I'll post this link and text from the article without comment, other than to say I didn't see the movie in question (I don't think it's currently running at the local sixtyplex and don't know when/if it did):
Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' Gets Banned in Lebanon
Lebanon has banned Steven Spielberg's newspaper drama The Post just days before the film is set to premiere in Beirut.
A source involved with The Post's international rollout says the movie, which stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, was presented to the Lebanese censorship board, which nixed it, citing a "boycott Israel" list that includes Spielberg due to his Oscar-winning Holocaust film Schindler's List (the 1993 film shot some scenes in Jerusalem).
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Italia Film was poised to release The Post in Lebanon on Jan. 18. A spokesperson for Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment says he cannot comment because the company has not been told officially by the Lebanese distributor that the pic will not be released there because of censorship.
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