Yves here. This important post below recaps some of the more important offerings in the considerable and growing set of documentaries on the ethnic cleansing and now genocide of Palestinians by Israel. This body of work greatly amplified the indictment we get via short videos of starving babies, gripping eyewitness accounts, and disgusting sadistic satisfaction from Israeli officials and citizens. These films put together the bigger architecture of these war crimes.
Even though it may seem futile to merely bear witness, and karma for Zionists looks to be too slow in coming to save many if any Palestinian lives, this sort of exposure is having a cumulative effect. More and more ordinary people doing what they can to impede the operation of the ethnosupremacist state, such as port workers refusing to service ships with Israel-bound cargo.
By Skip Kaltenheuser, a Washington, DC-based writer who has written for a wide variety of domestic and foreign publications on a broad range of topics, including politics, law, business, culture and travel. Originally published at LA Progressive
It’s 2025. There’s an Internet. Who can now pretend they have no idea what Israel has done, is doing, aims to do?
It’s obvious to the entire world that the Biden and Trump administrations have run cover for Israel while enabling the horrors before us.
But for those seeking a deeper understanding, or perhaps sources to encourage others to understand what is taking place, many important documentaries stand ready to enlighten.
One, Who Killed Shireen?, was recently viewed at the National Press Club. In 2022 Shireen Abu Akleh, a renowned Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazerra, was clearly marked as press in blue body armor yet fatally shot in the back of the head by an Israeli sniper, and her producer wounded.
Israel made fanciful claims such as Abu Akleh being killed by fire from Palestinian militants. After Israeli explanations eventually turned to wet tissue, Israel refused to identify even the unit responsible, denying the Biden administration access, while refusing changes to rules of engagement that might protect innocents in the future. The desire to know the perpetrators was widely shared by Abu Akleh’s family and colleagues and by many in the Middle East who respected the journalist as a trusted and valued source interpreting what was happening around them.
The press club ballroom was at capacity, mostly with members of the general public who bought tickets to view the 40-minute investigative film and a panel discussion afterwards. The documentary was backed by Zeteo, a news outlet owned by Mehdi Hassan. The investigation, akin to a detective story, was headed by Dion Nissenbaum, an American journalist with experience in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
The investigative team established that Israel knew at the outset its soldiers were culpable. Initial American assessments determined the shooting intentional, and that the shooter could be convicted of murder in an American courtroom. The Biden aministration then flipped, concluding there was no reason to believe the killing was intentional, laying the cause on “tragic circumstances.”
Nissenbaum’s crew believes they have pinpointed the shooter, including from comments from an unidentified Israeli official and IDF soldiers who spoke anonymously. There were no consequences for anyone. The alleged shooter, 20-year-old Alon Scagio, was made a captain in another unit and died in combat. Soldiers angry at Scagio being identified used pictures of Abu Akleh for target practice. The cost of the Biden Administration’s failure to dent Israel’s impunity over the Abu Akleh murder have been high. It sent a signal that Israel had no worries about declaring open season on the press to damp down coverage of Israel’s actions. Over two hundred media workers have been killed, many with their family members.
The Biden administration’s softballing the matter, even running cover for Israel’s crime, is a major takeaway from the film. Hassan hopes that Biden is haunted by his lack of action in the case. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) sent a video stating that the impunity Israel has enjoyed since the Abu Akleh killing likely paved the way for killing at least a half dozen Americans and other civilians.
An Israeli colonel tweeted “Wearing a vest that says ‘press’ doesn’t turn a terrorist into a journalist.” This writer has been shocked to hear similar sentiments from US journalists asked to stand up for Palestinian journalists.
A preview of Who Killed Shireen? can be found here.
A massive database of documentaries on Palestinians and their plight can be found at Palestinecinema. com, many of them brief yet poignant, most within the past two decades. Brief is sometimes a welcome alternative. Although longer films are well-done and effective, the sheer injustice over decades can overwhelm one’s sensibilities. Four minutes worth every moment are in a Brief Animated History of the Question of Palestine, put out by the UN Palestinian Rights Committee, accessible on You- Tube. This is a quick shot to fire at those nonsensically denying Palestinians are a real people, or that there’s an occupation.
