Final Blog Post

Tonight I read an article on New York Times website called Beyond Them and Us: Films About Israeli Arabs by Robin Pogrebin.  This article was about how a woman by the name of Carole Zabar is heavily involved in a cause that informs people of the truth of the Israeli Arabs.  They seem to have a bad reputation from the Holocaust and all and she is aiming to change that reputation of them one person at a time.  She says, “I want people to see Israeli Arabs as human beings,” she said. “Not just as human beings — as citizens that contribute to the vibrancy, the cultural life of Israel”.  I feel this is a very strong statement that is not to be pushed aside.  Her method of informing the people of her beliefs is by hosting and sponsering a film festival titled The Other Israel Film Festival, which is a festival in which she shows films of what real Isreali culture is like.  Through doing this it will give people a much clearer explaniation of what they really are like, and realize there not these horrible people make them out to be.