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Anger over Netflix film ‘aiming to destroy Israel’
Jordanian film Farha, which depicts Israeli soldiers executing a Palestinian family in cold blood, was launched by streaming service in most countries this week
December 1, 2022 12:47
Jordanian film Farha, which depicts Israeli soldiers executing a Palestinian family in cold blood, was launched by streaming service in most countries this week
December 1, 2022 12:47Netflix is under fire for screening a movie depicting Israeli soldiers executing a Palestinian family in cold blood, made by filmmakers who have a track record of inflammatory comments about the Jewish state.
The film, Farha, set in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, is being launched on Netflix in most countries from 1 December, and is likely to be Jordan’s entry to next year’s Oscars.
Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs, told the JC that the film was intended to “destroy [Israel] by all means possible”.
He said: “I find it deeply troubling that Netflix has apparently failed to do the most basic due diligence before supporting and promoting this project.”
A tweet from one of Farha's producers
In an investigation into the filmmakers, the JC and activist group GnasherJew discovered that producer Ayah Jardaneh tweeted last year that “Israel is the real terrorist” and posted a “map of Palestine” that erased all trace of Israel.
She also tweeted that Mike Pence was supporting “an apartheid state, an occupier and Zionism”.
Addressing Mr Pence, she wrote: “If you love them so much give them your land and leave your house live as a refugee and let them live there instead”.
In 2014, Ms Jardaneh retweeted a post that said “Hamas or his firecracker rockets is not a problem, but seven decades of Israeli brutality and oppression is”.
She has also used the hashtag #27027KM, described as “the area of all Palestine from the river to the sea”.
Ms Jardaneh, who works at the Amman-based company TaleBox, is not the only member of the team to have made such controversial statements online, the JC found.
In 2012, co-producer Deema Azar — who has also used the provocative #27027KM hashtag — attended a talk by controversial vicar Stephen Sizer, who was accused of posting antisemitic material online.
At a disciplinary hearing in May, a Church tribunal heard 11 allegations of antisemitism against Mr Sizer, who was accused of causing “profound offence to Jews” between 2005 and 2017. He denied the charges, saying he attacked only Israel, not Jews.
Farha director Darin J. Sallam (Talebox)
