[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. 2023 BBC. Erin wakes in the night and is almost shot by a sniper bullet. She is also found. Harriet Sherwood and Ian Black, Jerusalem correspondent and Middle East editor of The Guardian respectively,[52] [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. An Israeli documentary examines what happened to one seaside Palestinian village in the 1948 war. 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. Paul is alive, but his leg, arm and eye are bandaged. "[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. In Sweden it will be shown on channel SVT1 on Wednesday nights at 10pm from 2 May. He also tells Erin that he is a Palestinian Christian. 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. [115] from BBC News - World https: . [54] 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. As the Israel-Palestinian conflict has escalated, posts containing misleading or false claims have been widely shared online in recent days. "[12], The character of Erin was influenced by his two teenage daughters, one of whom has epilepsy. One widely shared tweet claimed to show footage of Palestinian militant group Hamas moving truck-based missiles down a street in Gaza. Erin is to be questioned at the IDF base when Paul appears, and greets his former colleagues. Further pressuring the Israeli leader were images unseen for years in Tel Aviv where police fired stun guns and scuffled with Israeli protesters on a . For Israelis, it's the war of independence. According to Katz's research, the mass killing happened in two waves. TREE"). "saga au vitriol pour une dsinformation assassine! He later confronts Rowntree, but Rowntree is under a direct order that British lives are not to be risked protecting the Arabs. The laws are primarily driven by the Israeli government and its allies in the US as a reaction to the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. I havent spoken to the leadership of the Jewish community. Their first job is to round up Jewish refugees coming ashore from a ship, who are taken to a detention centre. But Palestinians say it was caused by Israeli officers throwing stun grenades. (SOUNDBITE OF BADBADNOTGOOD AND GHOSTFACE KILLAH SONG, "STREET KNOWLEDGE FEAT. "[18] "I would be very sad if someone were to consider the series as partisan. Days pass, and Len is again taken to the "major", who tells Len he was indeed a wartime officer, in the Palestine Jewish Brigade, and had then spirited Jews out of the camps onto boats. By then, corporations had seen the possibilities. Meanwhile Len has started giving Mohammed's son Hassan tuition in mathematics. 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. 2023 marks 75 years since the State of Israel was founded. [8] The IDF commander tells Eliza to get a cutter, and she is freed. The BBC is to air a new documentary series following the lives of four families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage. Read about our approach to external linking. According to Paul, his father's liberalism misleads people into thinking Israel is a normal country like their own; he says the truth is that it is dominated and led by former military leaders. Then there is Alan Leveritt, editor of the Arkansas Times, an alternative newspaper he founded nearly half a century ago. The American was killed when a Palestinian gunman opened fire near the West Bank city of Jericho on Monday, hours after Israel deployed hundreds more soldiers to the occupied West Bank amid . Hester tells Bacha that he didnt think there was any point in consulting Block. "[17] This was always his aim for the drama, to "honour the original letter sent to the BBC", so this was always going to be the path of Len's journey. West Bank town set alight after Israelis killed. Some Twitter users spread what they claimed were screenshots of posts from the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) Twitter account saying: "We just love killing" and "Just bombed some kids". In the hospital, she holds her grandfather's hand, and tells him she has given Mohammed's daughter the key. Kroger's comments were taken up by The Australian,[111] along with an op-ed written by two members of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council,[112] and she expanded further in an online piece for News Ltd website The Punch. "[10] The editor of the Australians for Palestine website wrote, "Although people had written to SBS commending it for showing "The Promise", [Managing Director] Mr Ebeid received only one supportive letter addressed to him personallyMany more are needed in defence of the series for the hearing. Eliza appears to deal with Erin, called as a favour to her father. Read about our approach to external linking. Such a portrayal cannot be justified in ANY context." He was Jewish. It was awful. Hassan goes missing in the crowds, and Len promises to go back and find him, persuading Mohammed to get his wife and daughter to safety. [1] There is an explosion outside. [70][71] Interviewed in The Jewish Chronicle, Any Human Heart's director, Michael Samuels, said about The Promise, "I respect it for having a point of view. Filmed shortly after the 2014 Gaza war, this documentary examines how violence has transformed the lives of 10 Palestinian children. And somehow, the moment I arrived in Tantura, it became apparent to me very quickly, according to the answers of the people from Tantura, that something very different and very drastic happened relative to the other places. [18] The paratroopers' base at Stella Maris had been a challenge to find, but eventually the monastery at Beit Jimal was used and proved very accommodating. 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. The video is real, but additional footage from other angles makes it clear that a tree near to the mosque had caught fire, not the mosque itself. Arte announced it would show the series over two Friday evenings, on 20 and 27 April 2012. I was always active for peace. 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". Outside, she is bundled into an IDF vehicle. