India, March 26 -- Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who recently won an Oscar for his film No Other Land, was severely beaten by Israeli settlers and soldiers on Monday night. Now, his co-director, Yuval Abraham, has claimed that the "US Academy declined to publicly support [him] while Hamdan was beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers."

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On March 26, Yuval took to X (formerly Twitter) and penned a long note calling out the US Academy for not supporting Hamdan "when he needed them the most." He wrote, "Sadly, the US Academy, which awarded us an Oscar three weeks ago, declined to publicly s...