One coming to mind is US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a pastor whose enterprises include decades of taking Christian evangelical tourists to Israeli settlements. Of late Huckabee is bewildered by reports of harassment of Christians, and by arson attacks on an ancient church near Jerusalem.
He says he’s troubled by the recent brutal beating death of a US citizen at the hands of West Bank Israeli settlers. Who knows, perhaps one day he’ll end up getting religion.
Naw. Huckabee recently infuriated the Irish by telling them to “sober up” and asking if they’d “fallen into a vat of Guinness” after Ireland explored legislation banning goods from settlements in occupied territories.
Among other animated films Huckabee would benefit from is one done in 2022 by a West Bank human rights organization, viewable at AlHaq.org and on YouTube. The nine minute Israel’s Settler Colonial Apartheid Regime: Segregating the Palestinian People, succinctly explains the history of Israeli apartheid.
>A great exposé of the threat Israeli spyware poses to privacy, including in America and dozens of other countries, arrived via Surveilled, a 2024 HBO documentary by Ronan Farrow. It carefully examines an NSO Group product called Pegasus which can turn a cell phone into “a spy in your pocket.” It’s also another instance of Palestine as a proving ground for such technology.
Not just for Israeli companies. According to the Business and Human Rights Resource Center, American companies are exploring AI and other technical abilities in synch with Israel, including Google, Meta and Microsoft, which quickly penalize or fire employees who protest their employers’ involvement.
Intelligence expert James Bamford has written in The Nation on Palantir Technologies supplying powerful targeting capabilities. He says US tech companies have provided AI that targets thousands of Palestinians, often slaying their families with them. Many targets are not even alleged militants. Some are also cultural pillars. Even poets.
This is how culture is erased. The Farrow film delving deep into Pegasus is an excellent start on understanding how tech companies put the Orwell in Orwellian. If you’re not on HBO, DemocracyNow.org has excellent segments on Surveilled.
For those tired of hearing the de rigueur preface that the slaughter before us began on October 7th, 2023, the 2019 documentary Gaza Fights for Freedom, by Abby Martin, provides excellent ammo.
Available on YouTube, it uses archival footage to examine what happened during peaceful demonstrations in Gaza during the Great March of Return, in which 200 unarmed civilians were killed and many maimed. Doctors Without Borders puts the number of demonstrators injured in the weekly protests by the fence that pens Palestinians into Gaza, held over a 636- day period starting in March of 2018, at over 35,600.
Often they were hit by bone-shattering gunshots in the quest to inflict the worst and longest-lasting injuries possible.
The gleeful depravity of the Israeli euphemism “mowing the lawn” – code for terrorizing Palestinians – was on clear display. Israeli snipers’ targeting of medics who responded, as well as of journalists and children, was a warmup for what everyone not in a self-induced coma sees they have now wrought.
If one slides about the Internet, one will soon come across the film being attacked as biased and supporting terrorism. Such claims nicely illustrate Israel’s public relations machine as they try to tear down critics of Israel’s occupation and subjugation of Palestinians.
Related is a 14-minute film The Waiting Room, about three of the patients who were injured in those demonstrations and how their lives changed. It’s available at msf.org, the site of Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), which works in over seventy countries to save lives and ease the suffering of those in crisis.
There is a more recent film exploring attacks on medical workers. Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, is a BBC project that the BBC later cancelled the showing of, to wide condemnation. It’s not for nothing that last year over 230 members of the British media industry, including 100 BBC staff members, signed a letter accusing the BBC of favoring Israel in its news broadcasts and lacking fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza.
The five and a half minute trailer for the film, which can be seen at zeteo.com, begins with the murder of fifteen medics on a rescue mission. IDF soldiers subsequently buried them in a mass grave with their vehicles.
