"[93], There was a campaign by Palestinian solidarity groups to encourage support for the series. [104] In response, the ECAJ said that it stood by its position, but would not be appealing. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. [17] Le Point predicted Kosminsky would receive a "shower of awards[a]nd also gibes". She is told that the Palestinians left in 1948, but some had returned to found a new Ein Hawd in what had been their orchards above the old village. Andrew Anthony in The Observer acknowledged some flaws, but found it still "an exceptional drama". I doubt there was any question. With reporting by Alistair Coleman, Shayan Sardarizadeh, Christopher Giles and Nader Ibrahim. Bacha, who has made a number of documentaries about Palestinian and Israeli life, said she turned her lens on the US to understand the sudden proliferation of laws to protect a single foreign . 6 February 6 Feb. Noel Thompson looks at the history of the Arab Israeli conflict, examining the key events and personalities on both sides of the conflict and tracing the issues of the country. One historian in particular that Schwarz spoke to, Yoav Gelber, is a professor at the same university that Katz attended. 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. [70][71] Interviewed in The Jewish Chronicle, Any Human Heart's director, Michael Samuels, said about The Promise, "I respect it for having a point of view. Latin America and Palestine: Latin America is a hub of support for the Palestinian cause. Black September, a Palestinian group, broke into the Olympic village in Munich in September 1972 dressed in tracksuits and armed with Kalashnikovs and took 11 Israeli athletes hostage.. The BBC repeatedly stressed the word [Israeli]. An old man agrees to let them drive him, and they identify what had been Mohammed's house. But the more we listened, we realized that these veterans did tell him things about how - what happened. In Nablus Erin hears him addressing a meeting of Combatants for Peace together with Omar, a former member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Palestine Post bombing. A taxi takes them to a house of a cousin of Mohammed's, where relatives have gathered for the funeral for his daughter, who had been the suicide bomber of the previous night. [12] Channel 4 presented its support as part of a 20 million investment in drama, also including This is England '86 and Any Human Heart, made possible by cancellation of the 50 million per series it was previously spending on Big Brother.[32]. [76] Before he dies, he asks Len to promise to give the key back to his father. [83], A letter of protest to the channel was written by the President of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), arguing that "the viewer sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however complex, only as a consequence of violence and cruelty of the Jews, who are represented as so extreme that if any empathy towards them is excluded." MOHAMMAD: Today, descendants of Tantura are scattered across what became Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. [56] Clara can't believe he still does not trust her. The IDF did not make these statements on their official Twitter account or anywhere else. Schwarz went through all of Katz's findings about Tantura. Video, 00:01:10, Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. At a military checkpoint a liberal Israeli guide is explaining to a group that part of the city has been closed off as a "sterile zone"; he is being barracked by an orthodox settler with a megaphone. [119], In the United States a screening of the series was presented at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York in November and December 2011, with the first part shown as part of the "Other Israel" film festival, and the remainder of the series shown in weekly episodes over the following three weeks. 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. I didn't know what I would find. One widely shared tweet claimed to show footage of Palestinian militant group Hamas moving truck-based missiles down a street in Gaza. As Samira becomes frantic, Erin suggests that they take her also. was for Kosminsky perhaps the most important line in the whole film. Then there is Alan Leveritt, editor of the Arkansas Times, an alternative newspaper he founded nearly half a century ago. Arriving at Clara's flat, Len is perturbed to find it apparently deserted. And he's the one who told me 270 people. [109] He accepted that the series conveyed a negative view of Israel and said he would not claim that it tried to be balanced. RASHIDA AL AMAR: (Non-English language spoken). However, I was appalled that a newspaper would have to sign an oath that it would not participate in any kind of political action.. [12] "She becomes obsessed with him she feels what he's feeling so, by the time we get to Gaza, she patterns herself on what she thinks he would have done. However, the film shows Israeli military documents that vaguely refer to, quote, "acts of destruction." And to this day, no one has an exact number of those killed, with accounts ranging from a few dozen to more than 200. TREE"). Rob and Sarah are joined by a father and son whose relative was caught up in Israel's War of Independence, as well as a woman whose grandmother survived one of the . I can't give an exact figure. Through powerful and profoundly moving family stories, this series gets to the heart of what happened to people on both sides of the conflict as the Middle East was reshaped. Outside, Erin finds Jawda being loaded into an ambulance, as the houses are blown up. This is what The Promise sets out to explore. ALON SCHWARZ: I grew up in Israel in a Zionist leftist family. [39] A faux Israeli checkpoint was built entirely from scratch. Later, Erin is back in Caesarea, gathering her things. Searching for the source of the Kol Zion underground broadcasts, Len's men raid some flats; Clough's gun accidentally misfires. