Censoring Palestine: The Weaponisation Of Anti-Semitism | Film Screening + Q&A

About the film - As the global far-right grows in size and influence, anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise and an ongoing concerted effort led by Israel’s government is working to frame Palestinian activist groups as the main culprit. Redfish explores how allegations of anti-Semitism levelled against critics of Israeli policies are being weaponised to suppress and censor the global movement in support of Palestinian rights.

Produced in 2020 the film is more relevant than ever. With the current impending genocide in Gaza and the unwavering support from the German, British and French Government for this tragedy unfolding in front our eyes, the film focuses on intervening in the silencing of Palestinian solidarity to inspire critical conversation on what constitutes effective protesting. 

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Post  screening - our speakers will discuss how ordinary people can become part of an extraordinary community. We will explore lessons from previous anti-war revolutions that aim to intervene in the theatre of power dynamics, resulting in us being marched from A-B by the very institutions whose intention it is to crack down on our necessity to revolt. 

If you would like to celebrate the beauty and potentialities of the human radical imagination and explore critical examples of tactical, strategic and ethical examples that disrupt the war-machine, then come along. 

Critical questions will be explored including (1) What is possible to advocate? (2) What can we do with our experience? (3) What do effective protest movements look like? (4) How to catalyse youth leadership that creates concerted and sustained revolutionary movements and effective mass civil disobedience?

About the Speakers:

Dan Glass is an author, artist, LGBTQ activist and grandson of German and Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors wholeheartedly influenced by the principles of Never Again Ever. The Londoner has been involved in various political movements and campaigns for years. Dan is an AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) activist,  In Place of War artis, international trainer with Beautiful Trouble and the Training for Transformation movement that was born out of the Anti-Apartheid movement to develop critical consciousness and transformative action.

Dedan Kimaathi from the The Malcolm X Movement - a Black and Asian decolonial and anti-imperialist initiative that launched in August 2015 in the UK,  to develop unity among the peoples of the Global South in fighting all oppression.

Faith Taylor (chairing the conversation)(they/she/he) is an artist, writer, community member and political subject. They have organised and participated in a range of campaigns and movements in London, including London Palestine Action and ACT UP London. Faith is part of the children's team at migrant-led mutual aid project Akwaaba and is passionate about adventure play and child liberation. Their first book on rentier capitalism and intimate relationships, 'Precarious Intimacies', is forthcoming in 2024 with Bristol University Press. They have also toured widely as a musician in punk, indie-pop and alt-folk scenes, as a solo artist and with bands Suggested Friends, Chorusgirl and Athabaska.  www.faithtaylor.org @faith_e_taylor