An Israeli Filmmaker Said His Country Was Practicing ‘Apartheid.’ Then He Says A Mob Showed Up.

The co-director of a documentary about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank says he is facing threats after using an award speech to call out what he described as Israeli “apartheid.”

“No Other Land” follows the expulsion of Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, an area in the southern West Bank that the Israeli army uses for training, and where Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinians.

According to its synopsis , the film uses footage of “the slow-motion eradication of the villages in [co-director Basel Adra’s] home region where soldiers deployed by the Israeli government are gradually demolishing houses and driving out their residents.”

On Saturday, Adra and co-director Yuval Abraham accepted the Best Documentary Award and the Audience Favorite Documentary Award at the Berlin Film Festival, and used an award speech to highlight the current situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Addressing the festival, Adra said it was difficult to celebrate “while there are tens of thousands of my people being slaughtered and massacred by Israel in Gaza,” and while “Masafer Yatta, my community, is being also razed by Israeli bulldozers.” He called on the German government to stop sending weapons to Israel.

And Abraham, for his part, called for a ceasefire, an “end [to] the occupation,” and a political solution. When he and Adra return home, he said, “we will go back to a land where we are not equal.”

“I am living under civilian law, and Basel is under military law,” Abraham said. “We live 30 minutes from one another, but I have voting rights, and Basel [does not have] voting rights. I’m free to move where I want in this land. Basel is, like millions of Palestinians, locked in the occupied West Bank. This