Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine
Budrus is a new documentary film about the peace movement that emerged in the Palestinian town of Budrus. Instigated by Ayaz Morrar to peacefully oppose construction of a dividing wall between Palestine and Israel, the movement united men, women and children from both sides of the border to defiantly (yet nonviolently) oppose the inhumane wall.
Watching this trailer gave me the kind of goosebumps I first felt on seeing Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi. Perhaps it’s because Ayaz Morrar (the leader of the movement) has an uncanny resemblance to the young Gandhi featured in Richard Attenborough’s film, but in the end it’s the principles of nonviolence that draw the feelings of similarity.
I can’t wait to watch this documentary in full and witness the growing peace activism in Palestine over the coming years. If history is any indication, it is the only way for lasting freedom.
