No Other Land (an excerpt from When Trauma Doesn't End)
[Here is an excerpt from my most recent Substack post in which I included this reflection on watching No Other Land. It will make the most sense if you read the whole post on " When Trauma Doesn't End " on Substack.] ...Last week, I watched the Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land , (it is available to stream at no cost here ) co-directed by Palestinians and Israelis: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor. Here is another ongoing trauma that has persisted much longer. The filming focuses on the West Bank expulsions in Masafer Yatta and was completed just after the brutal Hamas attacks and abductions of October 7, 2023 that triggered the intense escalation of Israeli atrocities in Gaza (the film primarily covers 2019-2023). The ongoing reality of events depicted in the film has recently been underlined by the killing of Awdah Hathaleen , a Palestinian activist who also worked on the film. Of course, one could name other ongoing atrocities...
