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Academy Stirs Outrage After Not Mentioning ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal in Statement Condemning ‘Harming or Suppressing Artists’
The Academy issued a statement seemingly addressing criticism for not supporting 'No Other Land' director Hamdan Ballal -- without mentioning him.
“No Other Land,” which won the best documentary Oscar earlier this month and was made by an Israeli-Palestinian collective including Abraham, Ballal, Basel Adra and Rachel Szor, follows a Palestinian family living in the West Bank as their home gets destroyed by the Israeli government and they face displacement. “I had chalked up the Academy’s failure to speak out in support of a recent Oscar winner being beaten and abducted, I assumed events had happened too fast for you to take action,” Schnack wrote in a response addressed to Kramer and Yang. The statement continues: “One of the most powerful aspects of ‘No Other Land’ — and the reason so many have tried, in vain, to limit its reach and silence its message — is that it is itself a rare feat of collaboration between Palestinian and Israeli journalists, activists and artists, united by their belief in dignity and equality for all.
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