Court Rules Anti-IDF Filmmaker Lied, But Won’t Pay Damages

Arutz Sheva ^ | 27/7/11 | David ben Yakov

[Eleutheria5]

Judges of the High Court of Justice have ruled that Arab film director Mohammed Bakri will not have to compensate the IDF fighters for the defamatory and false content of his film 'Jenin Jenin’.

The film portrays IDF fighters as vicious war criminals, presenting falsified testimony claiming that IDF soldiers cracked the skulls of women, children and elderly people during the bloody house to house battle in Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield in April 2002

Thirteen IDF soldiers were killed in that battle, because the IDF refrained from air strikes to flush out terrorists so as to avoid hurting civilians, even though the civilians had been warned to leave.

A previous court ruling on the libel lawsuit against Bakri brought by reservists who fought in Jenin confirmed that the film was riddled with falsehoods and libel, but also found that Bakri did not have to provide compensation because Israel's law on libel does not make it possible to compensate a large group of people. A High Court Judge upheld the ruling on appeal today.

The Judges admitted that the average audience tends to believe Bakri’s lies, but the film’s slander is directed at the IDF at large, and not at an individual. As a result, Bakri doesn’t owe compensation to the IDF soldiers portrayed. They added that they were not comfortable with their ruling, but were confined to the letter of the Israeli Slander Law.

The court had originally proposed a compromise, by which Bakri would not define his film as a documentary, in exchange for the removal of the slander claim, but the offended soldiers refused the terms.

[Eleutheria5]

So now that the law is known, someone ought to use it for the good guys. Just have a "documentary" in Arabic with Hebrew and English subtitles showing PA officials having sex with goats, chickens, young boys, and each other, and taking and extorting bribes. Just never identify the specific officials. Simply show an outraged father and his weeping family, all proclaiming, "those PA officials/Hamas aparatchiks have destroyed our honor. We had to honor kill all our chickens after they defiled them, simply because we wouldn't pay an extra bribe! It was terrible! We already promised them twice what we make in a year, and they wanted three times as much as that! But why did they have to make our donkey felate them? Why?!"

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

presenting falsified testimony claiming that IDF soldiers cracked the skulls of women, children and elderly people

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