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The War of 1948 is understood in two different ways. At the base, the servant alerts Len that Alec Hyman, one of his men who is Jewish, is being given a "regimental bath" in retributionhe is being viciously scrubbed. She shows Erin a photograph; it is the photograph of Len with Mohammed and his family. [64], The broadcasting regulator Ofcom received 44 complaints about the series, but concluded in a ten-page report that it did not breach its code of conduct. "[94][95], The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council and the Friends of Israel Western Australia urged viewers to complain, reiterating negative comments that had been made in the UK. It just flew through, he told the documentary makers. He went house to house to every soldier from the Alexandroni Brigade who was still alive at the time and spoke to them. Supporting Israel is of the greatest importance to me. 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. I knew I couldn't recreate those things. 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. Jenin, Jenin. 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. was for Kosminsky perhaps the most important line in the whole film. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. "Tantura" is a new Israeli documentary challenging Israel's understanding of the war. The local Jewish leaders I dont agree with. Previewing the final episode, The Times said it was "ambitious" and "packs a considerable punch";[55]Time Out chose the programme as its pick of the day, and gave it a four-star recommendation, calling it "brave filmmaking and a brave, entirely successful commission". Days later, Len is dragged out again. [104] Using guest speakers, this video clip discusses how Israel defeated Jordan, Syria and Egypt in only six days in 1967. And that's how this ridiculous story of, you know, all the Palestinians ran away by themselves then comes to life. Israel-Palestine: Conflict Intensifies After Palestinian. For Israelis, it's. However pre-sale negotiations for America and Germany ran into the sand. MOHAMMAD: Survivors and witnesses know where the alleged mass grave is. The Palestinian movement is not here educating the other side of the issue, and so no one heard the other side of the argument. They are waved through the checkpoint, but Omar goes back to remonstrate with the border guards about a couple being split up, and is detained. Erin asks Paul to take her to see the grave of one of Len's comrades, who in the diary has just been killed in the raid of the Jewish militants on the base. [33] According to The Guardian: Over the course of a long career Kosminsky has become adept at turning one country into another: "I used the Czech Republic for Bosnia, Kenya for Somalia, Ghana for Liberia, Morocco for Iraq, India for Pakistan and Leeds for Northern Ireland." Erin is dropped by taxi at Abu Dis, where Omar lives, which is near the separation wall. 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. So now theres a growing attempt to shut down that conversation because if you cant win a debate, you just try to not allow the debate to happen in the first place. [97] In January 2012 the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) filed a 31-page complaint with the SBS[98] claiming that the series "unrelentingly portrays the entire Jewish presence throughout the country, including modern-day Israel, as an act of usurpation by Jews who, without exception, are aliens, predators and thieves and who enforce their usurpation by brutal, racist policies akin to those inflicted by the Nazis upon the Jewish people", and compared it to the infamous Nazi film Jud Sss. [12] "She becomes obsessed with him she feels what he's feeling so, by the time we get to Gaza, she patterns herself on what she thinks he would have done. 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.. 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. [118] In Haifa the episodes were screened on successive Thursdays, from 10 to 21 May. [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. 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. Omar and the son run off, while Erin and the family are confined in a bedroom. perhaps this video, The chain incident was based on the experience of an, DVD Commentary (Peter Kosminsky and Hal Vogel), at 20:10, Macha Sry, Israel-Palestine: to the origins of the conflict, DVD featurette: Behind the Scenes Filming in Israel for 2005, at 00:20, The Blu-ray release includes a 5-minute featurette presented by Paddy Eason of digital effects house. It shows the demeaning humiliation at. It is produced by Wall to Wall Media and the Executive Producer is Colette Flight. Paul replies that she should tell Erin about some of the 'animals' who blew up the King David Hotel, including her own father. TV magazine Tlrama called it "remarkable", confronting its subject "head on". [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. Kaisa doglapan hai ye? SAMI EL ALI: (Through interpreter) He said, when the soldier got to me in the line and tried to shoot, the bullet got stuck. She is taken reluctantly to see her grandfather Len, in his eighties, who is in hospital paralysed by a stroke. 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. If it were that simple, we would have already found a solution. She meets Palestinian schoolgirls walking home from school. I had a machine gun with 250 bullets. Paul has his ex-comrades throw him a gun, and he shoots into the night, justifying his actions as loyalty. This is what The Promise sets out to explore. The controversial BBC documentary titled . Left alone, the supposed body also gets up and runs away. News/Politics 2023-01-30T18:25:21.437Z . He is told that the entire secretariat at Stella Maris is Jewish and leaks are very common. However, I was appalled that a newspaper would have to sign an oath that it would not participate in any kind of political action.. The clip was shared under the hashtag "Palywood" [Palestinian Hollywood] hundreds of times by pro-Israeli users on major social media platforms. For Jews across the world, this represented a longed-for opportunity to find a place of safety. But not even a single Palestinian came on street to protest against 89 Pakistanis who died in today's Mosque bombing in Peshawar. [57], A press attach at the Israeli embassy in London, however, condemned the drama to The Jewish Chronicle as the worst example of anti-Israel propaganda he had seen on television, saying it "created a new category of hostility towards Israel". 28 Jan. [72], The Promise also received a nomination, at the Banff World Television Festival, for Best Mini-Series of 2010/2011. The Brief Global Pitch Guide Introduction. Palestine Post bombing. 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