{"id":4400,"date":"2008-10-07T18:26:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T23:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2008-10-07T18:29:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T23:29:29","slug":"alison-weir-in-response-to-a-bloggers-criticism-of-a-film-i-helped-on-a-bit-occupation-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4400","title":{"rendered":"Alison Weir:   In response to a blogger&#8217;s criticism of a film I helped on a bit, Occupation 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alison Weir, AlisonWeir.org, <a href=\"http:\/\/alisonweir.org\/journal\/2008\/10\/2\/in-response-to-a-bloggers-criticism-of-a-film-i-helped-on-a.html\">2 October 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;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 \u2013 and they&#8217;re not even Palestinian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/alisonweir.org\/journal\/2008\/10\/2\/in-response-to-a-bloggers-criticism-of-a-film-i-helped-on-a.html\">Read the response<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/annies-letters.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/alison-weir-of-if-americans-knew.html\">hat tip<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Weir, AlisonWeir.org, 2 October 2008 Sadly, I don\u2019t 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-18Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}