Mike Joseph
Stories of Genocide
Israel and Zionism’s century-old conflict with Palestine has become daily news since 7 October 2023. Now violence is escalating to an unknowable end.
“Have you seen it with your own eyes?” is Gaza journalist Sami Abu Salem’s maxim, to urge exact reporting to counter the lies of war. He has reported from Gaza throughout the war, from the worst position – homeless, starving, thirsty, and hopeless. We can see much closer, through Sami’s eyes.
The conflict which led to 15 months of war in Gaza did not start on 7th of October 2023, but over a century ago. And the ceasefire announced for the 19th of January 2025, whatever it brings, will not end the conflict, but open a new phase, perhaps burdened with even...
‘No bombs, no bodies’, wrote a viewer about my film, GAZA: A Story of Love and War, ‘and yet so powerful and moving’. Lacking the expected screenplay of horror that fills television and online news daily since October 2023, this film may at first seem little more than...
This short sequel to GAZA: A Story of Love and War, records the audience discussion with Ceredigion MP, Ben Lake, after the autumn 2024 screening of the documentary in Cardigan. Ben Lake reveals that no subject concerns his constituents more urgently than Gaza....