A Palestinian group that advocates for a boycott of israel is taking aim at a Netflix-produced political thriller that they say glorifies war crimes against Palestinians.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of israel (PACBI) is petitioning Netflix to cancel its show Fauda, Arabic for “chaos.” The show serves as an “anti-Arab racist, Israeli propaganda tool that glorifies the Israeli military's war crimes against the Palestinian people,” the group's March 29 statement reads.
The show features an undercover Israeli unit that embeds itself within West Bank society in an effort to find terror suspects. One plotline features Hamas members planning to release sarin — a poisonous chemical — in a synagogue in an attempt to get Israel to react with war crimes, which would then push its Arab neighbors into action.
The show's second season was released in May. According to Lior Raz, a former IDF member who co-created the show and stars in it, he and journalist Avi Issacharoff “wanted to create a show that could humanize the ongoing conflict based on our experience in the IDF.” Raz says that when they started the show in 2014 and yet another conflict with Gaza broke out, “officials came to us, asking us to keep production going.”
Palestinian activists groups say it does the opposite: while dehumanizing Arabs, the show whitewashes the acts of Israel's secret military…
