5-22-2014 Occupation: ‘The Finest Israeli Documentary’ - David Shulman New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/22/occupation-finest-israeli-documentary/?insrc=toc

 

 

A review of three works:

The Law in These Parts

a film directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz

(2011)

My Neighbourhood

a film directed by Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi

(2012)

Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

by Max Blumenthal

Nation Books, 496 pp., $27.99

 

Review of three works on Palestinian and Israeli protesters and Israeli courts by Shulman, "Renne Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an activist in Ta'ayush, Arab-Jewish Partnership."

 

…How did the Israeli legal system as a whole come effectively to collude, passively or actively, with the ongoing project of Israeli settlement in the occupied territories? Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's film, The Law in These Parts, arguably the finest Israeli documentary ever made about the occupation, seeks to answer this question….

 

… the obvious reality of severe injustice, motivated by blind ethnonationalist violence, sparked off a large-scale, relatively long-lived protest movement by Israeli activists cooperating with the Sheikh Jarrah Palestinians... \is lyrically documented in My Neighbourhood….

  

But by far the best parts of this depressing, wrathful work [Goliath] are the chapters that deal with Palestinian nonviolent resistance in the West Bank villages of Bil'in, Ni'lin, and, in particular, Nabi Saleh. ..

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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