Journal Article — Reaching Across No-Man’s-Land: The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict in Yuli Cohen-Gerstel’s Film, My Terrorist — by Linda Dittmar

$15.00

Predictably, Yuli Cohen-Gerstel’s film My Terrorist was met with an uproar when it was screened on Israeli television (2002). She had the courage to allow My Terrorist to “go into the self and expand out into the world,” as Gloria Anzaldúa puts it.

PDF4 for simple products

This publication can be read online by logged-in members of OKCIR Library with a valid access. In that case just click on the large PDF icon at the bottom of this page to access the publication. Alternatively, you can purchase this publication as offered below.

Description

Abstract

Predictably, Yuli Cohen-Gerstel’s film My Terrorist was met with an uproar when it was screened on Israeli television (2002). The “bad name” Gerstel is accused of giving her country is not because she documents what the country does but because she wonders what it might do differently. Though such criticisms are harsh, they identify the dilemma Gerstel herself feels-the urgent need to find a collective way out of the self-destructive cycle of revenge that engulfs Israelis and Palestinians alike. Judging by the strategy Israel has been pursuing towards the Palestinians for many years now, the vehemence of her critics has to do with how they understand the dictates of their own survival instinct. The contentious issue is whether strong-arm politics or dialogue are the way to prevent victimization on both sides. The difference between their view and hers devolves on the fact that she, unlike them, dared to trust in the human spirit. She had the courage to allow My Terrorist to “go into the self and expand out into the world,” as Gloria Anzaldúa puts it.

Recommended Citation

Dittmar, Linda. 2006. “Reaching Across No-Man’s-Land: The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict in Yuli Cohen-Gerstel’s Film, My Terrorist.” Pp. 177-186 in Re-Membering Anzaldúa: Human Rights, Borderlands, and the Poetics of Applied Social Theory: Engaging with Gloria Anzaldua in Self and Global Transformations (Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Volume IV, Special Issue, 2006.) Belmont, MA: Okcir Press (an imprint of Ahead Publishing House).

The various editions of Re-Membering Anzaldúa: Human Rights, Borderlands, and the Poetics of Applied Social Theory: Engaging with Gloria Anzaldua in Self and Global Transformations can be ordered from the Okcir Store and are also available for ordering from all major online bookstores worldwide (such as Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and others).


Read the Above Publication Online

To read the above publication online, you need to be logged in as an OKCIR Library member with a valid access. In that case just click on the large PDF icon below to access the publication. Make sure you refresh your browser page after logging in.



NEW IN OKCIR'S MONOGRAPH SERIES

Page visits since 2020 —>100
Page visits today —> 0