And after reviewing aerial imagery from 1949, the film concludes that even if bodies were buried there after the takeover of Tantura, they're probably not there anymore. Like it or not, these three depictions are antisemitic stereotypes" On the other hand, the committee's chair Senator Doug Cameron said he had "enjoyed" the programme, and quipped in closing that he hoped the session had helped The Promise's DVD sales. 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MOHAMMAD: So Katz told NPR he decided to explore it further. Harriet Sherwood and Ian Black, Jerusalem correspondent and Middle East editor of The Guardian respectively,[52] BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > GCSE History. [7] He agrees to take her to Gaza. As Samira becomes frantic, Erin suggests that they take her also. And he's the one who told me 270 people. Bacha, whose film was funded by the Sundance Institute and a handful of other documentary groups in the US and UK, said Israel regards the BDS movement as a fundamental threat. A documentary released earlier this year about the massacre of Palestinians in Tantura, a . [21] For personal reasons, Kosminsky had long wanted to explore the idea of a young person gradually coming to appreciate "the young man inside the shell of an older, sick man",[18][22] to the extent that he sees the drama as an unconventional love story,[23] capped when Paul tells Erin that the young Len of the diary no longer exists. They're taken from a longer documentary about the Israel/Palestine conflict, from 2004. Haunted by this, and knowing her grandfather has been unhappy all his life, Erin decides to stay. Watching all of this from the sidelines with a grin on his face is Bart Hester, the Republican majority leader in the Arkansas state senate and primary sponsor of the legislation that sailed through his chamber without a single dissenting vote. Len breaks it up, and later thanks the servant, learning his name: Mohammed. "[18] "I would be very sad if someone were to consider the series as partisan. The documentary presents an unbiassed view on Israeli-Palestinian conflict which is still ongoing in Middle East. Erin retrieves some trinkets in a box and the photograph album, and gives them to Jawda. 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 Israel has rejected such accusations.In the city of Jenin, Palestinian militant groups have been rearming, raising fears of further violence.Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog#BBCNews [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. Afterward the two shake hands, and Paul drives Omar back to the Israeli side of the line. Clara invites him home for tea, where her father tries to get him to talk about Stella Maris. [6] Erin tries to intervene, but Paul leads her away, saying it would make things worse. 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. [121], Pre-production, further research, and finance. "[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. MOHAMMAD: Al-Ahmad says she witnessed the Israelis kill 13 men after the fighting ended. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC has commissioned a docuseries that will apply a personal lens to the fractious and violent history of the relations between Palestine and Israel, in time for the 75th . A Palestinian gunman opened fire in East Jerusalem, wounding at least two people less than a day after. Len and Jackie and another soldier are off duty and driving through town when they are ambushed. Some Israeli soldiers who were there deny that any massacre took place or that there was a mass grave in Tantura. Others were lined up against a wall and shot one after another. YOAV GELBER: Teddy's thesis was about 90% or so based on oral evidence, which is good for folklore but not for history. [34] Everything else was shot on location in and around Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Caesarea, Acre, Givat Brenner, Ein Hod, Peqi'in, Ramla and Beit Jimal[35] in a 68-day schedule involving 180 different locations. [62] Historian, Professor David Cesarani, accused Kosminsky of "deceitmassive historical distortion": omitting the Balfour Declaration's promise of a Jewish national home; downplaying selfish British geo-strategy; and exculpating the British, "chief architects of the Palestine tragedymaking responsibleonly the Jews"; turning a tricorn conflict of British, Arabs and Jews "into a one-sided rant. was for Kosminsky perhaps the most important line in the whole film. [12][30] Scripts followed quickly, and by mid-2008 Channel 4 announced its backing for the project. 2023 BBC. An Israeli policeman secures the site of a shooting attack in East Jerusalem on Saturday. 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. One of the fighters is Clara. 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A purported British Army major apologises to Len that it has been a ruse, to determine whether Robbins is a spy. An Israeli documentary examines what happened to one seaside Palestinian village in the 1948 war. A former soldier wrote to its executive producer Jane Tranter at the BBC,[9] suggesting she should do a film about the forgotten British soldiers who had been in Palestine. "1/3 of these 250+ rockets fell inside the Gaza Strip, killing Palestinians," Ofir Gendelman tweeted. [115] Having heard from my constituents, I probably would have voted against it, he said. And without even a recognition of what took place, they say their Nakba has been an ongoing catastrophe since. But the demand rubbed him the wrong way. Episode 1 of 2. Erin is shocked to read about Len's fit. They are ordered to pull back, but Len orders them to hold the position to prevent Jewish mortar attack on the souk. Zena Agha, the U.S. policy fellow with Palestinian think tank Al-Shabaka, told +972's Edo Konrad in 2019 that Israel's occupation "creates a situation in which it is impossible for . media