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November 26, 2007
Theaters Settle, Pay Reservists for Screening 'Jenin, Jenin'
Ynetnews.com reports today that IDF reservists who served in Operation Defensive Shield (2002) will receive compensation from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem theatres for their decision to screen Mohammed Bakri's Jenin, Jenin, which was found to be riddled with gross distortions:
Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv cinematheques will pay NIS 40,000 in restitution to five IDF reservists who were offended by the screening of the contentious film "Jenin Jenin". The reservists maintained that the film, in which actor and director Mohammed Bakri depicts IDF excursions into Gaza during Operation Defensive Shield, is defamatory and slanderous. . .
"This plea agreement is a major achievement," said Yonatan Van Kaspel, one of the IDF soldiers involved. "Every director will now have to think twice before filming blatant lies, and every movie theater will have to be considerably more careful about what they screen.
Right now we only have the battle against Bakri left," Van Kaspel continued. "I feel that we owe this as a moral debt to our friends who were killed or wounded in Jenin."
Posted by TS at November 26, 2007 07:50 AM
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Every director will now have to think twice before filming blatant lies, and every movie theater will have to be considerably more careful about what they screen.
Posted by: Ann at November 26, 2007 08:54 AM
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