“Lyd”: Directors of New Sci-Fi Doc on How 1948 Nakba Devastated Palestinian City
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Published 2024-04-29
A new film about the once-thriving Palestinian city of Lyd, now known as the Israeli city Lod and home to Ben Gurion Airport, has begun screening in the United States. The film is a “science fiction documentary” that depicts the Palestinian city both with and without the 1948 Nakba, when over 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages. In Lyd, Israeli soldiers massacred hundreds of Palestinians in Dahmash Mosque during their takeover of the city. “We use the story of Lyd to symbolize the story of the Nakba, the Palestinian Nakba, the demolition and expulsion of over 600 villages all across Palestine,” explains Rami Younis, a descendant of Nakba survivors from Lyd. Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland, the co-directors of Lyd, join Democracy Now! to share excerpts from their film and discuss the vision behind their project.
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All Comments (21)
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Our family comes from Lyd. The events of July 1948–when my father and his family were violently expelled from their home and forced to march to Barfiliya, never to return— have reverberated throughout my entire life. I live in Europe and my Israeli neighbor grew up in Barfiliya (present day Modi’in), though he had never heard of it. Last summer my cousins and I interviewed our oldest living relatives about some of the details of 1948 that had been just too painful for our parents to discuss while they were alive. We imagined that if the world understood how brutal the foundation of the ethno-nationalist state was, they would think twice about upholding its supremacist and separatist policies. Then October 7 occurred.
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Hope this documentary gets Oscar nominated
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"....the war did not start on October 7th"- no truer words!
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It’s so tragic with the Palestinian people have been through❤🇵🇸
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Equal rights for all Jews and Palestinians
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Thank you so much Democracy Now. Looking forward to watching the film, Palestinians deserve to be heard.
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And what should concern us in the USA is that we are facing now serious threats to our freedom of speech and some of our civil rights as to peaceful protests that are suppressed by police force and even detention.
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May God bless Palestine. Long Live Palestine
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It is very important film. It takes down propaganda that was fed to people around the world that Palestinian left on their own because of war. I am an example of those who believe in it. Until now when the truth is finaly coming out.
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Thank you for this film. I will definitely watch. Beautiful “Man in the High Castle” idea!!
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Like many Americans, WE have been deceived by our own mainstream media & government leadership about this REALITY for too long. That is CHANGING thanks to important work like yours!! ❤
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You are both courageous people putting your film out there.
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I hope the film Lyd is shown here in Canada.
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October the 7th will be remembered as a day that prompted the liberation of Palestine!!!!!🇵🇸
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Didnt realize this. Thank you. The tactics the monsters use are still the same. Lahaina Maui is an example..
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Stop the genocide free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Wow! Thanks for reporting this! I must see this movie.
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How can pay to stream the film ?
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as a Canadian but also Aboriginal I never paid that much attention to the middle east, that was a different world to me! when I started seeing the genocide I became interested it was the same familiar story of my Native ancestors, millions of my people were starved slaughtered unless the came to Christ most refused and so they tried to kill and starve them instead! Our moto is "we're still here"! I believe you will still be there Palestine despite what Israel and America is doing! and I believe the true god is receiving your souls with great compassion and LOVE! bad men will pay! we slowly rise so will you!❤🩹
