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The poster for No Other Land (2024) shows Palestinian activist Basel Adra lying on a rock-studded hill, his handheld camera on the ground nearby. Adra’s gaze is set on the earth immediately in front of him; he faces away from the sun, his shadow collecting where his hand picks at blades of grass. We can’t see his face, not clearly. A bulldozer traverses the horizon line in the distance. Native, settler. The Palestinian, his body still, has his hands, his camera, his witness. The Zionist machine has the power to destroy—and, however unlikely, the power to change course. The film the poster advertises, produced by a collective of Palestinians and Israelis, is a documentary about Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian villages that make up Masafer Yatta, under Zionist military occupation since 1967. In the 1980s, Masafer Yatta was declared a “firing zone” by the Israeli government, and those living there were ordered to evacuate. Israeli documents have since revealed—as Pale

“No Other Land” for Whom? on Notebook | MUBI Notebook Feature No Other Land (Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor, 2024). The poster for No Other Land (2024) shows Palestinian activist Basel Adra lying on a rock-studded hill, his handheld camera on the ground nearby. Adra’s gaze is set on the earth immediately in front of him; he faces away from the sun, his shadow collecting where his hand picks at blades of grass. We can’t see his face, not clearly. A bulldozer traverses the horizon line in the distance. Native, settler . The Palestinian, his body still, has his hands, h

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