And The Oscar For Deception Goes To “No Other Land”

And The Oscar For Deception Goes To “No Other Land”

The Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land is a prime example of Palestinianism, or the ideological framework for destroying the Jewish state and uprooting its citizens. Palestinianism holds that Jews are illegitimate dwellers in Palestine which they came to colonize, displacing its original inhabitants.

Palestinianism is the key component of woke intersectionality. Today, when both BLM, trans and other identity movements clearly peaked out, Palestinianism is still riding high — the Academy Award testifies to it.

No Other Land purports to tell the story of an allegedly indigenous ancient village of Masafer Yatta in Judea. It paints the Israeli Defense Forces as the aggressor for trying to evict its residents and steal the land. Deceit and moral transgressions of Palestinianist narrative converge in the joint Arab-Israeli production. Let us count the ways it lies.

1.     The title is theft — a true example of cultural appropriation

I Have no Other Land is the title of a well-known Hebrew song. Written in 1982 by Israeli poet Ehud Manor, it quickly became an unofficial Israeli anthem and its title — a popular catchphrase. But try to type “I have no other land” in a search engine — and you will get links to the hyped up film.

If westerners regularly get slammed with cultural appropriation smear for innocently drawing inspiration from a wide range of traditions, the Oscar-winning woke documentary claimed an element of the Jewish culture not familiar to international audiences and tried to pass it as their own. And they did it as their Gazan brethren committed an act of genocide in southern Israel on October 7.

2.     The title is a lie

While Jews, as the song testifies, only have one land, there are fifty Muslim majority countries, twenty two of them Arab and one — Jordan — is Palestinian. The statement “I have no other land” makes no sense in relation to the protagonist of the film and can’t be seen in any other way but as a cruel mockery of  Jewish history, the wounds of diaspora and deep-felt patriotism.

3.     The protagonists have no legal claims to Masafer Yatta

Transjordan illegally occupied Judea when the British Mandate for Palestine was terminated in 1948. When Israel liberated it in 1967, it was a deserted area where Beduins would occasionally pass. As Kassy Akiva pointed out, the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO designated the territory in question as Area C — under complete Israeli control.

Akiva further explained that

Aerial photographs dating as far back as 1945 — some of which the Arabs submitted themselves to the Israeli Supreme Court — show no signs of a residential presence before the 1980s. Not until the 2000s does the area have signs of habitation in the images.

She explains that although the IDF conducted live fire exercises in the patch of land, it graciously allowed Arab shepherds to bring their flocks to pasture between training periods. Over the last two decades, a group of Arabs built makeshift housing structures there and took advantage of the Israeli court system to stall their demolition. Here is why these activities are diabolical.

Their actions can be seen in a wider context of the policy of the Oslo-created Palestinian Authority to create “facts on the ground” in key locations. Twenty thousand of such illegal structures have been created. These strategic spots would enable terrorists and civilians to launch attacks along Israel’s seam line on the scale that would dwarf the Simchat Torah massacre. The film is the son story masking genocidal intent.

4.     The action is staged.

Anti-zionist extremists are notorious for producing campy scenes of confrontation with Israel, or Pallywooding. A classic Pallywood scene involves allegedly dead children in ruins of a bombed out house or a toddler running towards a tank with a Palestinian flag or corpses that begin moving. They reflect how producers feel about Israel, but fail as factual testimony.

In a video obtained by the Israeli NGO Regavim, the co-director of No Other Land Yuval Abraham is seen engaged in a confrontation with the IDF, shouting allegations of sexual harassment of foreign activists. Regavim comments:

This scene is described in the film as “settler violence  and IDF cruelty in Massafer Yatta” – in reality it was just a planned, staged provocation and harassment of IDF soldiers in IDF Firing Zone 918.

These “activists” are nothing but paid actors.

Abraham employed a tactic sadly that, post-BLM grift, is too familiar to Americans. He provokes confrontation and films the response of Israeli soldiers — then claims victimhood.

The entire crew appears to be skilled in deception. Abraham’s Arab colleague and protagonist of the film Basel Adra was caught in 2021 trying to set the illegal structure he’s erected on fire and then blame Jews.

5.     The protagonists are migrants and descendants of migrants.

Israeli influencer Adin Haykin found that according to his Wikipedia page, Adra hails from the village of At Tuwani which was settled by the residents of the nearby Yatta in the 20th century. For its part, Yatta is a biblical Jewish town whose current residents are members of the Banu Qais tribe from the Arabian Peninsula — or another land.

Such trajectories are not unusual. The Majority of the Arab population west of river Jordan moved into the area following the arrival of the political Zionists. Zionists drained the swamps, improved healthcare and created economic boom, enabling the establishment of modern Israel. That this fact is poorly understood outside of it is the result of decades of mainstreaming Palestinianism.

6.     An honest documentary can’t be made under terrorist control

Days before No Other Land was awarded the Oscar, BBC withdrew a documentary on Gaza and apologized for “serious flaws”. It turned out that the teen boy who starred in the documentary was the son of a Hamas operative. BBC should have anticipated the deception, but Palestinianist lies seems so natural to them, they didn’t.

Westerners find it hard to imagine what it means to live in a place where one can’t simply pick up a camera and start filming. But Judea, Samaria and Gaza lack civil society. To make a movie in collaboration with the residents, one has to first talk to the terrorists in charge.

An average Academy member knows nothing about the Israeli court system or Zionist nation-building. I’m not sure he has heard of the Oslo Accords. They are not in a position to judge the alleged documentary on factual accuracy. But it feels right to them to think of the Israel as an illegitimate entity and the aggressor.

7.     The film is hype 

A day before the Oscars ceremony, an account named “Danny,” somebody I don’t follow and who doesn’t follow me got into my DMs insisting that I watch No Other Land. When I posted about the film on X, I was attacked by a swarm of accounts with zero followers. Clearly, the mockumentary is an occasion to step up the bot war against Israel.

The film peddles centuries-old blood libels against evil scheming Jews — in this case stealing the ancestral land of innocent shepherds. Everything about it is a lie mass marketed to the naïve. That’s the essence of Palestinianism.

Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.