Cultural attaché, not ambassador, to attend Israeli film fest in Paris

6 March 2018, 5:01 pm

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry says that the Israeli cultural attaché to France will attend the Israeli Film Festival in Paris, but not the ambassador, after organizers refused Jerusalem’s requests to showcase a film other than the controversial “Foxtrot.”

Culture Minister Miri Regev withdrew Israeli support for the festival.

“Foxtrot” centers on parents’ grief for their fallen son, and includes a scene in which IDF soldiers cover up the murder of four Arab youths. Regev, who has admitted to never having seen the film, has repeatedly lambasted the film, saying it “shows Israeli army soldiers in a deceptive manner as murderers and harms the good name of the Israel Defense Forces.”