How to Cover Up a Massacre
Zionism must evolve in order to survive, writes the director of the documentary 'Tantura.' Israelis should be strong enough to acknowledge the suffering of the other side. Recognizing the Nakba is a first step toward a future of peace. Read More
Old Palestinian Wound Resurfaces at Israeli Resort
Israeli soldiers had long denied killing prisoners after capturing an Arab seaside town, days after Israel’s creation. A new film provides fresh evidence — reopening a debate about Israel’s foundational story. Read More
Tantura: New documentary sparks debate about Israel and the Palestinian Nakba
A new documentary, released earlier this year, is shining light on a violent and controversial episode in Israeli and Palestinian history. Read More
‘Nakba’ film ‘Tantura’ premieres locally this week
Tantura is the story of one Israeli graduate student who documented personal testimony of atrocities committed in one Arab village whose residents experienced the Nakba. Read More
Review: Tantura
Every year, there are several new Israeli documentaries dealing with various aspects of the occupation of Palestine. Now a massacre in the titular Arab village in 1948, during what the Israelis call the War of Independence and what the Palestinians call Nakba (“the catastrophe”), is the subject of Tantura by Alon Schwarz, which won the Research Award at Docaviv, following its world premiere at Sundance. Read More
Confronting Israeli-Palestinian history in the documentary Tantura
A new documentary from an Israeli director points to a mass, unmarked grave of Palestinians, killed in the village of Tantura in 1948. We talk to Alon Schwarz, director of Tantura; Hillel Cohen, a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and head of the university’s Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism; and Yara Hawari, a Palestinian writer and senior analyst at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, and host of the podcast Rethinking Palestine. Read More