Israeli minister threatens to strip filmmakers of citizenship over Gaza documentary

When two Israeli filmmakers brought home a Venice prize for documenting the human calculus behind Gaza airstrikes, their government's response was not rebuttal but threat — a promise to strip them of citizenship for what officials called treason. The film, built from nighttime rooftop conversations with two dozen military and intelligence insiders, places the machinery of modern warfare — its algorithms, its decisions, its dead — before an international audience. In this collision between artistic witness and state power, an older question resurfaces: who is permitted to name what a society do