DISCUSSION: The Promised Land

Is it possible to measure and compare suffering? In her latest film, the experienced Israeli documentary filmmaker (we screened her “Web Junkie” in the WATCH DOCS competition 10 years ago) brings us a story showing the intricacies of a conflict whose next installment is drawing worldwide attention. During a demonstration of Israeli settler strength in 2021, a bystander - Palestinian Musa - is killed. A few days later, after his funeral, riots break out, the victim of which is Yigal - a Jew. Neither of them was an extremist, they lived in the same neighborhood, met in the store and on the street. Both families are plunged into pain, but thanks to an unusual coincidence they will be united by something more. During the discussion we will pose the questions: Who are the parties to the current Israel-Palestine conflict? What is the broader context of the armed conflict? How is Israeli and Palestinian society organized around it? Are anti-war protests a real support for the victims of the conflict?

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Ewa Górska - PhD in legal sciences, graduate of law and Middle Eastern cultural studies at the Jagiellonian University. Author of books and scholarly articles on such topics as contemporary Muslim law, the orientation of Islam in the Polish judiciary and the legal situation in Palestine. She is currently a contractor on the project “The Political Dimension of Urban Violence. Urban homicide in Palestine - a case study” (University of Lodz). She has worked in the development aid sector in Palestine and has coordinated student education programs in the West Bank on several occasions. She hosts the Reorient.pl podcast.
Patrycja Król - EAPPI program coordinator in Poland, human rights observer in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation on the daily resistance of Palestinian women and Palestinians.
Marcin Urbaniak, Ph.D. - Polish philosopher, cognitive scientist, ethicist, social activist, vegan. D., research fellow and associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of the Commission of National Education in Krakow