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Jerusalem
1948 (Yoom Ilak, Yoom Aleik)
Leon Willems
and Tinus Kramer
Jerusalem
1948: Yoom Ilak, Yoom Aleik covers
the events in Jerusalem and the major villages
to the south and west in the period between
the 1947 UN Partition Resolution and the
first truce between the Arab and Israel
armed forces in June 1948. The film challenges
the major myths surrounding the war of 1948
that resulted in Israeli statehood and Palestinian
exile.
The film
aims, on the one hand, to explain the historical
complexity of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948
while also providing insight into the diversity
of Palestinian refugee experiences since
then. Palestinian eyewitnesses and experts,
now refugees living in refugee camps, villages
and cities in Palestine, Jordan and the
USA tell the story of their lives in pre-1948
Jerusalem.
Jerusalem
1948: Yoom ilak, Yoom Aleik is based
on three years of research on the circumstances
of Palestinian eviction from the New City
of Jerusalem (now Israeli West Jerusalem)
conducted in cooperation with the Institute
for Jerusalem Studies.
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