Film Charts Failed Experiment Inviting Palestinian Teens to Become Kibbutzniks

http://dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/film-charts-failed-experiment-inviting-palestinian-teens-to-become
Date Written:  2019-09-27
Publisher:  Dissident Voice
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23798

A new documentary brings to light an episode almost completely erased from Israel’s official history - and one that reveals how Israel's apartheid character was established from its birth.

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"I Am Ahmad" follows Masrawa as a near-two-decade military government imposed on Israel’s Palestinian minority is being lifted just before the outbreak of the Six-Day war. He is filmed leaving his poor village of Arara in northern Israel to travel to the rapidly expanding Jewish coastal city of Tel Aviv to find work.

Masrawa narrates the film, providing personal reflections in Hebrew on what it is like to live effectively as a foreign worker in your own country.