The Oscars, an institution that claims to celebrate artistic excellence, this week played a leading role in a sophisticated and cynical propaganda campaign against Israel. The 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary went to No Other Land, a film that, beneath the veneer of raw storytelling and supposed human rights advocacy, is little more than a masterclass in Palestinian distortion. It is not a documentary in the truest sense of the word but a carefully crafted piece of demagoguery –designed not to illuminate but to vilify, to cast Israel as the villain in a narrative that, in reality, it did not write.
The irony is staggering. Even as Israel fights to defend itself against the most barbaric assault in its history – the Hamas-led invasion of 7th October, in which Palestinian terrorists butchered civilians, raped women, and abducted hostages, some of whom are now being returned in coffins or in states of unimaginable trauma – Hollywood has seen fit to bestow its golden seal of approval on yet another attempt to delegitimise the Jewish state.
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