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The Israeli film fund, the Rabinovich Foundation, will reportedly end its insistence that filmmakers seeking its support must sign a loyalty oath to deny in their films the reality of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing against Indigenous Palestinians.
Following PACBI’s August 2022 call to boycott all films supported by the Rabinovich Foundation, apartheid Israel’s largest film fund, over its racist political conditions and loyalty oaths, dozens of mainstream Israeli filmmakers also announced a boycott of the fund.
Our call, covered in the Hollywood Reporter and other leading film industry media, exposed that Israeli filmmakers accepting Rabinovich funding must “omit in their films any mention of Israel's system of apartheid and the ethnic cleansing inherent to its foundation”.
The Israeli filmmakers' boycott of Rabinovich over its loyalty oath was largely motivated by concerns that the BDS call would lead to the increased isolation of the Israeli film industry, including their work, with ever more international film festivals joining the boycott.