+972 and Local Call stand with colleagues Basel and Yuval
The attacks on Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham illustrate the repressive forces working to silence those who speak hard truths about Israeli apartheid.
By +972 Magazine February 28, 2024
▻https://www.972mag.com/basel-adra-yuval-abraham-berlinale
+972 Magazine and Local Call unequivocally stand with our colleagues Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham against the vicious attacks that have sought to smear, harm, and intimidate them for speaking truth to power about the unjust realities in Israel-Palestine.
The two activists and journalists — Basel being a longtime writer for our sites, and Yuval our current reporter — have been subjected to an aggressive campaign after their film “No Other Land,” co-directed with Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor, won the Best Documentary Award and the Audience Favorite Documentary Award at the Berlinale film festival. The film is an insightful look into life and struggle in Masafer Yatta, Basel’s home region in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces and settlers are working to forcibly expel Palestinian communities from their homes.
In their acceptance speeches, Basel and Yuval humbly chose to use their platforms to spotlight the structures of oppression in Israel-Palestine and the need to challenge them. Basel stressed Germany’s responsibility to end its complicity in Israel’s brutal war on the Gaza Strip, while Yuval described the mechanisms of apartheid that separate the co-directors’ lives. (...)
