Most of the media coverage surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict focuses on stories of violence and despair. Little is known about the growing Palestinian-led nonviolent movement that has united rival Palestinian factions, including Fatah and Hamas, and encouraged hundreds of Israelis to cross into the West Bank and Gaza for the first time to join this nonviolent effort.
A new feature documentary film Budrus, produced by the Washington, DC and Jerusalem-based organization Just Vision, documents nonviolent Israeli and Palestinian civilian efforts to resolve the conflict. It tells the story of Budrus, the village where this movement was born.
The founder of this movement, Ayed Morrar, also a Palestinian community organizer in Budrus (just northwest of the West Bank city Ramallah) brought women to the heart of the struggle in cooperation with his daughter, Iltezam Morrar. In 2003, in response to the separation wall/fence slated to expropriate part of their land, both father and daughter initiated a nonviolent movement that is still continuing today. The movement aims to stage nonviolent protests to change the route of the separation wall off of Palestinian-owned lands.
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