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Nizar Hassan was born in 1960 and raised in the village of Mashhad, near Nazareth, where he has lived with his

family. He studied anthropology at Haifa University and after graduating worked in TV. Starting in 1990, he

turned to cinema. In 1994, he produced Independence, in which he pokes his Palestinian interlocutors about what

they think of the bizarre Israeli notion of their “independence”. They have stolen another people’s homeland and

call the act “independence”! Hassan dwells on that absurdity.

As the world’s attention was captured by the news of Israel planning to “annex” yet a bit more of Palestine and

add it to what they have already stolen, I received an email from Nizar Hassan, the pre-eminent Palestinian

documentary filmmaker. He wrote to me about his latest film, My Grandfather’s Path, and included a link to the

director’s cut. It was a blessing. They say choose your enemies carefully for you would end up like them. The

same goes for those opposing Zionist settler colonialists. If you are too incensed and angered by their daily dose of

claptrap, the vulgarity of their armed robbery of Palestine, you would soon become like them and forget yourself

and what beautiful ideas, ideals, and aspirations once animated your highest dreams. Never fall into that trap. For

decades, aspects of Palestinian and world cinema, art, poetry, fiction, and drama have done for me precisely that:

saved me from that trap. The