Occupation 101 - Voices of the Silenced Majority

Sad to know how poorly Palestinians are treated. If American taxpayers knew the truth, they would be ashamed to fund this

Must watch

I am Jewish and while I have been uncomfortable with the history of Zionism for a long time, I have prioritized learning more since October. This documentary is extremely valuable, if a bit out of date now.

This film is long overdue and should be a mandatory item in schools. It dispels the propaganda campaign that the pro-Israeli lobby has been so successful in creating since its military conquering of Palestine in 1947-1948. There is a great myth about how Palestine was an empty land before the recent flood of Jewish immigrants flocked to its shores. So how does one explain the 750,000 Palestinians forced to flee for their lives when the Jewish militias started destroying Palestinian villages?Let the world hear the truth for once without all the filters of the Jewish-Israeli Lobby, then judge for them selves as to the who the real war criminals are. Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela have themselves said the Palestinians face a situation far worse than the black South Africans did under the racist white Apartheid system. Also, read Israeli historian, Illan Pappe's account in his latest book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" if you wish to know the facts of the creation of Israel and the simultaneous destruction of Palestine. Please see this film and read Illan Pappe' book...

It is a document you can use in your library collection with any regret. It is honest, true, and all what we need to help our kids, students, people learn about the situation in the Middle East instead of stumbling in our made-up curriculum that we use in our schools and libraries, and what our media want us to know or not know. I used this for my students and asked my kids to watch and learn. Since the first day I obtained it, it never stayed with me, but every student had watched it would recommend it to another to watch and enjoy. I said enjoy because learning the truth is always sad but enjoyable.

it failed to engage me and got pretty lame. Again, it is pretty one sided and does not show Hezbollah at all. It is like they don't exist and this stuff is all happening for no reason. Its a bunch of washed up, but educated people who never left college telling the rest of the world how it is. The film takes no risk. We get to see a bunch of Palestinians drinking hot tea and playing cards in relative safety, far from any thing relevant. This film fails. All the awards are from some guys backyard vegan bbq film and wine festival or something similar.

This is by far the best documentary to detail the history of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. No B/S just facts and testimonies from experts and political activists. Whether you are an expert on the Middle East or just heard about it today, this DVD will paint a very clear picture and show you the other side of the story! The Palestinian side and even through some Israelis' words, which is very rarely seen in the US. I highly recommend this DVD even to the pro Israeli lobby! I dare you to watch it with an open mind and for once ask your self this question; What if the Palestinians weren't the ones who started this whole conflict after all?????

Longer than I would have liked, Occupation 101 tells the day-to-day story of regular Palestinians, Christian and Muslim, in the Occupied Territories in a thorough if "hard to watch" manner. I highly recommend this to anyone who is searching for more information than what has been the 60 years of media coverage in the USA supporting only the "official" Zionist view of the state of affairs in Israel-Palestine.We all pray for peace in the Middle East, but we forget that a prerequisite to peace anywhere is JUSTICE! This not anti-Israel, or anti-Jewish, it just seeks the middle ground of understanding another side of the whole picture.