The attack on Jinba reveals the deep-seated inequalities in the way Palestinians are treated by the world. Our suffering is minimized and our stories are erased when you don’t have an Oscar.
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner’s call to strip a local movie theater’s funding and lease over showing the film “No Other Land” is just the latest authoritarian example of how the U.S. government is attempting to censor criticism of Israel.
“No Other Land” won a well-deserved Oscar, but co-director Yuval Abraham’s speech epitomized liberal Zionist hasbara, centering the needs of Israelis over Palestinian freedom, while undermining the resistance of the Palestinian subjects of the film.