In October, streaming giant Netflix quietly announced that it would be removing a category of films on the platform known as “Palestinian Stories,” a curated collection that included award-winning films like Annemarie Jacir’s Salt of this Sea and Golden Globe-winning director Hany Abu-Assad’s film Omar, which took the Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. As of this writing, the collection’s landing page still appears on the Netflix website but is empty.
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