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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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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’ 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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‘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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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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‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Yuval Abraham Slams Oscar Academy Letter To Members In Wake Of Hamdan Ballal Attack
#News #AcademyAwards #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #YuvalAbrahamhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/no-other-land-yuval-abraham-slams-oscar-academy-letter-1236352387/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAz0ETOZubs
Stories include:
*Oscar Winner #HamdanBallal, director of #NoOtherLand, released* #WarPlans, #Signal and the oopsie.
Comment: What I'm hoping for is all the MAGA jackasses responsible will end up in prison. The more MAGA in prison or sacked, the better for everyone everywhere....and progressive entertainment reporter Dave Neal responds to #centrists and #rightwingers who have unfollowed him as they kvetch about his political content
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‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Says U.S. Academy ‘Refused’ to Issue Statement in Support of Hamdan Ballal: They Were ‘Silent When a Filmmaker They Honored Needed Them the Most’
#Variety #Asia #Global #News #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #YuvalAbrahamhttps://variety.com/2025/film/news/no-other-land-us-academy-1236347390/
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Israel releases Oscar-winning #Palestinian director after he was attacked by West Bank settlers
By JULIA FRANKEL
Updated 11:55 AM EDT, March 25, 2025HEBRON, #WestBank (AP) — "#Israeli authorities released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was detained by the army after being attacked by #JewishSettlers in the occupied West Bank. He said they beat him in front of his home while they filmed the assault.
"#HamdanBallal and the other directors of '#NoOtherLand,' which looks at the struggles of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, had mounted the stage at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month when it won the award for best documentary film.
"On Tuesday, with bruises on his face and blood on his clothes, he was released from an Israeli police station in the West Bank settlement of #KiryatArba. He and two other Palestinians who had been attacked and detained were taken to a nearby hospital.
"Ballal said he was held at an army base, blindfolded for 24 hours and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner.
"'All my body is pain,' he told The Associated Press. “I heard the voices of the soldiers, they were laughing about me … I heard ‘Oscar’ but I didn’t speak Hebrew.'
"Lea Tsemel, the attorney representing the three men, said they received only minimal care for their injuries from the attack and that she had no access to them for several hours after their arrest."
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-violence-settlers-oscar-hamdan-ballal-beb96478a55f42a7058a60ac5be7bd05
#IDFTerrorism #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #IsraeliSettlers -
#HamdanBallal who won an Oscar with his documentary #NoOtherLand has been brutally beaten and #abducted by #IDF soldiers during a settler attack. Nobody has heard of him since.
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Alex Gibney, Christine Vachon Among Global Film Community Members Behind Petition to Free ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal
#Variety #Asia #Global #News #AlexGibney #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #YuvalAbrahamhttps://variety.com/2025/film/news/no-other-land-director-freedom-petition-1236347367/
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Palästinensischer #Oscar -Preisträger und Regisseur von israelischen Siedlern im Westjordanland angegriffen und verhaftet
Der israelische Co-Regisseur #YuvalAbraham auf X: "Eine Gruppe von Siedlern hat gerade #HamdanBallal gelyncht, den Co-Regisseur unseres Films #NoOtherLand. Sie schlugen ihn und er hat Verletzungen an Kopf und Bauch und blutet. Soldaten drangen in den Krankenwagen ein, den er gerufen hatte, und nahmen ihn mit. Seitdem gibt es keine Spur mehr von ihm."
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#OscarWinning #Palestinian Film Co-Director Attacked by #IsraeliSettlers, Detained
March 25, 2025
"#HamdanBallal, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary #NoOtherLand, was attacked by illegal #Israeli Jewish settlers in the occupied #WestBank, Al-Jazeera Arabic website, and other sources reported on Monday.
"His fellow co-director, #YuvalAbraham, shared the details of the assault on social media, stating, 'A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film No Other Land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding.'
"Ballal was severely beaten by the settlers and called for an ambulance. However, the situation took a dire turn when Israeli soldiers intervened and forcibly took him away.
"Abraham further explained, 'Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.' As of now, there has been no information on Ballal’s whereabouts, leaving his colleagues and supporters increasingly concerned for his safety.
"No Other Land is a collaboration between Palestinian and #Israeli filmmakers that documents the destruction of #MasaferYatta, a village in the West Bank, by Israeli military forces.
"The documentary has won international acclaim, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. However, the film has also faced backlash and controversy, especially in Israel.
"A video released by the #CenterForJewishNonviolence shows masked settlers attacking Jewish activists with stones and sticks. The activists, including those filming the incident, were targeted and their car windows were smashed.
"One of the activists, Josh Kimelman, spoke to the Associated Press, stating, 'We don’t know where Hamdan is because he was taken away in a blindfold.' The Israeli military has claimed that it is investigating the incident but has not provided any additional information on the matter."
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/oscar-winning-palestinian-film-co-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-detained/
#IDFTerrorism #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreePalestine #FreeGaza -
Breaking: this year’s Best Doc Oscar-winner attacked by settlers, taken from ambulance by IDF
The Palestinian co-director of the 2025 Academy Award winner for best picture, Hamdan Ballal has been attacked, arrested and is – at time of writing – out of contact. The Israeli co-director of the Oscar-winning Yuval Abraham said Ballal was attacked and wounded by settlers. Witnesses say Israeli soldiers removed him from an ambulance while he was receiving treatment.
Abraham posted on social media:
“A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.” -
‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Attacked and Arrested in West Bank, Yuval Abraham Says
#IndieWire #BreakingNews #News #Film #HamdanBallal #NoOtherLand #YuvalAbraham -
Film screening:
Sun, Oct 6, 2024Part of #NYFF62 at #BAM and #BAMFilm2024
Directed by #BaselAdra, #HamdanBallal, #YuvalAbraham, #RachelSzor (2024)
"This eye-opening, vérité-style documentary, made by a #Palestinian-#Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, provides a harrowing account of the systematic onslaught of destruction experienced by Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military. Headed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham (also two of the film’s directors), the collective commits itself to filming and protesting the demolitions of homes and schools and the resulting displacement of their inhabitants, which were carried out to make way for Israeli military training ground. In addition to the indelible footage of destruction and expulsion captured by its undaunted witnesses, No Other Land serves as a moving portrait of friendship between Adra and Abraham, who form a philosophical and political alliance despite the drastic differences in their abilities to exist freely in this world. Winner of the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Berlinale."
https://www.bam.org/film/2024/nyff-no-other-land
#BrooklynNY #WestBank #Palestine #CeasefireNow #FreePalestine #Film