British Arts Center Apologizes for Canceling Palestinian Film Events

Arnolfini, an arts center in Bristol, England, apologized on Friday for a decision to cancel two events held as part of the Palestine Film Festival, a move that many artists and activists claimed was a form of censorship.Those events were a screening of Farha (2021), a film set during the Nakba, and a discussion between Palestinian writer and doctor Ghada Karmi and rapper and activist Lowkey. When it called off this programming in November, Arnolfini said that hosting the events might be “