‘No Other Land’ Oscar winners call for a different path on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Media obscure message of Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’

When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.

The only reason No Other Land was palatable at the Oscars was because Israelis were involved

No Other Land rightly won Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Oscars. The film has been touted as a Palestine-Israel collaboration, with Palestinian Basel Adra and Israeli Yuval Abraham part of the directorial team alongside Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal. Basel and Yuval both appear in the film, which is a meticulously crafted documentary on repeated Israeli demolitions of Basel’s hometown, Masafer Yatta. In a collective statement, the direc…

‘No Other Land’, ‘Mo’, and the Palestinian Everyday Joy of Life

News clips of bombed-out buildings, statistics of horrific casualties, and stories of mass displacement—in recent memory, Palestinian identity has been reduced to their suffering. As Israel’s settler colonialist project continues to wreak havoc in their lives, Palestinians have become symbols of unflinching resilience in our collective memory. However, it is vital to remember that they are much more than that because when you think of a people, …

River Oaks Theatre to show No Other Land documentary

“I Can’t Go On, I Must Go On” | Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Will Simpson

Some readers may have been surprised to find a three-page comic in our February 27 issue: a collaboration by Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco titled “Never Again and Again.” It’s a “graphic conversation” between the cartoonists about Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing and—as Sacco puts it on the comic’s first page—“obliteration” in Gaza. Spiegelman is […]

'No Other Land' is a victory for the Palestinian struggle

While some have accused the Oscar-winning film of normalization, leaders and activists in Masafer Yatta are unwavering in their support for joint resistance. The post Make no mistake: ‘No Other Land’ is a victory for the Palestinian struggle appeared first on +972 Magazine.