{"id":31992,"date":"2024-02-27T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=31992"},"modified":"2024-02-27T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:25:00","slug":"israeli-filmmaker-faces-death-threats-german-probe-after-condemning-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/israeli-filmmaker-faces-death-threats-german-probe-after-condemning-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Filmmaker Faces Death Threats, German Probe After Condemning Apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Israeli director Yuval Abraham (L) and Palestinian director Basel Adra speak on stage after having received the Berlinale documentary award for ‘No Other Land’ during the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival on February 24, 2024 in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: John MacDougall\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The German government’s threat to investigate Yuval Abraham “for simply acknowledging the apartheid under which his Palestinian co-director lives, is both chilling and completely absurd,” said one film critic.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feb 26, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite facing death threats, Israeli documentary filmmaker Yuval Abraham said Monday that he stood “behind every word” of his condemnation of Israeli apartheid and the bombardment of Gaza<\/a>, which he expressed while accepting the award for Best Documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival, also known as Berlinale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham stood alongside his co-director, Palestinian lawyer and activist Basel Adra, on Sunday as they accepted the award for their film No Other Land<\/em>, about the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) demolition of homes in the occupied West Bank and eviction of people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I am free to move where I want in this land, Basel is, like millions of Palestinians, locked in the occupied West Bank,” said Abraham. “This situation of apartheid between us, this inequality, it has to end.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our film \u201cNo Other Land\u201d on occupied Masafer Yatta\u2019s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel\u2019s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it \u201canti semitic\u201d – and I\u2019ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word. pic.twitter.com\/2burPfZeKO<\/a><\/p>— Yuval Abraham \u05d9\u05d5\u05d1\u05dc \u05d0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4\u05dd (@yuval_abraham) February 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>