First Israeli Film Festival on Palestinian 'Nakba'....
Organization promoting awareness of Nakba organizes film festival in Tel Aviv. 'Our independence is their nakba, and now one people is occupying another,' Cinematheque Director Alon Garbuz says
The Media Line Published: 11.28.13, 19:36 / Israel News
The issue of Palestinian refugees touches a nerve in Israel. A 2012 law made it a crime in Israel to commemorate the nakba, although it was not clear exactly how that will be enforced. Now Zochrot, an organization that seeks to increase awareness about the nakba has organized a three-day film festival at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Israel’s premier theater for independent films.
“Zochrot offered to screen this series of films and I want to show films by anyone who wants to offer them,” Alon Garbuz, the director of the Cinematheque told The Media Line. “If a Jewish settler makes a film, I’ll show that too.”
In the past, events organized by Zochrot have drawn protesters from the Israeli right. They say that Israel did not start the war, and that Israel accepted the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan that would have created an independent Palestinian state alongside a truncated Jewish state. Israel accepted the deal – the Palestinians turned it down.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- The first-ever International Film Festival on Nakba and Return took place on Nov. 28-30 in Tel Aviv and Jaffa, reminding audiences that the 1948 trauma at the center of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict cannot be ignored nor forgotten.
The festival, which showcased 12 films dealing with memories of the ethnic cleansing from Palestinian, Israeli, and international perspectives, was a powerful and important intervention into Israeli public discourse.
Zochrot is an Israeli organization that has been working for years to keep alive the memory of the 1948 ethnic cleansing within Israel, and the film festival was the first in Israel that explicitly focused on the topic. Over the last two days, Israeli audiences packed the Tel Aviv Cinemateque and Jaffa Theater to watch films that approached the issue of the 1948 Nakba (Arabic for "catastrophe"
from a wide variety of perspectives.
During the 1948 War, Zionist militias systematically ethnically cleansed 530 Palestinian villages of around 750,000 inhabitants, clearing the way for the creation of a Jewish-majority state in their place. The Nakba is widely remembered by Palestinians as the paradigmatic example of their dispossession by the State of Israel, and it is a central moment in the narrative of dispossession and exile of the Palestinian nation from their homeland.
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