Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Alice Rothchild | 57 minutes

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Voices Across the Divide
by Alice Rothchild
Voices Across the Divide explores the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through
rarely heard personal stories. Narrated by Alice Rothchild, an American Jew
raised on the tragedies of the Holocaust and the dream of a Jewish homeland
in Israel, the film follows her personal journey as she begins to
understand the Palestinian narrative, while exploring the Palestinian
experience of loss, occupation, statelessness, and immigration to the US.
The documentary is both a personal journey to understand the Palestinian
narrative as well as the implications and contradictions of deeply held
cultural beliefs in the Jewish community.

Millions of dollars are spent on campus groups and in the media,
aggressively promoting an Israel-right-or-wrong political stand and
actively attacking students, professors, writers, and performers who
exhibit sympathy or interest in "the other side." This muzzling of the
dialogue is a major threat to our fundamental principles of free speech and
tolerance and thus to our basic democratic values. It is also deeply
corruptive to our foreign policy and our ability to understand how others
see us. Voices Across the Divide follows Alice Rothchild's personal journey
as she begins to understand the Palestinian narrative, while exploring the
Palestinian experience of loss, occupation, statelessness, and immigration
to the US, exploring voices for a just peace in the region. Written by
Alice Rothchild

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-kg27Kaqx8

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