Posted by Larry Gleeson

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on U.S. film distributors and streaming platforms in the United States to pursue rights to distribute the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” a joint Palestinian-Israeli production which chronicles Israeli settler violence and military demolitions of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.

In a statement, CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper said:

“Any other documentary this highly acclaimed would have been picked up by a major film company long ago. In the wake of No Other Land’s Oscar win, the unprecedented censorship of this film must end. We call on U.S. film companies and streaming services to pursue this Oscar-winning documentary and quickly make it available to the American public. Palestinian stories have been ignored amid the far-right Israeli government’s campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out with American taxpayer dollars. The American people deserve the right to see this film.”

The film, which has won dozens of prizes since its release last year, was awarded the Oscar for Best Documentary last night at the 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California. The film was produced from 2019 to 2023 and comprises mostly personal camcorder footage filmed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra, 28, who documents the Israeli military’s destruction of his hometown, Masafer Yatta in a small, rugged region in the southern occupied West Bank.

CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com