الحزب الشيوعي الهندي (الماركسي اللينيني) النجمة الحمراءيدين استضافة الهند لمهرجان الفيلم الإسرائيلي21-22 أغسطس 2024.
إدانة حاسمة لاستضافة NFDC لمهرجان الفيلم "الإسرائيلي"
الحزب الشيوعي الهندي (الماركسي اللينيني) النجمة الحمراء
في الوقت الذي تتحد فيه الغالبية العظمى من شعوب العالم، باستثناء عدد قليل من القوى اليمينية المتطرفة الفاشية، ضد "الهولوكوست" الصهيوني الذي يرتكب بحق الفلسطينيين، فإنه من الدنيء من جانب NFDC استضافة مهرجان الفيلم الإسرائيلي في مومباي في 21-22 أغسطس 2024.
كما هو واضح، فإن الأفلام التي تنتقد معاملة إسرائيل للفلسطينيين نادرة جدًا في هذه الأيام. واليوم، أصبحت صناعة السينما الإسرائيلية الممولة والمدعومة من قبل النظام الصهيوني أيضًا أداة فاشية لنشر وتمجيد الثقافة اليهودية/الإسرائيلية من ناحية، وتبرير الاعتداء الإسرائيلي على الفلسطينيين من ناحية أخرى. وبحسب العديد من الناشطين الثقافيين ذوي النوايا الحسنة، فإن النظام الصهيوني الذي يشارك في رعاية المعارض السينمائية الإسرائيلية في بلدان أخرى، منخرط في "استراتيجية تبييض الفن" ويستخدم "الثقافة لتبييض جرائمه ضد الشعب الفلسطيني والتستر عليها".
ومع ذلك، وفي ضوء الإبادة الجماعية المستمرة للفلسطينيين على يد الصهاينة بدعم من الإمبرياليين الأميركيين والأوروبيين، وبما أن الرأي العام العالمي ضد النظام الصهيوني، فقد توقفت العديد من الحكومات عن تشجيع عرض الأفلام الإسرائيلية في بلدانها. ومؤخراً، شهدت المملكة المتحدة احتجاجات قوية ضد تنظيم الأفلام الإسرائيلية هناك، وفي ظل دعوة المقاطعة من قطاعات واسعة من الناس، تم إلغاء عرض الأفلام الإسرائيلية في برشلونة بإسبانيا.
والآن، يشكل الأطفال والنساء والمرضى 70 في المائة من ضحايا الإبادة الجماعية في غزة وحدها، وأصبح التعذيب والاغتصاب وقتل السجناء في معسكرات الاعتقال إلى جانب قتل الفنانين والكتاب والأطباء والمعلمين والأساتذة والصحفيين والعاملين في مجال الصحة أمراً روتينياً. إن تدمير البنية التحتية المدنية، بما في ذلك المباني السكنية والمدارس والجامعات والمستشفيات والعيادات الصحية والكهرباء وإمدادات المياه، مستمر بلا هوادة. وقد أدان مجلس حقوق الإنسان التابع للأمم المتحدة ومحكمة العدل الدولية والمحكمة الجنائية الدولية والعديد من منظمات المجتمع المدني بالفعل جرائم الحرب الإسرائيلية والجرائم ضد الإنسانية.
وفي هذا السياق، يُعقد مهرجان الفيلم الإسرائيلي فقط في البلدان التي تحكمها أنظمة فاشية يمينية متطرفة، وذلك وسط استياء الناس المتزايد. وبالتالي، فإن عرض NFDC للأفلام الإسرائيلية هو انعكاس للعلاقة غير المقدسة بين نظام مودي وحكومة نتنياهو الفاشية الجديدة. ومن خلال رعاية الأفلام الصهيونية في هذه المرحلة، يعلن النظام الفاشي الهندي مرة أخرى أنه في صحبة أنظمة إسلاموفوبية فاشية جديدة خاصة في أوروبا والأمريكيتين. إنه مظهر من مظاهر العلاقة غير المقدسة بين الصهيونية والزعفران والتي يتمثل قاسمها المشترك في الإسلاموفوبيا.
