The Kashmir Files: YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED, Israeli envoy slams Nadav Lapid for remark at IFFI

The Kashmir Files: Israel’s ambassador to India Naor Gilon on Tuesday slammed Nadav Lapid, a filmmaker from his country, who called ‘The Kashmir Files’ a “propaganda” and “vulgar movie” at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. The envoy also apologized to India in an “open letter” on Twitter, a day after Lapid slammed the movie at the closing ceremony of the film festival yesterday.

‘The Kashmir Files’, directed by Vivek Agnihotri, is based on the exodus and killing of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in 1990.

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Open letter to Nadav Lapid

“An open letter to #NadavLapid following his criticism of #KashmirFiles. It’s not in Hebrew because I wanted our Indian brothers and sisters to be able to understand. It is also relatively long so I’ll give you the bottom line first. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. Here’s why,” tweeted Gilon this morning.

Gilon said Lapid abused the Indian invitation to the judges’ panel in the “worst way”.

“In Indian culture they say that a guest is like God. You have abused in the worst way the Indian invitation to chair the panel of judges at @IFFIGoa as well as the trust, respect and warm hospitality they have bestowed on you,” he added.

The envoy said the Israelis should be humble as Indians are a lot of Israeli content, including Fauda TV series. “I’m no film expert but I do know that it’s insensitive and presumptuous to speak about historic events before deeply studying them and which are an open wound in India because many of the involved are still around and still paying a price,” he said in a long thread of tweets.

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Envoy is deeply hurt

Gilon said he was “extremely hurt” to see the reactions in India that Lapid was doubting Holocaust and Schindler’s List, a movie based on Holocaust.

“As a son of a holocaust survivor, I was extremely hurt to see reactions in India to you that are doubting Schindler’s List, the Holocaust and worse. I unequivocally condemn such statements. There is no justification. It does show the sensitivity of the Kashmir issue here.”

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