Academy apologizes for not adequately supporting Oscar-winning Palestinian director

Oscar-winning Palestinian director speaks at UN on Israeli settlements

Palestinian director Basel Adra, who won an Oscar this year for co-directing a documentary on Israeli violence in the West Bank, sounded the alarm at the UN on Thursday, saying the situation was worsening despite the film's success.Adra was invited to speak by the UN Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at a screening of his film, "No Other Land."The documentary chronicles the forced displacement of Palestinians by Israe…

Benson: ‘No Other Land’ Is About The Struggle To Be Recognized As Human Beings…

By JODY BENSON Los Alamos The Los Alamos Unitarian Church presented on March 25 the Academy Award winning documentary, No Other Land, directed by two Palestinians and two Israelis, about the systematic destruction of the villages in Masafer Yatta in the southern Occupied West Bank of Palestine.  This film is not about Gaza or Hamas. It is about the West Bank. There is no Hamas in the West Bank. People of the West Bank did not commit the 10-7 ter…

The Palestinian village known from the Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’ is systematically attacked by Israeli settlers. The Israeli army is increasingly working with the settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Religious Zionist settlers savagely assault Palestinian Oscar winner for exposing their crimes

The brutal attack on Palestinian director and Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal reveals the depravity of Israel’s settler movement, which pits Catholic authorities and the vast majority of the world against the violent heresy of Zionism.

Fighting Side by Side in Israel-Palestine

There is a long and noble history of Jewish Israelis and Palestinians resisting Israel’s crimes together. Codirectors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham in No Other Land. (Hi Gloss Entertainment, CPH:DOX) When the Palestinian-Israeli coproduction No Other Land won the Academy Award for best documentary feature film in early March, jubilation was palpable. It brought to global attention yet again Israel’s crimes as occupier and violator of Palestinian…

‘No Other Land’ Directors Thank Academy Members For Coming To Defense Of Hamdan Ballal After Attack

The 'No Other Land' filmmakers are thanking top members of the Academy for coming to the defense of director Hamdan Ballal after his attack and arrest.