Due for broadcast 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, as they explore personal family stories, and the ways in which the four families have . Explosions and gunfire sounded as troops entered the old city of Nablus on Wednesday morning, sparking armed clashes with Palestinian gunmen. 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 He was surprised to receive a demand to renounce boycotts of Israel if his newspaper wanted advertising from one of the states universities. However, an IDF soldier takes away the box. But he survived that day through what El Ali refers to as a miracle. Omar and the son run off, while Erin and the family are confined in a bedroom. Here's "Tantura's" Israeli director, Alon Schwarz. Theres even federal legislation in the works that would make it a criminal offence to boycott Israel. West Bank town set alight after Israelis killed. 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. [104] All the latest content about Israel & the Palestinians from the BBC. Using guest speakers, this video clip discusses the background and impact of the UN Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947. [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". . The film-makers considered and rejected a number of options, including live-action and CGI, before reluctantly deciding to fall back on black-and-white library footage from the Imperial War Museum in London, only to come to the view that the resulting sequence had more artistic and moral power than anything they might have been able to create.[43]. Erin's passionate response "He does to me, he does to me!" The conditions of the imprisonment of Robbins and Nash, and the display and booby-trapping of their bodies, closely correspond to the fate of Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice in what became known as, According to Kosminsky, the sequence of the girls being stoned was a "direct reconstruction" from documentary video footage (e.g. Then there is Alan Leveritt, editor of the Arkansas Times, an alternative newspaper he founded nearly half a century ago. He urged SBS "to reconsider the representations from the Jewish Community with due regard to the potential destructive consequences of racial stereotyping". My father also told me that our Palestinian ancestors used to have a lot of land and influence in the nineteenth century. Clara however follows Len down the stairs and embraces him. Outside, Erin finds Jawda being loaded into an ambulance, as the houses are blown up. It also discusses how the war inspired Palestinian resistance movements, such as the PLO under Yasser Arafat. "Our children must be protected from anti-Muslim bigotry and abuse at school," CAIR's national office . Searching for the source of the Kol Zion underground broadcasts, Len's men raid some flats; Clough's gun accidentally misfires. Erin Matthews is a British teenager about to start her gap year. As of 2006 the project had the working title Palestine and was to be made for the BBC by Carnival Films,[26] best known as makers of the Poirot series for ITV. Sami El Ali is part of the film's research team. Erin is on the point of going home, but reads the last page of Len's diary and finds with it, in an envelope, a key. This is not unusual, she said. The BBC's Sarah Barton, subsequently assisted by Sarah MacFarlane, began making contacts through regimental groups and the Palestine Veterans Association, ultimately conducting detailed interviews with 82 veterans,[11] many of them speaking about things they had never told their wives and families. The forced showers and captivity behind wire fences remind Len of what he saw in Germany. Erin starts to remonstrate, but is seized by another fit. [12][30] Scripts followed quickly, and by mid-2008 Channel 4 announced its backing for the project. [105], A further complaint was made to SBS on 1 February 2012 by Stepan Kerkyasharian, Chair of the New South Wales government's Community Relations Commission, noting "concern that the series negatively portrays the WHOLE of the Jewish People. "[15] What he hoped to create was a kind of unstable equilibrium, so that audiences would find their sympathies shifting, repeatedly, from one side to the other.[11]. [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. Thank you so much. 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. The series was produced by Norma Percy, who had produced The Death of Yugoslavia before. I can't give an exact figure. It was taken during a Syrian government operation against rebel groups in the city of Deraa in 2018. 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. Eventually, having put back filming from an original autumn 2009 start, and with everything else ready to go, Kosminsky went back to Channel 4 and said that without another 1 million the series wasn't going to happen. But he voted for the law, how can he not know about it? I knew I couldn't recreate those things. [72], The Promise also received a nomination, at the Banff World Television Festival, for Best Mini-Series of 2010/2011. MOHAMMAD: Another Israeli historian, Benny Morris, wrote an op-ed in Haaretz Newspaper, criticizing the film and its findings. Later, Len beats him, and he admits to having told her everything just as he told Clara about Robbins and Nash. "Operation Bulldog" as depicted in the series is a composite of two real-life operations: According to Kosminsky, the sequence at the end of episode 2 was inspired by a December 1947 of an incident when three soldiers were shot. Regardless, the university removed the thesis from its library and downgraded his master's degree. Erin produces the key, and as soldiers come in she clutches it in her hand. He said some Israeli historians have concluded there were, quote, "small war crimes committed but not a massacre." Israel-Palestine: Conflict Intensifies After Palestinian. 