“The deeply rooted” features artworks that center ancient culture steeped in traditional and Indigenous knowledge that colonization attempted to erase.
The violence meted out by PA forces against Palestinian demonstrators Wednesday night was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. When it was all over, one thing became clear: the PA isn’t a subcontractor of the occupation, they are in lock step. Having just witnessed her friend’s arrest, and frustrated by her failure to prevent it, a young…
An Israeli court has banned screenings of a documentary film about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
The Lod district court made its decision on Monday, concluding a libel lawsuit filed against prominent director Mohammed Bakri by Israeli soldier Nissim Magnaji, whose participation in Israel’s Operation Defensive Shield is portrayed in the film which was released in 2002.
Magnaji filed the lawsuit after he was accused in the film “Jenin, Jenin” of stealing money from an elderly Palestinian man, an allegation he denied.
Monday’s ruling said Meghnagi had been “sent to defend his country and found himself accused of a crime he did not commit”.