More than 300 directors and actors including Paradise Now filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad are calling for a boycott of Israeli movies playing at this year’s Venice International Film Festival in Italy, claiming the movies engage in the so-called “artwashing” of “apartheid, occupation and now genocide.”
While the petition accuses Israel of a host of offenses, it makes no reference to the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack, which sparked the larger Gaza war, nor does it reference the Hamas terrorist organization in any way.
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