Omar drives back to Caesarea, where Erin tempts him into the house, and then into the pool. At the hospital Erin finds Paul, just as his father arrives. Despite the horrors of war, this documentary will uncover stories of strength, courage and defiance, and will look for the light as well as the shade in the experiences of both Israeli and Palestinian families., Colette Flight, Executive Producer at Wall to Wall Media, says: Hearing these powerful and moving family stories, which still resonate through the generations, gives a fresh and deeply personal perspective on the human impact of these events. Len stumbles, but Clough catches Ziphora, his girlfriend, but lets her go. "Our children must be protected from anti-Muslim bigotry and abuse at school," CAIR's national office . Clara explains that the club's purpose is to generate goodwill for the Jews, and that she is paid to be there. Series 1. We've investigated examples of misinformation from both sides that have provoked intense debate on social media. Israel claims it is antisemitic, has ties to terrorism and is aimed at the destruction of the Jewish state. 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. Then there is Alan Leveritt, editor of the Arkansas Times, an alternative newspaper he founded nearly half a century ago. The first episode was reviewed widely and generally very positively,[45] EL ALI: It's so hard for Israelis to digest this story because it shakes our ground because we're taught that we're the most moral nation, the most moral army. [48], The serial as a whole was praised by Christina Patterson in The Independent who said it was "beautifully shot and extremely well written. She shows Erin a photograph; it is the photograph of Len with Mohammed and his family. Rowntree explains that they are anemones, or kalaniot in Hebrew: "red for the paratrooper's beret; black for his heart". According to Kosminsky they also looked at Morocco, Cyprus, Southern Spain and Tunisia, and could have recreated the 1940s sequences there; but nowhere else would have replicated the "buildings, range of cultures or topography" of modern-day Israel. This story and the dispute over what happened to Palestinians at Israel's founding moment still fuels the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today. Our thanks go to Sarah Agha and Rob Rinder and all our contributors for their bravery in delving into and sharing these stories.. He says that his generation had been determined that the Jewish people would never again capitulate in the face of genocide, and want to secure land that could alwaya be safe. The family leaves home and Len drives them to the docks, where the Royal Navy is taking people to Acre. Greg Ledings smile drops as the films director, Julia Bacha, asks about an Arkansas law requiring contractors doing business with the state to pledge not to boycott Israel. He tells Bacha he wasnt paying attention. Wikipedia Israel-Gaza: How can conflict de-escalate? Erin is to be questioned at the IDF base when Paul appears, and greets his former colleagues. Among the most-powerful backers of the anti-boycott legislation is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) which has little trouble rounding up politicians to back legislation in support of Israel. [12][30] Scripts followed quickly, and by mid-2008 Channel 4 announced its backing for the project. Boycott follows Anawi and Jordahl through their legal fights, and the court victories that forced their respective states to narrow anti-boycott laws to exclude individuals. RASHIDA AL AMAR: (Non-English language spoken). She asks him to join her, but Len turns and leaves. Some Israeli social media influencers shared a video claiming it showed Palestinians faking a funeral ceremony for an individual supposedly killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza - in order to attract global sympathy. 0. From Venezuela to Brazil to Chile, the call for the liberation of Palestine is a powerful force to be . From a bus on the way to Hebron she rings Omar and asks if he could meet her there. MOHAMMAD: Rashida Al Amar, who was 18 at the time, recalled what happened in a 2015 interview for a Jordanian TV channel. He tells Bacha that no one asked for his opinion and that the first he knew about the legislation was when the Arkansas Times took up the challenge against it. The clip was shared under the hashtag "Palywood" [Palestinian Hollywood] hundreds of times by pro-Israeli users on major social media platforms. A Palestinian gunman critically wounded an Israeli man when he opened fire near the West Bank city of Jericho on Monday, hours after Israel . SCHWARZ: I focused on the Hebrew tapes of the soldiers that were there. I didn't know what I would find. Erin starts to remonstrate, but is seized by another fit. But, Ofcom said: "Just because some individual Jewish and Israeli characters were portrayed in a negative light does not mean the programme was, or was intended to be, antisemitic Just as there were Jewish/Israeli characters that could be seen in a negative light, so there were British and Palestinian characters that could also be seen in a negative light. Ledings told its a pro-Israel bill, that its just going to protect Israel. You cant boycott a company if you think theyre transphobic, said Bacha. As the Israel-Palestinian conflict has escalated, posts containing misleading or false claims have been widely shared online in recent days. West Bank town set alight after Israelis killed. He is able to give Omar a Hebron address for the family, although when Erin asks Omar to take her, he suggests that Paul might be a better guide. It is a documentary about the historic Great March Of Return protests, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December 2019, but covers so much more. [5] The group point her to a house that matches her address, where she is met by a Jewish orthodox woman and led to a room where orthodox men are eating. Nine Palestinians were killed when troops reportedly encircled buildings amid a storm of gunfire, grenades and tear gas in the packed urban camp. For Israelis, it's the war of independence. "[63] On the other hand, Liel Leibovitz, writing for American online Jewish magazine Tablet, took the view that, "contrary to these howls of discontent, the show is a rare and riveting example of telling Israel's story on screen with accuracy, sensitivity, and courage". 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. They're taken from a longer documentary about the Israel/Palestine conflict, from 2004. Kosminsky was particularly struck by the house demolitions carried out by the British, and with what other parallels might exist with the present. They are ordered to pull back, but Len orders them to hold the position to prevent Jewish mortar attack on the souk. Kosminsky flew to Israel with David Aukin, to visit places that would feature in the story, including the normally closed-off Deir Yassin, accompanied by modern Israeli historians organised by their pre-production partners, an Israeli documentary film company. Len's platoon storms a house where one of the King David bombers had been hiding. "[18] "I would be very sad if someone were to consider the series as partisan. The Palestinian movement is not here educating the other side of the issue, and so no one heard the other side of the argument. Israel's decisive victory included the capture of the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Old City of Jerusalem, and Golan Heights; the status of these territories subsequently became a major point of contention in the Arab . When she recovers, Paul comes to see her; she senses that he is upset with her, but he denies it. The Promise is a British television serial in four episodes written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, with music by Debbie Wiseman. They razed it and built a beach resort instead. A purported British Army major apologises to Len that it has been a ruse, to determine whether Robbins is a spy. Len goes to find Rowntree, but he is gone and the last personnel is evacuating. 