Our people are being slaughtered and I get desperate calls from fewer and fewer surviving friends in Gaza. I am sleepless thinking whether I should share videos and images (they are available on aljazeera.com). Or shall I share how the right wing regime in the US is attacking people in the US and around the world? Should we talk about break-up of empire or new empires rising? Or should we shed light on traitors in the Arab and Muslim world who aid and abet the slaughter of their brothers and sisters? Shall I speak of how Gaza stands alone fighting hunger and genocide? No water, medicine, food etc. while billions of people around the world go about their privileged lives indifferent (or aiding via paying taxes). Do our collective protests, emails and social media posts make a difference other than helping us selfishly (action being the best antidote to despair)? What is the difference between our role when we happen to live under the boot of the Israeli occupation (e.g. us in Bethlehem) and role of others living on Western countries? Or should we highlight our on the ground work (for example here). How do we act when catastrophe looms closer (climate change, nuclear war) while free speech is suppressed? How can those of us active make a bigger difference? I ask these questions and hope some of you may provide some answers that help us get closer to ending this nightmare. Would it help to have a collective brainstorming session? What can I say to you all that can make a difference? Shall we take time out to think a bit more? Any and all answers are appreciated and I can summarize your ideas in my next email!
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner.
On suppression of free speech in the US in service to genocide.
In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. Please share these.
- Jews Step Forward
- Collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera
- Keeper of Memory
- Empty Sea documentary
- "Resistance Pilot" documentary
- The Olive Tree
- Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza 1973
- Gaza Fights For Freedom
- Arna's Children
- Short Film "Strawberry"
- Short Film "The Place"
- The Mayor
- The Creation and the Nakba 1948
- Occupation 101
- The Shadow of Absence
- The Don't Exist
- As The Poet Said
- Five Broken Cameras
- Paradise Now
- Abnadam Short Film
- Wedding of Galilee
- Keffiyeh
- Slingshot Hip Hop
- Tall al-Zaatar
- Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle
- In the Grip of the Resistance
- Swings
- Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision
- The Upper Gate
- In Search of Palestine
- Salt of this Sea
- Speak, Bird
- The Palestinian Exodus Series
- "I Am Jerusalem" Series
- BBC took down this film they funded because the child actor's father was part of the resistance movement (Hamas).
Stay Humane and keep hope/love alive
Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability Bethlehem University Occupied Palestine
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