{"id":358193,"date":"2026-09-27T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358193\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:48:07","slug":"israeli-americans-protest-outside-naza-new-york-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358193\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Americans Protest Outside ‘NAZA’ New York Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDozens of Israeli Americans and members of Jewish communities gathered outside the Lincoln Center on Saturday to protest the premiere of NAZA<\/a><\/a> at the New York Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe documentary, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, was filmed at night from Tel Aviv rooftops and examines \u201cthe systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians\u201d by Israel<\/a>\u2018s military operations in Gaza, the filmmakers previously said<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the protest, demonstrators screened footage from the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel from LED screens mounted on trucks outside the premiere. Nova festival survivors Rom El-Hai and Shalev Biton also spoke to the crowd, sharing their accounts of Oct. 7. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re here not because we\u2019re saying, don\u2019t show the film,\u201d Israeli-American Council (IAC) co-chair Tal Shuster said of NAZA during the rally. \u201cEveryone has the freedom of speech, that\u2019s the United States. We are saying: it\u2019s not all the facts. Show everything else, not just the documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have the trucks here,\u201d Shuster continued. \u201cLet\u2019s each one of us be an ambassador and show people what actually happened. If you screen the film, invite a survivor, let them speak, at a panel. Let them be heard. Don\u2019t just show one side without the facts from the other side. Before you go into the film, or after it, come hear about what happened in Israel on Oct. 7. 1,200 people were murdered. 251 people were kidnapped. Yes, show all the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe IAC also launched a petition, \u201ccalling on cultural institutions, film festivals and movie theaters across the United States to accompany screenings of NAZA with panels, survivor testimony, and background and context materials,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are not here to silence a movie, but we believe people should watch, ask difficult questions, challenge what they see and decide for themselves, but they also deserve to hear the perspectives and facts that this film does not present,\u201d Noa Peri-Jensch, the IAC\u2019s chief communities officer, added during Saturday\u2019s protest.<\/p>\n

\n\tNAZA<\/a>, which took home the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, will start its theatrical release in the U.S.<\/a> on Oct. 9, followed by a global rollout.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israelis to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible,\u201d filmmaker Abraham and Szor previously said<\/a> of their Israel\u2013Gaza war documentary<\/a>. \u201cThe threats from the Israeli government to revoke our citizenship and the death threats do not change that and will not stop the film. We thank our colleagues for the solidarity and look forward to sharing NAZA all over the world very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of Israeli Americans and members of Jewish communities gathered outside the Lincoln Center on Saturday to protest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,133439,133299,9,14115,133440,11,10],"class_list":["post-358193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-israel","tag-israel-gaza-conflict","tag-naza","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-film-festival","tag-new-york-film-festival-2026","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}