#BBC Gaza Doc Fallout Continues as Former Chief Accuses Corp of Being “Manipulated by Terrorists”

#BBC Gaza Doc Fallout Continues as Former Chief Accuses Corp of Being “Manipulated by Terrorists”

The fallout continues over the BBC’s airing of a documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas official. Earlier this week, the corporation apologized and removed Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, about the lives of three children caught in the Israel-Gaza war, from its streaming service BBC iPlayer. It was discovered that one of the 13-year-old subjects, Abdullah Al-Yazouri,…

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#Hollywood Reacts as Hostage Release Starts Under Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal: “Let the Healing Begin”

#Hollywood Reacts as Hostage Release Starts Under Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal: “Let the Healing Begin”

Gal Gadot, Mayim Bialik, Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Rappaport were among those in Hollywood to react the first Israeli hostage releases on Sunday. Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher were the first three hostages released from Gaza on Sunday morning. They arrived in Israel, the military announced, hours after the ceasefire between Israel and…

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#Alex Edelman Reveals Past Connection With Steven Spielberg’s Mother at Shoah Foundation Gala

#Alex Edelman Reveals Past Connection With Steven Spielberg’s Mother at Shoah Foundation Gala

Steven Spielberg‘s Shoah Foundation celebrated its 30th anniversary with a star-studded gala in New York last week. In addition to the legendary director, who established the Shoah Foundation after making his 1994 Oscar winner Schindler’s List, Meryl Streep, Whoopi Goldberg, Bruce Springsteen, Drew Barrymore, Itzhak Perlman, Debra Messing, Wendell Pierce and Alex Edelman were among…

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#‘Happy Holidays’ Director Scandar Copti on Finding Love Across the Israeli, Palestinian Divide

#‘Happy Holidays’ Director Scandar Copti on Finding Love Across the Israeli, Palestinian Divide

Scandar Copti doesn’t like polemics. In his Oscar-nominated debut Ajami (2009), Copti, a Palestinian director and Israeli citizen, avoided easy answers, and obvious finger-pointing, to tell a story of crime and corruption, family belonging, and political divisions set in his hometown of Jaffa, a mostly Arab city just south of Tel Aviv. Co-directed with Jewish…

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