Israel’s newly appointed Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar has lashed out against Israeli filmmaker David Wachsmann’s award-winning documentary Two Kids A Day, probing the country’s detention …
probing the country’s detention of Palestinian children in the West Bank, and is threatening to take back its state funding.
“The Ministry of Culture and Sports under my leadership will not finance works that harm the good name of the State of Israel, both in Israel and in the world,” he was quoted as saying by local media.explores Israel’s detention of Palestinian youngsters, suggesting as per the title that on average Israeli Defences Forces arrest two children a day, or some 700 youngsters a year.
The film has stoked the ire of Israeli right-wing activists who have been picketing screenings of the film. The situation came to a head last Wednesday when a group of these protestors tried to shut a screening down at the Herzliya Cinematheque.The minister has since said he is working on a measure under which filmmakers and producers will have to sign a document in which they pledge not to harm the reputation of the State of Israel or its army to secure state funding.
“The next step will be a law curtailing the freedom of the artistic choices of filmmakers,” he continued. Israel’s cultural sector lobbied hard against the move and attempts to get it through Israel’s Knesset parliament were ditched after Netanyahu’s majority was weakened by defections, making it less likely to pass.
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