{"id":207865,"date":"2025-09-22T07:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-for-a-free-palestine-ghanaians-unite-to-demand-cancellation-of-israeli-film-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:06:59","slug":"ghana-for-a-free-palestine-ghanaians-unite-to-demand-cancellation-of-israeli-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-for-a-free-palestine-ghanaians-unite-to-demand-cancellation-of-israeli-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: For a Free Palestine &#8211; Ghanaians Unite to Demand Cancellation of &#8216;Israeli Film Festival&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Hundreds of Ghanaian organizations demanded the cancellation of the &#8220;Israeli Film Festival&#8221; saying that it serves to &#8220;whitewash genocide and apartheid&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">A coalition of nearly 400 organizations and prominent individuals in Ghana launched a campaign to cancel the &#8220;Israeli Film Festival,&#8221; scheduled from September 16-20, 2025, at Silverbird Cinema at the Accra Mall. The campaign, which included a public letter, called on Silverbird to withdraw from hosting the event and for all sponsors to pull out&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509220012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Ghanaian organizations demanded the cancellation of the &#8220;Israeli Film Festival&#8221; saying that it serves to &#8220;whitewash genocide and apartheid&#8221; A coalition of nearly 400 organizations and prominent individuals in Ghana launched a campaign to cancel the &#8220;Israeli Film Festival,&#8221; scheduled from September 16-20, 2025, at Silverbird Cinema at the Accra Mall. The campaign, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,15697,7617,7632,7824,6544,4508,4509,7921,2670,257,20432,254,21521],"class_list":["post-207865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cancellation","tag-demand","tag-festival","tag-film","tag-free","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaians","tag-israeli","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unite"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}