Israeli Documentary on Gaza Killings Sparks Citizenship Threat

In a democracy that prizes open inquiry, a documentary film examining Palestinian deaths at the hands of Israeli forces has drawn not debate but a threat of exile: Israel's culture minister has suggested stripping the filmmakers of their citizenship. The work, titled 'NAZA,' represents the ancient civic act of citizens holding their own state accountable through art and investigation. That such a film could provoke the most severe sanction a government can impose on its own people — the erasure of belonging — places this moment within the long human struggle over who is permitted to ask diffic