Singapore bans ‘skewed and inflammatory’ documentary about teenage Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi
About 15 per cent of Singapore’s 3.3 million resident population aged 15 years and over identify as Muslim, recent government surveys show
Singapore has banned a film festival from screening a documentary later this week that features a teenage Palestinian female activist whose arrest last month has made her a symbol of resistance to Israeli military occupation in the West Bank.
Justifying the ban, authorities in the Southeast Asian city state said the film Radiance of Resistance was “skewed” and potentially divisive for Singapore’s multi-ethnic population.
The documentary, which looks at the Palestine-Israeli conflict through the eyes of 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi and another young female activist, lacked “counterbalance”, the Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) said on its website.
“The skewed narrative of the film is inflammatory and has the potential to cause disharmony among the different races and religions in Singapore,” the IMDA said.
The documentary was due to have been shown at the Singapore Palestinian Film Festival on Thursday.
The skewed narrative of the film is inflammatory and has the potential to cause disharmony