After the grave was found, the discovered cell phone of a slain medic who was recording the operation put the lie to Israel’s explanations of the deaths. The film contrasts the brutality to medical workers, in violation of international law, with their perseverance trying to maintain a semblance of care in impossible situations as medical centers are bombed and Israel methodically robs Gaza of irreplaceable medical expertise and training.
The media firm Zeteo acquired the film. Alas, it is only available to subscribers as an incentive to sign up.
Given the power of this film, and the dire timing as malnutrition and starvation take hold in Gaza and medical workers pass out from hunger and exhaustion, it would be a public service for Zeteo to make it freely available to the public.
Viewers could then widely distribute it via the Internet throughout the world, including to members of Congress. The film might change even hardened minds. The need for that is immediate.
The subject of methodical assaults on medical workers and facilities can be pursued at DemocracyNow.org, which has multiple filmed interviews with doctors in Gaza and with volunteer medical workers from abroad who’ve provided services. Their morality and courage are stunning. Their undeniable testimony proving IDF solders deliberately and frequently target children and infants in the head is a stain Israel’s enablers can never erase.
What is one to make of the mentality of encroaching settlers in illegal settlements who don’t just claim but believe they have divine real estate deeds, solid as the tablets handed Moses? British-American Louis Theroux has done scores of documentaries, many for the BBC, winning multiple awards.
He spent a great deal of time getting to know these religious-nationalist settlers, including Daniella Weiss, the movement’s “Godmother.” Theroux also spends time with Palestinians, learning how their lives have been impacted by the settlers entering their communities.
His new film, The Settlers, can be viewed at the Films for Action site, FilmsforAction.org, as can his 2011 film The Ultra Zionists.
One is struck by how these settlers surround themselves in a religious echo chamber that reinforces justification of the indefensible. The dehumanization of those whose land they covet is a required building block for this chamber.
Another exploration is done in the 2016 film The Settlers (inside the Jewish settlements), by Israeli film director Shimon Dotan, who looked at both religious and secular settlers. It is also accessible at Films for Action, as are scores of other films showing diverse aspects of the lives of those in the region and also people impacted back in America.
An example of the latter is Inside Meta’s Palestine Censorship, on the internal censorship of pro-Palestine content and intimidation of Meta employees, owing to the massive media company’s ties to Israel.
Such ties by many companies profiting from the destruction of Palestinians are explored in Exposing a Global Economy of Genocide, an interview with UN special rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, who was sanctioned by Trump after releasing her recent report on the economic machinery that helps drive the oppression.
Inside Occupied Palestine offers the combined perspectives of Veterans for Peace, US activists and a former Israeli Air Force Blackhawk pilot. They convey the impossible circumstances for Palestinians living under Israel’s occupation, also at FilmsforAction.org. The flip side of what Israel is doing is not just the horror the US government enables on its path to pariah status, but the harm it inflicts on American society.
The Chris Hedges Report, available on several sites including Scheerpost.com, often fleshes out related themes in front of a camera. Recently Hedges discusses The End of Academic Freedom with Dr. Maura Finkelstein, an academic fired for speaking out in defense of Palestinians, detractors awarding her the slur “self-hating jew.”
Such filmed reports are critical to include alongside discussion of documentaries on Palestinians. Even though that level of brutality inflicted by Israel is not widely apparent here, our rights and academic freedoms are being brutalized and careers damaged. This is inseparable from what America enables Israel to do, as it is motivated by Israel’s desire to crush public scrutiny of what it does and to destroy critics.
And, of course, there’s 2024’s No Other Land, a joint Palestinian-Israeli documentary showing the forced displacement of Palestinians in Masafer Yaata in the West Bank after it was declared an Israeli “firing zone.”
It won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film. It has yet to find a distributor for North America.
On March 24th, Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the film, was severely beaten by Israeli West Bank settlers. No consequences. On July 28th, Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian consultant on the film, was shot dead by Yinon Levi, an Israeli settler who’d been under US sanctions for violent attacks on Palestinians until Trump removed them. No consequences.