3 min read. Harriet Sherwood and Ian Black, Jerusalem correspondent and Middle East editor of The Guardian respectively,[52] Len takes charge, only to find that the sniper is Clough, who has joined the Jewish militants. 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. "[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. 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". Six-Day War, also called June War or Third Arab-Israeli War or Naksah, brief war that took place June 5-10, 1967, and was the third of the Arab-Israeli wars. As she flies home, Erin turns to the last page of Len's diary. 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. 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. Erin hardly knows him, but whilst helping her mother to clear out his flat she finds a diary of his time in the 6th Airborne Division in British Mandate Palestine after the Second World War. Although it established Israel's military dominance. from BBC News - World https: . Clara is in the bath; much of her hair has been torn out, and she has been daubed with oil and feathers. Posted. In 2005 rescue teams arrive to help the wounded from the caf explosion. [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. Nobody had talked to me about this proposal, he said. 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. Checkpoint: Yoav Shamir's 2003 documentary focuses on Israeli checkpoints across Palestine and vividly demonstrates the banality of the occupation. [4] A message hung around Robbins's neck says he has been executed in reprisal for the "illegal killing" of Avram Klein. From the makers of Who Do You Think You Are?, Sarah, Rob and the families taking part share their profoundly personal and often deeply tragic stories. It tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. 2023 BBC. A BBC documentary discussing whether Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could be charged with war crimes has made front page news in Israel. Researchers continued to conduct interviews to enrich the story. Len returns to his men and fills a bag with grenades and ammunition, ordering Alec to take the men to the docks. But I grew up within the story that we were all told - that in '48, the Arabs ran away by themselves, basically. "[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. The Australian Jewish Democratic Society stated "We agree with the ECAJ that the Jewish characters portrayed are generally unsympathetic in comparison with the Arab characters. [33] Ben Gurion Airport stood in for Heathrow,[36] and the bombed rubble of the King David Hotel was filmed against a blue screen in a car park in Petah Tikva. [74], The subscription channel Canal+ aired the drama under the title The Promise: Le Serment over four weeks starting 21 March 2011, in a prime-time Monday evening slot that it tends to use for more serious or historical drama. Len confesses everything to Rowntree. He wishes that one day he can return the key to Mohammed, though he is not sure he could face him. 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. The remaining 22 percent became known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.. I havent spoken to the leadership of the Jewish community. Linah Mohammad, NPR News. TREE"). Erin is dropped by taxi at Abu Dis, where Omar lives, which is near the separation wall. Arriving at Clara's flat, Len is perturbed to find it apparently deserted. An Israeli documentary examines what happened to one seaside Palestinian village in the 1948 war. Since the start of this year, theres been 30 new bills that have been introduced. Eliza appears to deal with Erin, called as a favour to her father. Israel's military launched an offensive against the Palestinian territory of Gaza in the early hours of Friday, using ground forces to attack militant positions following four days of spiralling violence. It is produced by Wall to Wall Media and the Executive Producer is Colette Flight. Also features events happened in Jerusalem, Ramallah. One of the fighters is Clara. They say it sits underneath the parking lot for a beach. [45] By the second episode Andrew Billen, writing in The Times, was concerned that both Len and Erin were meeting from the Arabs a "little too much kindness for the comfort of all of us hoping that Kosminsky will parcel out recriminations in exactly equal proportions"; but nonetheless applauded the "immersive and emotional" quality of the series. The Nouvel Obs and Le Journal du Dimanche both identified the series as reflecting the viewpoint of the "British pro-Palestinian left", but the latter praised it as "nevertheless a historical fiction useful for understanding an intractable conflict",[79] while the former commended its "epic spirit, rare on television". JEHAN SARHAN: (Through interpreter) It can't be that every time I go to Tantura, I see our graves under their feet in a parking lot. 