{"id":3687,"date":"2017-09-22T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-26T20:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T18:52:19","slug":"the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-documentary-looks-at-israels-public-relations-war-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/09\/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-documentary-looks-at-israels-public-relations-war-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Occupation of the American Mind&#8221; documentary looks at Israel&#8217;s public relations war in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE OCCUPATION OF THE AMERICAN MIND - Trailer\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0eS_WoTOFy0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Synopsis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-documentary.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"717\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-documentary.jpg\" alt=\"The Occupation of the American Mind documentary poster\n\" class=\"wp-image-6556\" style=\"width:341px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except the United States.\u00a0<em>The Occupation of the American Mind<\/em>\u00a0takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favor. From the U.S.-based public relations campaigns that emerged in the 1980s to today, the film provides a sweeping analysis of Israel's decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the American people in the face of widening international condemnation of its increasingly right-wing policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/OccupationofAmericanMind-Sam2527squote-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"542\" height=\"542\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/OccupationofAmericanMind-Sam2527squote-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3689\" style=\"width:484px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featuring Roger Waters, Amira Hass, M.J. Rosenberg, Stephen M. Walt, Noam Chomsky, Rula Jebreal, Henry Siegman, Rashid Khalidi, Rami Khouri, Yousef Munayyer, Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Phyllis Bennis, Norman Solomon, Mark Crispin Miller, Peter Hart, and Sut Jhally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information see: <a href=\"http:\/\/mediaed.org\/occupationmovie\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/mediaed.org\/occupationmovie\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch the full documentary on YouTube<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Watch here:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dP0-YohJR-g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dP0-YohJR-g<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE OCCUPATION OF THE AMERICAN MIND | FREE FILMS FOR CONTEXT ON ISRAEL&#039;S WAR ON GAZA\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezNqSAIJIOI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, Israel&#8217;s ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world &#8212; except the United States.\u00a0The Occupation of the American Mind\u00a0takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[926],"tags":[535,1047,40,1055,1059,1053,1049,1056,1057,1058,1054,1051,830,1048,1050,1052,1060,1061,1046],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentaries","tag-amira-hass","tag-henry-siegman","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-m-j-rosenberg","tag-mark-crispin-miller","tag-max-blumenthal","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-norman-finkelstein","tag-norman-solomon","tag-peter-hart","tag-phyllis-bennis","tag-rami-khouri","tag-rashid-khalidi","tag-roger-waters","tag-rula-jebreal","tag-stephen-m-walt","tag-sut-jhally","tag-the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-documentary","tag-yousef-munayyer"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6566,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/6566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}