Algeria Cancels Film Screening “Wonder Woman” With Israeli Actress

A film festival in Algeria canceled the screening of the film “Wonder Woman” in light of the spread of countless claims on social networking sites hitting out against the participation in the much controversial movie of Israeli actress, Gal Gadot.

Organizers of the festival told AFP news agency that the cancellation of the film was not due to the campaign, but because of other problems linked to the rights of the show.

During the last devastating Israeli war in the Gaza Strip in 2014, which killed 2,251 innocent Palestinians, including 551 children, Gal Gadot shamelessly posted on Facebook a salute to the aggressive Israeli army and attacked the resistance Palestinian Hamas movement.

The movie was due to be screened on June 8, but is no longer included in the revised program for the second night of Ramadan.

“The film will be screened later when the administrative obstacles pertaining to rights screening are removed,” said an official at MD Sense, a co-organizer of the festival.

He confirmed that the Algerian Ministry of Culture gave the film a show leave, stressing that the withdrawal of the film from the program has nothing to do with the protests. AFP was unable to contact the Ministry of Culture.

Since Thursday, a campaign has been launched on media outlets to reject the screening of the film starring “an actress who glorifies the use by the Zionist Army of white phosphorus bombs against the blockaded Palestinian enclave of Gaza”.

The organizers of the campaign considered it unacceptable that the film’s screening coincided with the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of Gaza in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

On June 1, Lebanon banned the film based on a decision by the Arab League’s Office of the District of Israel. 

However, the divisive movie is still being screened in a number of countries including Egypt, Tunisia and the UAE.