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Caulfield staff and students are now able to take time out in the Spiritual Centre on campus, opened last week by Monash's Chaplaincy Committee (from left) Reverend Peter Hoang from the Catholic Church; Reverend Yvonne Poon from the Anglican Church; Manager, Community Services (Caulfield campus) Ms Suzanne Wolf; Mr Joshua Beggs; Rabbi Yehuda deVries from the Jewish Faith; and Reverend Barry Rogers. |
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| Saturday, March 11, 2006 Movie Premiere The nerve to say 'No' Prospect documentarian sheds light on occupation-opposed Israelis By Tamara Ikenberg tikenberg@courier-journal.com The Courier-Journal Shani Verner, an 18-year-old Israeli who has grown up during the Israeli occupation of Palestine, says she can empathize with young Palestinian suicide bombers. If she was being treated the same way that Israel treats the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, she admits, she might even consider doing something similar. Given the sensitive, always volatile situation in the Middle East, it's pretty explosive stuff. Verner is one of several young Israelis featured in "Refuseniks," an hourlong documentary by Prospect, Ky.,-born filmmaker and activist Sonja de Vries. The title refers to Israeli conscientious objectors who disagree with the Israeli occupation and refuse to serve in the military. "Refuseniks" will make its United States premiere on Friday at the Kentucky Center, and despite the touchy subject matter, de Vries, 42, hopes viewers will go in with an open mind. "One of the things that's really important is that we hear different voices around this issue," says de Vries, a petite redhead with a tiny stud in her left nostril. "It's important we don't try to silence the other voices. We've got to stop thinking in terms of pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli -- that's a very polarized way of thinking, as though they're naturally opposed." In a climate where any criticism of Israel is apt to be interpreted as anti-Semitism and gut feelings tend to triumph over rationality, de Vries and her crew, most of whom are Jewish or have Jewish relatives, hope people try to put their personal feelings aside while viewing the documentary. De Vries, who has Jewish relatives but does not identify herself as Jewish, also enlisted the help of Jewish Voice for Peace for the documentary. The organization urges the U.S. government to stop financially supporting Israel as long as the occupation continues. When an Israeli turns 18, he or she is required to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. Men must serve three years and women, two. Men also must do annual reserve duty following their initial tour. Those who refuse are almost always sentenced to jail. The first smattering of Israeli Refuseniks emerged in 1967 during the Six Day War, when Israel first took over Gaza and West Bank. Their numbers grew during the Second Intifada, which started in 1987. To date, 1,700 Israelis have publicly spoken against the occupation. Penny Rosenwasser, a board member for Jewish Voice for Peace, emphasized how pivotal army involvement is in Israeli society. "You get benefits from being in the army. When you go for a job interview there, they say, 'What did you do in the army?' (By refusing to join), young people lose their friends, families -- it can affect their career choices. It's a very big decision," says Rosenwasser, who has traveled to Israel and Palestine several times. "Just seeing the courage of these young people, to risk being ostracized by so many of the people you love and care about, shows extraordinary commitment." Putting issues to rest De Vries' Israeli ex-brother-in-law, Meir Vanunu, who translated the Refuseniks' stories for the film, has firsthand experience with the issue. His brother, Mordechai, served 18 years in prison, 12 of them in total isolation, for refusing to join the army. By illuminating the issue with the voices of Jewish Israeli Refuseniks, de Vries hopes to put to rest sentiments that you have to be anti-Israel or anti-Semitic to question Israel's actions in the settlements. The dozen or so Refuseniks interviewed in the film are a varied bunch, from Israelis who have already served, to young people who refused to enter the army at all, to those who just refuse to serve in the occupied territories. Tal Belo, an army medic, is concerned that his actions in the territories may have helped inspire a generation of suicide bombers. The Refuseniks are also opposed to the checkpoints set up for Palestinians in the territories, which limit Palestinian freedom and mobility, and the 25-foot-tall security fence the Israelis started constructing in 2002 that blocks the territories from Israeli view. De Vries fills out the film with archival war footage, statistics, diagrams of the region, quotes from prominent Israeli leaders and the insights of Israeli journalist and professor Tanya Reinhart, who gives a historical perspective of the Jewish claim to the land. De Vries and her crew, including editor Aaron J. Hutchings, researcher Terri Mickler and her own son, Shadwick Wilde, who did the voiceover for Belo, have been perfecting the footage at the Kentucky Digital