Natalie Portman is right, “Russian, Israeli and Iranian filmmakers should not be threatened with erasure to atone for crimes committed by governments they often fiercely oppose.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
“The Israelis, who grew up with the question, ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?’ have themselves become the answer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
This leftist won’t be boycotting Lapid’s film. Glad I read this review!
Some Leftists Are Boycotting This Film. Everyone Should Watch It. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
I love this quote…
“The Israelis, who grew up with the question ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?,’ have themselves become the answer.”
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“The Israelis, who grew up with the question, ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?’ have themselves become the answer.” The inanity of the leftists who’d censor such a film shouldn’t distract us from the right-wing nightmare it reveals. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
Self-described "leftists" in France and Spain are not just boycotting the film. They are blacklisting the filmmaker. Because he is an Israeli Jew who lives in France. That's just like what the Vichy French did.
Instant tears…GENOCIDE OF GAZA..cruelty beyond words..Israel leaders must be held accountable.🌍 speak
Some Leftists Are Boycotting This Film. Everyone Should Watch It. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social uncannily speaks for me as a lifelong progressive and, separately, a Jewish one from a family that supported Israel but that now would be stunned and appalled by what the country has become.
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“a voice-over says “Israelis, who grew up with the question ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?’ have themselves become the answer” The inanity of leftists who’d censor such a film shouldn’t distract us from the right-wing nightmare it reveals”
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
“Lapid puts much of the blame on cultural institutions that let themselves be cowed by a noisy purist minority. Most festival programmers and film distributors, he believes, don’t care all that much about Israel or Palestine. They just don’t want trouble.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
"The Israelis, who grew up with the question 'How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?,' have themselves become the answer."
(Gift article.)
“Russian, Israeli and Iranian filmmakers should not be threatened with erasure to atone for crimes committed by governments they often fiercely oppose,”
FWIW, I've always liked his work...
"Given that [Nadav] Lapid believes in boycotting Israel, the boycott of *him* has elicited a smug satisfaction in some quarters. After all, Israel's partisans often claim that the country is hated not for what it does, but for its essential identity."
Some Leftists Are Boycotting This Film. Everyone Should Watch It. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
“Yes” is in part a disgusted condemnation of such escapism “The Israelis, who grew up with the question ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?’ have themselves become the answer”
I've seen and admired the previous two Nadav Lapid films and have come *this close* to buying the Blu-rays during Kino Lorber's periodic sales, mainly to learn more about him through the extras on the discs. Alas, I missed YES! when it played theatrically (very briefly, if I recall).
Two issues that show how useless it is to divide the world into right (=conservative) and left (=for change). Nationalism isn’t inherently change or anti-change. New technologies are inherently change, but may be against the values…🧵
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"Given that Lapid believes in boycotting Israel, the boycott of him has elicited a smug satisfaction in some quarters." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
“In 2021, Israeli film director Nadav Lapid moved to France because…he felt his country was in a state of ‘total moral collapse.’ …as Israel ground much of Gaza into dust, Lapid returned to Israel to make “Yes,” an impossibly scathing, bitterly surreal attempt to capture that collapse…” GIFT
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social uncannily speaks for me as a lifelong progressive and, separately, a Jewish one from a family that supported Israel but that now would be stunned and appalled by what the country has become.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
“The Israelis, who grew up with the question ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?,’ have themselves become the answer.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
#Palestine #Israel
Warning: I buy a copy of every film the Left/Right intelligentsia tells me to avoid/says I can’t. All the way back to Ashcroft. Luckily I got this one for only $7. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
I’m looking forward to watching the movie Yes. Boycotting Yes would be like boycotting Solzhenitsyn bc he was Russian.
Some Leftists Are Boycotting This Film. Everyone Should Watch It. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
““Russian, Israeli and Iranian filmmakers should not be threatened with erasure to atone for crimes committed by governments they often fiercely oppose,” it says.”
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I would want to see this film.
<<After Oct. 7, as Israel ground much of Gaza into dust, Lapid returned to Israel to make “Yes,” an impossibly scathing, bitterly surreal attempt to capture that collapse on film.>>
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
In 2021, the Israeli film director Nadav Lapid moved to France because he felt his country was in a state of “total moral collapse.” After 10/7, as Israel ground much of Gaza into dust, he returned to Israel to make an impossibly scathing, bitterly surreal attempt to capture that collapse on film.
take the headline with a grain of salt but read the article. That "some" in 'some leftists' is doing a lot of work. Nadav Lapid's Yes (2025) sounds very interesting. I would like to give it a watch.
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"“Yes” mocks Israelis who view themselves as eternal victims and insist that all their critics are antisemites."
“The Israelis, who grew up with the question ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?,’ have themselves become the answer.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
“The Israelis, who grew up with the question ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?,’ have themselves become the answer.” The inanity of the leftists who’d censor such a film shouldn’t distract us from the right-wing nightmare it reveals."
Some Leftists Are Boycotting This Film. Everyone Should Watch
It.
“Yes” tells the story of a struggling pianist and party entertainer known only as Y who is commissioned to write a new national anthem celebrating genocide in Gaza.
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Middle Goldberg: "The inanity of the leftists who’d censor such a film shouldn’t distract us from the right-wing nightmare it reveals."
I definitely want to see this. The particular "left" ideological strain that would call for a boycott is standpoint theory. It is illogical and ultimately reactionary, substituting ethnicity (identity) for reason and empathy. Not my left.
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In 2021, the Israeli film director Nadav Lapid moved to France because, he told me, he felt his country was in a state of “total moral collapse.”
Explore this gift article. You can read it for free without a subscription.
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Applies beyond this topic: Those asking ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?,’ have themselves become the answer.” The inanity of the leftists who’d censor such a film shouldn’t distract us from right-wing nightmare it reveals.
Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social uncannily speaks for me as a lifelong progressive and, separately, a Jewish one from a family that supported Israel but that now would be stunned and appalled by what the country has become.
GIFT LINK:
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o.... I admire #MichelleGoldberg, who's Jewish, yet who writes with clarity about Israel and how far it has fallen.
“Yes”, directed by Nadav Lapid. The companion piece to “No Other Land” Keep an eye out for this film.
“Israelis, who grew up with the question ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?,’ have themselves become the answer.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
Sounds like a powerful film.
“Yes” tells the story of a struggling pianist and party entertainer... who is commissioned to write a new national anthem celebrating genocide in Gaza. (The song borrows from a real one in a video by an Israeli nationalist group.)
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
“The Israelis, who grew up with the question, ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?’ have themselves become the answer.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o... The letter calls argues that dissident artists should be treated like those from any other rogue regime. “Russian, Israeli and Iranian filmmakers should not be threatened with erasure to atone for crimes committed by governments they often fiercely oppose
Leftist anti-Semites almost derailed a fiercely anti-Israeli film. They could also be called "Deranged purists" but the second word is slightly inaccurate and too charitable.
'Israel’s culture minister gloated that no matter how much Lapid tries to curry favor with the country’s enemies, they will always see him as nothing but “a Jew from Israel.”'
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
They are not just boycotting the film. They are boycotting the fimmaker. Because he is an Israeli Jew who lives in France. That's just like what the Vichy French did.
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