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. For Israelis, it's the war of independence. Bahia Anawi lost her job as a paediatric speech pathologist in Texas schools after refusing to make the pledge because she is a Palestinian American. [97] In January 2012 the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) filed a 31-page complaint with the SBS[98] claiming that the series "unrelentingly portrays the entire Jewish presence throughout the country, including modern-day Israel, as an act of usurpation by Jews who, without exception, are aliens, predators and thieves and who enforce their usurpation by brutal, racist policies akin to those inflicted by the Nazis upon the Jewish people", and compared it to the infamous Nazi film Jud Sss. They're taken from a longer documentary about the Israel/Palestine conflict, from 2004. Len agrees to stay and fight, if Hassan will go to the docks. [33] According to The Guardian: Over the course of a long career Kosminsky has become adept at turning one country into another: "I used the Czech Republic for Bosnia, Kenya for Somalia, Ghana for Liberia, Morocco for Iraq, India for Pakistan and Leeds for Northern Ireland." And somehow, the moment I arrived in Tantura, it became apparent to me very quickly, according to the answers of the people from Tantura, that something very different and very drastic happened relative to the other places. Boycott is released to rent digitally on 1 March in the US and the UK, US supreme court lets Arkansas law penalising Israel boycotts stand, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. It hasn't really been established because at first, I got a figure that 20 people were killed. Len stumbles, but Clough catches Ziphora, his girlfriend, but lets her go. Middle East. Clara invites him home for tea, where her father tries to get him to talk about Stella Maris. Here I am the rabbi of the largest congregation in the state. Erin retrieves some trinkets in a box and the photograph album, and gives them to Jawda. There even used to be a historical cemetery in the old village. Due to air on BBC Two and iPlayer this spring, The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories follows actor and writer Sarah Agha and barrister, author and broadcaster Rob Rinder, MBE, along with four families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage, as they explore their personal family stories, and the ways in which they have been defined by events in Palestine and Israel. Eliza's father is formally polite; his wife looks very unhappy, and a strained dinner follows. Read about our approach to external linking. and Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman[50] A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants is holding, after three days of violence in which at least 44 people have died. He is unapologetic, and tells them that his father, mother, sister and brother had all died in German camps. Movies Documentaries. Erin meets Eliza's brother Paul, described by Eliza as "crazy", who left the army transformed into a peace activist. Nine Palestinians were killed when troops reportedly encircled buildings amid a storm of gunfire, grenades and tear gas in the packed urban camp. An Israeli documentary examines what happened to one seaside Palestinian village in the 1948 war. A purported British Army major apologises to Len that it has been a ruse, to determine whether Robbins is a spy. It looks at what happened in a Palestinian village called Tantura. [96] Senator Glenn Sterle joined the criticism, calling the series "derogatory" and "anti-Semitic". "1/3 of these 250+ rockets . Alan Leveritt, centre, in an Arkansas Times meeting. Further pressuring the Israeli leader were images unseen for years in Tel Aviv where police fired stun guns and scuffled with Israeli protesters on a . DR Denmark broadcast the series in an early evening slot on the DR2 channel over the Easter weekend 2012, under the translated title Lftet som bandt ("The Promise that bound"). [104] Sarah will learn about the circumstances under which her family fled their village in Galilee in 1948, and Rob will follow his relatives journey to escape the horrors of the Holocaust and start a new life in the recently established state of Israel. Israel claims it is antisemitic, has ties to terrorism and is aimed at the destruction of the Jewish state. At this stage the treatment ran to 180 pages, with many scenes described in detail. Using guest speakers, this video clip examines the events surrounding the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. MOHAMMAD: El Ali is also a part of that committee, and he