fund. The Daily Express called it "a little burning bush of genius in the desert of well-intentioned TV dramas", The Daily Telegraph said the programme would richly deserve any Baftas that came its way, and Caitlin Moran in The Times called it "almost certainly the best drama of the year". They are listing all kinds of industries, not just guns and oil, but also causes. The first episode was reviewed widely and generally very positively,[45] 3 min read. Filmed shortly after the 2014 Gaza war, this documentary examines how violence has transformed the lives of 10 Palestinian children. They go to a caf, but when Paul goes back for his wallet, the building is blown apart by a suicide bomb. Len goes to see Clara, whose father apologises for what has happened, but tells him he is no longer welcome. When Len regains consciousness, he sees that a wing of the building is destroyed. IDF soldiers take Samira for a human shield when they go to occupy the brother's house. You cant boycott a company based on their equity shortcomings. Using guest speakers, this video clip examines the events surrounding the Yom Kippur War in 1973. 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. She shows Paul a press cutting about Robbins and Nash; he remembers it, and says it was what broke the British will to fight. These seven video clips for secondary schools, which can be treated as historical sources, look at different viewpoints of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Later, talking to Clough, he suffers an epileptic fit. Rather than presenting a comprehensive history, the series lets the human stories of the time speak for themselves, enabling viewers to reach a richer understanding of the divisions that have lasted to this day. "[28] The BBC agreed to sell its interest and let the project go into turnaround for a generously low rate according to Kosminsky[12] and in 2007 he secured an exclusive deal with Daybreak Pictures,[29] run by Channel 4's former head of film David Aukin, with whom he had previously made The Government Inspector (2005) and Britz (2007). [11] "I was determined that their story be told. 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. Available for over a year. and Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman[50] For Israelis, it's. Rowntree asks Len to persuade Klein to appeal to the Privy Council to avoid his execution. But he survived that day through what El Ali refers to as a miracle. [18] "A big change came in the final months, as they saw what would happen to the Palestinians, and realised both sides were to be abandoned to a war. 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. But, as . 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BDSs Palestinian organisers ask who it is they are expected to protest against, using peaceful methods, if not Israel. 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. 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. [8] The IDF commander tells Eliza to get a cutter, and she is freed. Later, Len beats him, and he admits to having told her everything just as he told Clara about Robbins and Nash. Wikipedia Israel-Gaza: How can conflict de-escalate? Robbins and Nash are buried with military honours. Left alone, the supposed body also gets up and runs away. Attribution. LINAH MOHAMMAD, BYLINE: It was the night of the 22 of May, 1948, when the Alexandroni Brigade's 33rd Battalion of what would become the Israeli military entered Tantura. However, the team were concerned by the potentially limited contrast ratio using digital a serious consideration in strong Mediterranean light and that its potential bulkiness might inhibit Kosminsky's trademark hand-held cameras following the action. They razed it and built a beach resort instead. The life story of Jesus, one of the most famous of people ever said to have lived does have many gaping holes in it as between the ages of 13 and 29 there is no Biblical record of the whereabouts of Jesus in Palestine. That night, Len rounds on Clara for having known in advance and trying to protect him. Erin goes to see Omar, but he too refuses to help. In this documentary, witnesses and survivors talk about the 2002 attack by the Israeli army on Palestinian refugee camp Jenin. MOHAMMAD: Until one day, Schwarz was working on a completely different documentary when he came across the story of Tantura and a 20-year-old research paper by an Israeli grad student named Teddy Katz. For Jews across the world, this represented a longed-for opportunity to find a place of safety. The UN Security Council will meet to discuss the escalating crisis on Sunday. For Palestinians the events of this period, which created over 700,000 refugees and resulted in hundreds of towns and villages being destroyed, are known as the Nakba, Arabic for the Catastrophe. Witness History. Erin is to be questioned at the IDF base when Paul appears, and greets his former colleagues. "[107], Responding, ECAJ Executive Director Peter Wertheim said: "Professor Wootten denies that The Promise makes and invites judgements, but this contention is belied by the strident comments made by other defenders of the series in posted comments on the SBS and other websites, and is as low on the scale of credibility as the stream of non-sequiturs that have been put forward in its defence, including posts asserting that The Promise could not possibly be antisemitic because Kosminsky is Jewish, or because it was filmed in Israel and included Jewish actors, or because it was nominated for a BAFTA award. [18], Erin's emotional journey intentionally parallels the 1940s arc, because at the heart of it is her increasing engagement with Len. 363K views 13 years ago A remarkable British documentary about the birth of Israel state which was created at the expense of palestinians who lost their homes and homeland, were driven out from. 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