Making the Film 'Palestine 36' (w/ director Annemarie Jacir) | The Chris Hedges Report

About this episode

Chris Hedges interviews filmmaker Annemarie Jacir about her film 'Palestine 36' and the historical significance of the 1936–39 Palestinian uprising.

In filmmaker Annemarie Jacir’s new film, Palestine 36, one of the most pivotal moments in Palestine’s history is brought to life for the first time through cinema. In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, host Chris Hedges speaks with Jacir about the 1936–39 Palestinian uprising against British colonial rule — a mass revolt that laid the groundwork for the modern Palestinian struggle, and also the crushing of Palestine’s organizational infrastructure that culminated into the founding of the Zionist state a decade later. Jacir explains that this period represents “the beginning of the national movement for liberation in Palestine,” emphasizing its scale and significance as “the first really mass uprising” that spread from “countryside to city” and “across classes.” For her, revisiting this moment is essential to understanding everything that followed, as “it sets up everything for the Nakba in 1948 and the loss of Palestine.” Jacir explains how her film reconstructs not only the revolt itself but also the conditions that shaped it—British colonialism, offensive attacks on Palestinian labor, and the exploitation of the Palestinian elite’s fractured nature and ambitions for…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Hedges

Guest: Annemarie Jacir

Topics covered

• Palestinian history
• colonialism
• film making
• uprising
• national movement
• liberation

Keywords

• Palestine
• Annemarie Jacir
• 1936–39 uprising
• British colonialism
• Zionist state
• film
• national movement
• liberation

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Palestine 36

Places: Palestine, British, Zionist state

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