في هذا السياق، يتعين على جميع الأشخاص ذوي النوايا الحسنة وجميع القوى الديمقراطية الاحتجاج ضد هذه الخطوة الشنيعة من جانب NFDC لتنظيم مهرجان الفيلم الإسرائيلي في 21-22 أغسطس في مومباي. مع الأخذ في الاعتبار الرأي العام المتزايد ضد عرض الأفلام الصهيونية في الهند، يجب على حكومة مودي التخلي عن هذه الخطوة الشنيعة في أقرب وقت ممكن.
PJ James
الأمين العام
الحزب الشيوعي الهندي (ML) النجم الأحمر
نيودلهي
20 أغسطس 2024
Resolutely Condemn the Zionist-Saffron Nexus Behind NFDC Hosting Israeli Film Festival
CPI (ML) Red Star
At a time when vast majority of world people, except a few far-right neo-fascist forces, are united against the Zionist "holocaust" being committed on the Palestinians, it is despicable on the part of NFDC to host an Israeli Filim Festival in Mumbai on 21-22 August 2024.
As is obvious, films critical of Israeli treatment of Palestinians are very rare now-a-days. Today, Israeli film industry funded and supported by the Zionist regime is also a fascist tool propagating and glorifying Jewish/Israeli culture on the one hand, and justifying Israeli assault on Palestinians on the other. According to many well-meaning cultural activists, Zionist regime that co-sponsors Israeli film exhibitions in other countries, is engaged in "art-washing strategy" and is using “culture to whitewash and cover up its crimes against the Palestinian people”.
However, in view of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians by Zionists with the backing of US and EU imperialists, and as global public opinion is against the Zionist regime, many govts have stopped encouraging the display of Israeli films in their countries. Recently, UK witnessed strong protests against organising Israeli films there, while amid boycott call from vast sections of people, the screening of Israeli films in Barcelona, Spain was cancelled.
Now, children, women and patients constitute 70 percent of the victims in Gaza genocide alone, and Zionist torture, rape and murder of prisoners in concentration camps along with murder of artists, writers, doctors, teachers, professors, journalists and health-workers has become routine. Destruction of civilian infrastructure, which include residential buildings, schools, universities, hospitals, health clinics, electricity and water supply continues without any let up. UN Human Rights Council, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court and many Civil Society Organisations have already condemned Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In this context, Israeli film festival is held only in countries ruled by far-right neo-fascist regimes, that too amid people's simmering discontent. Hence, NFDC showcasing Israeli films is a reflection of Modi regime's unholy nexus with the neo-fascist Netanyahu govt. By patronising Zionist films at this juncture, the fascist Indian regime once again declares that it is in the company of neo-fascist Islamophobic regimes especially in Europe and in the Americas. It is a manifestation of the unholy Zionist-Saffron nexus whose common denominator is Islamophobia.
In this context, it is up to all well-meaning people and all democratic forces to protest against this heinous move on the part of NFDC to organise the Israeli film festival on 21-22 August in Mumbai. Taking into account the growing public opinion against screening of Zionist films in India, the Modi govt should abandon this heinous move at the earliest.
P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star
New Delhi
20th August 2024
We, the undersigned citizens of India stand utterly shocked and dismayed at the fact that as per its Instagram post, as well as the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) Twitter handle, the NFDC is organising a Film Festival to showcase Israeli films, and is to be held in Mumbai, on the 21st-22nd of August.
This screening by the NFDC is shamefully being held at a time, when the entire world is witness to Israeli war crimes, the ongoing Holocaust and the genocide in Gaza, and across all of Palestine. The genocide is occurring live, in real time, and the entire world is witness to this inhuman criminal monstrosity, as we watch aghast on our mobiles and TV screens.
According to the report of LANCET, a world renowned research journal, the Israeli regime has murdered 1,86,000 Palestinians, of which, 70% are children and women. Now the figure has possibly crossed the 2,00,000 mark. Thus the Israel Nazi regime has murdered more than 8% of the Gazan population of 23,00,000, which clearly constitutes a Holocaust, no less. (Lancet, 5 July 2024, "Counting the Dead in Gaza - Difficult but Essential" - Lancet link).