Media center on Frankfort Avenue, a commune-like creative setting where they pop in and out of one another's offices. De Vries' office is decorated with photos from Cuba, where she traveled for her 1995 documentary, "Gay Cuba." De Vries also has received acclaim for her 2000 documentary, "OUT: The Making of a Revolutionary," about Laura Whitehorn, a woman convicted in 1983 of bombing the U.S. Capitol building. An emotional experience Working on "Refuseniks" has been an emotional experience for everyone involved. Hutchings, who was a KET executive producer for 14 years, was fresh off a project that took him to Poland's concentration camps with the student leadership program March of Remembrance and Hope when he started work on "Refuseniks." It was tough transitioning to the new project, he admits, but as he got deeper into it, some of his own long-held opinions started to change. "I was totally uneducated. My ignorance was great. I believed what I saw on the news and so on. What this film causes you to do is want to know more than what the media tells you," he says. "We're all surface-dwellers, and that doesn't get you much of an education. In order to really know what's happening you have to find out for yourself, because the media is not going to tell you." He also suffered some discrimination for working on the documentary. "I have Jewish people in my family (and) when they found out I was working on this film, (they) would not speak to me for the longest time." Popularity doesn't seem to be something with which de Vries, her colleagues or her activist family is particularly concerned, however. Raised in Amsterdam by her mother, also named Sonja, de Vries grew up in an environment that encouraged outspokenness and awareness. In 2002, she moved back to Prospect to be close to her father, Henry French Wallace, a longtime civil-rights activist who has received many threats throughout his life. De Vries recalls that he never lost his cool or showed any signs of giving up the battle. Wallace, now 90, still has the same resilient view toward his detractors that his daughter seems to have inherited. "I think they had every right to express themselves," he says. "I expressed myself right back." He's proud that de Vries is carrying on the family tradition of activism. De Vries also has direct ties to the Holocaust. One of her uncles was killed in Auschwitz, and her grandparents lived in Holland during World War II and were active in the resistance. "They had this little space under the floor where they hid people, and at one point they had an entire Jewish family hiding under there," she says. "I was always so proud of my grandmother. She said when you're in a situation like that, you just do whatever you can do. That was a very powerful teaching for me." De Vries, who also has a Palestinian stepfather, grew up with an interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and it was a relative who brought the Refuseniks to her attention. About three years ago, her sister Naomi Wallace sent her an article about the movement, to which she affixed a note saying, "You must make a film about this." That was all de Vries needed to start her project. "I read it and I was so inspired," she says. "It felt like such a hopeful thing in the midst of a situation that does not often feel hopeful. These young people, and some not so young, were really going to take a stand and say no." She began her research by contacting the Israeli group Courage to Refuse. After the group put her in touch with some Refuseniks, and she touched base with them via e-mail, de Vries took off for Israel alone in 2002. She made two trips in all to collect information. "When I got there, people were just incredibly open," she says. "I feel like I've been blessed on every film project I've worked on. It's not an easy thing to sit down with people you don't know and talk about your life experiences." Passing inspection De Vries' first trek to Israel went pretty smoothly, until it was time to leave. "As soon as I arrived at the airport there was this very friendly guy who seemed to be going the same way I was going," she says. "I just thought he was a fellow traveler, and I found out he was actually a security agent and he was following me." She hadn't asked permission beforehand to do the film, because "when you do ask permission you're supposed to pass through all of your materials," she says. She was reluctant to do so, mostly because she wanted to protect her interviewees. She ended up having to turn over her belongings for inspection anyway. Security took all of her luggage and the tapes and watched them in a separate room while de Vries waited for 3 ½ hours. They also read her diaries and went through her belongings piece by piece. She was eventually cleared to board her flight. After the investigation, a security guard asked her if she had a bomb. "I actually laughed, and said, 'You know as well as I do that that's not the problem.' He got kind of uncomfortable and said, 'I bet you think it's really terrible what we're doing to the Palestinians.' And I looked at him and said, 'I'm not here to judge, but I want peace for the Israelis and the Palestinians.' He was very uncomfortable. I could see that there was conflict. It was very moving." |