Published: 5 May 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
THE WINNER OF this year’s award for best Israeli television actress has given up the prize to protest the decision to hold the awards ceremony on the day Palestinians commemorate the Nakba (literally, “catastrophe”) of Israel’s establishment.
The ceremony, hosted by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television, took place on Wednesday, when Israel celebrated Independence Day and many Palestinians observed Nabka Day. Ruba Bilal Asfour won the award for her role in the series Our Boys, which focuses on the 2014 murder of teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir by Jews seeking to avenge Hamas’ kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens the previous month.
In a Facebook post on Thursday, Bilal Asfour wrote that in the series, produced by HBO, she portrayed “the mother of the martyr Mohammed Abu Khdeir. In this role, I effectively tried to give the viewer a picture of the Palestinians’ perpetual pain and suffering, as well as the injustices of the Israeli occupation.
FULL STORY Best Israeli television actress winner protests awards ceremony on Nakba day (Haaretz)
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Photo: Ruba Bilal Asfour in 2016
