Israeli Culture Minister Threatens to Revoke Citizenship of ‘NAZA’ Filmmakers
TEL AVIV — Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar has threatened to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their Gaza war documentary “NAZA” won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, accusing them of “state treason.”In a post on X, Zohar called the film “despicable” and accused the filmmakers…
TEL AVIV — Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar has threatened to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their Gaza war documentary “NAZA” won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, accusing them of “state treason.”
In a post on X, Zohar called the film “despicable” and accused the filmmakers of harming their own country to win acclaim abroad. He said that as culture minister, he would move to immediately revoke the Israeli citizenship of the “reprehensible” filmmakers over the treason accusation.
According to Venice Film Festival’s official description, the documentary examines the systems behind what it calls the “systematic mass killing” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, featuring testimonies from Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers. The film premiered in Venice on Thursday and received a roughly 25-minute standing ovation.
