'No Other Land' Oscar winners call for a different path on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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The filmmakers behind ‘No Other Land,’ which won the Oscar for best documentary, called for a different path forward to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in their acceptance speech Sunday.

“There is a different path, a political solution without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for both of our people,” said Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham, in his acceptance speech.

“And I have to say, as I am here, the foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path,” Abraham continued, knocking President Trump’s approach to foreign policy.

The film is a collaboration between Israelis and Palestinians, and it follows activist Basel Adra as he documents the destruction of his hometown at the southern edge of the West Bank, which Israeli soldiers are tearing down to use as a military training zone, according to The Associated Press. Adra then befriends a Jewish Israeli journalist to help tell his story.

“We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis, because together, our voices are stronger. We see each other, the atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people, which must end, the Israeli hostages brutally taken in the crime of October 7, which must be freed,” Abraham said on stage.

“When I look at Basel, I see my brother, but we are unequal,” he continued. “We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law, and Basel is under military laws that destroy his life, and he cannot control.”

Adra, on stage, said that two months ago, he became a father and said he hopes his daughter “will not have to live the same life I’m living now, always fearing settlers, violence, home demolitions and forcible displacements.”

“We call on the world to take serious actions to stop injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people,” Adra added in his speech.

The documentary, which was filmed over four years between 2019 and 2023, wrapped production just days before Hamas launched its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, precipitating the ongoing war.

The Associated Press contributed.

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