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The Palestine Exception examines the growing movement for Palestinian rights, particularly active on US College campuses, that is challenging Israel’s abuses and US complicity.
As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. While Israel killed tens of thousands of Gazans with US-made bombs, destroying schools, homes, hospitals, and mosques in the process, the US Congress and university administrators accuse activists of anti-Semitism and call for increased policing of protests.
This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplines explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people identify with the Palestinian cause. The documentary unfolds as a story of college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression, places where personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways.
As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered.
Jan Haaken, Psychologist, Author, Documentary Film-maker and Director of The Palestine Exception will be with us to introduce the film and to answer questions following the screening. Informed by both psychoanalysis and feminism, as well as her involvement in social movements, Haaken's scholarship has focused on range of topics.
Debi Livingston, Chair of WILPF’s Tucson Branch, will fill us in on their Branch’s annual fund-raiser for the Middle East Children’s Alliance and why they chose to work with this Organization.
Screening time
The Palestine Exception; Wednesday, May 28, 2025
10am-noon Pacific | 1pm-3pm Eastern | 8pm-10pm in Palestine
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