Oscar Winner Adra: "Why Couldn’t Claudia Roth Applaud Me as a Palestinian?"
No Other Land just won an Oscar. But while its protagonists were celebrated in Hollywood, the backlash they faced in Germany is now weaponized to silence the film in the U.S.
From a German perspective, the Oscar win of No Other Land marked progress. Just a year ago, Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham were hounded by German media and politics – yet, as it turns out, Germany doesn’t get to set the terms of international recognition.
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