports of violence against Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal, co-director of No Other Land, connected to his artistic expression,” CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang wrote to members today. “We regret that we failed to directly acknowledge Mr. Ballal and the film by name.” They continued: “We sincerely apologize to Mr. Ballal and all artists who felt unsupported by our previous statement and want to make it clear that the Academy condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world. We abhor the suppression of free speech under any circumstances.” @Deadline has more details and context to share,
#AMPAS #Oscars #Movies #Cinema #Film #HamdanBallal #Palestine
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Update: AMPAS's governors have apologized for their initial statement over Israeli authorities' treatment of Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal. “On Wednesday, we sent a letter in response to reports of violence against Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal, co-director of No Other Land, connected to his artistic expression,” CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang wrote to members today. “We regret that we failed to directly acknowledge Mr. Ballal and the film by name.” They continued: “We sincerely apologize to Mr. Ballal and all artists who felt unsupported by our previous statement and want to make it clear that the Academy condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world. We abhor the suppression of free speech under any circumstances.” @Deadline has more details and context to share,
#AMPAS #Oscars #Movies #Cinema #Film #HamdanBallal #Palestine
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Update: AMPAS's governors have apologized for their initial statement over Israeli authorities' treatment of Palestinian Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal. “On Wednesday, we sent a letter in response to reports of violence against Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal, co-director of No Other Land, connected to his artistic expression,” CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang wrote to members today. “We regret that we failed to directly acknowledge Mr. Ballal and the film by name.” They continued: “We sincerely apologize to Mr. Ballal and all artists who felt unsupported by our previous statement and want to make it clear that the Academy condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world. We abhor the suppression of free speech under any circumstances.” @Deadline has more details and context to share,
#AMPAS #Oscars #Movies #Cinema #Film #HamdanBallal #Palestine
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Academy Apologizes For Not Naming ‘No Other Land’ Or Its Co-Director In Statement Denouncing Attacks On Artists
#News #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #BillKramer #HamdanBallal #JanetYang #NoOtherLandhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/no-other-land-academy-apology-1236353790/
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Academy Apologizes For Not Naming ‘No Other Land’ Or Its Co-Director In Statement Denouncing Attacks On Artists
#News #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #BillKramer #HamdanBallal #JanetYang #NoOtherLandhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/no-other-land-academy-apology-1236353790/
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Academy Apologizes For Not Naming ‘No Other Land’ Or Its Co-Director In Statement Denouncing Attacks On Artists
#News #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #BillKramer #HamdanBallal #JanetYang #NoOtherLandhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/no-other-land-academy-apology-1236353790/
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Academy Apologizes For Not Naming ‘No Other Land’ Or Its Co-Director In Statement Denouncing Attacks On Artists
#News #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsandSciences #BillKramer #HamdanBallal #JanetYang #NoOtherLandhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/no-other-land-academy-apology-1236353790/
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"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has convened an extraordinary meeting to address a crisis over its tepid response to the arrest and detention of Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal, of the documentary No Other Land, by Israeli authorities."
"tepid"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/28/academy-board-governors-no-other-land-hamdan-ballal
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"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has convened an extraordinary meeting to address a crisis over its tepid response to the arrest and detention of Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal, of the documentary No Other Land, by Israeli authorities."
"tepid"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/28/academy-board-governors-no-other-land-hamdan-ballal
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"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has convened an extraordinary meeting to address a crisis over its tepid response to the arrest and detention of Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal, of the documentary No Other Land, by Israeli authorities."
"tepid"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/28/academy-board-governors-no-other-land-hamdan-ballal
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"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has convened an extraordinary meeting to address a crisis over its tepid response to the arrest and detention of Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal, of the documentary No Other Land, by Israeli authorities."
"tepid"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/28/academy-board-governors-no-other-land-hamdan-ballal
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"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has convened an extraordinary meeting to address a crisis over its tepid response to the arrest and detention of Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal, of the documentary No Other Land, by Israeli authorities."
"tepid"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/28/academy-board-governors-no-other-land-hamdan-ballal
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The governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, the organization that gives out the Oscars) have met today to discuss their "belated and tepid" response to the beating and detention of Oscar-winning Palestinian documentarian Hamdan Ballal. Leading members of the Academy including Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, Emma Thompson, Ava DuVernay and Adam McKay signed a letter demanding a more forceful response to Ballal's treatment by Israeli authorities, saying the original statement "fell far short of the sentiments this moment calls for." Here's more from @Deadline.
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The governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, the organization that gives out the Oscars) have met today to discuss their "belated and tepid" response to the beating and detention of Oscar-winning Palestinian documentarian Hamdan Ballal. Leading members of the Academy including Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, Emma Thompson, Ava DuVernay and Adam McKay signed a letter demanding a more forceful response to Ballal's treatment by Israeli authorities, saying the original statement "fell far short of the sentiments this moment calls for." Here's more from @Deadline.
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The governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, the organization that gives out the Oscars) have met today to discuss their "belated and tepid" response to the beating and detention of Oscar-winning Palestinian documentarian Hamdan Ballal. Leading members of the Academy including Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, Emma Thompson, Ava DuVernay and Adam McKay signed a letter demanding a more forceful response to Ballal's treatment by Israeli authorities, saying the original statement "fell far short of the sentiments this moment calls for." Here's more from @Deadline.
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The governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, the organization that gives out the Oscars) have met today to discuss their "belated and tepid" response to the beating and detention of Oscar-winning Palestinian documentarian Hamdan Ballal. Leading members of the Academy including Olivia Colman, Javier Bardem, Emma Thompson, Ava DuVernay and Adam McKay signed a letter demanding a more forceful response to Ballal's treatment by Israeli authorities, saying the original statement "fell far short of the sentiments this moment calls for." Here's more from @Deadline.