Saturday, January 5, 2008

A blatant propaganda piece compares the Palestinian movement to the U.S. Civil Rights movement ::CAMERA

"Any violence by a large population is not because the people is more violent than any other. It's an alarm, it's a sign, it's a signal that something is wrong in the treatment of this population."

This blanket excusing of violence sets the tone for Occupation 101, a film currently being promoted to schools, churches and activist groups. What follows is ninety minutes of indoctrination. Scenes of squalid refugee camps, Israeli soldiers assaulting protesters, despairing Palestinian mothers and teary-eyed children, serve as a backdrop to well-rehearsed indictments of the Jewish state by a who’s who of anti-Israel activists. Narrator Alison Weir and the producer/director team of Sufyan and Abdallah Omeish present a litany of anti-Zionist canards. The message throughout is that Palestinians are blameless victims while Israelis are entirely responsible for Palestinian violence.

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