When I was five years old, I loved watching excavators, backhoes and bulldozers at construction sites. To my developing brain, they were visually captivating and allowed for imaginative play. However, as I grew older, I began to see how they were used as machines of destruction and genocide, particularly in places like Palestine.
Basel never experienced joy from watching a bulldozer. From his first memories, they always represented pain.
No Other Land is one of the most powerful documentaries I’ve…