MOMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL FILM FESTVAL

MoMA Is Accused of Anti-Israel Tilt on Documentary Film Series BY JACOB GERSHMAN
Israel's alleged repression of Palestinian Arabs has emerged as a major theme of an upcoming exhibition of documentary films at the Museum of Modern Art. The lineup features four films that blame Israel for the suffering of Arabs living in Israel and those living in the occupied territories.

Organizers of the exhibition at MoMA, which runs from February 10 to 28, said the purpose of the documentary film series is to highlight provocative issues around the globe. Critics of the museum said they are alarmed that all of the exhibition's films concerning the conflict in the Middle East take a starkly anti-Israel stance.

"We thought it was so one-sided," the executive director of the Boston based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, Andrea Levin, said. "At the very least, they should add some other documentaries. If they want to give a completely distorted picture - if that's their intention - then they're doing it."