‘Shine a Light on Palestine – Spring 2025 Film Series’ Starts March 26th
This is a press release from Shine a Light on Palestine:
Who: Shine a Light on Palestine
Contact: Pamela Brown
Cell: 707/599-5404
Email: [email protected]
When: March 26, 7 p.m. Tickets ordered online or at the door (if it isn’t sold out)
Where: Minor Theater 1001 H Street Arcata
What: Documentary Boycott (2021)
As required by the distributor, admission is free to this documentary.
Boycott explores anti-BDS laws and related freedom of speech issues through the stories of a publisher, an attorney, and a pediatric speech pathologist who all filed lawsuits against their state governments.
Alan Leveritt is the publisher of the Arkansas Times who is not specifically interested in boycotts of Israel but objects to the anti-boycott law in Arkansas because of its implications for free speech. As a result, the Times can no longer receive advertising payments from a local state university. Case lost in court.
Bahia Amawi is a pediatric speech pathologist in Texas who can speak Arabic. She is fired after refusing to pledge not to engage in boycotts. Amawi’s challenge to the law in Texas was successful, and she regains her contract and forces legislators to narrow the scope of the legislation.
Mik Jordahl is a lawyer in Arizona who has pledged to boycott companies involved in the Israeli occupation after taking a trip to the West Bank with his son, who is Jewish. As a result of anti-boycott laws, he is forced to give up a contract to provide legal assistance to incarcerated people; he experiences financial difficulty after continuing to provide the legal services pro bono. Jordahl’s challenge to the law in Arizona is successful, and he regains his contract and forces legislators to narrow the scope of the legislation.
The documentary juxtaposes Amawi and Jordahl’s legal victories with information about the successful lobbying effort that led to the implementation of anti-boycott laws in 34 states. It links these laws to the American Legislative Exchange Council, describing the Council as the origin of the efforts to pass them at the state level; it additionally states that the Israeli government created a firm called Kella Shlomo to bypass United States laws against foreign interference, and that the firm provided millions of dollars in funding to groups that went on to support the anti-BDS legislation, including Christians United for Israel.
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I like this, it’s very transparent.
No Other Land, one of the films in the series, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary but has been unable to find a U.S. Distributor — I’m guessing some potential distributors fear retaliation if they distribute a documentary telling the truth about the illegal occupation and displacement of Palestinian villagers in the West Bank.
What’s happened to Masafar Yatta, a cluster of villages in the occupied West Bank, is a seamless continuation of what’s happened to Palestinians since 1948 — driven from their homes, the homes destroyed, the villages erased.
yeah, and it got rave reviews to warrant two showings here so all 20 of the anti-Israel folks get a chance to see it.
Hey Bro. Your ‘old guy’ age is showing: “all 20 of the anti-Israel folks”? Get up to date. Much of the country could be reasonably regarded as ‘anti-Israel’, especially after the brutal devastation they have brought onto Gaza!
Pretty sure I see the same exact handful of people at every single anti-Israel event in Humboldt County. Sometimes they manage to drag along a few unwitting participants, who quickly abandon the movement as soon as they realize what it’s about.
Purely hypothetical question, would it be ok to protest the showing of this documentary if you strongly disagree with its content by occupying the minor theater and disrupting its normal operations and other functions? I would say no to that but it seems that some form of protests are more legitimate and acceptable than others. I just wonder where the line is. Discuss amongst yourselves.
According to the pro Palestinian crowd, no, because protests are only allowed by people who agree with them. It would, however, be perfectly legal to protest peacefully, unlike the pro Palestinian riots that were full of vandalism, violence and illegal occupation. Also, be careful not to destroy the billboards at the theater that advertise these “documentaries” because it’s only acceptable to destroy billboards promoting Israel. The left is well documented to limit tolerance to those who believe the same way they do.
Well, as long as you don’t question vaccine efficacy, or Covid origins, or the science behind masking and lockdowns et al. then yes you can protest if they decide to allow it. You make a great point, only certain protests are actually allowed, especially around Arkata. And don’t get me started on billboards.