says while they don't need testimonies from soldiers or the Israeli establishment to confirm the credibility of their story, this is information Palestinians everywhere can leverage to get a recognition of the Nakba from the state of Israel. That night, Len rounds on Clara for having known in advance and trying to protect him. We found the same video posted in March 2020, with reports at the time suggesting that it showed a group of boys in Jordan trying to avoid strict Covid-19 restrictions by pretending to hold a funeral. Since the start of this year, theres been 30 new bills that have been introduced. Eliza's parents start to have a serious talk with Erin, but she is struck by another fit. A senior BBC producer who is currently working on a documentary focused on Israeli activities within east Jerusalem has been accused of not being impartial in her research. As Bacha shows in the film, laws to protect Israel provided the template for legislation to curb boycotts of companies over the climate crisis, gun control, factory farming and others issues. A Netflix film depicting Zionist forces murdering a Palestinian family during the 1948 war . [10], Tranter passed the letter to Kosminsky, who initially put it to one side. [117] In Jerusalem the series was scheduled with the four parts shown over two days, on 14/15 and 29/30 April. You cant boycott a company if you think theyre transphobic, said Bacha. Some Israeli soldiers who were there deny that any massacre took place or that there was a mass grave in Tantura. the US supreme court refused to take it up. He writes that the Jewish state has been born in violence and cruelty, and worries that it will not thrive. It shows the demeaning humiliation at. [12] Overwhelmingly, the veterans told a similar story: they had started out "incredibly pro-Jewish"[10] but they had shifted their allegiance and by the end "were feeling a great deal of sympathy for the Arabs". But as Hassan sets out across open ground, he is hit by a bullet. Days later, Len is dragged out again. Israel and Palestinian tensions on the rise in the West Bank - BBC News BBC News 13.8M subscribers Subscribe 3K 163K views 6 months ago #BBCNews Israel's military has been carrying out. Using guest speakers, this video clip discusses how Israel defeated Jordan, Syria and Egypt in only six days in 1967. In a new documentary, film-maker Julia Bacha explores the rise of laws punishing Israel boycotts and the ramifications they might have in the future. although Andrew Anthony in The Observer[46] was more critical and A.A. Gill of The Sunday Times was unimpressed. The family leaves home and Len drives them to the docks, where the Royal Navy is taking people to Acre. Hester tells Bacha that he didnt think there was any point in consulting Block. Exceptionally, Channel 4 agreed the extra funding, and filming started in Israel in early 2010 under the revised title Homeland, beginning with the period scenes at Stella Maris. 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. She asks him to join her, but Len turns and leaves. But the demand rubbed him the wrong way. Please note, these clips have been edited from the original 2004 broadcast version to remove some scenes young audiences might find disturbing. [27] "I don't think we can say the BBC bottled it [However] it seems to have lost its nerve for making challenging drama drama that gets it into political and legal hot water. Israeli troops have killed at least 11 Palestinians and wounded dozens more during a raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials say. West Bank town set alight after Israelis killed. Checkpoint: Yoav Shamir's 2003 documentary focuses on Israeli checkpoints across Palestine and vividly demonstrates the banality of the occupation. "[61] In an interview with Jacobson during Jewish Book Week 2011, Jonathan Freedland, having seen the first episode of The Promise, said Kosminsky used antisemitic tropes, misrepresenting Israel and Zionism as being a consequence of the Holocaust, whose imagery he had abused. The son, who is with Hamas, is brandishing a gun and telling Omar, a Fatah member, to go. [118] In Haifa the episodes were screened on successive Thursdays, from 10 to 21 May. This time, though, there was no faking it. Then at the base several of Len's men are shot, some in the back while they are hosing down the vehicles, in a raid by Jewish militants. Some civilians in a neighbouring room come to the balcony, and Len encourages them to move back from the window, but there is a bigger explosion. Sarah will learn about the circumstances under which her family fled their . At the City Hospitality Club in Haifa, Len's corporal Jackie Clough introduces him to two Jewish girls: Ziphora and Clara. Erin is shocked to read about Len's fit. Conflict between Israelis and Palestinians boiled over this week, escalating rapidly into one of the worst rounds of violence between the two sides in the last several years. 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. Still, the descendants of the victims and survivors are demanding answers. As soon as they hear the sound of sirens, they leave the body on the ground and run off. The trouble was, it is virtually unknown for a British TV crew to shoot in Israel. 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