Delving into these filmed offerings will provide insight into what a diminishing American morality means not just for America but for lowering the bar for morality around the world. If Americans fail to understand and stop what we’re enabling in Israel, the reverberations will come to haunt them like banshees.
Don’t look away.
Flying the Rainbow Flag at American embassies fools no one.
This was a POWERFUL post. What a video! Thank you.
I am so angry – not only at Zionist Israel – but at my fellow citizens who continue to turn a blind eye. I guess if they had known about the concentration camps and the gas chambers in Nazi Germany, these same people would have turned a blind eye to that as well. It is nothing short of contemptible.
Many upper echelon politicos in the West did know about the Nazi Death Camps, and kept quiet.
IBM in particular had full access to the electronic data concerning the camps, since their German subsidiary had the contract for the data management of the Final Solution. All of that data was sent to New York on a regular basis. The IBM management in New York decided that profit was preferable to morality and ethics.
See, an oldie but goody: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Then there were the oil companies that traded with Germany through neutral countries during most of the war.
The corruption inherent in the love of money is universal.
A historian friend who worked at the Imperial War Museum told me Churchill knew about the “final solution” quite quickly after the decision was taken in 1941 and certainly by early 1942.
I believe an article was posted here last month revealing that Britain had been approached by upper echelons in the Nazi regime prior to any Nazi invasions. Britain had apparently been planning to quietly assist them and had run public support for the Nazi representative in England before their plans fell apart, seemingly forcing them to have to condemn side against them.
I’m sorry I can’t remember the name of the article off of the top of my head.
My understanding of Israel changed in 2011 when I watched the gut-wrenching documentary: 5 Broken Cameras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcTN3g-b0iA
Probably not ‘turn a blind eye,’ ValerieinAustralia, but excuse and rationalize as does my neighbor, a lovely woman, who is acquainted with the son and daughter-in-law of a former Israeli Prime Minister. We had a discussion a few weeks ago about the ‘genocide’ and I asked her how her ‘friends reconciled it with their ‘liberal’ leanings, their dual citizenship with homes in the US and in Israel. She said it was all the fault of that evil Netanyahu and as soon as he was gone everything would be fine. And, besides, genocides and ethnic cleansing happened routinely all over the world.
At a town hall near you ask your politicians how many deaths is their limit before they will act?
200,000 more?
Maybe 2.1 million more? Hey now, we need to give genocide a chance (that’s sarcasm of course).
With apologies to Holly, Valens, and the Big Bopper, but October 7, 2023 is the day music died.
Yup!
Excerpt from my email to the PM and the Minister of Foreign Affairs:
“Your Honours,
Canada has joined 20+ other countries in condemning Israel for the most recent war crimes that it has committed in Gaza, where people are forced to dodge bullets in order to receive food, because nothing is free in this world, eh?!
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territories
The question is, what is the count of bodies that will move these governments, including the Canadian Government, to actually do something that will jolt Israel in stopping its crimes?
Is it 10,000 more killed, and then some more arms that are presently shipped to Israel will be blocked?
For 20,000 will actually investigate any Canadian that joined the IDF for war crimes and open files on them?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/im-afraid-to-go-home-canadian-idf-soldiers-fear-fallout-from-war-crimes-probe/
For 30,000 will recall the Canadian Ambassador to Israel?
For 40,000 will stop importing anything from Israel?
For 50,000 will Join South Africa at the Hague?
Or maybe hoping that soon enough all Gazans will be pushed into Egypt and then it will be too late to do anything about it and will just drop the issue?
Or maybe all this hot air emitted by Canada and the rest 20+ countries is to try to overshadow what actually needs to be done to stop this monstrous crime?
https://latinamericareports.com/hague-group-announces-sanctions-against-israel-at-colombia-summit/11780/
Sincerely yours,”
20 million dead Slavs from WW2 never gets mentioned. Will 2 million non Jewish Semites cause people to care?
More like 30 million, but who’s counting.
And then there’s this re the Democrats, from The Times of Israel, (could not find this in US press):
“August 5, 2025.
