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"Since the early 1970s, Jewish-Israeli attorney Lea Tsemel has made a career out of defending Palestinians in Israeli courts: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants, including suicide bombers. In ADVOCATE, filmmakers Philippe Bellaiche and Rachel Le...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jones, Rachel Leah (Screenwriter), Bellaiche, Philippe (director of photography.)
Format: Video DVD
Language:Hebrew
Arabic
English
Language Notes:In Hebrew, Arabic and English, with English subtitles.
Published: [New York, New York] : Film Movement, [2019]
Subjects:
Tsemel, Leah.
Lawyers > Israel > Biography.
Palestinian Arabs > Civil rights > Israel.
Lawyers.
Palestinian Arabs > Civil rights.
Israel.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
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Summary:"Since the early 1970s, Jewish-Israeli attorney Lea Tsemel has made a career out of defending Palestinians in Israeli courts: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants, including suicide bombers. In ADVOCATE, filmmakers Philippe Bellaiche and Rachel Leah Jones deconstruct this controversial figure who will defend anyone who opposes what she describes as an illegal occupation of Palestine. Tsemel is by her own words "non-discriminating" about who she represents: her goal is fair representation within a court system that she believes is rigged against Palestinian prisoners, and she reserves judgment even of those guilty of terrible crimes. But her perspective goes beyond criminal justice -- as the film outlines, Tsemel has been committed to left-wing advocacy all her life. Tsemel insists that Israeli law is fundamentally flawed when it comes to Palestinian criminals, on the basis that an occupier has no right to tell the occupied how they should resist. ADVOCATE follows Tsemel as she takes on two new cases, and illustrates her decades-long clash with the Israeli establishment."--Container.
Item Description:Title from title frame.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD-R; NTSC format, all regions; surround sound.
Production Credits:Cinematographer, Philippe Bellaïche; editor, Yael Bitton ; producers, Maryse Rouillard (Filmoption International), Flavia Zanon (Close Up Films).