A rally was held this evening protesting the arrival of the US envoys in Israel. Members of National Union, Likud and Israel Beiteinu led the crowd, which included Kahanists wearing t-shirts saying “Kahane was right,” referring to Meir Kahane’s ideology of violence against all who stand in the way of the constant expansion of Jewish territory.
Censored by the Huffington Post and Imprisoned By The Past: Why I Made “Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem”
By Max Blumenthal
On Wednesday, I walked around central Jerusalem with my friend, Joseph Dana, an Israel peace activist who has lived in the country for three years. We interviewed young people on camera about the speech President Barack Obama planned to deliver to the Muslim world the following day in Cairo. Though our questions were not provocative at all – we simply asked, “What do you think of Obama’s speech” – the responses our interview subjects offered comprised some of the most shocking comments I have ever recorded on camera. They were racist, hateful, and incredibly ignorant, and were mostly couched within a Zionist context – “this is our land, Obama!” The following day, we edited an hour of interviews into a 3:30 minute video package and released it on Mondoweiss and on the Huffington Post.
Sunday, 10 May 2009 22:40
Added by PT Editor Sameh A. Habeeb
London, May 11, (Pal Telegraph) – Horia El Hadad looks at how American cinema has helped dehumanize a race of people through decades of false depictions of Arabs on the silver screen and asks the question: Is Hollywood making it hard for people to associate with the Arabs?
Reaching over 100 countries around the world, Hollywood is probably the largest entertainment medium of all races, ages and ethnicities.
But if the ancient Greek philosopher Plato was onto something when he said “those who tell the stories also rule society” it’s worrying that Hollywood films, with its power to entertain and more importantly influence its audience, are seen by millions around the world – especially when that medium has been found to lead to the demonization of a race of people.
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