After Lebanon and Kuwait, will Jordan censor Kenneth Branagh's
Death on the Nile
, the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel?
In order to put pressure on the government of the Hashemite Kingdom, a campaign led by anti-Zionist activists was launched on local social networks with an unambiguous slogan:
#Ban the Zionist film
.
The reason for this ban request?
The presence of the poster of Gal Gadot, who embodies the rich heiress Linnet Doyle, the second role of the scenario after that of Hercule Poirot.
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Death on the Nile
banned in Kuwait because of the presence of Gal Gadot
The hashtag
Ban the Zionist film
has sparked a real buzz in Jordan.
The majority of retweets point to the military service performed by actress Gal Gadot between the ages of 18 and 20 (in Israel it is compulsory for all) then her stance against Hamas during the 2014 conflict in the Gaza Strip.
Finally, the past of the actress, who was also Miss Israel, is also considered offensive in this predominantly Muslim country.
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Death on the Nile
tops the US box office,
Uncharted
internationally
“
Gal Gadot, as a soldier served in an occupying army.
It means she killed our people and violated our sanctity.
Jordan will not capitulate to the Zionists and therefore
Death on the Nile
should be banned
,” said former Al-Jazeera director Yasser Abu Hilala.
So far, the Jordanian Ministry of Culture has not yielded to insistent pressure from anti-Zionist activists on social media.
A little over two weeks ago the censorship commission dubbed the film on condition that a scene with a homosexual connotation be deleted.
In a statement, the director of this body, Abu al-Rajab, declared in order to justify his authorization: "
The commission did not detect any attack against Islam, the Arab cause or the Palestinian question in
Death on the Nile
.
We do not take into account in our decrees neither the origin, nor the religion, nor the nationality, nor the political positions of the actors of a film.
Gal Gadot has already acted in films screened in Jordan without this ever having led to any protest.
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Death on the Nile
by Kenneth Branagh, in 2022, with Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Tom Bateman...
