Israeli families in Oscar appeal !! HUH
Israeli parents whose children were killed by Palestinian suicide bombers have called on Oscar organisers to disqualify film nominee Paradise Now.
The Palestinian-produced drama is nominated in the best foreign language film category.
It follows two friends who volunteer to blow themselves up in Tel Aviv. But a group of Israeli bereaved parents say more than 32,000 people have signed a petition against the nomination. This year’s Oscars take place on Sunday. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has declined to comment on the petition. Voting for the Oscars closed on Tuesday. The signatures were collected by the relatives of teenagers killed in a bus bombing in the northern city of Haifa three years ago, in which 17 people were killed. They believe the film disregards the suffering experienced by the bombers’ victims, and will encourage more attacks. Paradise Now, directed by Hany Abu-Assad, has already won the Golden Globe award for best foreign film. He used the talents of little-known Palestinian actors to make the film. Abu-Assad has said the prize was recognition “that the Palestinians deserve their liberty and equality”. But petition organiser Yossi Zur, whose teenage son Asaf was killed in the Haifa bus bomb, said: “What they call ‘Paradise Now’ we call ‘hell now’, each and every day.
It follows two friends who volunteer to blow themselves up in Tel Aviv. But a group of Israeli bereaved parents say more than 32,000 people have signed a petition against the nomination. This year’s Oscars take place on Sunday. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has declined to comment on the petition. Voting for the Oscars closed on Tuesday. The signatures were collected by the relatives of teenagers killed in a bus bombing in the northern city of Haifa three years ago, in which 17 people were killed. They believe the film disregards the suffering experienced by the bombers’ victims, and will encourage more attacks. Paradise Now, directed by Hany Abu-Assad, has already won the Golden Globe award for best foreign film. He used the talents of little-known Palestinian actors to make the film. Abu-Assad has said the prize was recognition “that the Palestinians deserve their liberty and equality”. But petition organiser Yossi Zur, whose teenage son Asaf was killed in the Haifa bus bomb, said: “What they call ‘Paradise Now’ we call ‘hell now’, each and every day.
Oscars disagreement
“It is a mission of the free world not to give such movies a prize.”
A Palestinian peace activist will deliver the petition to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Friday. The film also prompted some Jewish groups in the US to lobby the academy to not describe the film as coming from “Palestine”. Some Israeli officials and Jewish groups have said that it does not formally exist as a state, so “the Palestinian Authority” would be a more accurate title. Paradise Now was categorised as being from “the Palestinian Authority” when the Oscar nominations were announced on 31 January, but is listed as from “Palestine” on the academy’s official website.
“It is a mission of the free world not to give such movies a prize.”
A Palestinian peace activist will deliver the petition to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Friday. The film also prompted some Jewish groups in the US to lobby the academy to not describe the film as coming from “Palestine”. Some Israeli officials and Jewish groups have said that it does not formally exist as a state, so “the Palestinian Authority” would be a more accurate title. Paradise Now was categorised as being from “the Palestinian Authority” when the Oscar nominations were announced on 31 January, but is listed as from “Palestine” on the academy’s official website.
Via: Manal Barakat.
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I can’t believe those jews!! why don’t we just disappear to Mars! I think they will demand us to leave from there also.
why didn’t 10 million palestinians protest when the ‘pianist’ won every oscar they could stick to it?
let’s wait and see,
OH man… this is confusing,, why in hell should this happen to palestinians all over the world.. always rejected.. or chased… or chased to be rejected..
may god bless our palestine
Suicide Bombers ?! is that what martyrs are called ? im against any bombing, unless they are on the palestinian territories. Palestinians have no other mean to defend them selves agains Israeli Terrorist. so Martyrs are the only mean. You shouldn’t have written that in ur blog dude. we should NOT keep repeating what’s said in the propaganda.
My Allah Bless our Martyrs’ souls.
shayfen ballah.. the movie will stay fuck them–>