“… when Israel was established in 1948”
Israel’s a hell of a lot older than that. I read about Israel in the Old Testament (which pre-dates 1948 by thousands of years).
Israel’s even mentioned in the Koran. (curiously, “Palestine” is never mentioned in the Koran, not even once)
Wrong — the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea ceased to exist 2,000-2,500 years ago — there is no historical continuity to the modern state of Israel which was created in 1948 through a deliberate campaign of terror, military conquest and ethnic cleansing.
Well, don’t forget the previous millennia of terror, military conquest and ethnic cleansing by just about everyone that travelled through the area. How many times has Jerusalem been turned to rubble?
Your comment is pure Deflection from the root cause of the current conflict which has no historical antecedents prior to the Zionist colonization and conquest of Palestine.
Conquest is what has created all nations. Somebody lived there before and there was a takeover by a stronger force. It is nothing new. We used to have the USSR, countries taken over by one superpower, that is, until it wasn’t. North America was taken over by a stronger force even though other people lived there, creating the United States. It doesn’t make it wrong to love America. It was just change. Isreal indeed was a county thousands of years ago, was taken over by other forces and yet, it’s a country again. If another force invades and Isreal wins, it keeps Sovereignty. If not, it becomes a new nation. All the BS about them remaining a country is just that, BS. Hamas attacked them. It doesn’t matter whose “ideology” the rest of the world likes. It matters who wins the conquest. They have the right to annihilate the threat. The same goes for every country on earth. In America, we are reported to be a civilized nation. Unfortunately, that is disproved every time there’s a “peaceful” protest that turns to vandalism, violence and general mayhem. It’s important to remain passionate, but remain in control. I, as a conservative, believe differently than liberals, but there’s no place for stupid stuff, like my wife, who called a friend to see if she wanted to go to a movie, and was told, “I’m taking a break from you because I know your husband likely voted for Trump.” This is a prime example why I’m a conservative. I can’t stand the BS logic of this liberal and what I’ve observed as standard procedure by the left.
At least we agree Israel was created by armed conquest — your attitude seems to be “get use to it” — but no one should be surprised if those suffering oppression continue to resist.
You have a pretty unorthodox definition of the word “resist.”
I abjure direct responses to the authors of “Yeahbutism” and other forms of Deflection once they’ve proven themselves to be incapable of honest debate — and simultaneously committed to false, misleading and disingenuous representations of history — case in point: neither Israel nor Palestine were “created” by the UN Plan of Partition as is stated in the opening paragraph below — I won’t respond further to the historical drivel that follows except to say Wikipedia may provide superficial context but is hardly an authoritative source.
Sounds like what a lawyer would say when they don’t want the jury to listen to a winning argument.
“No historical antecedents.” Your confident use of the word “historical” isn’t going to obscure the actual historical facts of the case – which is that Jewish people living in the territory that is now called Israel were persecuted throughout the entirety of the Ottomon occupation, and are still targeted by the same radical theocratic imperialist fascist dictatorships in an as-of-yet unsuccessful campaign to ethnically cleans the Jewish people from the middle east that continues today.
Palestine didn’t exist until Israel existed. It was created as a state in 1948 after the UN resolution that recommended partition into Israel and Palestine in 1947 failed to gain peace. Same as Israel.
“British rule and Arab efforts to prevent Jewish migration led to growing violence between Arabs and Jews, causing the British to announce its intention to terminate the Mandate in 1947. The UN General Assembly recommended partitioning Palestine into two states: Arab and Jewish. However, the situation deteriorated into a civil war. The Arabs rejected the Partition Plan, the Jews ostensibly accepted it, declaring the independence of the State of Israel in May 1948 upon the end of the British mandate. Nearby Arab countries invaded Palestine, Israel not only prevailed, but conquered more territory than envisioned by the Partition Plan. During the war, 700,000, or about 80% of all Palestinians fled or were driven out of territory Israel conquered and were not allowed to return, an event known as the Nakba (Arabic for ‘catastrophe’) to Palestinians. Starting in the late 1940s and continuing for decades, about 850,000 Jews from the Arab world immigrated (“made Aliyah”) to Israel.”
