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 [...]
Settler Rabbi for Peace
Once in awhile we’ll post videos we have made about other peace activists. Rabbi Menachem Froman does not avoid paradoxes – he lives in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, but he has spent many hours meeting with influential Palestinians, including Yassar Arafat and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (the spiritual head of Hamas, assassinated by an [...]
“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 [...]
Niilin – the battle of the media
Yesterday, the same Israeli paper ran TWO articles on Niilin, the village where Khaled and I have been shooting for the past several months (and where some of its citizens decided to open their own holocaust museum, see posts below…) On the one hand, two Palestinians were injured there yesterday in the demonstrations.
And on the [...]
Khaled intro
I’m Khaled Kasab Mahameed born in Um El Fahem in 9th of May 1962 from a family who was deported from the destroyed Palestinian village “Ellajon” – which is Armageddon – mentioned in the holy Bible: Revelation Chapter 16.
My father Mahmood was expelled with his family and all the inhabitants of that village in 1948 from Ellajon – accompanying other 541 [...]
Come to the Niilin Holocaust Museum Inauguration
After an initial exhibit in the West Bank Palestinian village of Niilin in January, the official inauguration of the museum is next Tuesday, April 21 – Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel).
Come see for yourself how the Khaled’s work is inspiring debate and yes, starting controversy (I invited one Israeli journalist to this event, [...]
Article in The Forward
The venerable “The Forward”, which was first published as a daily Yiddish newspaper, in 1897, published an article quoting Khaled last week – in their English edition. Definitely an evil publication, they came out early in favor of trade unions and democratic socialism – so it figures they would feature Khaled’s work at some point.
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…
They’re both right
When I was a kid and my parents had fights, I remember feeling very confused. Somehow I identified with BOTH of them, they were both “right.”
Fast forward to the Israeli/Palestinian mess. I’m a card carrying Jew (circumcised, Bar Mitzvahed, even a kabbalistic tattoo on my arm). I’m proud of my ancient heritage – especially when [...]
