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The Bitchuation Room

Understanding Palestine Means Understanding British Colonialism with Annemarie Jacir

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Comedy, News, Government, News Commentary

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Go see Palestine 36. Before the U,S, it was Britain that helped shape Zionism into the colonial force it is. Palestine 36, a new film from Watermelon Pictures, dramatizes a pivotal moment in the country, when Palestinians rose up en masse against British partition and the loss of their land to  Zionist forces. A hundred years later, the song remains the same. Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir joins Francesca to talk about what her moving piece of historical fiction tells us about early colonialism of Palestine, and how anti-Arab racism has always been central to the program of ethnic cleansing.  Featuring:  Annemarie Jacir, writer & director https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1486975/ https://palestine36film.com/ *** Rock the pod on your bod. Get a brand new “Abolish ICE” t-shirt and a brand new mug at: www.bitchuationroom.com. *** Support the show becoming a patron https://www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom and get NEW exclusive perks. You can also be a member on YouTube, Twitch, or a paid subscriber on substack: franifio.substack.com.  *** Thanks to Paige Oamek, Andy Vasoyan & Brent Godin *** Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bitchuationroom.bsky.social Check Out The Bitchuation Room Podcast on: Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/iTunesbitchuation Google Music: http://bit.ly/GoogleBitchuation Stitcher: http://bit.ly/stitcherbitchuation Spotify: http://bit.ly/spotifybitchuation Find Francesca On:  Substack: franifio.substack.com  Twitter: https://twitter.com/franifio  YouTube: The Bitchuation Room’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifio  Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Franifio Insta: https://www.instagram.com/franifio/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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apply. 18 plus scummelawaterware.org. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Bituation Room. I am your host, Francesca Fiorentini, and we have a very special interview today with filmmaker Anne-Marie Jasser, who has just released with watermelon pictures a film called Palestine 36, which is a

0:58.2

biographical film about Palestine in 1936 under British colonial rule with the rising immigration

1:08.4

of Zionists and Jews to Palestine.

1:14.5

And it is beautiful, it's fascinating, it's devastating.

1:18.2

It is very moving and I can't wait to speak to her about this.

1:22.3

We're recording this on Wednesday, April 8th.

1:24.5

Of course, we've just narrowly avoided an expansion of this war in Iran with a two-week

1:32.3

ceasefire, but Israel's not paying attention to that because they've continued to bomb Lebanon.

1:37.3

So that's sort of the moment that we're in right now recording this.

1:42.3

And more relevant than ever is this film and Anne Marie's work.

1:47.0

So I want to just give her a proper intro and then bring in and then show the trailer to y'all.

1:57.0

So she is written and directed over 16 films.

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Her films have premiered in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto. All of her four feature films were selected as Palestine's official Oscar entries. Her short film, like 20 Impossibles, was the first Arab short film in history to be selected in Cannes and continue to break ground as a finalist for the Academy Awards.

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This was a film I saw in 2007, Jasser's Salt of This Sea, which went on to win a Fipresge

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