{"id":36861,"date":"2017-06-09T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=36861"},"modified":"2017-06-09T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:01:51","slug":"wonder-woman-ban-spreads-across-arab-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wonder-woman-ban-spreads-across-arab-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Woman ban spreads across Arab world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(TPS) &#8212; &#8220;Wonder Woman&#8221; may be a hit at the box office, grossing $228 million worldwide in its first weekend, but the movie has hit the rocks in much of the Arab world because of its Israeli star, Gal Gadot.<\/p>\n<p>After being banned in Lebanon, &#8220;Wonder Woman&#8221; is now facing bans in Tunisia, Jordan and Algeria.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36862\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wonder-woman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36862\" class=\"wp-image-36862 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wonder-woman-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"wonder-woman\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wonder-woman-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wonder-woman.jpg 1023w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36862\" class=\"wp-image-36862 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wonder-woman-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"wonder-woman\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wonder-woman-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wonder-woman.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-36862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gal Gadot starts in the blockbuster &#8220;Wonder Woman.&#8221; (Photo credit Zack Snyder\/Warner Brothers Pictures)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Hollywood media site Deadline.com reported Thursday that the movie\u2019s scheduled release in Tunisia has been suspended because of Gadot\u2019s defense of Israel\u2019s 2014 incursion into Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline said the secular Arab nationalist People\u2019s Movement party petitioned the Tunisian culture ministry to ban the movie as part of an effort to isolate Israel. \u00a0\u201cWe must continue the mobilization on this type of affair, as on everything related to normalization with the Zionist entity,\u201d the People\u2019s Movement said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline quoted a spokesman for the ministry who said the cancellation of the screening was \u201cpurely administrative,\u201d but the movie\u2019s Tunisian distributor Lassaad Goubantini said, \u201cIt\u2019s a decision based on bogus accusations\u2026 Today they prevent a film because of an actress, tomorrow they\u2019ll invent another excuse. It\u2019s an attack on liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan also suspended screening of the movie Wednesday pending a decision by the country\u2019s media commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCinemas that screen the film before the commission approves it will be closed, as this would be considered a violation of the law,\u201d Mohammad Quteishat, director of Jordan\u2019s Media Commission, told the <i>Petra News Agency<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wonder Woman&#8221; was also taken off the schedule of a film festival in Algeria, however festival organizers told AFP that it had been pulled because of \u201cadministrative issues linked to exhibition rights.\u201d \u00a0A petition titled, \u201cNon! Pas en Alg\u00e9rie\u201d (No, Not in Algeria), was launched last week, calling for a ban on screening the movie in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon banned the movie before its premiere, following a decision by the country\u2019s Ministry of Economy and Trade, which prohibits all ties with Israel.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Wonder%20Woman%20ban%20spreads%20across%20Arab%20world\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7139],"tags":[871,4493,8781,8790,8795,8788,7736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36864,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861\/revisions\/36864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}