‘Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ Review: A Scattered but Searing Documentary Examines America’s Tacit Acceptance of Anti-Arab Discrimination
The film traces decades of dead-end leads, while the FBI still describes the case as active and no one has been charged.
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‘Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ Review: A Scattered but Searing Documentary Examines America’s Tacit Acceptance of Anti-Arab Discrimination
Jason Osder and William Youmans’ film uses the "unsolved" murder of a Palestinian-American civil rights activist to explore how bigotry has become so normalized in this country.
‘Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ Review: An Unsolved Murder And The Long Shadow Of Religious Extremism
More than 40 years after Palestinian American activist Alex Odeh was assassinated in Santa Ana, California, his murder remains unsolved. And it’s not because investigators had nowhere to look. Suspects emerged early, and substantial evidence has accumulated over the decades. Yet no one has ever been charged. In Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans’ compelling, moving documentary, “Who Killed Alex Odeh?,” that failure of justice becomes almost as…
Who Killed Alex Odeh? — Jason Osder & William Lafi Youmans [Review]
On October 11, 1985, during Back to the Future’s 15th week in theaters, while audiences reveled in Marty and Doc Brown’s escape from Libyan terrorists seeking weapons of mass destruction, a markedly different terrorist attack occurred in Santa Ana, California, killing 41 year-old Palestinian-born Alex Odeh, the regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). [...]
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