{"id":1713,"date":"2013-02-21T12:11:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T12:11:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-19T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:59:45","slug":"palestinian-nonviolence-what-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/02\/21\/palestinian-nonviolence-what-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Nonviolence? What a Joke!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5<\/a>We have met the enemy and he is us. The last several months, Saadiq Long has been bouncing around in the no man’s land<\/a> of the No Fly List. He is a ten year veteran of the United States Air Force. His appearance on the No Fly List has nothing to do with the fact that he is a Muslim. And now, Emad Burnat<\/a>, on his way to the Academy Awards where he is up for Best Documentary, was detained at LAX<\/a>. What the hell did he think he was he doing in America? That’s just like the terrorist to make an award winning film to get into this country and Bam! We’d never see it coming. His detention at the airport had nothing to do with his being a Palestinian.<\/p>\n

Five Broken Cameras<\/em><\/h2>\n

Burnat’s new film Five Broken Cameras<\/a><\/i> is dangerous. It tells the story of what all the Very Serious Villagers are always claiming Palestine needs: nonviolent resistance. The truth is that Palestine has a very long history of nonviolent organizing — just as long as American media have been ignoring it. As Foreign Policy<\/a><\/i> has reported:<\/p>\n

The truth is that there is a long, rich history of nonviolent Palestinian resistance dating back well before 1948, when the state of Israel was established atop a depopulated Palestine. It has just never captured the world’s attention the way violent acts have.<\/div>\n

It’s enough to, you know, make you violent. The cameras in the title of Burnat’s film refer to the cameras that were destroyed while documenting the resistance against the building of a separation barrier in his village of Bil’in. The film looks really good:<\/p>\n