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More Than 65 Palestinian Filmmakers, Including Hany Abu Assad and Elia Suleiman, Sign Letter Accusing Hollywood of ‘Dehumanizing’ Palestinians (EXCLUSIVE)
A group of more than 65 Palestinian filmmakers have signed a letter accusing Hollywood of 'dehumanizing' Palestinians on screen
The letter — also signed by the likes of multiple-award winners including Michel Khleifi, Mai Masri, Najwa Najjar, Farah Nabulsi and the 22-strong list of directors behind the compilation of shorts “From Ground Zero,” Palestine ‘s current submission to the Oscars — also expresses outrage and what it described as the “inhumanity and racism shown by some in the Western entertainment industry towards our people, even during this most difficult of times.” 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. Michel Khleifi Mai Masri Hany Abu Assad Najwa Najjar 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*
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