Nakba film

An outstanding film from Japanese photographer and videographer, Ryuichi Hirokawa. The film is just being released now and is premiering at different film fests around the world. Hirokawa at age 23 went to live on a kibbutz in 1967 just before the start of Israel's occupation of the territories. Soon after he would join the Israeli leftist group, Matzpen. He said that when he discovered the kibbutz was built on Palestinian land he had to go and find the people who then, had been forced to leave their land two decades earlier. He has spent a lot of time since in Palestine and Lebanon documenting Palestinian refugees and their villages that were destroyed by the Zionist armies in 1948. He is a very talented and well known Japanese photographer. Quite a contrast from most American/European photographers and journalists, who even if they do understand the injustice of the Palestinian tale, are scared to go anywhere near it in their work.