{"id":107444,"date":"2023-10-07T17:05:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=107444"},"modified":"2023-09-29T07:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:52:16","slug":"07-05-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=107444","title":{"rendered":"Top Egyptian Film Critic Booted From Golden Globes Voting Body Over Antisemitic Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Top Egyptian Film Critic Booted From Golden Globes Voting Body Over Antisemitic Writings<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian
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The 80th Golden Globes Award ceremony in Jan 2023. Photo: Screenshot<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

An Egyptian film critic writing for her country\u2019s main newspaper has been removed from the voting body behind Hollywood\u2019s prestigious Golden Globes ceremony, which honors the best US film and television productions in the eyes of foreign entertainment critics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Howaida Hamdy \u2014 the deputy editor-in-chief of the state-owned news outlet\u00a0Al-Akhbar<\/em>, Egypt\u2019s largest \u2014 was booted from the roster of voters last Sunday after the production company that stages the Golden Globes determined that she and two fellow members had violated the organization\u2019s code of conduct \u201cfollowing investigations into complaints about their behavior.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamdy\u2019s frequent use of antisemitic tropes in her writing was highlighted by the pro-Israel media advocacy group CAMERA in a report published in August. In one review published last March, Hamdy attacked Palestinian-Dutch filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad for his portrayal of Palestinian terrorist operations against Israelis. \u201cThis is a fallacious and fraudulent view of Palestinian resistance and of the resistance and the martyrdom-seeking operations,\u201d she wrote in a piece discussing Abu-Assad\u2019s films\u00a0Paradise Now<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Huda\u2019s Salon<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the same piece, Hamdy accused Abu-Assad of not understanding \u201cthe difference between the terrorist and the self-sacrificing warrior\u201d and for failing to appreciate that Palestinians engaging in violence were \u201cdefending a stolen homeland.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, CAMERA\u2019s investigation uncovered a number of incendiary tweets posted by Hamdy on the X\/Twitter social media platform. In one post, she recycled a classic antisemitic trope by describing Hollywood as a \u201cZionist stronghold,\u201d while in another, she pushed a popular conspiracy theory in the Middle East concerning the roots of Islamist terror, claiming that \u201c[B]ehind every Islamist terrorist there is a Zionist-American planner who wiggles him. Removing the Islamists will not eliminate terrorism, the Islamists are just an instrument.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As well as writing for\u00a0Al-Akhbar<\/em>, Hamdy has contributed to the entertainment magazine\u00a0Akhbar Al-Nogoum,\u00a0<\/em>the online platform\u00a0Akhbar Al-Youm<\/em>, the London-based news outlet\u00a0Al-Arab<\/em>, and the Beirut-based online media platform\u00a0Raseef22<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to her biography posted on the Golden Globes website \u2014 which has since been deleted \u2014 in 2020, Hamdy \u201crelocated to Los Angeles to continue her career as a reporter and movie critic specializing in international cinema.\u201d She joined the Golden Globes voters roster in 2021, as part of an initial effort by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the ceremony\u2019s sponsoring organization, to diversify its membership. The voters roster was expanded again in 2023 to include journalists and critics from Cameroon, Serbia, Cuba, Tanzania, and several other countries, boosting its present total membership to 310.<\/span><\/p>\n

CAMERA welcomed the news of Hamdy\u2019s expulsion from the Golden Globes\u2019 voting roster.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are plenty of honest and gifted Middle Eastern journalists who deserve to be included. Unfortunately, Hamdy isn\u2019t one of them,\u201d CAMERA Executive Director Andrea Levin said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFar too often we\u2019ve noticed Arabic-language media personalities concealing their bigoted commentary from English-speaking audiences. Hamdy\u2019s duplicitous reviews are a perfect example of this ongoing problem which our staff has repeatedly exposed,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n

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