The Other Israel: New Perspectives Film Festival
“One Street in Silwan,” directed by Bissan Tibi, is a documentary. It tells the
story of ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem through the eyes of a young Palestinian girl, Dareen Al-Rajabi.
Category: Culture
Reviews of films, books, visual arts, and other events
Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power
The authors realize they are on “sensitive” ground that puts them squarely in the middle of the most inflammatory issues of the day as they reference “antisemitism, the influence of Jewish and Israeli-American political donors, and the role of a country created in the aftermath of the Holocaust.”
“Planet Israel”
Mosely is searching for answers about what is driving the behavior of Israeli Jews, and the now-widening divide between Jewish religious ethics and the conduct of the state of Israel.
When Doves Try: Tracing an Israeli Peace Movement
Sifry affirms his commitment “to the concept of Zionism as a movement of Jewish national self-determination.” Nevertheless, he adds, “I deplore, however, the racist and militarist forms it has taken from early on.”
Lost Voices of the Holocaust: The Art of Marcel Roux
Daily camp life is represented through detailed images: inmates marching in unison, receiving a ladle of gruel, and enduring beatings. One drawing records a prisoner caning another; there is documentation of a man held in a torturous stress position. The work on paper titled “massacre des juifs” (Massacre of Jews) recounts six soldiers, rifles raised, who executed four prisoners who appear to be returning from a work detail. This scene is labeled as taking place at Sauchenhausen.
“Israel: Ministers of Chaos”
“Ministers of Chaos,” profiling Itamr Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich,
takes a deep look at the tentacles of racism and ethnonationalism in today’s state of Israel.
“No Way But Forward: Life Stories of Three Families in the Gaza Strip”
Barber tells of his trip to various schools throughout the Strip in 1995 to meet students. A young man implores him:
“Please go home and tell the world that we are not all terrorists.”
“Holding Liat”- Grief as a Microcosm of Politics
Three months later, the film accompanies Liat to Yad Vashem, where she leads her class through an exhibit on the Warsaw Ghetto. She focuses on the separation wall that divided the Jews from the Poles and the Germans. It obviously has a specific meaning for her.
“Blacklisted: An American Story” An Exhibit More Timely than Ever
“Political blacklists are a way of taking away people’s voices. If you are not allowed to participate or speak, no one can hear your ideas. You might lose friends, jobs, and your home. As you go through this exhibition, think about who is being allowed to speak and who is being silenced.”
Citizens of the Whole World: Delving into Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left
For many readers, the text will be a primer on unfamiliar names and coalitions, and the first “criticisms” of Zionism from the Jewish left in the 1930s and 1940s.
