{"id":847489,"date":"2026-09-14T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847489\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:08:10","slug":"israeli-minister-threatens-to-revoke-filmmakers-citizenship-over-gaza-film-cinema-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847489\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli minister threatens to revoke filmmakers\u2019 citizenship over Gaza film | Cinema News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Culture minister labels Gaza genocide film as vile, criticising it after Venice Film Festival recognition.<\/p>\n

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Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has said that he will move to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their documentary on Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza, NAZA<\/a>, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n

In an X post on Sunday, Zohar called the documentary \u201cvile\u201d and its win at the film festival \u201cshocking\u201d. He accused the filmmakers of harming the country \u201cjust to get applause from antisemites around the world\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The minister said that Abraham and Szor\u2019s actions \u201cconstitute treason against the state\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs culture minister, I will act immediately to revoke the Israeli citizenship of these despicable creators for treason against the state,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The 80-minute film<\/a> documented Israel\u2019s use of AI-powered systems<\/a> to commit \u201ccalculated mass killings\u201d of Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Venice Film Festival\u2019s official synopsis. The documentary received a 25-minute standing ovation at its premiere during the film festival.<\/p>\n

The film features testimonies from Israeli military and intelligence personnel who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Interviewees described an AI system called \u201cLavender\u201d, used to monitor telecommunications between Palestinians in Gaza and determine targeted killings.<\/p>\n

Abraham said he hoped his documentary would push Western governments to apply economic sanctions on Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Culture minister labels Gaza genocide film as vile, criticising it after Venice Film Festival recognition. Published On 14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11587,38731,88,5618,3075,803,2563,129,3,2485],"class_list":["post-847489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-censorship","tag-cinema","tag-entertainment","tag-gaza","tag-human-rights","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}