Minister of Culture and Sports Mickey Zohar announced this evening (Sunday) that he will work to revoke the citizenship of Yuval Avraham and Rachel Shor, the creators of the film 'Naz', following its winning yesterday of the Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
According to the plot summary, the documentary deals with "the mechanisms of action behind the mass killings in Gaza and is based on the testimonies of 24 soldiers and officers in the IDF." The film's name is derived from the military acronym "incidental damage.".
A statement from Culture and Sports Minister Mickey Zohar, who is staying in Uman, said: "The victory of the vile film NAZA at the Venice Film Festival is shocking. The burning self-hatred of the creators who are willing to harm their homeland in order to receive applause from anti-Semites around the world is unimaginable and constitutes a betrayal of the country.".
""This is exactly why I led the important reform in cinema so that Israeli citizens will not have to pay more out of their own pockets for harming IDF soldiers and the State of Israel. As Minister of Culture, I will immediately take action to revoke the Israeli citizenship of these vile creators for treason against the country.".
Chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu Avigdor Lieberman He called the film's creators "Israeli traitors" who "took the war that was forced upon Israel after the October 7 massacre and turned it into a tract of slander and blood libels against the State of Israel, against the IDF and against our wonderful warriors! There are people who, for a moment of fame and applause at a festival, are willing to sell their country. It's very fortunate that they are a small, unhappy and extinct minority.".
Likud He responded: "Eliran Eliya, Gadi Eisenkot's Knesset candidate who also serves as chairman of the Directors' Union, defended the creators of the anti-Semitic film NAZA in their previous anti-Semitic film 'No Other Country.' Now the Directors' Union has issued a statement of support from the union on the anniversary of Avraham and Rachel Shor, after the release of their new anti-Semitic film 'NAZA' - just as they did just a year and a half ago with the pro-Palestinian propaganda film 'No Other Country.'".
""Two films designed to discredit the heroic IDF soldiers, to fabricate blood libels against them, and to portray them as war criminals.".
The Likud party emphasized: "Eliran's retention in Eisenkot's list proves that the list's members include not only leftists, but also an extreme and delusional left.".
