No Other Land Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
Documentary Chronicles Destruction of Palestinian Community The 2024 Documentary, No Other Land, won the United States’s highest film award for a documentary feature, netting an Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature. The film’s path from...
Britain, Palestine, and the Weight of History
The Britain Palestine Project: Origins, Advocacy, and the Contested Legacy of the Balfour Declaration What Is the Britain Palestine Project? The Britain Palestine Project (BPP) — known as the Balfour Project from its founding in 2017 until 2025 — is a Scottish...
Jews Step Forward: A Confessional Documentary
The Moral Voices of Bravery “I could not work to make sure that Black people in Mississippi had the right to vote and then turn around and be supportive of a state where every citizen does not have equal rights before the law.” – Dorothy Zellner Jews Step Forward is a...
Qaqun: A Vibrant Village Destroyed
Qaqun was a Palestinian village once located near the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank. It is surrounded by natural wonders like Mount Nablus and the Sharon Plain and had once been inhabited by mostly Palestinian families. The village of Qaqun, along with hundreds of...
The Building of Canada Park
A national park in the occupied West Bank has become an epicenter of conflict due to its complicated history. Canada Park was built upon the remains of several depopulated Palestinian villages on the outskirts of Jerusalem. In 1948, more than 400 villages and 11...- Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in Palestine
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will… Read more: Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in Palestine - Pardo: Ashamed to Be Jewish
“What I saw today made me feel ashamed to be Jewish” – Don Pardo, former Director of Mossad Tamir Pardo, the former Director of Mossad from 2011–2016,… Read more: Pardo: Ashamed to Be Jewish - IDF Intelligence Report Contradicts Israeli Narrative
The Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research published a previously suppressed IDF intelligence report dating from 1948. This report contradicts the Israeli narrative about the major factor… Read more: IDF Intelligence Report Contradicts Israeli Narrative - David Sheen: Investigative Journalist
David Sheen is a Toronto-born, Haifa-based investigative journalist, who has worked for dozens of local, regional, and international news outlets, from Haaretz to Electronic Intifada, since 2010.… Read more: David Sheen: Investigative Journalist - Israeli Politics Decoded: a talk by David SheenIn the Knesset, who is left-wing? Who is right-wing? Are these terms even useful? Investigative journalist, David Sheen, gave a series of lectures for an international audience;… Read more: Israeli Politics Decoded: a talk by David Sheen
- No Other Land Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
Documentary Chronicles Destruction of Palestinian Community The 2024 Documentary, No Other Land, won the United States’s highest film award for a documentary feature, netting an Oscar at… Read more: No Other Land Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature - Burying the Nakba
Burying the Nakba features an investigative report by Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz that uncovered a vast conspiracy by the Israeli government to conceal evidence of the Nakba –… Read more: Burying the Nakba - Jews Step Forward: A Documentary
Jews Step Forward is a confessional documentary featuring 24 Jewish activists who “deconstruct Zionism” against a backdrop of searing, on-the-ground images and footage of atrocities perpetrated by Jewish… Read more: Jews Step Forward: A Documentary - Sykes-Picot Proposal
In May 1916, British diplomat Mark Sykes and French diplomat François Georges-Picot concluded a secret agreement partitioning much of the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire into… Read more: Sykes-Picot Proposal - Balfour Declaration
The British Government issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917 — a public statement expressing support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. This marked… Read more: Balfour Declaration