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being perceived as having the potential to heal spoilt Israeli-Jewish identity; the Nakba itself is perceived as part of Israeli Jewish history. In parallel, although they recognise that the Palestinians are the main objects of state oppression, many Jewish Israeli members of the resistance movement also feel oppressed by state policies. Ariella Azoulai, lecturer in contemporary philosophy and visual culture, curator and documentary film director, distributed a text she wrote during the Gaza war, in which she bemoans the difficulty to conduct a policy of resistance in
, when he personally hired renowned fiction film director Frank Capra to work on the Why We Fight non-fiction film series (1942–5). Marshall even publicly defended his mobilisation of cinema at the Senate in response to accusations of trivialisation of the war effort. 5 While the Why We Fight series was produced for US audiences, the MP documentary films were commissioned exclusively for European ones, while a parallel and