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. The intense . She asks him to join her, but Len turns and leaves. [41] Extensive use was also made of CGI and digital post-production, including for the caf explosion, the destruction at the King David Hotel, and the refugee ship of would-be immigrants. Overnight ratings for The Promise were 1.8 million for the first episode, followed by 1.2 million, 1.3 million, and 1.2 million for the subsequent episodes. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. "Tantura" is a new Israeli documentary challenging Israel's understanding of the war. 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. The IDF did not make these statements on their official Twitter account or anywhere else. For Israelis, it's the war of independence. However, when Len is approached, his contact is shot dead by the British forces policing the rally: Len has been set up. More than 30 states have passed similar laws to punish boycotts of Israel in support of Palestinian rights, inspired by the anti-apartheid campaign in South Africa. In the video, a large crowd of young Jewish Israeli men can be heard singing an anti-Palestinian song behind the Western Wall, with flames visible in the distance. 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.. 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. Omar drives back to Caesarea, where Erin tempts him into the house, and then into the pool. It went for the kill. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: (Through interpreter) People went wild in Tantura. I had a machine gun with 250 bullets. [11][25] He also writes that what struck him most is a question: "How did we get from there to here?" He also tells Erin that he is a Palestinian Christian. [80] Le Monde gave the series an enthusiastic preview in its TlVisions supplement along with a lengthy interview with the director. [85] The Confederation of French Jews and Friends of Israel (CJFAI) issued a call (publicised by CRIF) for a demonstration against the programme, which it described as "a vitriolic saga of murderous disinformation". [58] The Zionist Federation and the Board of Deputies of British Jews both also lodged letters of complaint. [114] 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 . The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Here I am the rabbi of the largest congregation in the state. SCHWARZ: I focused on the Hebrew tapes of the soldiers that were there. Kenya to investigate 'sex for work' exposed in BBC tea documentary. 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. And that's how this ridiculous story of, you know, all the Palestinians ran away by themselves then comes to life. Paul has his ex-comrades throw him a gun, and he shoots into the night, justifying his actions as loyalty. The meeting, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, is a briefing on "Operation Bulldog", the upcoming cordon and search of Tel Aviv. 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. 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. A Netflix film depicting Zionist forces murdering a Palestinian family during the 1948 war . They are starting to kiss when Eliza's parents appear. BBC Documentary Proves Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk Named Issa. 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 . Clara explains that the club's purpose is to generate goodwill for the Jews, and that she is paid to be there. [1] I doubt there was any question. The post, from a US-based pro-Israel account, claims: "Once again we see Hamas using civilians as a shield to murder Jews knowing that Israel will not retaliate due to the risk of hurting innocent people". Middle East. 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. The IDF lay explosives in the house. In the morning, the IDF are searching the house. And it's prompted pushback from some Israelis and calls for justice from Palestinians. He listened to dozens of hours of recorded interviews. [42] A particular challenge was how to realise the events at Bergen-Belsen. Motivated by the film, they formed an advocacy group called Tantura People's Committee. "1/3 of these 250+ rockets fell inside the Gaza Strip, killing Palestinians," Ofir Gendelman tweeted. Realscreen title, tagline and logo are trademarks of, and the events are produced by Brunico Marketing Inc. We understand your decision to use an ad blocker, however realscreen journalism takes time and funding Subscriptions and advertising are both necessary to fund the journalism we bring to you. Sarah will learn about the circumstances under which her family fled their . The documentary Israel vs Israel is a film about Jewish peace activists who in both words and actions take a stand again 40 years of occupation and illegal settlements. MOHAMMAD: So Katz told NPR he decided to explore it further. Their first job is to round up Jewish refugees coming ashore from a ship, who are taken to a detention centre. 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