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  Review by treadyster ★★★★★ 8

  The cool thing about Rachel Corrie is she was an anachronism

  She was offered two paths in life: Zionism, or a kind of apolitical I'm Just Another White American-ism

  Her ancestors had far more interesting pursuits

  They could choose from anarchism or socialism or garment factory syndicalism

  Rachel had no such luck, she had two shitty options and so she chose an older model

  Rachel Corrie did Palestine solidarity work because she believed justice is something you have to work towards

  She had the white middle class upbringing, the tenements a lost faded memory, the suburbs a grotesquely cherished reality

  Rachel Corrie was born a White American, but she died a Palestinian

  Rachel Corrie stood like a giant before Caterpillar…

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  Review by Malvad ★★★★

  It's horrifying to think that in the 16 years since her death, absolutely nothing has changed. No one can objectively write a review of this due to how emotive the subject is. In many ways, this is less a documentary and more a forensic interrogation into Israeli state procedures and the activists who come from the US and Europe to resist the Israeli occupation of Palestine. "When you see that people are coming from the US and Europe to help you in your fight, you will give the world to them. You would give them your eyes."

  RIP Rachel Corrie

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  Review by máte vargas 🇵🇸

  Watched on the Palestine Film Institute

  23 year old American activist Rachel Corrie was murdered by the Zionist occupation in Rafah as she was attempting to block home demolitions in the Gaza Strip. She was crushed to death by an occupation soldier in a D9 armored Caterpillar bulldozer.

  It's been 21 years and her family still has received no justice.

  "I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop."

  -Rachel Corrie

  Please consider donating here to help families trying to survive the ongoing U.S. funded genocide in Gaza.

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  Review by Benjamin Robertson Netzorg ★★★★

  A tough watch. As one of the activists in the film notes, it is frustrating that the bodies of Palestinian martyrs pile up in silence while one white American will have films made about them.

  But we also see, both in the testimonies of the Palestinians who knew Rachel Corrie and in the current reactions to Aaron Bushnell, that the solidarity of Westerners who put their life on the line mean a great deal to the cause. If nothing else, this telling of Rachel's story reinforces at every turn that the default treatment of Palestinians and, ultimately, their allies, is dehumanization and violence.

  My biggest complaint is that I would never let Zionist propagandists be platformed in a film of…

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  Review by sarah 🇵🇸 ★★★★★

  Available at: dafilms.com/film/8162-rachel
  "I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide, and I’m really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don’t think it’s an extremist thing to do anymore. I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But I also want this to stop. Disbelief and horror is what I feel. Disappointment. I am disappointed that this is the base reality of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it."
  Anybody in their right mind (fewer than…

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  Review by Daphne ★★★★★ 2

  there is no background music in this film (until the very end); watching this entire documentary unfold in this silence except the narration makes me feel the film even more. i didn't expect to cry several times during this film. listening to rachel's friends and family talk, i felt gut-wrenching genuineness and compassion beckoning me to bubble up all these emotions.

  there was no media about the palestinian man that was shot.

  resistance is a kind of truth. free palestine from the river to the sea. thank you everyone who chooses to be genuine and steadfast in spite of the evilness in this world. thank you everyone who dares to speak the truth.

  (p.s. hi sarah sweet angel, thank you for letting me know about this documentary. I miss you dearly… ^_^)

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  Review by Mark Lombard 3

  Welcome to letterboxd Rachel

  (I have not seen this film)

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  Review by lycheegrl ★★★★★

  in order to acquire a minor grasp of the gravity of depravities occurring in rafah/gaza, this is a must-watch. this documentary shows rachel's story, without putting her on a pedestal above the palestinians, and my heart broke listening to their personal anecdotes as they referred to rachel as one of their close friends 💔 her observations in her letters to her parents read like tweets I see online today 21 years later...things must change

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  Review by Ibrahim Issa

  Rachel - an American citizen with Palestinian blood.

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  Review by Sofia Silva ★★★★

  Streaming this week for free on www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/pfp

  RIP Rachel Corrie, killed in Rafah - Gaza, by the Israeli occupation, 21 years and a day ago...
  We must honor her, and all those who lost their lives resisting the occupation, fighting for justice or just resisting by persisting, existing. We don't know most of their names, simply because they were born Palestinian. But they are not numbers, we can't forget to honor them, continue their resistance in all forms, never give up, until Palestine is Free. And it will be.

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  Review by amam ★★★★½

  Palestinian Film Edition: Part 13

  PALESTINIAN FILM OF THE WEEK

  This documentary tells about the investigation, analysis, evidences of last footage and photos of the death of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American girl at the time. She and her teams from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) were trying to defend the rights of Palestinian civilians in the city of Rafah, where Israeli soldiers and settlers destroyed Palestinian houses and properties and carried out illegal occupation and abuse of power at the highest level of the second intifada. While protesting the dismantling when they were done, she was demolished to death and killed by an Israeli armored bulldozer.

  In the loving memories of Rachel Corrie's death

  Today marks 21 years of…

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  Review by Sabeena ★★★★

  resistance really is the most true