A couple of weeks ago I highlighted British Palestinian film director Farah Nabulsi’s film The Present. This morning we heard an interview with Nabulsi and Telos, the American peacemaking group which focusses on Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation and peace. The movie has garnered a great deal of international recognition and is part of what could well be a turning of the tide. Let’s hope so. Nabulsi talked about her film, the little story that it tells within the much larger story that has been unfolding for decades. She suggested in the interview that colonizers have this in common. They systematically dehumanize, brand and deny the existence and worth of the other. We should know this pattern by now. Nabulsi has written an earlier short film, Oceans of Injustice which features Nabulsi herself. It is another immersion in these treacherous waters and a must-see film.
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