Lena Bloch
1 min readJun 10, 2024

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Thank you, Lola, I could not read the article because I do not give consent to become "Medium member", I am not willing to pay money to Medium. They did not deserve it. But it is your choice to make it member-only.... I saw the film - I have known the filmmakers since their Wisdom Of Trauma documentary and I was amazed at their courage and humanity to stand against Zionism in our times, when nearly all artists and filmmakers genuflect to Israel, with few exceptions - and people get outlandishly demonized for standing up against racist colonialism, even for calling Zionism racist. The film does not show "both sides", as there are no both sides to colonialist oppression, especially colonialism based on the complete removal of the previous population and replacing it with an artificial imported one. Not only are Palestinians denied freedom, independence and national existence, they are denied the very name 'Palestinian' and they are denied the name of their homeland 'Palestine'. Zionists first say that 'Palestine has never existed', then they start erasing its people, especially those who are eyewitness to Palestinian existence: historians, scholars, journalists, poets, writers, psychologists, teachers, filmmakers, public speakers. I want to share the extremely important after-screening panel between Palestinian historian Ussama Makdisi, Palestinian scholar Sherene Seikaly and Israeli anti-Zionist Nathan Thrall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzepHLs7hE&t=7s

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Lena Bloch
Lena Bloch

Written by Lena Bloch

Background in psychology of learning, literature, philosophy, math.

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