Palestine is Still the Issue
John Pilger returns to Israel and the occupied territories twenty-five years after his first film on the subject, asking why the conflict has only hardened in the interim. He walks through West Bank checkpoints, visits Palestinian refugee camps, and talks to families who describe home demolitions and land seizures, setting their accounts against interviews with Israeli settlers and officials who defend the policies as security necessities. Archival footage from his 1977 film is cut against new material to show how the settlements have expanded and how daily life for Palestinians has narrowed in response. Pilger's own reporting frames the piece, including his argument that criticism of Israeli government policy is routinely conflated with antisemitism, a claim he puts directly to the people he interviews. The film moves between Gaza, Jerusalem, and the West Bank, using witness testimony and on-the-ground footage rather than narration alone to make its case about occupation and its human cost.