{"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&#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.\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&#8217;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&#8217;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":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_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}]}}