Another story we made for VJ Movement. Israeli and Palestinian software developers work together on an online operating system, but it’s almost impossible for them to have real world meetings because of the political situation (so they usually skype). The Palestinian crew is VERY happy their digital product can’t be controlled by Israeli checkpoints, and [...]
Museum of the Seam in Jerusalem
Here’s a vid of a very unusual, provocative museum in Jerusalem – situated in a bullet-scarred building that before 1967 was on the border between Israel and Jordan. (Khaled and I did a lecture/screening there a few months ago – will post some clips from that soon). Check out the museum website.
Marijuana in Israel – the scoop
This is another video we recently made for VJM, a cool Dutch indie news website. Check it out, especially for the commercials from Ale Yarok, the “Green Leaf” marijuana political party, and also for the way Israel plays the terrorist card against drug use, by connecting the dots to Hizbollah.
Uri Avnery, Israeli peace activist
Another short vid we made for VJMovement in Holland. Uri Avnery is the brightest light on the Israeli left, and he speaks from a lot of experience. He came to Israel in 1933, a 10-yr old fleeing Nazi Germany. He has endured not only endless criticism, but beatings and assassination attempts, to get his message [...]
“Holocaust abuse”?
Almost all of Khaled’s work is controversial to someone. When I first tell Jewish friends about “the Arab man who opened a Holocaust museum,” they say something like “amazing”, and basically think he’s a saint.
Yes, part of what Khaled is doing is courageously confronting Arab/Moslem denial about the Holocaust (he was after all, on the [...]
New trailer
Here’s our new trailer – anyway, how can you sum up in a few minutes a complex story coming from a completely conflicted complex part of the world anyway?? Comments always welcome…
TEAR GAS
Today Khaled, Radi, and I drive to Bilin, a village in the West Bank about 20 km northwest of Jerusalem. The town is cut in two by the Separation Fence (which is a 30 foot high concrete wall in other places). Palestinian farmers can no longer get to their fields, their land is suddenly no [...]
