Lia Tarachansky

"Wall". A small family's hut in Qalqilia where the wall goes through (Hamde Abu Rahma, from the book)
How American high school students taught me about the occupation
Filmmaker Lia Tarachansky has been showing her latest movie, ‘On the Side of the Road” — a documentary on how Israelis view the Nakba — around the world for nearly a year. What happened after she screened her film for a class of American high school students took her by surprise. By Lia Tarachansky The…
By +972 Magazine June 6, 2015
Palestinian journalist Faiz Abbas. (Screenshot from The Real News)
WATCH: Where are the Palestinian Journalists in Israeli media?
Twenty percent of Israel’s citizens are Palestinian but they are covered in only 2 percent of prime time news. Part of the reason why lies in who reports the news. By Lia Tarachansky/The Real News Lia Tarachansky is an Israeli-Canadian filmmaker and journalist with the The Real News Network.
By +972 Magazine March 3, 2014
Still image from the documentary "Standing by the Side of the Road"
Film review: A documentary explores Israeli attitudes to the Nakba
The eponymous scene of On the Side of the Road, a documentary that explores Israeli attitudes toward the Palestinian Nakba, or catastrophe, occurs midway through the film on an unpaved road just outside the West Bank settlement of Ariel. Interrupted by a curious Israeli family out for a pastoral drive, director Lia Tarachansky stops to…
By Lisa Goldman November 28, 2013
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Avigdor Lieberman (photo: Yotam Ronen / activestills)
The Russians came, the Russians stayed: A response to Uri Avnery
In a recent article, seasoned veteran of the Zionist Left Uri Avnery claimed that the influx of Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel, living in self-imposed ghettos, is what pushed the country to the right politically. Lia Tarachansky counters that the Russian-speaking community never ‘mingled’ with other Israelis because it was never invited to do so, and that…
By +972 Magazine May 3, 2013
Palestinian Nakba village Qula, 2010 (photo: Deborah Bright / Zochrot.org)
Between anger and denial: Israeli collective memory and the Nakba
A new documentary aims to decipher some of the anxiety that accompanies the Israeli debate over the events of 1948. A strange thing regarding the debate on the Nakba: the responses it generates in Israeli society are becoming more and more hostile, while at the same time, the Nakba is mentioned more and more often. Those contradicting…
By Noam Sheizaf October 16, 2012
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