Erin Matthews is a British teenager about to start her gap year. 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. As she flies home, Erin turns to the last page of Len's diary. It premiered on Channel 4 on 6 February 2011. [117] In Jerusalem the series was scheduled with the four parts shown over two days, on 14/15 and 29/30 April. As the Israel-Palestinian conflict has escalated, posts containing misleading or false claims have been widely shared online in recent days. 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. Kosminsky felt the trait wasn't often shown on screen unless it was a major plot point, so he liked the idea of showing "an eighteen-year-old girl who is trying to live a normal life, despite the fact she occasionally had epileptic fits; and how other people cope with that as well". This footage is actually video of fighting in Syria, A viral video reportedly from Jordan is being passed off as a 'fake funeral' in Gaza, Misleading tweets claimed that al-Aqsa mosque was on fire, A tree at the mosque was set on fire - some people thought the mosque itself was ablaze, Footage of these suspected "dummy" missiles is not from Hamas-controlled territory, Video of rocket fire is from Syria, not Gaza, Viral tweets by 'Israeli forces' are fake, A video does not show a 'fake funeral' in Gaza, Video does not show al-Aqsa mosque on fire, Old footage does not show missiles on a street in Gaza, Isabel Oakeshott: Why I leaked minister's messages. Afterward the two shake hands, and Paul drives Omar back to the Israeli side of the line. I can't really know. Sami El Ali is part of the film's research team. A BBC documentary discussing whether Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could be charged with war crimes has made front page news in Israel. At the City Hospitality Club in Haifa, Len's corporal Jackie Clough introduces him to two Jewish girls: Ziphora and Clara. Video, 00:01:10, Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. Schwarz went through all of Katz's findings about Tantura. BBC World Service. [8] The IDF commander tells Eliza to get a cutter, and she is freed. [84] The Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported that CRIF president Richard Prasquier had met the president of Canal+, Bertrand Meheut. [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. An Israeli policeman secures the site of a shooting attack in East Jerusalem on Saturday. 2023 marks 75 years since the State of Israel was founded. [10], Tranter passed the letter to Kosminsky, who initially put it to one side. He was Jewish. Eliza's parents start to have a serious talk with Erin, but she is struck by another fit. But the demand rubbed him the wrong way. There even used to be a historical cemetery in the old village. Palestine Post bombing. [96] Senator Glenn Sterle joined the criticism, calling the series "derogatory" and "anti-Semitic". The son, who is with Hamas, is brandishing a gun and telling Omar, a Fatah member, to go. He is told that the entire secretariat at Stella Maris is Jewish and leaks are very common. It went for the kill. [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". Theres such a dramatic change, in particular among Democrats and liberals, in their perception of whats happening in Israel and Palestine a picture of Bahia Amawi speaking to journalists at a press conference outside of a Texas courthouse. Len finds Hassan fighting with a group of Arabs, under fire from a sniper. Clara protests she was only trying to show that she loved him. And while they don't mention the word massacre outright in any of the documents, one of them acknowledges that soldiers did dig a mass grave. Eva Mendes "loved watching" Pamela Anderson's Netflix documentary. Len confesses everything to Rowntree. "[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. Israeli troops have killed at least 11 Palestinians and wounded dozens more during a raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials say. I can't give an exact figure. 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 [40] Ironically, however, the reliance on film led to a number of scenes having to be re-mounted after fogging went undetected for a week when it was impossible to get daily film rushes back to London because of the air travel disruption caused by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajkull volcano in Iceland. in Israel. 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. 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. Sarah will learn about the circumstances under which her family fled their . Using guest speakers, this video clip examines how the Suez Crisis of 1956 changed international relationships and the landscape of power in the Middle East. [118] In Haifa the episodes were screened on successive Thursdays, from 10 to 21 May. 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. A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a video on Twitter which he claimed showed Hamas firing rockets at Israel "from populated areas". Nine Palestinians were killed when troops reportedly encircled buildings amid a storm of gunfire, grenades and tear gas in the packed urban camp. SBS (a frequent co-producer with ARTE) secured Australian rights, and some top-up funding was obtained from the E.U. BBC Documentary Proves Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk Named Issa. When she recovers, Paul comes to see her; she senses that he is upset with her, but he denies it. They razed it and built a beach resort instead. And I never challenged that. 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. Copyright 2023 NPR. I can think of no better example of how we continue to do that than in Peter Kosminsky's recent examination of the Israel/Palestine question in The Promise. Len's unit is posted to Stella Maris base near Haifa, as part of the forces keeping the fragile peace between Arabs and the growing Jewish population. 