BBC World Service. This time, though, there was no faking it. Israeli veterans sued Katz for libel. On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a 'watered-down' version of an earlier draft resolution which would have demanded . He asks Len to join, but Len is not interested. "Tantura" is a new Israeli documentary challenging Israel's understanding of the war. 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If it were that simple, we would have already found a solution. Meanwhile Len leads a search of the kibbutz at Qiryat Haiyim, but finds nothing. However, an IDF soldier takes away the box. Erin goes to see Omar, but he too refuses to help. CRIF did not ask for the broadcast to be pulled, but rather to be balanced with a programme taking a different position, and for the fictional nature of the series to be made clear. [109] Senators Scott Ryan and Helen Kroger both later issued press releases critical of the series. It hasn't really been established because at first, I got a figure that 20 people were killed. For the Israelis, the six days of war in June 1967 were a series of stunning victories that doubled the amount of land under their control. And he told NPR his uncle was one of those lined up to die. Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023 . They go to a caf, but when Paul goes back for his wallet, the building is blown apart by a suicide bomb. But Len is unconvinced, and he is dragged off to join the others, being held in a hole under a trapdoor, with just enough room for an oxygen cylinder. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. A single tear runs down his face. They take a group photograph outside. The Arkansas Times needed the revenue and Leveritt said it had never occurred to him to boycott Israel. Len finds Klein in solitary confinement in Acre, but he is unwilling to appeal, saying that every movement needs its martyrs. Erin retrieves some trinkets in a box and the photograph album, and gives them to Jawda. An Israeli documentary examines what happened to one seaside Palestinian village in the 1948 war. Paul kisses her, and she wakes up the next morning in Paul's bed. He is playing cards on the roof, and non-plussed when Erin says he had agreed to give her a driving lesson. Clara is in the bath; much of her hair has been torn out, and she has been daubed with oil and feathers. Aric Toler, a researcher for open-source investigation experts Bellingcat, thinks that the footage shows decoy missile models being used for an Israeli military exercise. Rowntree explains that they are anemones, or kalaniot in Hebrew: "red for the paratrooper's beret; black for his heart". And to this day, no one has an exact number of those killed, with accounts ranging from a few dozen to more than 200. Later, Erin is back in Caesarea, gathering her things. A young girl Samira pulls her in, miming that it is not safe. It also discusses how the war inspired Palestinian resistance movements, such as the PLO under Yasser Arafat. Supporting Israel is of the greatest importance to me. "[10] [16] Most found it incredibly hard to talk about their experiences. 3 min read. Then there is Alan Leveritt, editor of the Arkansas Times, an alternative newspaper he founded nearly half a century ago. Jeremy. Israel-Palestinians: Old grievances fuel new fighting, Angry protests erupt over Greek rail disaster, Messages reveal battle over UK Covid policy, Isabel Oakeshott: Why I leaked minister's messages. Palestinian gunmen killed in Israeli Jericho raid. Israeli and Zionist propaganda in Euro-America and elsewhere is designed to conceal and hide that reality because it does not serve the Zionist political project. He later confronts Rowntree, but Rowntree is under a direct order that British lives are not to be risked protecting the Arabs. although Andrew Anthony in The Observer[46] was more critical and A.A. Gill of The Sunday Times was unimpressed. BBC announces The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories, a brave and emotional new documentary series presented by Sarah Agha and Rob Rinder The new documentary series will explore the. . Even if its not going to have an economic impact, it is having a reputational impact and crushing it has been a core goal of the government, she said. He went house to house to every soldier from the Alexandroni Brigade who was still alive at the time and spoke to them. You cant boycott a company based on their equity shortcomings. "[67], The Promise was nominated for both the British Academy Television Awards 2011 and the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2011 in the category of best drama serial,[68][69] but was beaten by two other productions broadcast on Channel 4, the TV adaptation of William Boyd's Any Human Heart and the drama serial Top Boy respectively. "[108], On 14 February 2012, Michael Ebeid appeared before an Estimates Committee of the Australian Senate and was questioned about the commercial arrangements and decision-making of the SBS. Boycotts extend back to the Boston tea party, and were found by the US supreme court to be a protected form of free speech four decades ago. In hospital, Len shows compassion to Avram Klein (a Jewish militant who has been shot after shooting three British policemen),[3] even after an attempt to free him. The Palestinian movement is not here educating the other side of the issue, and so no one heard the other side of the argument. ABC ALJazeera BBC CitiTV CNN DW France24 NBC Net2TV Others RT TV3 UTV DelayTV KofiTV MagrahebTV ModernGhana | Movies Documentaries. MOHAMMAD: Another Israeli historian, Benny Morris, wrote an op-ed in Haaretz Newspaper, criticizing the film and its findings. Robbins and Nash are buried with military honours. There even used to be a historical cemetery in the old village. Israel-Palestine: US blocks UN statement for third time in a week Washington, a close ally of Israel, has reportedly blocked UNSC statements that condemned Israel's military response and. The IDF did not make these statements on their official Twitter account or anywhere else. There was a short battle between the Israeli troops and villagers. [89] Press agency AAP wrote that "Foy shines amid a powerful storyline" and learns "a few harsh truths". It premiered on Channel 4 on 6 February 2011. She is Mohammed's daughter Jawda, with fond memories of Len, but she says her father was angry with him for many years as he failed to bring Hassan back. Later, talking to Clough, he suffers an epileptic fit. Read about our approach to external linking. and David Chater, previewing the serial for The Times, who called it courageous