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After Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature on Monday, Yuval Abraham, one of the Israeli creators behind the film, faced backlash on social media—particularly from Palestinian and pro-Palestinian users.
While criticism of Abraham in Israel focuses on the film echoing the Palestinian narrative, which some claim tarnishes Israel's image globally, overseas critics accuse Abraham of "stealing" his speech from his Palestinian colleagues, echoing the "Zionist narrative" and opposing "resistance."
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No Other Land creators receive the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
(Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/ AFP)
"Yuval Abraham's Oscar acceptance speech was annoying as f**k," Prof. Shabana Mir from the American Islamic College wrote. "After 16 months of genocide, I've had it with Zionist-centric talk re Palestinians. 'My people are safe if his people are safe.' It's been 76 years and 16 months: Basel's people are being ethnically cleansed, not yours."
Other users uncovered past social media posts by Abraham, where he addresses the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, and criticized him.
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"Yuval Abraham repeatedly spread the genocidal atrocity propaganda rape hoax, said Hamas must be destroyed which is a call for genociding Gaza, lied about Hamas being responsible for the lack of peace and called them 'Islamist supremacists' who want to subjugate and kill all Jews even though they have repeatedly called for a diplomatic resolution which Israel has blocked and have said their struggle is with Zionism, not Jews."
"That's why they gave him the Oscar, in case you were wondering. And that's why he hijacked the moment to whine about the Israeli rape-soldier prisoners in Gaza, grotesquely equating them with the countless Palestinian hostages. Palestinian lives can only be valued by the Western media class when filtered through the genocidal liberal Zionist lens as embodied by Yuval Abrahams. And that is why they exist."
A Palestinian user shared a post by Abraham marking the six-month anniversary of the October 7 attack, writing: "I apologize for celebrating the Oscar win too early. It turns out Yuval Abraham is an 'Israeli' promoting absurd narratives like 'rape, abuse, and torture.' His rhetoric is also against resistance, crossing all my red lines." In another post, they added: "Yuval is a clear liberal Zionist. This Oscar project is the embodiment of normalization, which we must reject in every form—and support resistance."