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"I defamed the IDF ?!
I did not shoot a pregnant woman, I did not kill children "
Director and actor Muhammad Bakri, the creator of the film "Jenin Jenin", said at a press conference that took place after the court's decision to ban its screening in Israel.
"I am almost convinced that the timing of the trial is related to the upcoming elections. I will continue to do so as long as the occupation continues. I have not directed anything in this film."
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Sagi Ben Nun
Monday, 18 January 2021, 12:21
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"I am almost convinced that the timing of the trial on the 'Jenin Jenin' films is related to the upcoming elections. I am almost convinced that if there is a political upheaval and we get rid of the Israeli right, it will affect the High Court's decision on appeal." Second) The director and actor Muhammad Bakri, the creator of the film "Jenin Jenin", as part of a press conference following the court's decision to ban its screening in Israel. Judge Halit Silesh ruled that Bakri will compensate the plaintiff - Lt. Maganji, who fought in a battle in the Jenin refugee camp during Operation Defensive Shield.
In addition, Bakri was ordered to pay legal expenses in the amount of NIS 50,000.
"I made a film for peace and not for raising hands and surrendering," Bakri said.
"True peace in my eyes is based on equality, looking at eye level without sacrificing my rights as a person and a Palestinian, waiting for the moment when he will have a state, a flag, a port, an airport, a passport, and not get stuck in refugee camps and airports for days and years and years. "I made the film just to say - enough for the occupation, enough for the bloodshed. I made the film about a person's love for his homeland, about the pious ties between man and his history.
" I made a film about the horrors of the occupation, the people and the Palestinian narrative that no one hears about, "he added. Bakri. "This is the first time I have tried to give a stage to people who have not been given a stage, who will express their pain and suffering for 70 years under the Israeli occupation.
From here to blaming and manipulating lies is a very long way.
There is no body behind me that supports me.
I do not regret anything I did, and I will continue to do so as long as the occupation continues. "
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"A man's love for his homeland."
Bakri (Photo: Aviv Hofi)
Asked if he had not "directed" anything, he said: "I did not direct anything. The people directed me. From the preacher to the old man they said what was on their minds. All I did was edit it so that it could be seen as a film."
In response to the allegations that he defamed the IDF, he said: "The IDF defamed the IDF for the crimes he committed in Jenin, I did not defame the IDF. I did not shoot a pregnant woman, I did not ruin her life, I did not kill "Children, I did not change in the pots of a kitchen, I did not shoot at a hospital and I almost destroyed it."
The press conference also featured the chairman of the High Monitoring Committee of the Arab Public, former MK Muhammad Bracha, who said: "I came to side with the great artist in the face of the evil decision of an Israeli court, which came to incriminate a film, and in fact incriminate the Palestinian person's narrative. The court's decision is political. Three cases of culture burning have stood out in history - one was the burning of the Alexandria Library, the second when they burned the Baghdad library, and the third during the Nazi days that burned any non-German book. The decision to stop the. The screening of the film 'Jenin Jenin' is an anti-democratic decision, which harms the freedom of expression, the narrative of the Palestinian people and the narrative of the Palestinian victim, who suffered from the Israeli occupation of Jenin and beyond. We are here to tell Muhammad Bakri that this decision was not just for you But for the entire Arab public. "
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"I did not direct anything."
Muhammad Bakri (Photo: Meged Guzni)
The film "Jenin Jenin" was made from videos and footage from the military operation in the Jenin refugee camp, as well as from interviews conducted by Bakri with the camp's residents.
The judge wrote in the verdict last week that Bakri had created a film that purported to be a documentary but chose "consciously not to conduct a test, even minimal, even preliminary, of the allegations and facts" in interviews he brought in the film, and further ruled that "the things published in the film are mostly untrue."
Among the scenes cited in the indictment as defamatory was a scene in which a Palestinian elder claims to have been shot in the hand for no reason by an IDF soldier, who even threatened him. Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi congratulated the court on the court's ruling, stating that "there is no truth in what was published. In the movie ".
In a conversation with the leaders of the struggle against the film, he added that "this is a sharp and clear message that is a backup to the IDF fighters in the past, present and future, as well as to the bereaved families."
Last week, after the verdict, Bakri told Walla! Tarbut: "I intend to appeal the ruling. The law because it's not fair, it castrates my truth.
I gave a stage for people to tell what they felt while shielding.
It is claimed that it is a lie, that it is a distortion of truth and it is a distortion of reality, it is not true.
I did not make a film against people but against the occupation, against a policy of continuous occupation for 50 years.
I am frightened by the violation of my freedom of expression.
This verdict is for them to see and be seen, that no one will lower their mouth.
This is to scare people who will not touch the holy cows. "
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