{"id":40798,"date":"2018-01-17T18:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=40798"},"modified":"2018-01-17T18:49:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T00:49:38","slug":"ban-on-screening-the-post-overturned-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/ban-on-screening-the-post-overturned-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on screening &#8216;The Post&#8217; overturned in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1353430\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">JERUSALEM (JTA) \u2014 Lebanon\u2019s Interior Ministry has overturned a ban on screening \u201cThe Post,\u201d a film directed by Steven Spielberg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_40799\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spielberg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40799\" class=\"wp-image-40799 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spielberg-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spielberg-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spielberg-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spielberg.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40799\" class=\"wp-image-40799 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spielberg-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spielberg-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spielberg-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spielberg.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-40799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Spielberg at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, March 27, 2017. (Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s censorship board had made the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/01\/15\/news-opinion\/united-states\/the-post-banned-in-lebanon-over-steven-spielbergs-israel-ties\">decision to ban<\/a>&nbsp;the movie based on a \u201cboycott Israel\u201d list, which Spielberg appears on since he shot some scenes from the 1993 film \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d in Jerusalem, the Hollywood Reporter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/steven-spielbergs-post-gets-banned-lebanon-1074587\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Sunday, citing a source involved with the newspaper drama\u2019s international rollout.<\/p>\n<p>But on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry decided not to sign off on the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterior Minister Nohad Mashnouk is going to allow the film to be shown,\u201d a senior ministry official told the French news agency AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The company distributing the film in Lebanon confirmed to AFP that the film about the Washington Post\u2019s pursuit and publishing of the Pentagon Papers would be released in theaters in the capital of Beirut and elsewhere on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In the past three years, at least five films directed or produced by Spielberg were screened in Lebanon, including \u201cThe BFG\u201d and \u201cBridge of Spies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFP reported that a second film was censored by Lebanon this week. The film, \u201cJungle,\u201d starring Daniel Radcliffe, is about the Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg, who was lost in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon in 1981. The film already had been playing in theaters for two weeks when it was censored and removed. In addition to the main character in the film being Israeli, one of the film\u2019s producers also is Israeli.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon is officially at war with Israel and bans Israeli products. 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