Palestinian activists have denounced an Israeli-orchestrated pressure campaign to demand that Netflix remove its platform from the Jordanian film “Farha,” which depicts the massacre of a Palestinian family in the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948.
The action of the film takes place during the ‘Nakba’, which means catastrophe, a term used by Arabs to refer to the creation of the State of Israel and the forced exodus of more than 700,000 Palestinians, who fled or were expelled from their homes.
The film “Farha”, by Jordanian director Darin Sallam, is the country’s candidate for the Oscars, in the category of best foreign film, after having been released on the digital platform Netflix on December 1.
According to the Spanish agency Efe, the presence of the work on Netflix generated several criticisms from Israelis on social networks, including some who decided to cancel their subscriptions on the platform as a form of protest.
Palestinian activists, for their part, believe that an Israeli pressure campaign is underway to force Netflix to withdraw the film from its catalogue, something that has not happened so far.
Efe points out that the ‘bots’ [‘software’ concebido para simular ações humanas de forma repetida na internet] they are voting “en masse” against the film “Farha”, on pages that create movie rankings, such as IMDb, with the intention of lowering its score.
According to Efe, these actions led the film to go from an average score of 7.2 (out of 10) to 5.8.
The platform later corrected the fraudulent votes and the film now has a score of 8.5.
The screening of the film last Wednesday at the Al Saraya theater in the Jaffa neighborhood was described as “shameful” and “shocking” by the Israeli Minister of Culture, Chili Tropper, while the Israeli Finance Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, called for to put an end to the financing of that public space.
“Over the past 48 hours, our film ‘Farha’ has been aggressively attacked by Israeli government officials, Israeli media, and users on social media and other platforms,” ​​the film’s creators said in a statement issued by the news agency. Palestinian Wafa. .
Source: Observadora
