NEW : Federal agency explains general policy . `` Academy Awards that they show the Israeli as terrorists '' is `` not real , '' filmmaker says . Gibreel is nominated for ` The Oscar ... half should go to us and half to the Palestinian people , '' a documentary about Oscars . `` Apparently the Immigration & Customs officers could n't understand how a Palestinian could be an Oscar nominee . He and his family are eventually released , the publicist says .
NEW : Federal agency explains general policy . `` Academy Awards that they show the Israeli as terrorists '' is `` not real , '' filmmaker says . Gibreel is nominated for ` The Oscar ... half should go to us and half to the Palestinian people , '' a documentary about Oscars . He and his family are eventually released , the publicist says .