Uruguay: Screening of Hamas propaganda film at university canceled after outcry

The screening of a Mexican documentary film on life in Gaza, produced in collaboration with Hamas, which was scheduled to be held at Uruguay’s largest university, has been canceled, an American Jewish organization said on Wednesday.The screening of the 2025 film “La Gran Palestina” or “Greater Palestine” at Universidad de la Republica on Wednesday evening was nixed after a public outcry, with opposition leaders asking how a propaganda piece by a terrorist group was scheduled to be shown at a public university.The film was made “in collaboration with the combatants of the resistance (Hamas),” its accompanying flier states.“At a time when anti-Israel rhetoric is spreading at Uruguay’s most prestigious public university, the cancellation of a documentary screening presenting Hamas’s perspective should be seen as a victory,” Ariel Gelblung, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s director for Latin America, told JNS. “You can feel empathy with the Palestinians. But promoting terrorism is a…

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