The Trans Teen Imprisoned for Refusing to Join the #IDF

This is both a very touching and interesting interview. The #refusniks are people whom we don't talk enough, but they are a core part of the real changes within Israeli society and they also deserve support. Especially when they are young #transgender people who refuse to take part in #WarCrime, #CrimeAgainstHumanity and #genocide. They are real hopes for a peaceful resolution of the #IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlJiuV1Yjo

“There is No Nice Way to Bulldoze a School”: #BaselAdra and #YuvalAbraham on #NoOtherLand

by Nicolas Rapold
in Directors, Festivals & Events, Interviews
on Feb 27, 2024

"Co-directed by an #IsraeliPalestinian collective of four, No Other Land was filmed in the #WestBank, in Masafer Yatta, where Israeli military and increasingly civilians have forced #Palestinians out from their villages. Premiered at the 74th Berlinale, the debut feature won both the juried documentary award and the Audience Award in its section, Panorama—amply deserved honors for its adroit, affecting and infuriating portrayal of a tight-knit Palestinian community resisting Israel’s relentless campaign of expulsion. Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, two of the co-directors, are also extensively on screen. Adra, whose father was also an activist, offers the film’s primary eyes and ears, both through the offenses he hustles to record at mortal risk—he’s essentially a war photographer who lives inside the war—and through the archival video that conveys his memories of growing up there. Abraham, an Israeli journalist, befriends Adra in the course of reporting, and the two grow closer as he gets invested in the survival of Adra’s community, whose adults and children we see menaced, shot at and pushed into living in a cave as homes, a schoolhouse and other buildings are demolished.

"The film’s excellence and the courage required to make it are worth underlining amid the fractious politics of this year’s Berlinale, which was lambasted for policing speech about the very issues addressed so cogently by a film the festival programmed and honored. (The latest news at press time was a bizarre clarification from the German Ministry of Culture that the Culture Minister’s applause at the prize ceremony was intended only for the Israeli member of the No Other Land filmmaking team, i.e., Abraham, and not Adra. Abraham reported death threats after making his acceptance speech, whose words echoed his answers here.) But when I interviewed Adra and Abraham in a lounge tucked away in the Palast, it was barely midway through the festival, and they were only two screenings into a festival edition that would be defined by the strength of its nonfiction selection—perhaps none quite so urgent and on point as No Other Land."

Read more:
https://filmmakermagazine.com/125182-interview-basel-adra-yuval-abraham-no-other-land/

Film trailer:
https://www.firstshowing.net/2024/award-winning-doc-about-palestine-no-other-land-official-trailer/

#Palestine #Israel #NoWar #CeasfireNow #GazaSolidarity #FreePalestine
#Gaza #Rafa #JVP #Film

I keep seeing people repeat the claim that the #Palestinians do not exist, are #arab, are not from that region, or just generally claims conflicting with the fact that they I've been there since pre-biblical times and are, genetically speaking, the same group as the jews.

Here is a study published by the British medical system which outright says that they are the same ethnic group, genetically speaking. Please stop repeating misinformation: the idea that the Palestinians don't actually exist has been pushed by radicals for over a century, in order to undermine their claim to the land, and justify violence. This is propaganda pushed by violent extremists.

They are all descended from the tribes of israel.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891/#:~:text=Archaeologic%20and%20genetic%20data%20support,but%20not%20in%20genetic%2C%20differences.

#Israel #Israeli #zionist #zionism #palestine #gaza #israeliPalestinian #israeliPalestinianConflict #misinformation #FactCheck #news #uspol #politics