- BBC Newsnight BBC News 13.8M subscribers Subscribe 15K 1.6M views 1 year ago. In normal parlance, human shields are. "[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. Overnight ratings for The Promise were 1.8 million for the first episode, followed by 1.2 million, 1.3 million, and 1.2 million for the subsequent episodes. The controversial BBC documentary titled . WhatsApp. In May 1949, Israel was admitted to the UN and its grip over 78 percent of historic Palestine was consolidated. And as the case went on, he faced pressure even from family, and he retracted his claims and then reasserted them later. More Americans understand the actions of the Israeli government, the role of the United States in supporting Israeli policies, and the effects it has on the Palestinian people. Israel has responded with hundreds of air strikes on Gaza, a densely populated and built up coastal strip in which the militants have embedded themselves within civilian populations. Israeli and Zionist propaganda in Euro-America and elsewhere is designed to conceal and hide that reality because it does not serve the Zionist political project. MOHAMMAD: Survivors and witnesses know where the alleged mass grave is. When she recovers, Paul comes to see her; she senses that he is upset with her, but he denies it. In this documentary, witnesses and survivors talk about the 2002 attack by the Israeli army on Palestinian refugee camp Jenin. That night there is shooting; Erin comforts the girl. Parliament orders an inquiry after dozens of women speak of abuse on British-operated tea farms. "Our children must be protected from anti-Muslim bigotry and abuse at school," CAIR's national office . We've investigated examples of misinformation from both sides that have provoked intense debate on social media. Erin meets Eliza's brother Paul, described by Eliza as "crazy", who left the army transformed into a peace activist. The Brief Global Pitch Guide Introduction. The orthodox woman from the previous day arrives to taunt her. "Depictionsinclude Jewish children stoning Arab children, blood-thirsty soldiers, conniving double-agents and members of an extremely wealthy, cosmopolitan family. The idea for The Promise arose from the 1999 drama Warriors, Kosminsky's sympathetic portrayal of British troops peacekeeping in central Bosnia in 199293, their hands tied by an impossible mandate. He urged SBS "to reconsider the representations from the Jewish Community with due regard to the potential destructive consequences of racial stereotyping". "Tantura" is a new Israeli documentary challenging Israel's understanding of the war. Paul and Eliza's father is a former general who criticised the occupation and is now a leading liberal. The series follows the history of the conflict through the mid-late 20th century, focussing on major incidents, pressure points and conflicts. Erin slips past into the zone. Despite the broadcasters' prejudiced. At this stage the treatment ran to 180 pages, with many scenes described in detail. LINAH MOHAMMAD, BYLINE: It was the night of the 22 of May, 1948, when the Alexandroni Brigade's 33rd Battalion of what would become the Israeli military entered Tantura. "saga au vitriol pour une dsinformation assassine! The Australian Jewish Democratic Society stated "We agree with the ECAJ that the Jewish characters portrayed are generally unsympathetic in comparison with the Arab characters. This Morning's Top Headlines - Feb. 27 27.02.2023 | NBC 'Early wake-up call': Storm chaser describes severe storms in central US 27.02.2023 | CNN. The Promise is a British television serial in four episodes written and directed by Peter Kosminsky, with music by Debbie Wiseman. A purported British Army major apologises to Len that it has been a ruse, to determine whether Robbins is a spy. Arkansas, like other states, dressed up the law as combatting antisemitism in the US, which came as a surprise to Rabbi Barry Block, of Temple Bnai Israel in Little Rock. He tells Bacha he wasnt paying attention. At the airport, Erin surprises her mother with the intensity of her embrace. "Israel looks like nowhere else: the Bauhaus architecture in Tel Aviv, the physiognomy of its people, who come from all over the world, and most of all the Wall. One of the fighters is Clara. BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Israel and Palestine Listen now Israel and Palestine How did the relationship between Israel and Palestine reach its current point? According to Reuters, the tree was only 10 metres from the mosque. Julia Bacha with state senator Bart Hester in Arkansas. Prasquier reportedly told him that such a series "could only fan the flames of antisemitic violence" and Meheut reportedly promised that viewers would be provided with balanced information about the issue; The JC reported that Canal+ had agreed to broadcast a caption reading "The Promise is fiction" before each episode. The remaining 22 percent became known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.. The conditions of the imprisonment of Robbins and Nash, and the display and booby-trapping of their bodies, closely