{"id":6506,"date":"2021-11-02T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2025-01-24T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:24:11","slug":"born-in-deir-yassin-documentary-now-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2021\/11\/born-in-deir-yassin-documentary-now-available-online\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Born in Deir Yassin&#8221; documentary now available online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/born-in-deir-yassin-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Born in Deir Yassin documentary poster\" class=\"wp-image-6507\" style=\"width:334px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/born-in-deir-yassin-2017.jpg 460w, https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/born-in-deir-yassin-2017-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director: Neta Shoshani | 63 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The traumatic story of Deir Yassin, the Palestinian village located near Jerusalem that was invaded, conquered, and emptied by Jewish underground fighters in April 1948, is told through first-hand testimonies by Jewish fighters who participated and youths who were sent in to \u201cmop up\u201d the dead. In parallel, the film tells the story of Dror Nissan, a man who tries to discover the secrets of his origins by visiting the Israeli government psychiatric hospital built on the grounds of Deir Yassin in 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From the YouTube description: <\/strong>\"This film contains interviews with the perpetrators of the massacre that occurred in Deir Yassin, Palestine on April 9th of 1948, including the very well-known member of the Irgun Terrorist group\u2014Ben-Zion Cohen\u2014who boasts unrepentantly claiming that he was the commander of the massacre.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Winner:<br><\/strong>Prix du Jury, Festival du Film Isra\u00e9lien, Paris, 2018<br>Prix \u201cM\u00e9moire de la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e\u201d, PriMed 2017<\/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=\"Born in Deir Yassin 2017 Complete Film with English Subtitles\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ExkOxmMMwSM?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>The traumatic story of Deir Yassin, the Palestinian village located near Jerusalem that was invaded, conquered, and emptied by Jewish underground fighters in April 1948, is told through first-hand testimonies by Jewish fighters who participated and youths who were sent in to \u201cmop up\u201d the dead. In parallel, the film tells the story of Dror Nissan, a man who tries to discover the secrets of his origins by visiting the Israeli government psychiatric hospital built on the grounds of Deir Yassin in 1951.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[926],"tags":[1019,1020,1024,1025,1022,1021,1023],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentaries","tag-ben-zion-cohen","tag-born-in-deir-yassin","tag-deir-yassin","tag-deir-yassin-massacre","tag-dror-nissan","tag-irgun-terrorist-group","tag-neta-shoshani"],"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\/6506","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=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}