67 palestinske filmskapere, inkludert Hany Abu Assad, Elia Suleiman og palestinsk-norske Mohamed Jabaly, har signert et opprop der de anklager Hollywood for å dehumanisere palestinere.
67 palestinske filmskapere anklager Hollywood for «dehumanisering».
Foto fra «From Ground Zero», Palestinas bidrag til Oscar.
En gruppe på 67 palestinske filmskapere har signert et brev der de kommer med kraftig kritikk av Hollywoods framstilling av palestinere. Gjennom flere tiår har Hollywoods filmskapere dehumanisert palestinerne med sine filmer, mener de. Det har bidratt til at den destruksjonen vi nå ser i Gaza har kunnet skje.
Blant de som har underskrevet brevet er den to ganger Oscar-nominerte Hany Abu Assad, den anerkjente auteuren Elia Suleiman og nylig BAFTA-vinner Farah Nabulsi. Andre profiler som har underskrevet er Michel Khleifi, Mai Masri, Najwa Najjar og alle regissørene bak kortfilmantologien From Ground Zero, Palestinas bidrag til Oscar. Også den palestinsk-norske regissøren Mohamed Jabaly er blant signatørene. De gir alle uttrykk for sinne over den behandlingen de mener palestinerne er utsatt for av den vestlige underholdningsindustrien, «selv i denne vanskeligste tiden.».
Brevet markerer det første felles utspillet fra palestinske filmskapere siden 7. oktober. Det var da Hamas drepte mer enn 1200 israelere og tok mer enn 250 som gisler, og den pågående destruksjonen av Gaza fra Israels side, som har tatt livet av mer enn 40 000 palestinere, begynte.
De palestinske filmskaperne kommer ikke bare med kritikk. De takker i brevet National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for «å stå opp mot press og insistere på ytringsfrihet», ved å nekte å diskvalifisere en Gaza-fokusert dokumentar fra Emmy-nominasjonene i 2024. Det gjelder dokumentaren It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive av den palestinske journalisten, aktivisten og filmskaperen Bisan Owda. Filmen skildrer hans families situasjon mens de flykter fra bombardement av hjemmet sitt. Filmen er nominert til en Emmy-pris innen kategorien Hard News Feature Story: Short Form.
Her gjengir vi brevet i sin helhet:
«We, Palestinian filmmakers, appreciate and thank the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for standing up to pressure and insisting on freedom of expression by upholding Bisan Owda’s 2024 News and Documentary Emmy nomination for the documentary, “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive.”
This film is narrated by the award-winning and inspiring 25-year-old Palestinian journalist, Bisan Owda, who has risked her life to share with the world reports and stories about the resilience, resistance and survival of ordinary Palestinian families in the face of Israel’s ongoing, livestreamed genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Trying to censor Bisan’s voice is only the latest repressive attempt to deny Palestinians the right to reclaim our narrative, share our history, and in this case bring attention to the atrocities our people are facing in the hopes that we can bring an end to them. We well understand the power of image and cinema, and for far too long we have been outraged at the inhumanity and racism shown by some in the Western entertainment industry towards our people, even during this most difficult of times.
Through our films, we have tried to present alternative narratives, depictions and images to reverse the stereotypical, dehumanizing “worthless, disposable beings” image which enables the whitewashing and/or justification of the crimes perpetrated for decades against Palestinians. But why must we always put on our “boxing gloves” to defend our art against ruthless censorship that targets us merely on the basis of our identity, not our creativity?
We wholeheartedly welcomed the nomination of Bisan Owda’s film for an Emmy as an indication that, after so many years of Israel’s apartheid and settler-colonial rule over the Palestinian people, the relentless, decades-old dehumanization of Palestinians on small and big screens in the U.S., in Hollywood in particular, was beginning to give way to a more ethical stance. The censorship attempt against the film, though, was a reality check of sorts. We must still contend with and fiercely challenge the anti-Palestinian and generally anti-Arab racist propaganda that remains all too prevalent in Western entertainment media.
Although we are deeply concerned at how this dehumanization is a danger to our very existence as Palestinians, we are cognizant of how it also puts many racialized communities around the world, including in the West, at risk of a similar fate as the “might makes right” credo prevails.