correspond to the fate of Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice in what became known as, According to Kosminsky, the sequence of the girls being stoned was a "direct reconstruction" from documentary video footage (e.g. Themes: Nonviolence, Jewish religious leader, peace activism Trailer: http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/israel_vs_israel_2010/?trailer=true They are listing all kinds of industries, not just guns and oil, but also causes. The series is produced and directed by David Vincent. Greg Ledings smile drops as the films director, Julia Bacha, asks about an Arkansas law requiring contractors doing business with the state to pledge not to boycott Israel. "1/3 of these 250+ rockets fell inside the Gaza Strip, killing Palestinians," Ofir Gendelman tweeted. [72], The Promise also received a nomination, at the Banff World Television Festival, for Best Mini-Series of 2010/2011. The video is real, but additional footage from other angles makes it clear that a tree near to the mosque had caught fire, not the mosque itself. But the demand rubbed him the wrong way. [83], A letter of protest to the channel was written by the President of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), arguing that "the viewer sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however complex, only as a consequence of violence and cruelty of the Jews, who are represented as so extreme that if any empathy towards them is excluded." 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. For Palestinians, it's the beginning of Nakba, the catastrophe. An Israeli documentary examines what happened to one seaside Palestinian village in the 1948 war. At the CWGC cemetery she finds the graves of two more names from the diary: Sergeants Robbins and Nash, who at that point in the diary are still alive. As Samira becomes frantic, Erin suggests that they take her also. Back at the docks, Len tries to find Mohammed, but is arrested by two military policemen, who had been tipped off by Alec to make sure Len gets home. [109], As of January 2012 the serial has also been sold to SVT Sweden, YLE Finland, DR Denmark, RUV Iceland, RTV Slovenia, Globosat Brazil, and TVO Canada. "It is our problem, at least in part, and we should take some responsibility for it". [76] [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." [90] The Sydney Morning Herald trailed the serial as "ambitious both bracingly original and wonderfully gripping", offering a "profound veracity". TREE"). Erin is shocked to read about Len's fit. That night, Len rounds on Clara for having known in advance and trying to protect him. Looking up Omar's telephone number in Paul's phone, she gets Omar to take her to Ein Hawd, which was the location of Mohammed's house, and finds that that village is now Ein Hod, a Jewish artistic centre. [18] The paratroopers' base at Stella Maris had been a challenge to find, but eventually the monastery at Beit Jimal was used and proved very accommodating. It's the most serious flare-up since an 11-day conflict in. All rights reserved. One widely shared tweet claimed to show footage of Palestinian militant group Hamas moving truck-based missiles down a street in Gaza. [110] Senator Kroger stated that "SBS appears to have put a business decision ahead of independent assessments which determined that it was offensive to the Jewish community." [18] It was also important to make the character contrast with the "endlessly heroic and gentlemanly"[18] Len, so it was intentional that she should be harder to like. A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a video on Twitter which he claimed showed Hamas firing rockets at Israel "from populated areas". 363K views 13 years ago A remarkable British documentary about the birth of Israel state which was created at the expense of palestinians who lost their homes and homeland, were driven out from. The BBC devoted 14.25 lines to references to the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories and 10.5 lines to the blockade. Clara can't believe he still does not trust her. The account from which the fake tweets apparently originated shows strong pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel leanings and claims to be writing satire. ago All settler terrorist suspects have been released. Israeli troops have killed at least 11 Palestinians and wounded dozens more during a raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials say. [118] In Haifa the episodes were screened on successive Thursdays, from 10 to 21 May. Eliza takes Erin shopping and clubbing in Tel Aviv, cut short when Erin's epilepsy is triggered by flashing lights in the club. Erin is dropped by taxi at Abu Dis, where Omar lives, which is near the separation wall. Len finds Klein in solitary confinement in Acre, but he is unwilling to appeal, saying that every movement needs its martyrs. A former soldier wrote to its executive producer Jane Tranter at the BBC,[9] suggesting she should do a film about the forgotten British soldiers who had been in Palestine. 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