ISRAELI DIRECTOR RECEIVES DEATH THREATS
February 29, 2024I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech — where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid — as ‘antisemitic’.”
Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham faces death threats and backlash after speaking out against the ‘situation of apartheid’ and calling for a ceasefire in Gaza during his acceptance speech at the Berlinale International Film Festival.
His film ‘No Other Land’, which he co-directed with Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra, won the Berlinale’s best documentary award and the Panorama Audience Award. The film sheds light on the evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank.
Despite accusations of antisemitism, Abraham remains resolute in his stance for justice.
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English Script:
Yuval Abraham: I want to say we are standing in front of you now, me and Basel are the same age. I am Israeli, Basel is Palestinian. And in two days we will go back to a land where we are not equal. I am living under a civilian law and Basel is under military law. We live 30 minutes from one another, but I have voting rights, Basel is not having voting rights. I am free to move where I want in this land. Basel is like millions of Palestinians, locked in the occupied West Bank. This situation of apartheid between us is inequality. It has to end.