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(L) Muayad Alayan; (R) Miley Locke as Rebecca in A House in Jerusalem (2023)
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I’M in Manchester and Muayad Alayan, a Palestinian film director, is in Jerusalem. His new film, A House in Jerusalem, is a story about a grieving Jewish girl haunted by a Palestinian past.
I tell him that a general election has just been announced here, and voters are being reminded that Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, recently stated that Israel has a right to defend itself by “cutting off electricity and water” for Palestinian refugees.
Muayad replies that he’s not surprised. “The West has always been against the Palestinians,” he says.
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