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Canada-Palestine Film Festival about propaganda not art, says B’nai Brith CanadaPosted On 09/28/05
Canada-Palestine Film Festival about propaganda not art, says B’nai Brith Canada
Winnipeg, September 28, 2005… B’nai Brith Canada has expressed concerns over the viciously anti-Israel agenda of the “Second Annual Canada-Palestine Film Festival”, which begins tomorrow in Winnipeg.
“As was the case last year, the very title of this year’s festival, ‘Occupation Will Still Be Televised,’ denotes an attitude that is a priori prejudicial and harmful to Israel, and blatantly misrepresents the facts on the ground,” said David Matas, B’nai Brith Canada’s Senior Legal Counsel. “The continued usage of the film Jenin, Jenin to promote the festival – a film that has long been exposed as a fraud for its depiction of a supposed Israeli massacre in Jenin – speaks volumes about the politicized nature of the event.
“We have received numerous calls from all sectors of the community expressing concerns that a public venue is being used to host an event that has as its raison d’être the promotion of vicious anti-Israel propaganda. We find it inappropriate for the Cinematheque to associate its good name with such an event, and ask them again not to use their premises in this fashion.”
For more information, please contact, Karen Lazar, Communications Director:
416-633-6224 X 140 / cell: 647-999-9835
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B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875
as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency
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