- History of Palestine Available on publicly accessible websites, interactive documentaries are typically free to use, allowing audiences to navigate through amounts of information too large for standard film or television documentaries.
Media literacy, however, is needed to understand the ways that interactive documentaries reveal or conceal their power to narrate. Examining ARTE France’s Gaza Sderot (2008–9), Zochrot’s iNakba (2014), and Dorit Naaman’s Jerusalem, We Are Here (2016), this article discusses documentaries that prompt audiences to reflect upon asymmetries in the power to forget history and the responsibility to remember it by mapping Palestinian geographies that have been rendered invisible.
Since media ecologies are increasingly militarized, particularly in Palestine/Israel, interactive documentaries like iNakba and Jerusalem, We Are Here can disrupt Israeli state branding as technologically innovative while minimizing risk of surveillance by avoiding the use of location-aware technologies that transform interaction into tracking.
Read the article in the Journal of Palestine Studies, link in bio.
Google punished an anti-Zionist Jewish worker for demanding the company end its contract with the Israeli military.
Google’s $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract — signed while the Israeli military bombed Gaza last May — helps the Israeli government and military surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence on Palestinians under occupation.
It’s wrong to silence workers for standing with Palestinians. Workers should be free to protest contracts that enable state violence without fear of retaliation.
But, as Ariel writes, Google can make this situation right and abide by its founding motto — “don’t be evil” — by ending its deadly contract NOW.
To support Google and Amazon workers’ demand to end their companies’ $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli military, go to NoTechForApartheid.com and email their CEOs (swipe left and link in bio).
You can also keep up with the workers’ historic organizing by following @DropNimbus on Twitter (swipe left)!
