The Little will screen Occupation of the American Mind (Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp, U.S. 2016, 85 min.) as part of the 2017 Witness Palestine Film Series.

Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world – except the United States. A CNN/ORC poll, conducted in July of 2014 showed that only four in 10 Americans believed that Israel was using too much force against the population of Gaza. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favor. From the U.S.-based public relations campaigns that emerged in the 1980s to today, the film provides a sweeping analysis of Israel's decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the American people in the face of widening international condemnation of its increasingly right-wing policies.

[source: Little Theatre website, 2017-Sep-18]