‘Diaspora Jews think Judaism is more important than Zionism’: UK filmmaker
Al Jazeera
British director Gillian Mosely, who made a film on the Israel-Palestine conflict in 2022, says it is time to question Israel’s ‘propaganda’.
London, United Kingdom – Gillan Mosely began questioning her upbringing as a teenager.
Growing up in a Jewish family that believed in Zionism, she spent much of her adolescence thinking about what she considers a sense of entitlement regarding the “Holy Land”.
For her 2022 documentary, The Tinderbox, Mosely travelled to Israel to try to unpack her British family’s teachings.
Taking viewers through the history of the creation of the Israeli state, The Tinderbox interrogates an ingrained us vs them dichotomy that Moseley suggests is instilled in Zionism. She speaks with several people on all sides, including settlers, liberal Israelis, a Hamas official and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to try to find the root of where the frictions begin.
Al Jazeera speaks to Moseley about her personal journey, Israel’s latest and deadliest war on Gaza following Hamas’s attacks on October 7 and a growing clash between Jewish communities.
