21A. Resistance in Occupied France and Palestine : The Sorrow and the Pity, Part 1 (with Humble Mumbles)

Can Marcel Ophuls’ 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” about the French resistance in Occupied France (1940-1944) help us understand the occupation of Palestine (1967-present)? Sibling pods Humble Mumbles and Never Forget Radio investigate in this joint episode. Featuring audio from the 1940s to the present, bombastic movie trailers, Suez Crisis newsreels, songs, public […]

Can Marcel Ophuls’ 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” about the French resistance in Occupied France (1940-1944) help us understand the occupation of Palestine (1967-present)?

Sibling pods Humble Mumbles and Never Forget Radio investigate in this joint episode.

Featuring audio from the 1940s to the present, bombastic movie trailers, Suez Crisis newsreels, songs, public apologies and denials, interviews with resisters and administrators, feminist ideas about intentionality, the Uses of Others, retrospective interviews with French Resistance fighters from the 60s and Palestinian activists now. Germans and Israelis speak out! hats of the powerful

Music by Le Trio Joubran and Old Table with special guest Maurice Chevalier. Thanks to Mary Abu Ghattas.