Ari Folman, the Oscar-nominated director of Waltz With Bashir and Where Is Anne Frank, has said he believes the UK’s response to the Israel-Hamas war is grounded in “hypocrisy” and ignorance.
“I think there is a lot of hypocrisy,” said Folman, who lives in Tel Aviv and is filming testimonies of the relatives of Jewish people taken hostage by Hamas. “You cannot be aware of what is going on in Gaza and not pay empathy to the other side.”
In the west, he says, there is a “total unawareness that Hamas is a fundamentalistic [organisation]. They are not freedom fighters. They are sick monsters who slaughtered babies and chopped [off] heads. They raped I don’t know many girls at that rave party. These things, I don’t see them echoed.”
