[44] Consolidated ratings, which include time-shifted and online viewing, generally added about a further 0.5 million. 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Please note, these clips have been edited from the original 2004 broadcast version to remove some scenes young audiences might find disturbing. It features actor and writer Sarah Agha, barrister, author, and broadcaster Rob Rinder, MBE, and four families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage as they examine their personal family stories and the ways in which they have been defined by events in Palestine and Israel. It just flew through, he told the documentary makers. [31], Daybreak had initially costed the drama at 8 million, which with some trimming they had been able to pare back to 7 million. You know, I didn't know if he was lying or telling the truth. Erin secretly sends a text from her phone. and The Observer, where she said it was "the best thing you are likely to see on TV this year, if not this decade. They are listing all kinds of industries, not just guns and oil, but also causes. was for Kosminsky perhaps the most important line in the whole film. 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The fire was subsequently put out and the mosque was not damaged by the blaze. The roads are clogged with Arab refugees. It shows the demeaning humiliation at. Jehan Sarhan is Rashida Al Amar's daughter and one of the members of the committee. The Daily Express called it "a little burning bush of genius in the desert of well-intentioned TV dramas", The Daily Telegraph said the programme would richly deserve any Baftas that came its way, and Caitlin Moran in The Times called it "almost certainly the best drama of the year". Len returns to Clara's flat in fury, but she has gone. At the meeting they are ambushed; their Jewish informant is led away, and Len and the two sergeants are abducted. [48], The serial as a whole was praised by Christina Patterson in The Independent who said it was "beautifully shot and extremely well written. However, when Len is approached, his contact is shot dead by the British forces policing the rally: Len has been set up. The 48-year-old actress has taken to social media to praise the documentary and to share her recollections of . He writes that the Jewish state has been born in violence and cruelty, and worries that it will not thrive. And as the case went on, he faced pressure even from family, and he retracted his claims and then reasserted them later. But Len is unconvinced, and he is dragged off to join the others, being held in a hole under a trapdoor, with just enough room for an oxygen cylinder. He says that his generation had been determined that the Jewish people would never again capitulate in the face of genocide, and want to secure land that could alwaya be safe. Len digs a dead woman out of the rubble of the King David Hotel. The documentary alights on the testimony of a Palestinian woman who says women were human shields for the protesters, just as the Israeli army claimed. Jewish fighters are going from house to house, throwing grenades and shooting the occupants. Israeli-American killed in West Bank amid unrest, Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric', Settlers rampage in West Bank after Israelis killed, West Bank town set alight after Israelis killed. Outside, she is bundled into an IDF vehicle. Eliza appears to deal with Erin, called as a favour to her father. As Len and Jackie struggle for their lives, they are ignored by onlookers sitting in cafs.[2]. But Leveritt lost his case before a federal appeals court, and the US supreme court refused to take it up earlier this month. Some civilians in a neighbouring room come to the balcony, and Len encourages them to move back from the window, but there is a bigger explosion. [65] Viewers complained that the drama was antisemitic, used upsetting footage of concentration camps, incited racial hatred, was biased against Israel and presented historical inaccuracies. Len disciplines soldiers who are abusing his company's Palestinian servant. As Samira becomes frantic, Erin suggests that they take her also. It was awful. In the morning, the IDF are searching the house. Len's platoon is in Haifa, stationed between the Jewish and Arab-controlled areas, overlooked by armed Jewish irregulars. Were at a crossroads where, over 20 years there was this big shift in the conversation. "The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories" is a documentary that will air this spring on BBC Two and iPlayer. However, teacher review is advised. "[12] "It was always going to be necessary for us to faithfully reflect this in our drama,"[18] "I either had to reflect it or abandon the project. [84] The Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported that CRIF president Richard Prasquier had met the president of Canal+, Bertrand Meheut. She is taken reluctantly to see her grandfather Len, in his eighties, who is in hospital paralysed by a stroke. Some were forced to dig graves for themselves before getting shot. Israel claims it is antisemitic, has ties to terrorism and is aimed at the