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Academy ‘Condemns Harming or Suppressing Artists’ in Statement to Members Without Mentioning ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director

The Academy issues a statement in the wake of 'No Other Land' co-director Hamdan Ballal being attacked in the West Bank and Yuval Abraham critique.

At the heart of the Academy’s mission is a commitment to honoring excellence in the motion picture arts and sciences and connecting the world through the power of cinema. As an organization, our focus continues to be the celebration of creative voices that make up the global community — and supporting your freedom to create, to challenge, and to imagine. He wrote on X on March 26, “Sadly, the US Academy, which awarded us an Oscar three weeks ago, declined to publicly support Hamdan Ballal while he was beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers.”

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