Local filmmaker Tom Hayes will be present to discuss the issues covered in his brilliant new documentary that explores the passionate debate among Israeli citizens about their government’s Occupation of Palestine. The film deftly splices together dueling creeds, and the result is electrifying, because it’s a split so rarely displayed on U.S. screens. The movie shows competing views of Judaism: a religious entitlement to land versus a spiritual commitment to freeing the oppressed, asking whether Jews are safer segregated or connected to other humanity. As several people of conscience remind us, seeking a purely physical security exposes a people to the “more dangerous” moral hazard of “re-enacting what happened to us” — even becoming “animals.”

Discussion will follow the screening of this film.

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