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Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and its
repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash
against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world — except the
United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening
look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public
relations efforts within the U.S. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring
leading observers of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the film
explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the
pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives,
to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favor. The
Occupation of the American Mind provides a sweeping analysis of Israel's
decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the
American people — a battle that has only intensified over the past few
years in the face of widening international condemnation of Israel's
increasingly right-wing policies.
FEATURING
ROGER WATERS, the narrator of The Occupation of the American Mind, is an
English rock musician, singer-songwriter, and composer. He is best
known as the bass player, co-lead vocalist, lyricist, and principal
songwriter in the rock band Pink Floyd. Over the last few years, he has
emerged as a prominent advocate for Palestinian human rights.
AMIRA HASS is the correspondent for the Occupied Territories for
Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper. As the correspondent for the
territories, Hass spent three years living in Gaza, which served as the
basis for her widely acclaimed book Drinking the Sea at Gaza. She has
lived in the West Bank city of Ramallah since 1997.
M.J. ROSENBERG was a Congressional aide for 15 years and worked on the
staff of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the
largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, before becoming a
fierce critic of U.S. policy in the Middle East. He has worked for the
media watchdog group Media Matters, writes a weekly column for the
Huffington Post, and runs a popular blog that looks at issues related to
the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
STEPHEN M. WALT is Professor of International Affairs at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government and the author of numerous books on U.S.
politics and international affairs, most notably The Israel Lobby and
U.S. Foreign Policy. He has also been a Resident Associate of the
Carnegie Endowment for Peace, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings
Institution, and has served as a consultant for the Institute of Defense
Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense
University.
NOAM CHOMSKY is a leading U.S. political theorist and activist, and
institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute for
Technology. He is the author of dozens of books on political propaganda
and U.S. policy in the Middle East, including Manufacturing Consent: The
Political Economy of the Mass Media and Hegemony or Survival: America’s
Quest for Global Dominance. The New York Times has called him "the most
important intellectual alive."
RULA JEBREAL is a foreign policy analyst, journalist, novelist, and
screenwriter with both Israeli and Italian citizenship. Jebreal became
the first foreign anchorwoman in the history of Italian television,
winning a Media Watch award for her coverage of the Iraq war, and by age
33 earned the highest European journalism award, the International
Ischia Award for Best Journalist of the Year. She was also a commentator
for MSNBC.
HENRY SIEGMAN is a research professor in the Middle East Program at the
School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, a
Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations,
and former national director of the American Jewish Congress. He was
ordained as an Orthodox Rabbi, and was awarded the Bronze Star and the
Purple Heart for his service as a chaplain during the Korean War.
RASHID KHALIDI is one of the world’s foremost scholars on modern Middle
East history. He is currently Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab
Studies at Columbia University, and the author of numerous acclaimed
books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, including The Iron Cage: The
Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood and, most recently,
Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East.
RAMI KHOURI is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public
Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut,
as well as a columnist at the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper. He is a
Palestinian–Jordanian and U.S. citizen and resides with his family in
Beirut and Nazareth.
YOUSEF MUNAYYER, a political analyst and writer, is Executive Director
of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Previously he was
the Executive Director of the Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center, and
served as a policy analyst for the American–Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (ADC). He writes on matters of foreign policy in the Arab and
Muslim world and civil rights and civil liberties in the United States,
and is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NBC, CBS,
Al-Jazeera English, and C-Span.
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN is an American political scientist, activist, and
author of numerous books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, including
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish
Suffering and Image and Reality of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict. He
was also the subject of the critically acclaimed 2009 documentary
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein.
MAX BLUMENTHAL is an award-winning journalist for The Nation magazine
and New York Timesbestselling author of several books on right-wing
politics and the Middle East conflict, including Republican Gomorrah:
Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, Goliath: Life and Loathing
in Greater Israel, and, most recently, The 51-Day War: Ruin and
Resistance in Gaza. His on-the-ground video reports about right-wing
pro-Israel sentiment within the U.S. and Israel have generated millions
of hits on YouTube.
PHYLLIS BENNIS is a writer, activist, and policy analyst on Middle East
and UN issues. She is currently the Director of the New Internationalism
Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C., and
helped found the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She writes
and speaks widely in the U.S. and around the world, is a frequent
commentator on the conflict in U.S. news media, and is the author of
several books, including Understanding the Palestinian–Israeli Conflict:
A Primer and Ending the War in Afghanistan: A Primer.
NORMAN SOLOMON is a journalist, media critic, and the author of more
than a dozen books on U.S. news media and political propaganda,
including War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us
to Death and Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News
Media. He also founded the alternative news source The Institute for
Public Accuracy and the online activist group RootsAction.org, and in
2012 was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in
California.
MARK CRISPIN MILLER is professor of media studies at New York University
and one of America’s foremost authorities on advertising, public
relations, and political propaganda. He has made frequent appearances in
documentaries about U.S. media culture, and is the author of several
books, including Boxed In: The Culture of TV and Cruel and Unusual:
Bush/Cheney's New World Order.
PETER HART is the communications director for the National Coalition
Against Censorship. Previously he was the activism director for the
media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a
writer for FAIR's magazine Extra!, and was a co-host and producer of
FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin. He is also the author of The
Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly.
SUT JHALLY is professor of Communication at the University of
Massachusetts, a leading scholar on advertising, public relations, and
political propaganda, and the author of several books, including The
Codes of Advertising and Enlightened Racism. He is also the founder and
Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation, a documentary film
company that looks at issues related to U.S. media and public
attitudes. He is the producer and director of dozens of documentaries
about U.S. politics and media culture, including Peace, Propaganda &
the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict.
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