Building Solidarity Between Indigenous Struggles On A Disturbed Earth

Rihab Charida is a film-maker whose current documentary project, A Disturbed Earth, traces the history of the destruction of her father’s village in Palestine by Zionist militia in 1948.

In an interview, she speaks with Padraic Gibson from the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning about the themes of land, place, settler-colonialism, massacres and solidarity with Aboriginal struggles in Australia explored through her work.

Article on New Matilda is by Paddy Gibson on

Editor’s Note: Even Jewish anti-Zionist Michael Brull, who is a principal writer for New Matilda, in his blog dated 29 January 2009 (www.iajv.org/michael) has attacked the same Rihab Charida as a racist for addressing a neo-Nazi conference organized by the Sydney Forum.

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