Journalist Abby Martin shows two of the most attacked refugee camps in the West Bank: Balata and Aida camps. She interviews Palestinian refugees in these camps to understand their perspectives. Video title: Empire Files: Inside Palestine’s Refugee CampsCreated by:...
Testimonies and classified documents about Israel’s atrocities from the 1948 Nakba/War of Independence, including previously obscured massacres, are beginning to be revealed despite attempts to conceal them. While Israel’s Malmab unit (Hebrew acronym which stands for...
A documentary film by Director Bruce Robbins about American Jews who take an independent line on Israel and the Middle East. The heart of the film focuses on the experiences of American Jews changing their minds on Palestine/Israel: what they were told about Israel...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is widely viewed in the US as one of the most complicated geopolitical disputes in the world. But there are also signs that Americans are unfamiliar with one of the core flashpoints of the conflict: the exact nature of Israel’s ongoing...
My Neighbourhood follows 11-year-old Palestinian Mohammed El-Kurd as he comes of age in the midst of unrelenting tension and remarkable cooperation in his backyard. Highlighting Mohammed’s own reactions to the highly volatile situation, reflections from family members...
This film follows Palestinian youths living in the Gaza Strip as they work to beat the Guinness World Record for the most kites every flown. The documentary is co-produced with youth filmmakers in Gaza and was funded by a Kickstarter campaign and National Geographic...
This documentary is filmed in the West Bank, Gaza, and Rafah and concentrates on three children and their lives under occupation. While filming, the producer and director James Miller was killed by an Israeli soldier, and these circumstances are explained in the film...
In the January 2009 offensive on Gaza, over 1,300 Palestinians were killed. More than 300 of them were children. This award-winning documentary follows the lives of four Gazan children over the course of a year and gives unique insight into the impacts of war. Year:...
A vivacious Palestinian woman (Nisreen Faour) and her teenage son (Melkar Muallem) cope with culture clash and more as they try to build a new life in rural Illinois. Year: 2009 Time: 96 minutes Watch the film’s trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1142620697/ Watch...
With the neighborhood of his childhood turned into rubble, Mohammed finds a way out of despair for his entire community. Against all odds, he makes it from Gaza to Egypt to audition for Arab Idol, the most popular show in the Arab world. Based on a true story. Year:...
Many interested in Israel-Palestine have asked the question: “Where is the Palestinian Mandela?” But Nelson Mandela’s grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela has argued that this question emerges from a distortion of his grandfather’s legacy. Who Was Nelson Mandela?...
Palestine Open Maps (POM) is a platform that uses mapping technologies in collaboration with researchers to showcase visual stories of the geographical transformation of historic Palestine over the last 70+ years. The project combines 1940s British Mandate of...
Dr. Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina wrote an article for Haaretz titled “Liberal Zionists, Face the Facts: There’s Already Only One State From the...
On March 16, 2023, Gallup published the results of a poll that measured American sympathy for Palestinians, Israelis, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. For the first time, more Democrats (49% versus 38%) sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis....
Gideon Levy is one of the most famous and controversial journalists in Israel. The Independent has described him as both “the most hated man in Israel” and the “most heroic.” Levy, in turn, describes Israelis as living in a “bubble”—unaware of their government’s...
Israeli Journalist Etan Nechin: A double standard for recognizing racism? Anti-Black and Anti-Palestinian Racism in the U.S. and Israel In a 2020 op-ed for Forward, Israeli journalist Etan Nechin asked the question “Why do Jews recognize the racism of George Floyd’s...
Rachel Tetrault is a community organizer and campaigner who wrote a letter to Straight.com about Vancouver’s choice to adopt a contentious antisemitism definition. In the letter, Tetrault shares about her Jewish upbringing and facing Israel’s racism against...
Anna Baltzer is a Jewish American award-winning speaker and organizer. She described her observations visiting the West Bank in a book Witness in Palestine: a Jewish Woman in the Occupied Territories and has toured the world presenting her experiences to more than 500...