At the Venice Biennale, an Israeli documentary called NAZA — confronting Israel's military operations in Gaza and their human consequences — received a twenty-five-minute standing ovation, transforming a film screening into a moment of collective reckoning. The filmmakers, who openly acknowledge that their Israeli identity grants them access and platforms unavailable to Palestinian storytellers, chose to turn that privilege inward, implicating their own country. The world's reception of NAZA raises a question as old as injustice itself: not only what is witnessed, but who is permitted to witne
Israeli Film 'NAZA' Draws 25-Minute Ovation at Biennale for Gaza Documentation
The film documents Israel's military operations in Gaza, which have resulted in mass casualties and displacement of Palestinians.