Film on Jenin Can Be Shown, Court Affirms
From Times Wire Reports
Israel’s Supreme Court reinstated its ruling that “Jenin, Jenin,” a film Israeli censors banned over its depiction of a 2002 army assault in a West Bank refugee camp, could be screened in the Jewish state.
But the court described the documentary as a “propagandistic lie” that falsely accused Israeli soldiers of intentionally killing children, women, the disabled and the mentally ill. The offensive began after Palestinian suicide bombings.
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