We call on our international colleagues in the film industry, visionaries for the kind of world we would like to live in, to speak out against this genocide and the erasure, racism and censorship that enable it; to do everything humanly possible to stop and end complicity with this unspeakable horror; and to stand against working with production companies that are deeply complicit in dehumanizing Palestinians, or whitewashing and justifying Israel’s crimes against us.
This has to stop. Now.»
Signed:
Michel Khleifi / Mai Masri / Hany Abu Assad / Najwa Najjarn / Elia Suleiman / Rashid Masharawi / Farah Nabulsi / Mohammad Bakri / Maha Haj / Mahdi Fleifel / Raed Andoni / Kamal Aljafari / Saleh Bakri / Mohanad Yaqubi / Tarzan Nasser / Arab Nasser / Ossama Bawardi / Rakan Mayasi / Khadija Habashneh / Leila Sansour / Khaled Jarrar / Rula Nasser / May Odeh / Adam Bakri / Iyad Alasttal / Amer Shomali / Carol Mansour / Muna Khalidi / Mohamed Jabaly / Salim abu Jabal / Suha Arraf / Firas Khoury / Randa Nassar / Yasmine Al Massri / Wisam Al Jafari / Ismael El Habbash / Muayad Alayan / Sawsan Asfari / Kamel el Basha / Rozeen Bisharat / Nadia Eliewat / Ward Kayyal / Maryse Gargour / Amer Hlehel / Ziad Bakri / Aws Al-Banna / Ahmed Al-Danf / Basil Al-Maqousi / Mustafa Al-Nabih / Muhammad Alshareef / Ala’a Ayob / Bashar Al-Balbeisi / Alaa Damo / Hana Awad / Ahmad Hassouna / Mustafa Kallab / Kareem Satoum / Mahdi Karirah / Rabab Khamees / Khamees Masharawi / Wissam Moussa / Tamer Najm / Nidaa Abu Hasna / Nidal Damo / Reema Mahmoud / E’temad Weshah / Islam Al Zrieai
(Kilde: Deadline).
67 palestinske filmskapere anklager Hollywood for «dehumanisering».
67 palestinske filmskapere, inkludert Hany Abu Assad, Elia Suleiman og palestinsk-norske Mohamed Jabaly, har signert et opprop der de anklager Hollywood for å dehumanisere palestinere.
Foto fra «From Ground Zero», Palestinas bidrag til Oscar.
En gruppe på 67 palestinske filmskapere har signert et brev der de kommer med kraftig kritikk av Hollywoods framstilling av palestinere. Gjennom flere tiår har Hollywoods filmskapere dehumanisert palestinerne med sine filmer, mener de. Det har bidratt til at den destruksjonen vi nå ser i Gaza har kunnet skje.
Blant de som har underskrevet brevet er den to ganger Oscar-nominerte Hany Abu Assad, den anerkjente auteuren Elia Suleiman og nylig BAFTA-vinner Farah Nabulsi. Andre profiler som har underskrevet er Michel Khleifi, Mai Masri, Najwa Najjar og alle regissørene bak kortfilmantologien From Ground Zero, Palestinas bidrag til Oscar. Også den palestinsk-norske regissøren Mohamed Jabaly er blant signatørene. De gir alle uttrykk for sinne over den behandlingen de mener palestinerne er utsatt for av den vestlige underholdningsindustrien, «selv i denne vanskeligste tiden.».
Brevet markerer det første felles utspillet fra palestinske filmskapere siden 7. oktober. Det var da Hamas drepte mer enn 1200 israelere og tok mer enn 250 som gisler, og den pågående destruksjonen av Gaza fra Israels side, som har tatt livet av mer enn 40 000 palestinere, begynte.
De palestinske filmskaperne kommer ikke bare med kritikk. De takker i brevet National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for «å stå opp mot press og insistere på ytringsfrihet», ved å nekte å diskvalifisere en Gaza-fokusert dokumentar fra Emmy-nominasjonene i 2024. Det gjelder dokumentaren It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive av den palestinske journalisten, aktivisten og filmskaperen Bisan Owda. Filmen skildrer hans families situasjon mens de flykter fra bombardement av hjemmet sitt. Filmen er nominert til en Emmy-pris innen kategorien Hard News Feature Story: Short Form.
