Jean-Luc Godard bows to Palestinian pressure and backs out of Israeli film festival
May 31st, 2008 by Scott Marks
Jean-Luc Godard, the grandfather of modern cinema, will no longer be the guest of honor at Tel Aviv’s 12th International Student Film Festival, an event official said on Saturday.
As reported on Breitbart.com, the groundbreaking film director had been due to arrive on Sunday but said he would not be attending for “reasons beyond his control,” Morane Tal said.
Late in May, Godard announced that he would be attending the festival “as a private citizen and as an eternal film student,” and would hold a meeting with students at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on June 4.
“We are very disappointed because he seems to have succumbed to pressure from pro-Palestinian groups who launched a campaign for people to boycott Israel,” Ms. Tal added, without elaborating.
On May 25, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) published an open letter to Jean-Luc Godard asking “someone with (Godard’s) history, moral commitment and consistent support for the causes of justice — from Algeria, to Vietnam, to Palestine — to stand in solidarity with us against occupation and apartheid.”
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