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Galway IPSC protests against the political show-trial of Mohamed Bakri, Director of Jenin Jenin
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Sunday July 01, 2007 18:35 by TD - Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
"Only an unbelievably brutal world can look at the remains of what was once home for 13,000 impoverished 1948 Palestinian refugees ... and say 'we don't know what actually happened'" (Irit Katriel) Following BBC and Democracy Now news reports that the Director of the internationally acclaimed and award winning documentary, Jenin Jenin, Mohamed Bakri, is being sued and facing possible jail time in a case brought this month in Israel by five Israeli soldiers who are accusing him of libelously portraying them and their comrades as war criminals in his film (the five are not shown or mentioned by name in Jenin Jenin). Galway IPSC, yesterday, outraged at this obscenity too far, took to the streets in protest. Initially banned in Israel until a reversal by the Israeli Supreme Court the film is dedicated to Lyad Samoudi, the producer, who returned home to Yamun after the shooting of the documentary was completed. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samoudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a military-closed area with three friends- in response to the ban, Mohamed Bakri said' I hope they will censor every film I do. I want them to understand my reality, another truth ..." |
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