“To denounce the boycott of which Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid is a victim is to denounce the ocean of fear in which cultural and political circles are immersed”

The support given to the Israeli director by many personalities of French cinema implicitly reveals the incapacity of cultural institutions and political leaders to do the same, even though the artists attacked for their nationality are fervent opponents of the policy pursued by their country, deplores Michel Guerrin, editorialist at "Le Monde", in his column.