Thursday, September 27, 2007
The now legally embattled director will be there to show his film:
Filasteen Club is proud to invite you to a evening of solidarity with Palestinian Actor/ Director *Mohammad Bakri *
The event will include a screening of his documentary film *"Jenin Jenin"*
Bakri will be introduced by Arab Israeli Poet/Film maker *Sami Chetrit*
*Time: 8 P.M. Thu 27th*
*Place: 207 Mathematics*
*Columbia University, 116th & Broadway*
Jenin Jenin* which covers the Israeli army's invasion of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank was banned in Israel. Bakri is now facing a trial initiated by 5 Israeli soldiers accusing the film of libel...
Maybe I've been reading pro-Israeli articles and websites for too long, but I don't understand how such a film could be made with a straight face. It's understandable that the film could be distributed and believed in the Arab world. After all, they're capable of believing in genetic bombs and poisoned chewing gum. But I don't understand how they would expect to be believed in the West.
Wasn't it demonstrated beyond argument, even by neutral NGOs, that there was no massacre there? That it was a question of a Israeli soldiers going house-to-house through what was a veritable minefield, with the intention (and result) of killing as few civilians as possible?
The fraudulant nature of the "5,000 deaths" claim is now well-known in the west. What do they hope to accomplish with dishonest interviews and staged reenactments?
I guess it's a matter of preaching to the converted.
Rochelle Rochelle
A movie depicting a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
Proves the point that, "Men can sit through the most boring movie if there's even the slightest possibility that a woman will
take her top off."