The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s documentary program, Doc Zone, will broadcast the film “Up Against the Wall” tonight. A film which was produced in association with the CBC and which appears to draw a false analogy in equating Israel’s defensive security barrier (built to keep Palestinian terrorists “out” of the Jewish state), with the Berlin Wall (built by the East German authoritarian regime to perpetuate the division of the city by keeping the East Berlin population hemmed “in” the Communist state).
“Twenty years ago, the world watched, spellbound, as the Berlin Wall came down. In the hopeful euphoria that followed, it seemed as if walls would be a thing of the past. Coinciding with the arrival of economic globalization, it looked like people and goods would finally be able to move freely across borders worldwide…
Up Against the Wall, produced by Gail McIntyre, and written and directed by documentary filmmaker Eileen Thalenberg, looks at this growing phenomenon of new wall-building, focusing on three hot spots around the world, where extremely controversial walls have gone up. Thalenberg travels along the huge expanse (and expense!) of the ‘Tortilla Wall’ that the United States is constructing along its border with Mexico. She also explores both sides of the elaborate wall and fence system Israel has built between itself and the West Bank.”
HonestReporting Canada alerted you last week to a series of CBC reports recently which have drawn this false and misleading parallel. As we pointed out in our alert: “Any comparison with the (Israeli security barrier and) the Berlin Wall is false and malicious. Unlike that wall, it does not seek to divide one people and curtail freedoms. Rather it aims to separate two peoples who are in conflict, to prevent suicide bombers from targeting innocent civilians, and to create a terror-free environment in which the two sides can finally move towards a peaceful settlement.”
To view a 30-second trailer of the documentary please click here or on the image below.
How You Can Make A Difference:
Tune in to CBC TVtonight(Thursday November 19)at 8:00 PM ET. CBC News Network will be re-broadcasting the program tomorrow (Friday November 20) at 10 pm ET/PT.
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