Comments on: A Democracy, but No Dissent

By: win win situation

win win situation — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:14:30 +0000

if the film fund would have refused to support the film you would say that there’s no freedom of speech or freedom of art in Israel, when the film fund let the money you cam smile and say “look Eskimo Lemon’s star compares the occupation to the holocaust”. there’s no need to compare something to the holocaust for saying that it’s wrong or evil, and i think that what you showed is that there’s a democracy in Israel after all. what the people of Egypt and Tunisia have just learnt any Israeli citizen Jewish or Arab could tell, it’s better to have democracy with some bad frogs (as Liberman and the ultra orthodox) than have no democracy and blame the neighbours at your own problems.
by the way, with all the respect to Eskimo Lemon there are some beautiful Israeli films from the last few years, such: Waltz with Bashir, the Hangman, the Archive’s Silence, the Internal Grammar, Bena and many others. I don’t know where else could Ilya Sulieman to shoot a critical film as The Time That Remains (which is also great).
ciao

By: Eurosabra

Eurosabra — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:16:40 +0000

Brand names often wind up in Hebrew as the name for an entire item. “Eskimo” = “popsicle.”

Anti-occupation sentiment in Israel is alive and well, and you might be surprised what you find.

By: ihearthamas

ihearthamas — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:17:09 +0000

Opressing 3 million+ Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel and completely suppressing any open discourse or dissent is also incredibly classy.

By: B.Witt

B.Witt — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:17:47 +0000

Democracy in scare quotes?

Classy. Very classy.