Israel’s culture minister blasted as hypocritical the decision of Palestinian actors starring in the film ‘Let There Be Morning’ to protest “apartheid in Israel” by not attending its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
The demarche of the cast members, including Jonah Suleiman, Erin Saba and Salim Dow, came as a surprise on Thursday evening. In an open letter to organizers of the prestigious event, they said there was an obvious contradiction between the movie’s themes of “physical and mental oppression of the Palestinian people” by the Israeli government and the fact that it was being screened at Cannes as an Israeli production. “Accepting that would normalize apartheid and allow the denial and laundering of crimes against the Palestinians,” the letter read.
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