At the Venice Film Festival, a documentary built from the testimony of two dozen Israeli military officers won a major prize — and within a day, Israel's Culture Minister had threatened to strip its directors of their citizenship. The film, NAZA, asks audiences to reckon with what soldiers say their own systems were designed to do in Gaza. That a government minister would reach for the instrument of statelessness in response to a privately funded film suggests something older than any single controversy: the recurring tension between those who hold power and those who document its exercise.
Israeli Minister Threatens to Revoke Citizenship of Oscar-Winning Filmmakers Over Gaza Documentary
The documentary documents Israeli military systems and protocols allegedly used to target and kill civilians in Gaza; over 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza.