{"id":40529,"date":"2025-05-03T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/why-are-some-trying-to-silence-our-film-on-columbias-gaza-protests-hamza-and-badie-ali\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:39:21","slug":"why-are-some-trying-to-silence-our-film-on-columbias-gaza-protests-hamza-and-badie-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/why-are-some-trying-to-silence-our-film-on-columbias-gaza-protests-hamza-and-badie-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are some trying to silence our film on Columbia\u2019s Gaza protests?  | Hamza and Badie Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Encampments tells the story of campus activism last year. But Palestinian films are facing intimidation campaigns<\/p>\n<p>Recently, The Encampments opened at the Angelika Film Center in New York to a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/indie-film-box-office-the-encampments-documentary-columbia-university-gaza-war-1236354261\/\">record-setting<\/a> box office for an independent film \u2013 along with a storm of controversy. For us, as the distributor, the atmosphere was far from celebratory. The theater was forced to hire additional security, notify police and prepare staff for harassment in response to protests and threats from people who hadn\u2019t even seen the film.<\/p>\n<p>What is so dangerous about Palestinian films?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/may\/03\/documentary-columbia-university-gaza-protests-the-encampments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Encampments tells the story of campus activism last year. But Palestinian films are facing intimidation campaigns Recently, The Encampments opened at the Angelika Film Center in New York to a record-setting box office for an independent film \u2013 along with a storm of controversy. For us, as the distributor, the atmosphere was far from &#8230; <a title=\"Why are some trying to silence our film on Columbia\u2019s Gaza protests?  | Hamza and Badie Ali\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/why-are-some-trying-to-silence-our-film-on-columbias-gaza-protests-hamza-and-badie-ali\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why are some trying to silence our film on Columbia\u2019s Gaza protests?  | Hamza and Badie Ali\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}