Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Sut Jhally (Directors)

This pivotal video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies--exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides an historical overview, a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion.

Interviewees include Seth Ackerman, Mjr. Stav Adivi, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Hanan Ashrawi, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Dr. Neve Gordon, Toufic Haddad, Sam Husseini, Hussein Ibish, Robert Jensen, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Karen Pfeifer, Alisa Solomon, and Gila Svirsky.

SECTIONS: Intro | American Media: Occupied Territory | Hidden Occupation | Invisible Colonization | Violence in a Vacuum | Defining Who Is Newsworthy | Myth of U.S. Neutrality | Myth of the Generous Offer | Marginalized Voices | Is Peace Possible?

Type: Documentary

Director: Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Sut Jhally

Year: 2004

Time: 80 minutes

Produced by: Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Sut Jhally

Edited by: Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Kenyon King

Language: English with Spanish, French, Arabic and Hebrew subtitles

DVD Disc 1 Features

DVD Disc 2 Features

Reviews

"Using journalists, scholars and several moderate Israeli activists, "Peace" is a point-by-point indictment of the American media for being in the thrall of the Israeli PR machine to the disservice of the truth. Showing the movie would be a great way to open a debate. I would love to hear its charges answered as clearly as they're stated." --NY Daily News.

Official Selection, 2004 Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.