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22 Jul, 2013

Prominent Indian filmmaker boycotts Haifa festival to protest Israeli apartheid – Haaretz

Award-winning Indian director Mira Nair has turned down an invitation to be guest of honor at the Haifa Film Festival for political reasons, posting on her Twitter page that she would not visit Israel until “Apartheid is over.”

“I will not be going to Israel at this time,” she tweeted last Friday in the second of five tweets on the subject of Israel. The first tweet announced that she had been invited to the film festival as guest of honor. “I will go to Israel when the walls come down. I will go to Israel when occupation is gone.”

via Prominent filmmaker boycotts Haifa festival to protest Israeli ‘apartheid’ –  Haaretz.