Oscar-winning (pallywood) filmmakers caught on video pestering IDF troops.

The scene in "No Other Land," described in the film as "settler violence and IDF cruelty," was a staged provocation, according to the local council.

(March 5, 2025 / JNS) The Mount Hebron Regional Council, which administers Jewish towns in southern Judea, published never-before-seen footage on Wednesday showing 2025 Best Documentary Oscar winners Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra harassing a group of Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the area.

“This scene is described in the film as ‘settler violence and IDF cruelty in Massafer Yatta.’ In reality, it was just a planned, staged provocation and harassment of IDF soldiers in IDF Firing Zone 918,” the regional council said in a joint statement with the Regavim Movement lobbying group.

The activists featured in Abraham and Basel’s award-winning film “No Other Land” are “nothing but paid actors,” the statement concluded.

In the IDF body cam footage, Abraham and Adra can be seen joining a group of far-left activists with cameras who attempt to back several Israeli soldiers providing security in the area into a corner.

“Back off! Get out of here! Back off!” Abraham screams at the soldiers, accusing one of them of sexually harassing him and other activists.

“Who do you think you are, talking to soldiers like that? Shame on you,” troops tell him, adding: “Who did I touch? My hands are in my pockets.”

Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar shared the footage on X, tweeting: “Oscar winners should be ashamed that their title was achieved by abusing IDF soldiers who fight to defend the country.”

“No Other Land,” which purports to show Palestinians protecting their homes from demolition by the IDF, won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Eitan Fischberger
@EFischberger:
🚨 “No Other Land” Exposed by Pro-Palestinian Activist 🚨

Below is the text of a Facebook post published by Erez Ganor—an Israeli who claims to have worked for years to help Palestinians—about the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.”

Erez deleted this post after experiencing significant backlash from other pro-Palestinian activists. It’s very long, so here are the most notable parts, in my opinion:

🔸 “I just want to say that the film in question is a staged production made at the expense of the very residents whose outcry it claims to represent.”

🔸 “This is an opportunistic family [referring to co-writer & co-director Basel Adra] that has made a name for itself at the expense of the residents of the village of Al-Tuwani.”

🔸 “The family stages supposedly violent incidents involving settlers, yet at the same time has no qualms about working in Israel or even with settlers.”

🔸 “This is a family that spends plenty of time in Europe, funded by European grants aimed at supporting the rural population of the South Hebron Hills, driving luxury vehicles in stark contrast to the rest of the region’s residents.”

🔸 “Hedonists and opportunists like these are very familiar to us, and they exist within Palestinian society as well—people who know how to exploit certain situations for their own personal benefit.”

🔸 “I’ve encountered this family staging incidents on multiple occasions while I was volunteering, transporting sick children and carrying out rehabilitation work among the rural population in the Hebron area.”

🔸 “Upon thorough investigation, it turned out they were receiving donations and selling them.”

🔸 “The biased film produced by the Adra family, supposedly crying out the voice of the dispossessed, is actually a mockery of the poor.”

🔸 “Anyone who genuinely cares about the well-being of the Arab population should seek the truth and not rely on dubious sources of information.
And to those who aren’t interested in the truth—so be it.”
Mar 6, 2025.
https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1897668902152265919

Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger:
2/2

To this day, the disappearance of the last Christian village in the Hebron area remains a mystery, as does the suppression of information about the massacre in Hebron—not the famous one during the 1929 riots (Tarpat).
Most of you are probably unaware that a massacre also took place in Hebron in 1922.
The 1921 riots may have subsided, but in the West Bank they continued against Christian minorities.

Hebron once had a small Christian community of about 40 households, according to the British Mandate census.
It was made up mostly of Greek Orthodox Christians, with a minority of Catholics and Russian Orthodox.
The community hosted Christian pilgrims who would visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

In the early 20th century, the Russian Church even established another guest complex near the city, known as “The Moscovia,” which still exists today.
In 1922, an inflamed Muslim mob rose up and massacred the Christian community.
A few children survived the massacre and were taken to orphanages in Jerusalem by the Mandate police.
This was ethnic cleansing, Palestinian Arab style.

The biased film produced by the Adra family, supposedly crying out the voice of the dispossessed, is actually a mockery of the poor.
Perhaps the residents of Masafer Yatta would be living peacefully were it not for all the provocations of this wandering family, which runs social media pages, funds, connections, and more.

Anyone who genuinely cares about the well-being of the Arab population should seek the truth and not rely on dubious sources of information.
And to those who aren’t interested in the truth—so be it.”
Mar 6, 2025
https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1897669028078059710

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