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I’m determined to find a toilet in a non-religious place.
this is Al-Quds University.
The lecture, part of a series financed by Europeans, is quite interesting.
On the next empty chair there’s another book: The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt. How did she get in
the hijab-covered ladies are flaming feminists.
what kind of university this really is, with two students to a class.
“The Occupation,” he says, talking of the Israelis, “is throwing Muslim residents out of their houses in east Jerusalem and putting Jews in instead.” When? Now? “All the time!” How many houses? “Many!” How many? “Everywhere.” How many? “Thirty!” Thirty? “Thirty.” How long have they, the occupiers, been around here? I mean, if we count from 1967, then – “No, from 1948!” He’s talking about the establishment of the State of Israel. Okay, 1948. Thirty houses since 1948:
At this point a blond girl walks in and the man loses interest in me. Immediately.
willing to take me to the best restaurant in the area and introduce me to authentic Palestinian food.
today: If I wear the hijab over my head when I cross an Israeli checkpoint they’ll harass
“When the Europeans come here we take them to the places where Jesus lived and where the Israelis crucified him and that’s why they support us.”
she takes me to the place where the 2.4 million euros are going to be spent. A hamam. A Turkish bath.
is the Europeans’ motivation here. Why is it so important for the Europeans to prove that Arabs lived here,
The Western Wall used to be called Het al-Mabka, the Weeping, or Wailing, Wall, by the local Arabs, in deference to the Jews who were crying at the sight of their destroyed Temple. With the advent of Zionism, however, the Arabs changed the wall’s name to Het al-Buraq, al-Buraq’s Wall.
What is the truth? He shares it with me: the Israelis make sure that he, being a Palestinian, can’t own a house.
man of means: he owns a house in east Jerusalem, and he also owns another one in a place called Shuaffat.
“Zionism is a colonial, racist ideology. No other way to explain
the spiritual ancestors of today’s European funders.
want to do an interview for the paper, big paper. In Germany.
Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified.
go to see Jesus’ tomb.
Jesus got out of the tomb alive long ago and only God knows where he is today.
letters with His Wife,
the Greek monks faithfully collecting it for him.
speaking to the lady: “I can see that Jesus is also in your head and in your heart.”
that I feel the need to butt in.
unless he kisses my body with passion, “like you did the lady’s.”
He does. Monks obey ladies.
a blond young girl passes by.
if he were not busy kissing me by orders of Olga.
The real tomb, I’m now told, is in a place called “Garden Tomb.”
He got up alive from his grave, he is alive, and he is in heaven with God. Nothing else matters.”
The Son was buried here, the Messenger flew up from here, and the Wife is still
it stands to reason that Jerusalem is also the capital of the Godless.
To understand the secular mind better, I decide to meet some atheists, agnostics, and whoever is in between.
Have you ever tried Israeli food? If you are one of those people who eat not just to survive but also to enjoy,
the real robbers are the filmmakers: they are robbing my time.
fascinating as this city’s landscape.
Hamburg of 1936.
is one man who won’t salute.
what drives a single man in a huge crowd not to follow the crowd and take such a risk.
The hero is Jonathan Shapira,
These days he thinks the worst of Israel and declares that Israel commits crimes against humanity.
Guess who’s today’s Hitler?
the Israeli army, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces).
but this film is the creation of an Israeli, of a Jew.
Why did the Germans and Swiss fund this film?
Your movie starts with Nazis and ends with IDF.
“If you want German or Swiss financing for your movie, you have to be critical of Israel and then they will sponsor you.”
political criticism of Israel?