The US Democratic National Committee has voted down a resolution calling for an Israel arms embargo, recognition of a Palestinian state and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The text of the resolution did not mention the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Strip.
The resolution was not expected to pass, but was the latest measure to expose deep divisions within the Democratic Party over Israel, as discussion on the issue lasted longer than any other on today’s DNC agenda.
An alternative resolution submitted by DNC chairman Ken Martin that called for a ceasefire, a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the immediate release of the hostages and a two-state solution was initially advanced by the committee.”
Truly the party deserving of its own shallow narcissist headline loving, photo op loving, Prez-wannabe Gavin Newsom, moving at warp speed to the political right in search of donors – Big Oil Yes, Homeless Illegal Yes, no Medicaid for Immigrants Yes, Trans People No. This is our Democratic Party.
I saw No Other Land, which received a special screening here in Turin on a Sunday morning. It is worth seeking out. Keep in mind, when watching the film, that the settlers, who come across as cowards, are also there in the West Bank illegally.
I have also watched a considerable part of the Louis Theroux’s documentary about the illegal settlements, with his interview with Grandmama of the Settlements, Daniella Weiss.
This paragraph hardly touches the horror of watching Weiss: “One is struck by how these settlers surround themselves in a religious echo chamber that reinforces justification of the indefensible. The dehumanization of those whose land they covet is a required building block for this chamber.”
She insists, as so many racists do, that she cannot even see the Palestinian villages. The commenters at YTube kept asking if she is insane. If anything, she is what happens when a person collapses morally — a serial killer in a “modest” headwrap.
All in all, I think it important that USanians consider how many structures and institutions in U.S. society are in moral collapse after years of promoting wars and coups d’état: See the slaughter in Ukraine that the Biden group wanted so badly. The 2014 coup is almost a sideshow, although it led to the Kiev government acquiescing in the terrorizing and murdering of people in the Donbass. Now there are 1.7 dead Ukrainians. In Israel, the U S of A (and, notably, the U.K., still trying to hold on to Britannia Rules the Waves) are financing a genocide.
You can understand why so much of BlueMaga and liberal-land is in a panic: They were promised some cunning imperialist wars, with no harm to them or their scions. Likewise, the Christo-whatevers, who support imperial wars and bloody sacrifices of other people’s children.
Well put DJG
>She insists, as so many racists do, that she cannot even see the Palestinian villages.
I remember that bit. It’s when I realised the insanity involved.
I think many UK/US/EU people now realise that their governments and media have been active participants in this genocide. The spin has collapsed. Legitimacy can never be recovered.
There’s a very clear line differentiating insanity from sheer unrelenting evil.
Thank you NC. We live in a time when we humans seem infinitely clever when it comes to technology and schemes for self enrichment and increasingly crippled and retarded when it comes to the “social intelligence” that provides the framework for our headlong conquest and perhaps death grip of the planet. So it’s not just the Israelis who at the moment are providing the model for the heartless domination of others. The elites represented by the Biden admin and now Trump have the same point of view even if the roster of victims is not the same. That the Israelis evoke ancient Bible tales of
Amalek etc merely illustrates that this human tendency toward self destructive hierarchy is as old as humans. Their own revered text gives them the warning that they ignore.
Trump should forget about making America great and concentrate on making America virtuous again. Not that we ever were but at least aspirationally we were and didn’t celebrate villainy the way many do now.
What a simpler time Gil Scott-Heron lived in. Go back about 55 years to his famous song.
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back after a message
about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
Thank you for this Neutrino, and a greater thanks to Yves who has had the courage to continue making the sacrifice of children to Mamon an important and vital issue. A friend of mine who died some time ago was upset towards the end that he felt he had made no impact in his life. I could only console him with the fact that he had been a recording artist and his work would survive him. Gil Scott-Heron’s work will live a long long time. I can still hear him speak these words. From 95 South by Brian Jackson and recorded by Gil:
Very fine. Very important.
Thank you.
The elephant in the room here is the future status of Jews in general worldwide after this genocide and the attendant horrors work their way through to the end.
