Alison Weir, AlisonWeir.org, 2 October 2008
Sadly, I don’t have time to keep up with blogs as much as I should (not surprisingly, since I almost never even post to my own), but I recently discovered that a prominent blogger named Philip Weiss (whose work I have sometimes read and found valuable) had written some odd things about an excellent documentary I assisted on a bit, Occupation 101. In his blog Weiss describes attending a showing of Occupation 101 at Yale, after which I had been invited to lead a discussion.
I’m extremely proud to be associated with Occupation 101. The two young filmmakers who created it have produced a breathtakingly powerful film. The story of how they made their film is sort of like a Hollywood movie, if Hollywood ever made movies where Arabs weren’t the villains. Sufyan and Abdallah Omeish, two brothers who had never made a documentary before and had basically no money, decided they were going to make a film about Palestine – and they’re not even Palestinian.