No Other Land, a 2024 documentary on life under the abusive occupation of Israeli authorities and settlers in the West Bank region of Masafer Yatta, has won the Oscar for best documentary.
The documentary, filmed over 5 years by Palestinian and Israeli directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, recently also won the Berlinale Documentary Film Award as well as the Panorama Audience Award for best documentary film in 2024.
In response to the Oscar win, Minister for Culture of the Zionist state, Miki Zohar, tweeted that it was a “sad moment for the world of cinema”, saying that the film manipulates and distorts Israel’s image to international audiences.
“This is precisely why we passed a reform in state-funded cinema – to ensure that taxpayer money is directed toward works of art that speak to the Israeli audience, rather than an industry that builds its career on slandering Israel on the global stage,” Zohar said.
It is difficult to grasp just how the Zionists can lie so blatantly. I’d have admitted defeat by now had I built my life and reason for existence on lies, and then those lies were exploded in front of me on the screen.
Is there a switch we have to flip to get them to be normal humans? Maybe they are air-gapped, isolated from humanity until someone flicks the switch. They could then reconnect with the rest of us and regain their humanity.