This looks to be the set up for a new version of “They are the killers of Ch—-.” In the Middle Ages, this ‘movement’ led to the oppression and occasional slaughter of Jews all across the West. This ‘movement’ survived well into the Twentieth Century.
David Mamet wrote a semi-fictional book about the lynching of a Northern Jew in Georgia at the turn of the Twentieth Century called “The Old Religion.”
See: https://venetianvase.co.uk/2011/02/09/david-mamets-the-old-religion/
I fear the return of formal ghettos and pogroms. Alas, the Ultra Zionists are digging the graves for all Jews.
If Israel pursues the Samson Option, then all bets are off. The retaliation will be swift and catastrophic.
Perhaps the best option would be to nuke Jerusalem and be done with it.
Stay safe.
I’m no fan of Mamet who may be the problem rather than solution. As even your book review links up a lot of people think Leo Frank was guilty and his case became the excuse for the rise of the ADL which now defends genocide in Gaza. One suspects the militant Mamet may do so as well although I have no info on the matter.
And I don’t think Jews worldwide will be attacked or discredited because the extremity of what is happening discredits the “progressive except for Palestine” crowd who are the real source of the problem (i.e. their lack of true principle). Many younger people of Jewish background reject Zionism and the tribal exclusivity at its root. Meanwhile Netanyahu says that Jews who assimilate or intermarry are worse, to him, than falling victim to the Holocaust. He and his supporters are worshipping Zionism. Many of them, particularly in the beginning, weren’t even religious and the notion of a Jewish “race” is very fuzzy indeed.
Of course Israelis say that Americans have no right to judge but since they insist on including us in their project then they have no right to say that. Polls now show that a majority of Americans are opposed to what Israel is doing. Somebody tell our “representatives.”
There needs to be a balance. Right now there is impunity for Jews who use an iron fist against critics of Israel. Some of this impunity, especially in the past, came from proper compunction about what the Jews suffered during World War II. But now I think much of it comes from fear. This has to be acknowledged if we are to have an honest conversation on the subject.
Shoot the Messenger
If you have the time, the podcast “Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder and Pegasus Software” from 2023 is worth a listen.
The hosts are Rose Reid and Nando Vila.
Not relevant to the matter at hand but, Nando Vila is just delicious. That’s just a fact.
Thank you for this, Yves. It’s very helpful to have a short overview of the many films that document what is really happening in this conflict, especially as the media has abdicated its role and responsibility to do so. If only more people would seek these films out and give them a serious look.
Over the years, I had read and heard a fair amount concerning the Zionist entity, but it was a viewing of Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (2003) that really clarified everything. Two directors — Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi — one Israeli and one Palestinian, travelled their homeland for two months, following the north-south line described by Resolution 181, adopted by the U.N. on November 29th 1947, to partition Palestine into two states.
In three chapters, the directors meet and interview many people, who together convey a collective vision of “the inhabitants of Palestine-Israel”. It reaches the audience not by showing us atrocities, but through seeing and hearing the voices of ordinary people. I highly recommend this film. You can stream it from the Internet Archive. Reflecting on this, I am dismayed to note that it was nearly twenty years ago that I watched Route 181, but here we are.
Per this article, Mehdi Hassan hopes that “Biden is haunted by his lack of action in the case” but if the man even still has two brain cells left, he will likely never have a moment of true self doubt. Ditto for Mike Huckabee. The parties they represent — the enablers of this genocide — need to meet an ignominious, permanent defeat. They have thoroughly discredited themselves as people worthy of representing the United States in any capacity.
A global boycott on the Zionist regime is possible, but it will likely take a global boycott of any politicians who support it. Once it becomes clear to the pols that support for Israel will definitively end their political careers, they will begin to change their tune.
Towards this end, I think it needs to be emphasized that the Democrats’ loss of the 2024 election was in large part due to their refusal to take a stand against genocide. Harris was probably never “allowed” to do so by the party and its donors, but through this she demonstrated that she has been just as mendacious and just as much an enabler of mass killing as Biden.