British film director Mike Leigh has canceled a trip to Israel to protest against a proposed loyalty oath.
Israel's Cabinet last week passed a bill that would require non-Jewish immigrants to pledge loyalty to a "Jewish and democratic" state - language seen as discriminatory toward Israel's Arab minority.
Leigh, the award-winning director of Naked and Secrets & Lies, said he was no longer prepared to take part in the "great masters" program at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem.
In a letter to school director Renen Schorr, Leigh, who is Jewish, said he opposed Israel's policies toward Palestinians and called the loyalty oath the "last straw."