Why is America afraid of ‘No Other Land’? | Israel-Palestine conflict

On Sunday, the Israeli -Palestinian joint production has not been awarded any other lands of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film. Oscar – the first of Palestine – was added to the list of 45 awards that the film won since its release in 2024, including the best documentary in European Film Awards 2024, the Berlin International Film Festival 2024, and Gotham 2024 awards.
This feature has received a large -scale monetary praise and five -star glowing in the international media. It was examined all over the world and constantly sold in independent offers in the United States. However, no American distributor will receive him to show him at the country level. The only reason for this is its topic: Palestine.
The documentary follows the lives of Palestinian societies in Masifer Yata, a region near Hebron in the southern West Bank, which the Israeli army declared a “military zone.” In light of this peak, the Israeli forces and the illegal settlers are upset with their residents regularly and destroying their homes, making them homeless. The story is listed through the lens of the participating managers Basra, a Palestinian activist, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli journalist.
This raw and horrific photography of Israel’s ongoing crimes is something that is afraid of distributors to appear clearly. This is in a country that is proud of the content constitutionally in freedom of expression.
The fear of distributors is a wonderful clarification of the magnitude of the campaign in eradicating Palestine in the United States, which affects every aspect of public life – from education to the media, arts and cinema.
Of course, anti -Palestinian censorship is not new. Since 1948, Palestinian culture and history have faced attempts to continue the attempt as Israel tried to justify the seizure of lands, claiming that the Palestinian people are not present and have no right to land. This novel also dominated the general perceptions of Western countries that supported Israel throughout its existence – above all among them in the United States.
Preserving this narration was a key to continuing political support.
If the American public is exposed to more information about what is happening in Palestine, if the Palestinians are humanitarian in the main current, if they are given a platform to tell their stories about the experience of genocide and racist chapter, the public opinion will start to transform significantly.
It is already. Various surveys have shown over the past year that the Americans, especially the Democrats, do not agree to their government’s policies on Israel and the females. The majority of Democrats supported the ceasefire in Gaza when the administration of President Joe Biden refused to support it. In the end, Kamala Harris eventually cost endless voices in the presidential elections.
A major change in public opinion on Israel and females would make it difficult for the US Congress to maintain billions of dollars in Israeli military and political support for occupation and racist semester.
For this reason, the eradication campaign – led by Israel itself – must be preserved against Palestinian voices, stories and history.
But the challenges that no other land faced because its issuance is not just another clear case of anti -Palestinian control.
The film shared the story of the stories between a Palestinian and an Israeli. Not only is Adra, which hears in the documentary, talks about what is happening in Palestine, but also Abraham.
The latter also admitted during the awarding speech at the Academy Awards ceremony: “Together, our voices are stronger.” In fact, if the film was completely Palestinian, it would have been classified as biased and struggled to obtain the same level of global attention. The presence of an Israeli participation manager may have opened some doors, but also made it more “dangerous”.
Ibrahim said in his speech: “When I look at Basel, I see my brother, but we are not equal.
It is clear that the idea of the Israeli, like Ibrahim, expresses opposition to the apartheid and the occupation is not tolerated. It is not commensurate with the prevailing narration that Israel is the moral compass and that all Palestinians only wish to obliterate all the Jews.
There are many Jewish Americans who share the opinions of Abraham and spoke against Israel. They were not only described as “Jews who hate themselves” by the supporters of Israel, but they were also harassed and censored and accused of anti -Semitism and even were arrested during the demonstrations.
Such attacks under the guise of “confronting anti -Semitism” and “out of interest in Jewish safety” have in reality made many Jewish people unsafe.
Ibrahim himself made him feel “insecure and not welcome” in Germany – the same country that made its cause in protecting Israel and Jews – after his acceptance speech at the Berlin Film Festival last year.
German politicians rushed to the classification of his “anti -Semitism” speech, while the Berlin city site does not describe any other lands as “seeking anti -Semitic tendencies.”
Like the United States, Germany has multiplied only Israel’s support since its campaign of genocide in Gaza. In this way, both countries, like the rest of the Western supporters of Israel, became obstacle to peace.
Ibrahim alluded to this particular point during the acceptance speech, saying that it is “the foreign policy of the United States helps prevent peace.”
Despite all the challenges she faced, no other land has achieved remarkable success. Hoping to reach a broader audience in the United States, filmmakers chose self -distribution through selected theaters. To find out the film, you can visit it Website.
There is no other land that is a strong movie that the Americans must see. Adra also indicated in a recent interview for democracy, we take responsibility. Our tax money funds the destruction of its community, which only accelerated last year.
A few weeks before Oscar’s victory, Adra wrote on social media: “Anyone who cares about any other land must care about what is already happening on the ground … Masafer Yatta disappears in front of my eyes.”
Americans must take action.
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2025-03-05 11:52:00