Jahalin Solidarity is a Palestinian non-profit which aims to develop and work with Palestinian society (especially Bedouin but also others in Area C and East Jerusalem) targeted for transfer and forcible displacement. The website is here: http://www.jahalin.org/about-the-jahalin/

 

The work of Jahalin Solidarity and other groups like it is important as are contemporary documentaries that look at issues of land ownership and Palestinian displacement within Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).

 

Released in 2011, Five Broken Cameras was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013 and won an International Emmy that same year. The documentary filmmaker Guy Davidi made a short film documenting the response of children in Israel. Davidi is also the director of High Hopes.

 

The Gatekeepers was released in 2012 and provides an inside look at the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency.

 

Released in 2013, The Lab, reveals how the Israeli military occupation has become a business for testing weaponry sold worldwide by the Israeli weapons industry. 

 

The Wanted 18 is a serious yet whimsical film released in 2014 about a small Palestinian village that bought eighteen cows and stopped buying milk produced in Israel.

 

A story that gets very little attention in the West is the on-going displacement of Bedouin people within Israel and the West Bank. High Hopes a short fifteen minute documentary based on archival footage and produced by Jahalin Solidarity that looks at that issue. 

 

B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories has an excellent series of maps that help explain the geography discussed in High Hopes.