Sunday, June 24, 2012
akio:
‘5 Broken Cameras’: Can West Bank Film Change Israel? - The Daily Beast
Unprovoked beatings and shootings—just miles from Tel Aviv. A look at the Palestinian documentary that aims to show Israelis what really happens on the other side of the divide.
A few years ago, the Israeli human-rights group B’Tselem distributed several hundred videocameras to Palestinians in the West Bank and asked them to record the daily abuses they experienced at the hands of Israeli soldiers and settlers. The group sensed that most Israelis had grown indifferent to the military dominion Israel has maintained over the Palestinians for 45 years now, a phenomenon B’Tselem hoped to reverse.
