Academy apologizes for not adequately supporting Oscar-winning Palestinian director

Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of <em>No Other Land</em>, is released from a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba a day after being detained by the Israeli army following an attack by Jewish settlers, on Tuesday.

The apology appeared after a wave of online protest against the Academy — first for not responding to Ballal’s attack, and then for not naming him and his film directly in its initial statement.

(Image credit: Leo Correa)

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