Historical context (short form)
2023 | A short documentary on how Israel was created.
2016 | Previewing Abby Martin’s on-the-ground investigation in Palestine, The Empire Files looks at the long history of Zionist colonization, expansion and expulsion of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants.
2020 | Israel has occupied the West Bank for decades. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to take even more control through annexation.
2022 [Dutch w/ English subtitles] | How did the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians arise? Middle East expert Maurits Berger (Leiden University) takes you on a journey through the history of the area.
Historical context (documentaries)
2022 | This film hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century.
2023 | When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, they join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel.
2021 | A documentary about the Great March Of Return protests in Gaza, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December 2019.
2023 [Arabic w/ English subtitles] | The story of Palestine.
Historical context (documentary trailers)
2024 | [Trailer] "Where Olive Trees Weep" offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.
2022 | [Trailer] In the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were ethnically cleansed. Israelis call it The War of Independence. Palestinians call it Nakba. The film examines one village, Tantura, and why Nakba is taboo in Israeli society.
Plight of the Palestinians
2024 | Stampede for getting flour sacks in Gaza City.
GRAPHIC CONTENT
2024 [Arabic] | Palestinian father consoles dying daughter from Israeli strike and asks her for forgiveness because he can't help her.
2023 | In November 2023 Israeli Police violently attacked orthodox Jews on the streets of Jerusalem, vandalized property and used force to remove Palestinian flags throughout the neighborhood.
This is part of their ongoing brutal oppression of the anti-Zionist religious Jewish community, who stand in opposition to Zionism and its occupation of Palestine.
October 7th
2023 | Norman Finkelstein joins Chris Hedges to discuss Israel's 17 year blockade of Gaza and its crucial significance to understanding the events of Oct 7th.
2023 | Testimony from survivors of Oct 7 suggests an alternative explanation—that in its fervor to defeat Hamas, Israeli commanders may have willingly targeted and sacrificed Israeli soldiers and civilians in the crossfire.
Jewish voices
2023 | What's behind Jewish support for Palestinian liberation and anti-Zionism?
2023 | Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Activist and Spokesman for Neturei Karta, talks to Al Jazeera.
2024 | Yael Kahn, is a Jewish Israeli woman who has been campaigning for Palestine for 51 years.
2024 | Meir Baruchin, a 62-year-old Israeli history teacher and anti-war activist, reveals how he was arrested and imprisoned in solitary confinement after he posted a photo of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army.
2024 | British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim gives a speech on Zionist settler colonialism and American imperialism in Palestine.
2023 | Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, has found that the IDF's increasing use of AI is partly a response to previous operations in Gaza when Israel quickly ran out of military targets, causing it to loosen its constraints on attacks that could kill civilians.
2023 | Toronto-based artist and filmmaker Yula announced her plans to renounce her Israeli citizenship.
2024 | Simone Zimmerman, an American Jewish activist, opens up about how supporting Israel was a natural part of her upbringing. She shares her perspective on US-Israel relations and discusses the vociferous backlash to her critique of Israel’s war on Gaza.
2023 | Holocaust Survivor Tells Piers Morgan Why He’s Not A Zionist.
2023 | 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram has been protesting outside the White House calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
2023 | Historian Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundreds' Year War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a look into the colonization of Palestine.
2024 | Miko Peled, former IDF Special Forces and author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a frank conversation on the distortions of history and reality at the foundations of Israeli identity.
International voices
2024 | Dr Ralph Wilde presents case on the existential illegality of the occupation at the ICJ hearings in February 2024.
2023 | "How come we never hear the words ‘PALESTINE has the right to defend itself’?
"We need ceasefires, and end to occupation, a lasting peace and a free Palestine."
Matt Carthy
2023 | The Irish representative in the European Parliament, Claire Daly, challenged the Union’s policy regarding the war on Gaza. She said in a statement before Parliament that millions of Palestinians live under Israeli occupation, and that talk about Israel’s democracy is false in light of the crimes of the occupation and the apartheid that it practices against the Palestinians.
2023 | CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with Emily Callahan, an American nurse with Doctors Without Borders, who gives a harrowing description of what she witnessed in Gaza as she was attempting to get out of the area.
2023 | A former top United Nations official in New York joins us for an in-depth interview about why he has resigned after publicly accusing the U.N. of failing to address what he calls a "text-book case of genocide" unfolding in Gaza.
2023 | Economist and former Greek minister of finance, Yanis Varoufakis, joins Marc Lamont Hill to discuss Europe’s historic responsibility and current role in the Israel-Gaza war.
2023 | The Listening Post examines the discourse around the conflict in three EU countries: Germany, France, and Ireland.