Nadav Lapid, Filmmaker & Fierce Critic of Israel, Latest Victim of BDS Mob
Pro-Palestinian activists pressured the festival over his Israeli public funding, and more than 350 film industry members signed letters opposing the boycott.
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Courrier internationalThe filmmaker, known for his anti-Netanyahu stance, had to cancel his participation on the jury of the Marseille International Film Festival in the face of calls for a boycott. This forced withdrawal has sparked considerable controversy. In the Israeli daily newspaper "Haaretz," Libby Lenkinski, a close associate of Nadav Lapid, denounces the logic behind this boycott and [...]
Some leftists are boycotting this film. Everyone should watch it.
In 2021, Israeli film director Nadav Lapid moved to France because, he told me, he felt his country was in a state of “total moral collapse.” After Oct. 7, as Israel ground much of the Gaza Strip into dust, Lapid returned to Israel to make “Yes,” an impossibly scathing, bitterly surreal attempt to capture that collapse on film.
Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
Nadav Lapid is a filmmaker whose work has become increasingly ferocious in its indictment of Israeli society, nationalism and moral self-deception. His latest film, Yes, is not a plea for Israeli innocence, but rather a savage, obscene, self-implicating reckoning with a country in which language, music, sex and grief have all been drafted into the service of monstrous affirmation. That he was pushed out of a prestigious international film festiv…
Pro-Israel Entertainment Industry Group Rejects Cultural Boycott of Israeli Director Nadav Lapid
Nadav Lapid at the Roma Cinema Fest 2025, evening 2 – Red carpet for the film “Ken.” Photo: D Avanzo/ProvvisionatoIPA/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), an organization comprised of pro-Israel members of the entertainment industry, released a statement on Wednesday in solidarity with the hundreds of industry members who condemned the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement for targeting award-winning Isra…
Nadav Lapid, Filmmaker & Fierce Critic of Israel, Latest Victim of BDS Mob
Key Takeaways: Israeli director Nadav Lapid is a fierce critic of the State of Israel who moved to France in 2021 as a form of self-exile. However, his public aversion to the Jewish state was not enough to save him from having his invitation to a Marseille-based festival revoked following pressure from anti-Israel activists. Lapid is but the latest in a long line of anti-Israel activists and scathing critics of the Jewish state (particularly Je…
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