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. This is just some random content to show the different layouts possible, Realscreen is a trademark of Brunico Communications Ltd. Site copyright 1997-2023. It just flew through, he told the documentary makers. [12][30] Scripts followed quickly, and by mid-2008 Channel 4 announced its backing for the project. [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." He listened to dozens of hours of recorded interviews. MOHAMMAD: Katz's thesis was awarded an outstanding score, a 97 - that is, until the Israeli media got hold of it. These seven video clips for secondary schools, which can be treated as historical sources, look at different viewpoints of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Erin is dropped by taxi at Abu Dis, where Omar lives, which is near the separation wall. [77]Le Figaro said it was "magnificently filmed and masterfully acted perfectly balanced great television", and gave it a maximum rating of four stars out of four. [72], The Promise also received a nomination, at the Banff World Television Festival, for Best Mini-Series of 2010/2011. "[27], The early scene of the flat in Leeds was created in an Israeli studio. Video, 00:01:10Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. On a laptop, she watches news of another suicide bombing. . Settlers drop broken glass onto her yard from what had been her grandfather's house. Len digs a dead woman out of the rubble of the King David Hotel. Behind her the man rebukes the woman. [104] In response, the ECAJ said that it stood by its position, but would not be appealing. Len agrees to stay and fight, if Hassan will go to the docks. He explains that the British stood in their way, so they wiped them out. He kept trying, and it wouldn't shoot. The local Jewish leaders I dont agree with. You cant boycott a company based on their equity shortcomings. NPR's Linah Mohammad reports. She shows him the key, and he explains its importance to displaced Palestinian families, and then shows her the key to his own uncle's house in Jaffa. [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. The family leaves home and Len drives them to the docks, where the Royal Navy is taking people to Acre. The Promise is a British television serial in four episodes written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, with music by Debbie Wiseman. Video, 00:01:34, Gaza's only all-girl boxing club finds a home, Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. Rowntree explains that they are anemones, or kalaniot in Hebrew: "red for the paratrooper's beret; black for his heart". In the hospital, she holds her grandfather's hand, and tells him she has given Mohammed's daughter the key. Six decades before Norway helped the CIA destroy the Nord Stream gas pipelines, it gave the agency heavily-armed boats that it used to target North Vietnam, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh . Len returns to his men and fills a bag with grenades and ammunition, ordering Alec to take the men to the docks. Other sources of funding were more difficult. So we said, no, he told Bacha. He writes that the Jewish state has been born in violence and cruelty, and worries that it will not thrive. The new documentary series will explore the personal stories of families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage. Israeli veterans sued Katz for libel. [13] Of all the reactions to the series, Kosminsky said what meant the most to him was a letter from a veteran, now 85 years old: "You did what you said you would. [80] Le Monde gave the series an enthusiastic preview in its TlVisions supplement along with a lengthy interview with the director. Eliza takes Erin shopping and clubbing in Tel Aviv, cut short when Erin's epilepsy is triggered by flashing lights in the club. 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 Returning to base, the soldiers are serenaded by schoolchildren handing out flowers. But the video is old and the footage is from Syria, not Gaza. [11] "I was determined that their story be told. Israeli-American killed in West Bank amid unrest, Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric', Settlers rampage in West Bank after Israelis killed, West Bank town set alight after Israelis killed. It looks at what happened in a Palestinian village called Tantura. 2023 BBC. However, Kosminsky had grown increasingly estranged from the BBC, later saying that film-makers no longer saw "that flash of mischief" when pitching ideas. "[19] The series was led by what had come out of the interviews, what the soldiers had said and felt, and what they had actually experienced,[20] rather than wider historical events with which rank-and-file soldiers had little contact. Read about our approach to external linking. He confiscates his rifle and lets him go. Erin wakes in the night and is almost shot by a sniper bullet. "[18] "I would be very sad if someone were to consider the series as partisan. I could not be stronger in my opposition to boycotts of any Israeli products. Although it established Israel's military dominance. [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. Using guest speakers, this video clip discusses how Israel defeated Jordan, Syria and Egypt in only six days in 1967. Israel arrests 42 after deadly synagogue shooting. The mosque complex in Jerusalem's Old City is one of Islam's most revered locations, but its location is also the holiest site in Judaism, known as the Temple Mount. 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. 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