Mira Nair, who apparently made some movies, said she is boycotting the Haifa Film festival because Israel is an apartheid state.
I was just invited to Israel as a guest of honor at the Haifa International Film Festival with “The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” (1/5)
— Mira Nair (@MiraPagliNair) July 19, 2013
I will go to Israel, soon. (4/5)
— Mira Nair (@MiraPagliNair) July 19, 2013
I stand w/ Palestine for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) & the larger Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Mov’t. (5/5)
— Mira Nair (@MiraPagliNair) July 19, 2013
And who finances said film? The human rights bastion that is Qatar.
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!, Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake, Kamasutra) has begun shooting for her new film based on Mohsin Hamid’s bestselling novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist. A Mirabai Films and Cine Mosaic production, the film is adapted by Bill Wheeler, Mohsin Hamid, and Ami Boghani and produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher. It has been picked up for financing by the Doha Film Institute (DFI). It is the second major international production to receive financing from the institute.
And what is the DFI? Just another racist oil-sheikh money laundering scheme. It may come as no surprise to you that although they claim that “Eligibility for DFI Grants has been extended to films from all nations“, Israel is not part of their world.
Remember, this is a desert Muslim oil playground.
Qatar has the highest ratio of non-citizens to citizens in the world, with nationals comprising approximately 12 percent of the population. Forced labor and human trafficking are serious problems. A new draft media law was passed that may jeopardize Qatar’s reputation as a center for media freedom, and a poet was sentenced to life imprisonment. Local media tend to self-censor, and the law permits criminal penalties, including prison terms, for defamation.
Gee, d’ya think Nair will boycott Qatar?
Of-course not, oil money corrupts.
h/t @LibertysSpirit
Update: More on Nair’s hypocrisy by Dr. Qanta Ahmed
In case you dont know #Pagli @MiraPagliNair means #Nutcase in colloquial Urdu and Hindi SHAME #BDS IS for nutcases I absolutely condemn it
— Qanta Ahmed (@MissDiagnosis) July 22, 2013
Reluctantly I have to admit @MiraPagliNair is a #fundamentalist when it comes to boycotting #Israel. SHAME #BDS
— Qanta Ahmed (@MissDiagnosis) July 22, 2013
Israel does NOT privilege others over #Islam #Israel allows #Islam to thrive in its diversity UNLIKE #Muslim Majority World @MiraPagliNair
— Qanta Ahmed (@MissDiagnosis) July 22, 2013
amazing @MiraPagliNair boycott #Haifa ? where #Ahmadi #Muslims persecuted in #Pakistan live freely and practice Islam without restricion.
— Qanta Ahmed (@MissDiagnosis) July 22, 2013
Fascinating so #Qatar finances movies on #Reluctant #fundamentalists while arming REAL Fundamentalists in #Syria @LibertysSpirit #BDS
— Qanta Ahmed (@MissDiagnosis) July 22, 2013
At #Israel 's #RamBam Medical Center in #Haifa I met the Israeli #Arab #Muslim #Female Chief of Nephrology there. Some Apartheid #BDS
— Qanta Ahmed (@MissDiagnosis) July 22, 2013
My next Oped in #Haaretz will be on the fallacy of #boycotting #Israel and the disgrace this is to academics everywhere #BDS
— Qanta Ahmed (@MissDiagnosis) July 22, 2013
Boycotting #Israel penalizes not just #Israelis who are already experiencing academic chilling but most of all hurts Palestinians #BDS
— Qanta Ahmed (@MissDiagnosis) July 22, 2013
#Israeli boycott not only socially acceptable- currently, among populist hypocrites, now a sickening badge of 'honor' #BDS #Israel
— Qanta Ahmed (@MissDiagnosis) July 22, 2013
Thank you Dr. Ahmed.
