After criticizing his silence, Hollywood apologizes before attacking the Palestinian director

the The Academy of Arts and Film Sciences in the United States Yesterday, he apologized for the unmissive of the Oscar -winning Palestinian director who was reported that he was attacked by Israeli settlers.

The Foundation, which is organized and received Oscar every year, wrote to its members after stars such as Joaquin Phoenix, Penelope Cruz and Richard Gere their first silence before the accident.

The message says that the academy “condemns this type of violence anywhere in the world” and its leaders “suppress freedom of expression under any circumstances.”

Hamdan Ballal Joint No other landWho won an Oscar for Best Documentary Film this year.

He said this week that he was attacked by Israeli settlers and was arrested at gunpoint by the soldiers in the West Bank, occupied by Israel.

Unlike other prominent organizations in the sector, the Academy has not issued an initial statement.

On Wednesday, he sent a message to its members to say that it was against “harming the artists, suppressing them for their work or opinions,” without appointing Bali.

Yesterday morning, more than 600 of its members signed their own statement in response.

“It is not possible to defend an organization to get to know a movie with a prize in the first week of March, and then do not defend filmmakers after only a few weeks,” they said.

They wrote: “We condemn the brutal attack and the illegal arrest of the Palestinian director and the winner of the Oscar Hamdan Award for all for settlers and Israeli forces in the West Bank.”

They added that the response of the academy’s leadership “was short in relation to what this occasion required.”

Later, the Bali Academy issued “and all the artists who felt unable to show our previous statement.”

We regret the failure to get to know Mr. Ballal and the movie by name. “

No other land It addresses forced displacement of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli forces and settlers in Masifer Yata, an area that Israel declared a military zone in the 1980s.

Although Oscar was taken, production was not distributed in the United States.

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I thought I was living in my last moments because of the violence of the strikes (…) I think that was because I won the Academy Award. ”He said after the accident.
Monday.

During his arrest in an Israeli military center, he said that he noticed that the soldiers mentioned their name with the word “Oscar” while changing the guards.

He was released on Tuesday after he was arrested on charges of “firing stones.”

Yuval Ibrahim, who co -directed the documentary, criticized the academy of both his silence and his subsequent statement.

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