Mick Hartley

I was previously unaware of the issue of Palestinians smuggling their sperm out of jail. Now I know better:

The MEMRI byline:

On December 8, 2021, Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas – Gaza) aired a TV show that discussed Amira, a recently released Jordanian fictional movie about Palestinian prisoners smuggling sperm out of Israeli jails. The film is about a Palestinian girl who believed her father was a Palestinian prisoner who smuggled his sperm out of the jail, but her father turns out to actually be a “Zionist” officer who exchanged the prisoner’s sperm for his own. The show’s host said that the film serves the interests of the Israeli occupation and distorts the image of the “struggling Palestinian prisoners.” Sa’id Bisharat, a guest on the show who had himself been a prisoner and who has seen how sperm is smuggled out of Israeli prisons, said that the producer of the film was looking for a joke and that his “evil” led him to creating this plot. Bisharat said that the film does not reflect reality and that the swapping of sperm samples as depicted in the movie would not be possible in real life. He added: “[The sperm] comes straight from the prisoner’s heart to the heart of his family.”

Straight from the prisoner's heart? Well, that's not quite true…