3 min read. The documentary also follows Theroux as he tours the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem with Daniel Luria of the Ateret Cohanim Zionist Movement. But the more we listened, we realized that these veterans did tell him things about how - what happened. Operation Bulldog gets underway. The laws are primarily driven by the Israeli government and its allies in the US as a reaction to the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. But the video is old and the footage is from Syria, not Gaza. Read about our approach to external linking. The remaining 22 percent became known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.. MOHAMMAD: Al-Ahmad says she witnessed the Israelis kill 13 men after the fighting ended. Arriving at Clara's flat, Len is perturbed to find it apparently deserted. And as the case went on, he faced pressure even from family, and he retracted his claims and then reasserted them later. Kaisa doglapan hai ye? "[12], The character of Erin was influenced by his two teenage daughters, one of whom has epilepsy. I can't give an exact figure. He is playing cards on the roof, and non-plussed when Erin says he had agreed to give her a driving lesson. An Israeli policeman secures the site of a shooting attack in East Jerusalem on Saturday. Eliza's parents start to have a serious talk with Erin, but she is struck by another fit. The study analysed nearly 100,000 news headlines about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in the US press over the last five decades from five major publications - the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune - employing Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to identify frequently [109] It had not been his decision to buy the series, but asked whether in hindsight he would have made the decision, he answered that he probably would. They go to a caf, but when Paul goes back for his wallet, the building is blown apart by a suicide bomb. the US supreme court refused to take it up. The ECAJ reaches the opposite conclusion only by itself imputing unfavourable attributes to the Jewish characters, judging them by harsh and unrealistic standards, interpreting their conduct in the worst possible way, and making quite absurd comparisons. Eliza's father is formally polite; his wife looks very unhappy, and a strained dinner follows. And it's prompted pushback from some Israelis and calls for justice from Palestinians. Left alone, the supposed body also gets up and runs away. Returning to the beach Len finds a straggler, and is about to let her go when they are spotted by a passing patrol. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 10,000 Pakistanis came on street to protest against 7 Palestinians who were shot by Israeli forces last week. According to Paul, his father's liberalism misleads people into thinking Israel is a normal country like their own; he says the truth is that it is dominated and led by former military leaders. BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > GCSE History. Meanwhile Len has started giving Mohammed's son Hassan tuition in mathematics. Leding claims not to know about the contentious but not uncommon piece of legislation that may well end up before the US supreme court. although Andrew Anthony in The Observer[46] was more critical and A.A. Gill of The Sunday Times was unimpressed. It looks at what happened in a Palestinian village called Tantura. The Brief Global Pitch Guide Introduction. 28 Jan. I doubt there was any question. [11] "I was determined that their story be told. 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. He thanks Erin for taking him back, even though it had been painful. TEDDY KATZ: (Through interpreter) I started getting interested in the field. Erin sits by herself on the roof, overlooked by a military watch-tower. [12][13], Kosminsky says that his overriding aim was to present the experience of the 100,000 British soldiers who served in Palestine,[12][13] "to remind us all of what happened". 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". Len finds Klein in solitary confinement in Acre, but he is unwilling to appeal, saying that every movement needs its martyrs. The series was produced by Norma Percy, who had produced The Death of Yugoslavia before. But I grew up within the story that we were all told - that in '48, the Arabs ran away by themselves, basically. They are confined in the room of a bedridden old woman, who tells Erin she learned English from the British. It's the most serious flare-up since an 11-day conflict in. Login; . Afterward the two shake hands, and Paul drives Omar back to the Israeli side of the line. [73] On 10 May 2011, at the One World Media Awards in London, The Promise won Best Drama of 2010/11. [57], A press attach at the Israeli embassy in London, however, condemned the drama to The Jewish Chronicle as the worst example of anti-Israel propaganda he had seen on television, saying it "created a new category of hostility towards Israel". [84] The Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported that CRIF president Richard Prasquier had met the president of Canal+, Bertrand Meheut. Attribution. [10], Tranter passed the letter to Kosminsky, who initially put it to one side. [96] Senator Glenn Sterle joined the criticism, calling the series "derogatory" and "anti-Semitic". Len is facing prison, and has let down everyone who trusted him, wishing he could return the key to Mohammed. There was a short battle between the Israeli troops and villagers. Palestine Post bombing. Erin Matthews is a British teenager about to start her gap year. But the demand rubbed him the wrong way. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The War of 1948 is understood in two different ways. It features actor and writer Sarah Agha, barrister, author, and broadcaster Rob Rinder, MBE, and four families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage as they examine their personal family stories and the ways in which they have been defined by events in Palestine and Israel. [4] A message hung around Robbins's neck says he has been executed in reprisal for the "illegal killing" of Avram Klein. NPR's Linah Mohammad reports. Clara can't believe he still does not trust her. A Netflix film depicting Zionist forces murdering a Palestinian family during the 1948 war . As she flies home, Erin turns to the last page of Len's diary. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: (Through interpreter) I didn't count. At the City Hospitality Club in Haifa, Len's corporal Jackie Clough introduces him to two Jewish girls: Ziphora and Clara. 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