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Summer Film Series 2018 – “Looted and Hidden”

August 9, 2021May 4, 2018 by Samirah Alkassim

Looted and Hidden investigates the cinematic and other archival treasures that Israel plundered from various Palestinian visual and research institutions in Beirut in the 1980s. The film follows four historical figures who are involved in the fate of these Palestinian archives. Based entirely on archival materials, extensive research, and interviews with the individuals it portrays, this film exposes, for the first time, Palestinian materials that were erased deliberately from the public sphere by Israel and were, for many years, presumed to have been “lost.”

The Rise of the Israeli Right and the Censorship of History

July 27, 2021June 28, 2016 by Palestine Center Interns

By Palestine Center Interns — Mirvat Salameh and Abby Massell

Benjamin Netanyahu has established the most conservative government in Israeli history that is responsible for launching multiple and brutal military assaults on Gaza, expanding illegal settlements, and pushing the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. As leader and long-term member of Israel’s Likud party, Netanyahu has positioned the party away from its formerly secular and centrist position and toward hard-line right-wing policies. Aside from the surge in settler-violence in the last year, a recent decision to restrict access to Israel’s National Archives has created controversy among Israeli historians and human rights activists.