Scottish human rights activist Pete Gregson celebrated the failure of the film “Golda” - which tells the biography of the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir - and its withdrawal from most British cinemas.

Gregson had launched a campaign in which he called for a boycott of the film and its withdrawal from theaters in the United Kingdom, coinciding with a global wave of anger over the thousands of victims of women and children in the war that Israel has waged on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.

Gregson, who heads the “One Palestine and Democracy” association, which is concerned with defending the cause of the Palestinian people and their rights, posted a video clip on his TikTok account in which he stood in front of one of the theaters in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, holding a leaflet in his hand calling for a boycott of the film.

He said - in the video - “I am here outside the Picture House cinema in Piccadilly Circus. I came today to distribute leaflets against the movie “Golda”, but guess what? The movie is not showing, the cinema is not showing the movie, they canceled it. I went to the box office I found that all the Picture House theaters canceled showing the film. They all canceled it except Edinburgh, where I am from!

Gregson added, "There is only one cinema in the whole of the United Kingdom showing the movie 'Golda', and it is one of the Picture House cinemas. I do not know if this is a victory for us, a victory for Palestine. In any case, no one is showing it."

The campaign led by Gregson coincided with the British newspaper "Daily Mail" talking about the failure of the film "Golda", in which Helen Mirren plays the lead role, despite it being nominated for an Oscar.

A number of supporters of the Palestinian cause in the United Kingdom and the United States took to social media to call for a boycott of the film.

It is believed that the protests caused exhibitors and moviegoers to refrain from supporting “Golda,” which was confirmed by a spokesman for the “Phoenix” cinema in north London, saying, “It is clear that the current political climate may have had an impact on the film’s box office revenues.”

It is noteworthy that the film's distribution company in the United Kingdom, Met Films, issued a statement in which it acknowledged the "distress, fear, and anxiety" felt by people in the United Kingdom and in the region, which cast a shadow over the film.

source: Aljazeera.net