Israel threatens filmmakers' citizenship over documentary of its killing system, then calls Gaza coverage biased against Israel

As it ran on the front

Okay, before we get into it — can you walk me through it? Not the movie, I mean the room. Somebody sat down, that's what the piece says, twenty-four of them, and each one is telling the filmmakers how they used to do the job. So walk me through that morning. You're at your desk, you've got a target, and you punch in a number — is that how it goes? Because the film's called NAZA, that's the word they used, that's the acronym the officers used for how many civilians they expected to die when the strike went in. I've got that from the piece that ran the tenth of the month, the Common Dreams thing, twenty-four insiders, a secret unit, and they call it — this is their phrase, not mine — a "routine, bureaucratized affair." I don't know what that walk to the desk looks like. Coffee first? You sit down, you look at the map, you type the number, you hit send? Somebody's going to have to show me, because I can't get past the desk part.

So the film premieres in Venice. Standing ovation, record-breaking, the piece says, and it wins the Special Jury Prize. And a few days later the Culture Minister, a man named Miki Zohar, he's not happy — he says the two who made it, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, were willing to "harm their homeland in order to receive applause from antisemites around the world." And now there's talk of pulling their citizenship. I want somebody to walk me through that part too, the actual form, because I've filled out plenty of forms in my life — car registration, the thing for the dog's license, the paperwork when the fan belt finally went and I had to prove the car was even mine to junk it — and none of those forms start with "revoke." I don't know what box you check. Is there a box?…