It’s notable that the front pages of both the Times and the WSJ today had stories on the thuggish assault of Israeli Jews on the director of the superb, Oscar-winning documentary on the brutal oppression of the Palestinians on the West Bank, No Other Land. Yet somehow TFP’s daily front page “Window on the World” didn’t notice this intern…
It’s notable that the front pages of both the Times and the WSJ today had stories on the thuggish assault of Israeli Jews on the director of the superb, Oscar-winning documentary on the brutal oppression of the Palestinians on the West Bank, No Other Land. Yet somehow TFP’s daily front page “Window on the World” didn’t notice this internationally front page news. TFP’s “window” seems a bit selective about what it opens onto.
Did TFP ever cover this excellent film and what it shows about Jews brutalizing Palestinians at all, even after its Oscar? At the time of its Oscar, I could find nowhere to watch it in a theater, stream it, or even buy it. I finally had to order it from Australia. But when the DVD finally arrived today, it was not No Other Land, but The Beatles 1964, with no explanation for the swicheroo. How odd.
Now, however, someone is distributing it nationwide to art houses. It needs to be shown on PBS, on Frontline or something. Or covered by 60 Minutes. Certainly, there is no more pressing international issue than this, outside Sudan or Ukraine.
Ezra Klein spent a month in the West Bank recently and told David Remnick after his return that the plight and misery of the Palestinians reminded him of that of blacks in Bama and MS in the Forties and Fifties. I grew up in Georgia then, and the standard of living of blacks was much higher than that of Palestinians in caves or concrete shacks today. And blacks did not constantly have their hovels bulldozed by the state. Nor were they killed by state armies or police, or by whites at large, in anything like the numbers killed by official Israeli forces and settlers. Let’s hope No Other Land causes the kind of outrage among what King called “people of goodwill,” Jews and Gentiles alike, that was caused in the Fifties and Sixties by TV coverage of black suffering under segregation. What happened to John Lewis and the other marchers at Selma was nothing compared to what happens to Palestinians regularly.
Let’s hope the Jewish settlers who beat this internationally celebrated Palestinian director don’t eventually succeed in giving him the settler version of a Southern Leo Frank-style lynching. At least now, as at Selma, “The whole world is watching.” Just as it is watching this superb film.
This excellent film has been revealed to be a deliberate propaganda piece by Hamas. You may want to check out who the relatives of the film’s hero are.
I’m very sorry the Palestinians have chosen only violence since The League of Nations partition. Think what a thriving nation the Palestinians might have if their efforts and energy had gone into building instead of the centuries-old tribal warfare route.
It’s notable that the front pages of both the Times and the WSJ today had stories on the thuggish assault of Israeli Jews on the director of the superb, Oscar-winning documentary on the brutal oppression of the Palestinians on the West Bank, No Other Land. Yet somehow TFP’s daily front page “Window on the World” didn’t notice this internationally front page news. TFP’s “window” seems a bit selective about what it opens onto.
Did TFP ever cover this excellent film and what it shows about Jews brutalizing Palestinians at all, even after its Oscar? At the time of its Oscar, I could find nowhere to watch it in a theater, stream it, or even buy it. I finally had to order it from Australia. But when the DVD finally arrived today, it was not No Other Land, but The Beatles 1964, with no explanation for the swicheroo. How odd.
Now, however, someone is distributing it nationwide to art houses. It needs to be shown on PBS, on Frontline or something. Or covered by 60 Minutes. Certainly, there is no more pressing international issue than this, outside Sudan or Ukraine.
Ezra Klein spent a month in the West Bank recently and told David Remnick after his return that the plight and misery of the Palestinians reminded him of that of blacks in Bama and MS in the Forties and Fifties. I grew up in Georgia then, and the standard of living of blacks was much higher than that of Palestinians in caves or concrete shacks today. And blacks did not constantly have their hovels bulldozed by the state. Nor were they killed by state armies or police, or by whites at large, in anything like the numbers killed by official Israeli forces and settlers. Let’s hope No Other Land causes the kind of outrage among what King called “people of goodwill,” Jews and Gentiles alike, that was caused in the Fifties and Sixties by TV coverage of black suffering under segregation. What happened to John Lewis and the other marchers at Selma was nothing compared to what happens to Palestinians regularly.
Let’s hope the Jewish settlers who beat this internationally celebrated Palestinian director don’t eventually succeed in giving him the settler version of a Southern Leo Frank-style lynching. At least now, as at Selma, “The whole world is watching.” Just as it is watching this superb film.
You failed to capitalize the B in blacks. Get your story straight.
This excellent film has been revealed to be a deliberate propaganda piece by Hamas. You may want to check out who the relatives of the film’s hero are.
I’m very sorry the Palestinians have chosen only violence since The League of Nations partition. Think what a thriving nation the Palestinians might have if their efforts and energy had gone into building instead of the centuries-old tribal warfare route.