and applauded its lack of didacticism. The owners protest that they had been forced to harbour "Irgun" members, but they are nevertheless taken away, and the British blow up their house. But he survived that day through what El Ali refers to as a miracle. They're taken from a longer documentary about the Israel/Palestine conflict, from 2004. Later, she is woken by arguing from downstairs. At this stage the treatment ran to 180 pages, with many scenes described in detail. In particular, it found "that the characterisations in The Promise did not cross the threshold into racism, and in particular that it did not promote, endorse, or reinforce inaccurate, demeaning or discriminatory stereotypes". BDSs Palestinian organisers ask who it is they are expected to protest against, using peaceful methods, if not Israel. Motivated by the film, they formed an advocacy group called Tantura People's Committee. Other sources of funding were more difficult. It just flew through, he told the documentary makers. These screenshots are fakes which can be made using freely available online tools. The documentary alights on the testimony of a Palestinian woman who says women were human shields for the protesters, just as the Israeli army claimed. [82]L'Express considered it beautiful but too long. Paul tells Erin that Mohammed's family is now in Gaza, which is an unreachable war-zone. You cant boycott a company if you think theyre transphobic, said Bacha. As they fly out Erin starts to read the diary, and becomes fascinated; it opens with Len describing "the worst day of his life so far" the horror of liberating Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Available for over a year. And the darker parts are sugarcoated. He was surprised to receive a demand to renounce boycotts of Israel if his newspaper wanted advertising from one of the states universities. He was Jewish. And I never challenged that. Were at a crossroads where, over 20 years there was this big shift in the conversation. She decides to take up her best friend Eliza's offer to spend time in Israel, while she undergoes basic training for her compulsory Israeli military service. For Israelis, it's the war of independence. 2023 BBC. One historian in particular that Schwarz spoke to, Yoav Gelber, is a professor at the same university that Katz attended. After Holocaust due to guilty conscience Europe made justice for the Jews by making an injustice for Palestinians. TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) In Israel's divisive debate over the government's planned legal overhaul, proponents claim that curtailing the power of judges and courts is good for the country. Israel's military has been carrying out arrest raids in the occupied West Bank - a frequent event since a wave of deadly attacks by Palestinians against Israelis earlier this year.Dozens of Palestinians, mainly militants, have been killed during army incursions, and the UNs human rights office has raised concerns over excessive force and possible collective punishment. As she flies home, Erin turns to the last page of Len's diary. Erin feels out of place at a party with Eliza's friends. This story and the dispute over what happened to Palestinians at Israel's founding moment still fuels the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today. The account from which the fake tweets apparently originated shows strong pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel leanings and claims to be writing satire. At the airport, Erin surprises her mother with the intensity of her embrace. Others were lined up against a wall and shot one after another. Len gives the bunch to Mohammed, only to be told he has now put Mohammed under an obligation, and Mohammed will be duty-bound to offer him dinner. He thanks Erin for taking him back, even though it had been painful. You can not have everything on one side or the other, everything is meshed together"[11] "There are no good guys and bad guys in this sad situation and we have tried very hard to show pluses and minuses on both sides. Prasquier reportedly told him that such a series "could only fan the flames of antisemitic violence" and Meheut reportedly promised that viewers would be provided with balanced information about the issue; The JC reported that Canal+ had agreed to broadcast a caption reading "The Promise is fiction" before each episode. At the CWGC cemetery she finds the graves of two more names from the diary: Sergeants Robbins and Nash, who at that point in the diary are still alive. Hester tells Bacha that he didnt think there was any point in consulting Block. Before he dies, he asks Len to promise to give the key back to his father. [12][18] The casual relationship Erin has with Eliza, "the way they talk, the way they react, their limited attention span" was very much drawn from his experience of his daughters and their friends,[24] and he felt that the combination of naivety and flinty assertiveness were not atypical of an "eighteen-year-old kid from London", particularly given an emotionally rather unsympathetic upbringing. WASHINGTON/HUWARA, West Bank (Reuters) -Israel's closest ally the United States on Wednesday demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repudiate a call by his hardline Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for a Palestinian village to be erased. They are confined in the room of a bedridden old woman, who tells Erin she learned English from the British. Some survivor accounts collected by Israeli and Palestinian researchers over the years say the troops separated the men from the other villagers and killed them, burying them in a mass grave. I can't give an exact figure. TV magazine Tlrama called it "remarkable", confronting its subject "head on". As the presenters and contributors explore how this period of chaos and upheaval impacted their relatives, they discover how their families destinies were changed forever. Omar and the son run off, while Erin and the family are confined in a bedroom. Len takes charge, only to find that the sniper is Clough, who has joined the Jewish militants. Read about our approach to external linking. [14] After leaving Palestine nobody had wanted to remember,[11][15] the veterans had been "shunned"; they had "returned home to find the nation that wanted nothing to do with them", with no memorial, and were denied even "the right to march to the Cenotaph in formation". However, we found that the video was uploaded to Facebook on 25 November 2018, with a caption saying it was taken in the town of Abu Snan in Galilee, in Israel. 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