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Israeli film director Eyal Sivan
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| By israelinsider staff April 29, 2007 |
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A self-proclaimed "anti-Zionist" Israeli film director will receive a NIS 650,000 grant in taxpayers' money to make a film for Israel's 60th Independence Day.
Army Radio reported on Sunday that the director, Eyal Sivan, will direct a film to be part of the "Past and Present in Israel" project to promote "Jaffa" brand citrus fruit.
Sivan, who has lived in France for the last 15 years, directed "The Specialist" in 1999, a film which made use of real footage from Adolf Eichmann's trial in Israel to show the man behind the Final Solution as just another Nazi party official, Army Radio said. The film also presented Sivan's view that Eichmann's victims could have acted to prevent themselves from being butchered.
In an interview with French newspaper "Le Monde" in 2001, Sivan called the UN 1947 partition plan for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine an "historical mistake."
He also blamed the rise of anti-Semitism in France on French Jews' support for Israel.
According to Army Radio, the French Jewish academic Alan Finkelkraut called Sivan and Palestinian director Michel Khleifi's "Route 181," a 2007 documentary, "incitement to murder" for comparing the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians to the way Jews in Europe were treated during the Holocaust. Sivan later sued Finkelkraut for his statement, but the case was thrown out.
During last summer's Second Lebanon War, Sivan reportedly signed a petition with a group of Israeli filmmakers pledging to support to Lebanese and Palestinian civilians and speaking of "the brutality and cruelty of the State of Israel as shown in the news." |
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