Producer Sounds Alarm Over Israel’s Judicial Reforms At Berlin Film Festival: “It could be you just watched the last Israeli film representing the Israel we know”
deadline.comIsraeli film producer Yoav Roeh spoke passionately at the Berlin Film Festival on Sunday about the threat to freedom of speech in Israel under a proposed overhaul of the country’s judiciary by Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government. “We’re here to celebrate our film and it is also a celebration of Israeli cinema.
But when we go back to Israel in a few days, it will not be the same Israel we left,” he told the audience at the end of the screening for Asaf Saban’s Delegation (Ha’Mishlahat). “The Israeli parliament is about to destroy the Israeli democratic system.
The new far-right government that is in power is pushing fascist and racist laws. Israel is committing suicide after 75 years of existence.” Netanyahu swept to victory in elections last November and went on to create Israel’s most far-right, religious conservative government in its nearly 75-year history.
Its controversial judicial overhaul plan has brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis onto the streets over the past week as it attempted to start voting the reforms through parliament.
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