Roadmap To Apartheid

Apartheid is not a new idea, for it has been occurring long before modern times. The film, Roadmap to Apartheid, portrays the poor treatment and discrimination obtained by Palestinians from the Jewish inhabitants of Israel. The film was effective in displaying where Apartheid was derived, in which it exhibited the ways that the Jewish citizens acted towards all Palestinians. They imprisoned them without charge or a proper trial, tormented them, invaded their privacy, killed them without reasoning, and took away their basic rights, such as freedom of speech and the right to vote. Palestinians were provided identity cards that enabled them to work, while maintaining a second-class citizenship within Israel. The injustice and discrimination faced by the Palestinians is described in the film in a variety of techniques, allowing the viewers to get a true sense of Apartheid during that time and it’s relations to modern day events. The film starts off with a split screen, also used throughout the film, to compare the similarities of Apartheid between eras. On one side, the era represented included the Indian Independence Struggle, led by Gandhi. Meanwhile, the alternative side demonstrated the modern day movements regarding discrimination, such as Martin Luther King Jr. …show more content…
For instance, the narrator of the film explained how the Jewish would forcefully enter the homes of Palestinians and kick them out. Resulting in the Jewish receiving a place to stay, while the Palestinian family is left homeless. Preceding this verbal explanation was a video displaying the act of the invasion of privacy and property, inequality, and cruelty that was present during this time. In my perspective, this effective technique of verbal and visual explanations gave the film meaning and