There are also documented reports of Israeli prison-concentration camps where Palestinian prisoners are being tortured and raped. Israel has murdered artists, writers, doctors, teachers, professors, journalists, health-workers, basically indulging in a planned genocide of Palestinian society. The Israeli regime is also resorting to starvation as a weapon, denying food, water and medicines. Israel is clearly committed to the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the entire Palestinian population. Israel is also guilty of destroying the entire civilian infrastructure, which include residential buildings, schools, universities, hospitals, health clinics, electricity and water supply. UN world court calls for prevention of genocidal acts in Gaza.
All this clearly constitutes a war crime under international law, namely, "The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1948".
It is for the above reasons that the Israeli regime is being compared to the Hitler's Nazi regime in the Germany of the 1930's and 1940's, and rightly so.
The evidence of the Israeli war crimes have been documented and presented by a distinguished panel of South African Human Rights Lawyers, at the International Criminal Court of Justice. In both instances the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) have recognised the fact that Israel is guilty of genocide. Thus the ICC has announced that it will issue an arrest warrant against PM Netanyahu, who must stand trial for war crimes.
The UN Human Rights Commission too arrived at the damning conclusion that, "Israel is responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity, extermination, intentionally attacking civilians, using starvation as a method of war, sexual and gender-based violence".
The world over, massive protests are being organised against the Israeli genocide being perpetrated in Gaza. Millions across the world have taken to the streets in practically every nation, in every city across the world, calling for the Boycott of Apartheid Israel. That even as the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement gathers worldwide momentum. Thus from Artists, to Students, from Trade Unions to Farmers organisations and a myriad of Civil Society Organisations across the world are calling out Israel for its war crimes. The overwhelming majority of the world is calling for a ceasefire, an end to the war, and towards a negotiated peaceful settlement in accordance with UN Resolutions and International Laws. But Israel is not ready to heed or accept any path that leads to peace.
The management of the NFDC & the NMIC should be aware of the fact that the Government of India has consistently voted for a ceasefire, as well has recognised the Palestinian state, as have the overwhelming majority of the nations. Thus, at this moment in our collective human history, for the NFDC and the NMIC to be screening Israeli films is totally immoral, unethical, unconscionable, and a travesty of justice to say the least.
In keeping with the Indian tradition of supporting anti-colonial liberation struggles, we, as a nation, have always stood with Palestine, and here too the NFDC & the NMIC stand in utter violation of the very spirit of India, the India of Buddha & Gandhi.
We, the undersigned, have thus launched a nationwide, as well as an international campaign demanding that the NFDC and the NMIC refrain from any screening of Israeli films, until Israel complies with International law, as do other civilised nations.
Thus, in the presence of such damning evidence, the NFDC must immediately cancel the so-called Israel Film Festival. Signed by:
Dr. G.G. Parekh, Veteran Freedom Fighter
Anand Patwardhan, Film Maker
Naseeruddin Shah, Actor
Ratna Pathak, Actor
Javed Anand, Senior Journalist
Tushar Gandhi, Author & Peace Activist
Feroze Mithiborwala, India Palestine Solidarity Forum
Prakash Reddy
Prof. Ram Puniyani
Dr. Sunilam
M J Vijayan, South Asian Solidarity Collective & ‘Indians for Palestine’
Dr. Suresh Khairnar
Sandeep Pandey
Shabnam Hashmi, Social Activist, ANHAD
Adv. Mihir Desai
Irfan Engineer
Prof. Anuradha Chenoy
Prof. Achin Vanaik
Charul Joshi
Adv. Lara Jesani, PUCL, Maharashtra
Binu Matthew, Editor - Counter Currents
Shujaat Ali Quadri, India Palestine Solidarity Forum & Indian Muslim Students Organization
Guddi S L
Neeraj Jain
Hasina Khan
Ajit S Patil
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