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By Robert Inlakesh for RT The latest escalation of fighting in Palestine/Israel highlighted the Israeli government’s backing of extremist Israeli settler groups, but new information now reveals that US charities are also funding them. US President Joe Biden provided constant diplomatic backing for Benjamin Netanyahu’s right wing government, throughout its 11-day military operation against Gaza. During this period, not a single word was uttered against the Jewish extremist groups tied to the Israeli government that antagonised and dragged Israel into its conflict with not only Gaza but the...

One of the advantages of virtual festival is the same advantage streaming services have over now old-school broadcast TV, which offers one-time programs available only at a specified time. While you watch our festival films on your own schedule, as you would with Netflix, you also benefit from the virtual festival’s ability to access a stellar list of international guests who could never converge in Boulder for an in-person event. Our esteemed tribute guest Pierre Sauvage not only agreed to spend the week with us, and to discuss the entirety of his work with our audience, but also to invit...

Comments Off on Boulder Jewish Film Festival Offers National Audiences a Unique Retrospective Honoring Filmmaker Pierre Sauvage The Boulder Jewish Film Festival is thrilled to pay tribute to documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, as well as to honor his lifelong dedication to Holocaust awareness, in a special six-program tribute. Described by Tablet Magazine as “a filmmaker of rare moral perception,” Sauvage has consistently probed questions of moral choice, focusing on the magnitude of humanity’s failure during the Holocaust by underscoring what it was possible to do.   This exclusive...

The ninth Boulder Jewish Film Festival is thrilled to pay tribute to documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, as well as to honor his lifelong dedication to Holocaust education and memorialization, in a special six-program series. Described by Tablet Magazine as “a filmmaker of rare moral perception,” Sauvage has consistently probed questions of moral choice, focusing on the magnitude of humanity’s failure during the Holocaust by underscoring what it was possible to do. Sauvage was honored in 2018 with similar retrospectives at the Paris Mémorial de la Shoah and in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon...

The House of Representatives Building and the East Portico of the US Capitol. Photo: Flickr. Over the last year, much of the political rancor involving the US-Israel relationship was focused on the presidential race. Yet historiographical evidence reveals that Congress plays an extremely important role in the US-Israel relationship. In 1981, an intense lobbying effort on the part of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) helped convince the Reagan administration to abandon an $8.5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia that included five Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) p...