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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/and-the-oscar-for-best-palestinian-propaganda-goes-to/
Three Pro-Palestinian Films Nominated for Academy Awards
(Times of Israel) Gary Rosenblatt - Three well-produced, deeply biased "historical dramas" nominated for Academy Awards ignore the origins, context and complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and cast Palestinians as noble victims at the hands of violent, inhumane Jews, rather than as aggressors. "All That's Left of You" offers a fictional multi-generational drama of the suffering of one Palestinian family beginning in 1948. But there is no effort to provide context for the war that began on May 15, 1948, when five Arab armies attacked and sought to destroy the State of Israel, which had declared independence. "Palestine 36" focuses on the 1936-1939 Arab revolt against British rule in Palestine, casting the Jews in a harsh light. Some historians noted the film avoids mention of Arab violence against Jews that set off the revolt, and the role of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who supported and collaborated with Hitler in opposing a Jewish presence in Palestine. "The Voice of Hind Rajab" is based on the true story of the death of a six-year-old Gazan girl trapped in a car in the midst of the war. As she and six relatives fled from the fighting on Jan. 29, 2024, their car was fired on and everyone else in the car was killed. Hind managed to speak by phone to her mother and Palestinian rescue dispatchers and her conversations were recorded. Israeli officials have said IDF forces were not in the area of the car that fateful day. There is no mention of Hamas or its brutal attack that launched the war. There will be more films like these three because much of the world population and mainstream media are open to the images of Israelis as oppressors and Palestinians as victims. The writer is former editor and publisher of the New York Jewish Week.