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| While large numbers of unarmed protesters in Gaza are killed or maimed with impunity by Israeli snipers (Report, 28 April), this week the Seret London Israeli Film and TV Festival, co-sponsored by the Israeli embassy and the World Zionist Organisation, will occupy venues in London, Brighton and Edinburgh. It will use the appeal of cinema to promote Israel as “a melting pot of cultures and religions”. | While large numbers of unarmed protesters in Gaza are killed or maimed with impunity by Israeli snipers (Report, 28 April), this week the Seret London Israeli Film and TV Festival, co-sponsored by the Israeli embassy and the World Zionist Organisation, will occupy venues in London, Brighton and Edinburgh. It will use the appeal of cinema to promote Israel as “a melting pot of cultures and religions”. |
| Israel deliberately and routinely denies media freedom to Palestinians. On 6 April, Palestinian cameraman Yaser Murtaja was killed by an Israeli sniper as he filmed the “Great March of Return” in Gaza. On the same day six other photojournalists wearing press jackets were injured by the Israeli military. Since then photographer Ahmed Abu Hussein has been shot dead. This is not an anomaly. Last year Israeli forces assaulted 139 journalists and detained a further 33. In 27 cases they destroyed or sabotaged equipment. They closed down 17 media outlets. Palestinian journalists and film-makers are thus victims of systematic persecution based on their ethnicity. | Israel deliberately and routinely denies media freedom to Palestinians. On 6 April, Palestinian cameraman Yaser Murtaja was killed by an Israeli sniper as he filmed the “Great March of Return” in Gaza. On the same day six other photojournalists wearing press jackets were injured by the Israeli military. Since then photographer Ahmed Abu Hussein has been shot dead. This is not an anomaly. Last year Israeli forces assaulted 139 journalists and detained a further 33. In 27 cases they destroyed or sabotaged equipment. They closed down 17 media outlets. Palestinian journalists and film-makers are thus victims of systematic persecution based on their ethnicity. |
| Art, media and culture are being employed to give an apparently acceptable face to a brutal reality. We, film-makers, journalists and artists, call on our cinema, media and cultural institutions to uphold basic ethical standards: they should refuse to provide platforms for national celebrations sponsored by a regime that is guilty of systematic and large-scale human rights violations. Dr Bashir Abu Manneh AcademicCandace Allen Writer, directorLeah Borromeo Journalist and film-makerProf Haim Bresheeth Documentary film-makerVictoria Brittain Author and journalistLiam Cunningham ActorDror Dayan Documentary film-makerHelen de Witt Film programmerTam Dean Burn ActorGareth Evans Curator, producerYasmin Fedda Film directorSimon Fisher Turner ComposerMaysaloun Hamoud Film directorAshley Inglis ScreenwriterAki Kaurismäki Film directorPeter Kennard ArtistHelena Kennedy QC Barrister, broadcasterMichel Khleifi Film directorPeter Kosminsky Writer, director, producerPaul Laverty ScreenwriterMike Leigh Writer, directorKen Loach Film directorHettie Macdonald Film and television directorMiriam Margolyes ActorLaura Mulvey Professor of filmRebecca O’Brien Film producerAndrew O’Hagan WriterMaxine Peake ActorOmar Qattan Film producerWilliam Raban Professor of filmDavid Roger Production designerJuliet Stevenson ActorSaeed Taji Farouky Documentary film-makerHarriet Walter ActorRoger Waters MusicianSusan Wooldridge Actor and writer | Art, media and culture are being employed to give an apparently acceptable face to a brutal reality. We, film-makers, journalists and artists, call on our cinema, media and cultural institutions to uphold basic ethical standards: they should refuse to provide platforms for national celebrations sponsored by a regime that is guilty of systematic and large-scale human rights violations. Dr Bashir Abu Manneh AcademicCandace Allen Writer, directorLeah Borromeo Journalist and film-makerProf Haim Bresheeth Documentary film-makerVictoria Brittain Author and journalistLiam Cunningham ActorDror Dayan Documentary film-makerHelen de Witt Film programmerTam Dean Burn ActorGareth Evans Curator, producerYasmin Fedda Film directorSimon Fisher Turner ComposerMaysaloun Hamoud Film directorAshley Inglis ScreenwriterAki Kaurismäki Film directorPeter Kennard ArtistHelena Kennedy QC Barrister, broadcasterMichel Khleifi Film directorPeter Kosminsky Writer, director, producerPaul Laverty ScreenwriterMike Leigh Writer, directorKen Loach Film directorHettie Macdonald Film and television directorMiriam Margolyes ActorLaura Mulvey Professor of filmRebecca O’Brien Film producerAndrew O’Hagan WriterMaxine Peake ActorOmar Qattan Film producerWilliam Raban Professor of filmDavid Roger Production designerJuliet Stevenson ActorSaeed Taji Farouky Documentary film-makerHarriet Walter ActorRoger Waters MusicianSusan Wooldridge Actor and writer |
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