‘No Other Land’s Israeli & Palestinian Filmmakers Criticize U.S. Middle East Policy As They Accept Oscar For Best Documentary Feature

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The Palestinian and Israeli directors of No Other Land, the documentary set in the occupied West Bank, criticized America’s foreign policy in the region as they accepted the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight.

The quartet of Basel Adra and Hamdan Billal, who are Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, both Israelis, took the stage, with Adra and Abraham speaking on behalf of the filmmaking collective. “We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis, because together our voices are stronger.

We see each other — the atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people which must end; the Israeli hostages, brutally taken in the crime of October 7th, which must be freed,” said Abraham.

Then he referenced the different conditions in which he as an Israeli citizen lives, versus Adra, who is subject to Israeli military rule. “When I look at Basel, I see my brother, but we are unequal,” he said. “We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law, and Basel is under military laws that destroy his life, and he cannot control.