Photograph Source: Michele Assante del Leccese — teacher, artist and Cultural Coordinator for the Island of Procida.

In April, we hosted a screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary film “No Other Land” on the island of Procida in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. It was well attended on a chilly Thursday evening at the island’s only cinema – Procida Hall — with a welcome from the Mayor, Dino Ambrosino, and longtime human rights crusader Luisa Morgantini. For several days this week and through the never ending commitment of Luisa Morgantini, former vice president of the European Union who has dedicated decades of her tireless 85 years to supporting efforts for Palestinian liberation, we hosted the film’s Palestinian director and main protagonist Basel Adra here on our island.

Basel is a wonderful and humble soul with a lifelong dedication to the liberation of his people as he was born, raised and lives under occupation. His film documents the constant brutality of Israel’s illegal occupation and colonization from his village of Massafer Yatta and surrounding areas of the West Bank. It tells this horrific story of state-sponsored illegality and terror through the daily military oppression and forced removal of people living in this area, on their ancestral lands, with constant situations and episodes of violent settler colonialism that all happened before October 7th of 2023.

Despite winning the Oscar award for best documentary film, “No Other Land” was not well distributed in the United States and most of the major streaming platforms have refused to make it widely available. The truth that this film demonstrates unmasks the brutal reality of what Israel is and does as a racist, ethno nationalist and........

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