Published: February 28, 2006
Academy Award Nomination for "Paradise Now" Deplored
By Alan Gray, NewsBlaze 
Academy Award Nomination Leads to Revocation Petition
Yossi Zur holding a picture of his son.
Photo: The Israel Project |
Yossi Zur, whose 16-year-son Asaf was killed by a suicide bomber, was outraged to find out that the Palestinian movie "Paradise Now" was nominated for an Academy Award.
The awards ceremony is scheduled for March 5 - three years to the day that his son was murdered.
A commentary, authored by Zur, was published last month.
See An Award for Terror
The commentary inspired an online petition calling for the Academy to revoke the Oscar nomination. The petition, which contains more than 29,000 signatures, can be found at http://www.petitiononline.com/060201/petition.html.
The film tries to say that suicide bombings are a legitimate tactic for those who feel they've exhausted all other means of resistance.
Palestinian suicide bombers have an ever-increasing incentive to kill themselves and anyone who get in the way. Prior ro 2002, the families of these poor palestinians would receive $10,000 for killing themselves and Israelis. Then in 2002, Saddam Hussein increased the payments to $25,000. With Saddam out of the way, Iran stepped in, paying from $50,000 to $100,000 per bombing. This appears to move bombings from resistance firmly into the murder for hire category.
Collage of Asaf, in the Zur's home, with "In Memory of Asaf" written in Hebrew across the top
Photo: The Israel Project |
Yossi Zur standing by the grave of his son.
Photo: The Israel Project |
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