UNDERSTANDING GAZA SERIES

Film: Birth of a Conflict, Episode 1

(Avi Merkado Ettedgui & Yaron Niski, 2022, 55 min, Israel)

This 3-part documentary, informed by newly declassified British diplomatic files, sheds new and surprising light on the British Mandate, the 30 years of British rule in Palestine from 1917 to 1948.

Episode 1: A Conflict Requires a Territory. The British Empire's arrival in the Middle-East complicated the region by pitting ethnic groups against each other through well-practiced divide-and-conquer colonial management techniques.

Discussion led by UCSC professor Bruce Thompson.

Sponsored by the Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival.