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Footage has emerged of filmmakers provoking IDF soldiers behind the scenes of what was presented in their award-winning film as ‘settler violence and IDF cruelty.’
By JNS and United with Israel Staff
The Mount Hebron Regional Council, which administers Jewish towns in southern Judea, published never-before-seen footage on Wednesday showing 2025 Best Documentary Oscar winners Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra harassing a group of Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the area.
“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,” the regional council said in a joint statement with the Regavim Movement lobbying group.
The activists featured in Abraham and Adra’s award-winning film “No Other Land” are “nothing but paid actors,” the statement concluded.
זוכי האוסקר צריכים להתבייש שהתואר שלהם הושג על ידי התעמרות בחיילי צה״ל שנלחמים על הגנת המדינה. pic.twitter.com/WhohSCIlL2
— Miki Zohar מיקי זוהר (@zoharm7) March 5, 2025
In the IDF body cam footage, Abraham and Adra can be seen joining a group of far-left activists with cameras who attempt to back several Israeli soldiers providing security in the area into a corner.
“Back off! Get out of here! Back off!” Abraham screams at the soldiers, accusing one of them of sexually harassing him and other activists.
“Who do you think you are, talking to soldiers like that? Shame on you,” troops tell him, adding: “Who did I touch? My hands are in my pockets.”
Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar shared the footage on X, tweeting: “Oscar winners should be ashamed that their title was achieved by abusing IDF soldiers who fight to defend the country.”
This was not the first time Adra was exposed engaging in dubious filmmaking. In 2021, Israeli news showed footage of IDF soldiers catching Adra setting fire to Arab structures, then blaming Jews for the arson. The incident was later confirmed by the IDF spokesperson.
🔥Exclusive:
Basel Adra, star of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, was accused in a 2021 article where Palestinians tried to set fire to Palestinian homes and blame it on Jews. Soldiers caught them, and this was later confirmed by the IDF spokesperson.
🧵1⃣@chalavyishmael pic.twitter.com/RO9N1yvYbB— GAZAWOOD – the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) March 5, 2025
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