The Occupation of the American Mind (2016)

Israel's Public Relations War in the United States

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world—except the United States. This documentary takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S.

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Roger Waters

Narrator (voice)

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Peter Hart

Self - National Coalition Against Censorship

Sut Jhally

Self - Professor, University of Massachusetts

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Yousef Munayyer

Self - US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

Rula Jebreal

Self - Journalist

Mark Crispin Miller

Self - Professor, New York University

R

Rami Khouri

Self - Columnist, Daily Star, Beirut

R

Rashid Khalidi

Self - Professor, Columbia University

P

Phyllis Bennis

Self - Institute for Policy Studies

M

Max Blumenthal

Self - Journalist

Amira Hass

Self - Columnist, Haaretz, Israel

Noam Chomsky

Self - Professor Emeritus, MIT

Norman Finkelstein

Self - Author, Method and Madness

H

Henry Siegman

Self - Professor, University of London

S

Stephen Walt

Self - Author, The Israel Lobby & U.S. Foreign Policy

M

M.J. Rosenberg

Self - Fmr. AIPAC Staff Writer

Benjamin Netanyahu

Self (archive footage)

Barack Obama

Self (archive footage)

John Kerry

Self (archive footage)

Donald Trump

Self (archive footage)

Hillary Clinton

Self (archive footage)

John Hagee

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Ben Shapiro

Self (archive footage)

Bill O'Reilly

Self (archive footage)

Jon Stewart

Self (archive footage)

Sean Hannity

Self (archive footage)

Rachel Maddow

Self (archive footage)

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David Gregory

Self (archive footage)

Jon Snow

Self (archive footage)

Mike Wallace

Self (archive footage)

Abba Eban

Self (archive footage)

Bob Simon

Self (archive footage)

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Michael Oren

Self (archive footage)

Marc Lamont Hill

Self (archive footage)

Norman Solomon

Self

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