The Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature Film, “No Other Land,” is based on lies, according to an Israeli group that documents illegal Arab construction in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank.

“No Other Land,” a documentary co-directed by left-wing Israelis and Arab activists, won the Oscar on Sunday night. Its Palestinian co-director, Basel Adra, took to the stage for his acceptance speech to accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing.

“‘No Other Land’ reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades and still resist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people,” Adra said.

His Israeli co-director, left-wing journalist Yuval Abraham, chimed in, claiming that he is free as an Israeli, while Adra is “under military law that destroys his life and he cannot control.”

But according to the Israeli NGO Regavim, the documentary relies on a “concoction of misrepresentations and outright fabrications.”

“This is a propaganda film that serves the false Palestinian narrative, and seeks to undermine the legitimacy of the State of Israel in the international arena in order to cause boycotts and sanctions of IDF fighters,” Meir Deutsch, director-general of Regavim, said in a statement.

Throughout the film, Adra documents his struggle to stop the Israeli Defense Forces from demolishing what are described as “ancient villages” in an area called Masafer Yatta, which is east of the Palestinian Authority town of Yatta. In reality, Regavim points out, all of the so-called villages of Masafer Yatta did not exist when Israel declared the area an IDF training zone for live-fire exercises in the early 1980s.

The name Masafer Yatta is believed to come from the word “traveling,” a reference to its distance from Yatta, or from the Arabic word for “nothing” or “zero,” a reference to the desert wasteland that was not suitable for anything.

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