Her gjengir vi brevet i sin helhet:
«We, Palestinian filmmakers, appreciate and thank the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for standing up to pressure and insisting on freedom of expression by upholding Bisan Owda’s 2024 News and Documentary Emmy nomination for the documentary, “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive.”
This film is narrated by the award-winning and inspiring 25-year-old Palestinian journalist, Bisan Owda, who has risked her life to share with the world reports and stories about the resilience, resistance and survival of ordinary Palestinian families in the face of Israel’s ongoing, livestreamed genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Trying to censor Bisan’s voice is only the latest repressive attempt to deny Palestinians the right to reclaim our narrative, share our history, and in this case bring attention to the atrocities our people are facing in the hopes that we can bring an end to them. We well understand the power of image and cinema, and for far too long we have been outraged at the inhumanity and racism shown by some in the Western entertainment industry towards our people, even during this most difficult of times.
Through our films, we have tried to present alternative narratives, depictions and images to reverse the stereotypical, dehumanizing “worthless, disposable beings” image which enables the whitewashing and/or justification of the crimes perpetrated for decades against Palestinians. But why must we always put on our “boxing gloves” to defend our art against ruthless censorship that targets us merely on the basis of our identity, not our creativity?
We wholeheartedly welcomed the nomination of Bisan Owda’s film for an Emmy as an indication that, after so many years of Israel’s apartheid and settler-colonial rule over the Palestinian people, the relentless, decades-old dehumanization of Palestinians on small and big screens in the U.S., in Hollywood in particular, was beginning to give way to a more ethical stance. The censorship attempt against the film, though, was a reality check of sorts. We must still contend with and fiercely challenge the anti-Palestinian and generally anti-Arab racist propaganda that remains all too prevalent in Western entertainment media.
Although we are deeply concerned at how this dehumanization is a danger to our very existence as Palestinians, we are cognizant of how it also puts many racialized communities around the world, including in the West, at risk of a similar fate as the “might makes right” credo prevails.
We call on our international colleagues in the film industry, visionaries for the kind of world we would like to live in, to speak out against this genocide and the erasure, racism and censorship that enable it; to do everything humanly possible to stop and end complicity with this unspeakable horror; and to stand against working with production companies that are deeply complicit in dehumanizing Palestinians, or whitewashing and justifying Israel’s crimes against us.
This has to stop. Now.»
Signed:
Michel Khleifi / Mai Masri / Hany Abu Assad / Najwa Najjarn / Elia Suleiman / Rashid Masharawi / Farah Nabulsi / Mohammad Bakri / Maha Haj / Mahdi Fleifel / Raed Andoni / Kamal Aljafari / Saleh Bakri / Mohanad Yaqubi / Tarzan Nasser / Arab Nasser / Ossama Bawardi / Rakan Mayasi / Khadija Habashneh / Leila Sansour / Khaled Jarrar / Rula Nasser / May Odeh / Adam Bakri / Iyad Alasttal / Amer Shomali / Carol Mansour / Muna Khalidi / Mohamed Jabaly / Salim abu Jabal / Suha Arraf / Firas Khoury / Randa Nassar / Yasmine Al Massri / Wisam Al Jafari / Ismael El Habbash / Muayad Alayan / Sawsan Asfari / Kamel el Basha / Rozeen Bisharat / Nadia Eliewat / Ward Kayyal / Maryse Gargour / Amer Hlehel / Ziad Bakri / Aws Al-Banna / Ahmed Al-Danf / Basil Al-Maqousi / Mustafa Al-Nabih / Muhammad Alshareef / Ala’a Ayob / Bashar Al-Balbeisi / Alaa Damo / Hana Awad / Ahmad Hassouna / Mustafa Kallab / Kareem Satoum / Mahdi Karirah / Rabab Khamees / Khamees Masharawi / Wissam Moussa / Tamer Najm / Nidaa Abu Hasna / Nidal Damo / Reema Mahmoud / E’temad Weshah / Islam Al Zrieai
(Kilde: Deadline).
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