Now you might have a point if you want to think of Palestinians belonging to Türkiye because most of the recent history until WWI was under Ottoman control. But to claim it for the State of Palestine is very arbitrary. Hello! That region has been militarily conquered by so many people, from Egypt, Italy and Rome, so many times, it hardly has any separate essence of its own. It takes on the culture of the closest power. Jews migrated from Arab countries just as they migrated from European ones. This is not a matter of race, although this seems to be one of the proxy agendas involved in choosing sides.
Believing whose narrative in this conflict seems to be based on transferring emotion from other issues like European migration to North America or US western expansion or race or anything but the plain simple fact that both Palestinians and Israelis want everything and refuse to share anything and have dragged others into supporting them based on alliances from other things. Both have done it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine
Short answer is other countries got tired of their shit, and quite literally gave them their own sandboxes to play in and coexist side by side, yet neither of them have been able to maintain that schtick for very long. Heck, even the “Palestine” as a location and official namesake wasn’t their own creation, it was the Romans.
“The term “Palestine” was used for millennia without a precise geographic definition. That’s not uncommon—think of “Transcaucasus” or “Midwest.” No precise definition existed for Palestine because none was required. Since the Roman era, the name lacked political significance. No nation ever had that name.”
Not that it matters except to people that like to argue which came first and who’s being the bigger aggressor. Stay tuned next decade for more of the same.
The modern usage of the term “Palestine” and “Palestinian” was actually coined by Yasser Arafat in 1987 in order to garner a veneer of legitimacy in the form of a cohesive “people group,” whose only identitying feature is its commitment to Arafat’s anti-Israel terrorist movement. (After his anti-Jordan terrorist movement failed.)
Interestingly, the next year, 1988, was the year that Jordan made a nearly imperceptible adjustment to its national flag, in order to distinguish it from the flag used by Palestinian Arabs prior to the plan that partitioned Israel and Jordan (hence the name, “Partition Plan.”)
“Both Palestinians and Israelis want everything.” Then why have the Israelis repeatedly invited the Palestinians to the negotiating table with offers of “land for peace,” only to be repeatedly rejected and attacked (primarily civilian targets) by the “Palestinians” (or rather, by the terrorists claiming to represent them?)
The conflict will persist for as long as the Muslim Brotherhood needs a fresh stream of Palestinian martyrs to help them in their PR campaign against the west.
If by “deliberate campaign of terror, military conquest and ethnic cleansing,” you’re referring to the holocaust, which Israel was founded for the express purpose of ever repeating, then I can’t say that I disagree with you.
Oh goodie. More Israeli bombings today. Music to the ears of pro Palestinian “protesters.” Another “excuse” for y’all to start more riots. You can get on out there and join the “peaceful” protesters who keep burning up Teslas. Y’all are on the same side, so teaming up for a bigger showing of destruction is likely to start any time now.
That you celebrate the horrific slaughter of children shows your lack of humanity.
That your pro Palestinian “protesters” commit regular violent crimes, injuring and killing innocent Americans and that your squad in congress has actually called for violence is much more telling about no respect for human life. Your “care” is fake as your actions speak louder than words.
We aren’t the ones who came out and danced in the streets on October 7th.
PS Hey Kym, the phrase “your lack of humanity” sounds to me like a dehumanizing personal attack.
If foreign nationals trained by the Muslim Brotherhood weren’t being deported for leading these protests, the behavior of the protesters would be a powerful enough clue of their affinity for the group that perpetrates the same acts of violence against civilians and then cries “genocide” whenever the police/military show up to stop them in Israel. Maybe they thought that since it wasn’t working for them over there, they would come try it in the United States. Fortunately though, it seems they aren’t fooling anyone.