destruction of the Jewish state. I was always active for peace. Erin feels out of place at a party with Eliza's friends. "[94][95], The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council and the Friends of Israel Western Australia urged viewers to complain, reiterating negative comments that had been made in the UK. From Venezuela to Brazil to Chile, the call for the liberation of Palestine is a powerful force to be . Read about our approach to external linking. [12][13], Kosminsky says that his overriding aim was to present the experience of the 100,000 British soldiers who served in Palestine,[12][13] "to remind us all of what happened". This is what The Promise sets out to explore. A single tear runs down his face. The UN Security Council will meet to discuss the escalating crisis on Sunday. Israel and Palestinian tensions on the rise in the West Bank - BBC News BBC News 13.8M subscribers Subscribe 3K 163K views 6 months ago #BBCNews Israel's military has been carrying out. 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[70][71] Interviewed in The Jewish Chronicle, Any Human Heart's director, Michael Samuels, said about The Promise, "I respect it for having a point of view. It is produced by Wall to Wall Media and the Executive Producer is Colette Flight. How did Israel squander the compassion of the world within a lifetime?" Jenin, Jenin is directed by Mohammed Bakri, a prominent Palestinian actor in order to portray what Bakri calls "the Palestinian truth" about the Jenin Invasion. Kaisa doglapan hai ye? The controversial BBC documentary titled . Erin is dropped by taxi at Abu Dis, where Omar lives, which is near the separation wall. [33] According to The Guardian: Over the course of a long career Kosminsky has become adept at turning one country into another: "I used the Czech Republic for Bosnia, Kenya for Somalia, Ghana for Liberia, Morocco for Iraq, India for Pakistan and Leeds for Northern Ireland." Others were lined up against a wall and shot one after another. Len reaches for his revolver, but two men with handguns shoot all three. [85] The Confederation of French Jews and Friends of Israel (CJFAI) issued a call (publicised by CRIF) for a demonstration against the programme, which it described as "a vitriolic saga of murderous disinformation". He urged SBS "to reconsider the representations from the Jewish Community with due regard to the potential destructive consequences of racial stereotyping". They say it sits underneath the parking lot for a beach. Israel Approves Law Allowing Palestinians to Be Stripped of Citizenship and Deported democracynow.org 171 15 s_y_s_t_e_m_i_c_ 20 hr. It tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. Len is driving Mohammed's son Hassan back from a maths exam. The documentary Israel vs Israel is a film about Jewish peace activists who in both words and actions take a stand again 40 years of occupation and illegal settlements. However, Kosminsky had grown increasingly estranged from the BBC, later saying that film-makers no longer saw "that flash of mischief" when pitching ideas. However, we found that the video was uploaded to Facebook on 25 November 2018, with a caption saying it was taken in the town of Abu Snan in Galilee, in Israel. Sarah Agha, Actor and co-Presenter, says: My Palestinian father was just two years old when his family was displaced from their village near Tiberias in Galilee in 1948. Video, 00:01:10Drone footage shows extent of damage after Jenin raid. [106] In contrast, Hal Wootten, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and former president of the Indigenous Law Centre, considered the ECAJ position to be misguided: "There is a striking irony in a Jewish organisation's striving to show that every Jewish character is a demon and every Arab character a saint. Middle East. [81] However, La Croix's reviewer was more hostile, considering that although there was "no doubt that the film ought to be seen", it "cannot be mistaken for a history lesson but a great partisan fiction", marred by bias and an "embarrassing" representation of Jews. A young girl Samira pulls her in, miming that it is not safe. It was taken during a Syrian government operation against rebel groups in the city of Deraa in 2018. Despite the horrors of war, this documentary will uncover stories of strength, courage and defiance, and will look for the light as well as the shade in the experiences of both Israeli and Palestinian families., Colette Flight, Executive Producer at Wall to Wall Media, says: Hearing these powerful and moving family stories, which still resonate through the generations, gives a fresh and deeply personal perspective on the human impact of these events. For Jews across the world, this represented a longed-for opportunity to find a place of safety. As Bacha shows in the film, laws to protect Israel provided the template for legislation to curb boycotts of companies over the climate crisis, gun control, factory farming and others issues. It was also felt that relying on comparatively simple well-known technology would be sensible operating so far from home. 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