From Wallwritings
Zionist Attacks Continue on Director Ken Loach![]() |
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From Wallwritings
Israeli politics shine no light on the darkness of oppression.
Take the career of Ken Loach, a film director who exposes injustice on and off screen. He has long been a constant warrior against Zionist oppression
On April 1, Tom Suarez wrote a detailed analysis for Mondoweiss that traces Loach's career. He begins:
"We must instead stop allowing Israel to control the terms of our response. Instead, we must turn the tables and accuse the accusers of antisemitism for exploiting Jewish identity in the service of injustice.
"But Ken Loach's own recent brush with the weapon demonstrates the barriers to speaking that simple truth."...
For Suarez' full article, click here.
Loach made Kes, in the late 1960s, which was given a limited U.S. release in 1973. The poster above highlights Loach's focus on the oppressed early in his career. The Israel Lobby knew of Loach's political passion, which could account for its limited exposure. Roger Ebert loved Kes and wrote a review which listed the honors it received in England.
In his review, Ebert continues:
"None of this would be important if Kes were not one of the best, the warmest, the most moving films of recent years. After a couple of years in limbo, it was finally picked up for 16-mm distribution in 1972... it's perhaps inevitable that it took Loyola's Biological Honor Society to arrange the booking. Were they interested in the movie, or the kestrel?"
In his review Roger missed the Lobby connection or perhaps the Lobby was below his radar screen? The poster above from Director Ken Loach cries out for the connection to be made.
Here is a longer segment from his review:
KesEbert January 16, 1973
"It isn't often that Academy Award winners completely fail to open in Chicago, but that's what happened with 'Kes.' In the event that the movie's name doesn't exactly sound familiar, I should add that 'Kes' won the 1970 British Academy Award, as England's best film of the year. It picked up a lot of other honors, too, including the grand prize at Edinburgh and lots of praise at the 1970 New York Film Festival. But it was never released commercially in America.
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James Wall served as a Contributing Editor of The Christian Century magazine, based in Chicago, Illinois, from 1999 through 2017. From 1972 through 1999, he was editor and publisher of the Christian Century magazine. Many sources have influenced (more...)
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