Who Killed Alex Odeh ?

Times change, the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice, and yet one thing that has remained true for as long as I’ve been alive is that prejudice, bigotry, and explicit displays of racism have always been openly permissible in America — so long as they’ve been…

davidehrlich

Considering I knew very little to nothing about this subject heading in, WHO KILLED ALEX ODEH? turned out to be a gripping and disturbing investigative story. Examines a forgotten act of political violence that expands into a deeper look at modern extremism, institutional…

Matt Neglia

had the pleasure of working on this film as a researcher (long live the archives!) for two years — a very important documentary about the rise of modern day zionism, what it means for the imperial boomerang, and ultimately, a man who lost his life because of it.

hiba

Once again, since there aren’t many new revelations to be gleaned about the case, it’s a bit of a stretch to call this film a true-crime mystery. Nevertheless, “Who Killed Alex Odeh?” follows a visual and sonic language common to these films. There’s the slow-motion…

Robert Daniels

they include a clip of netanyahu from the mid-90s when he’s asked about the murder of alex odeh, and he says that no matter jewish or arab, he is opposed to all innocent blood being spilled. please imagine the sound of hundreds of jaws dropping as every single person at the…

seren

Not sure that the true crime framing works here and I wish this spent more time with Odeh's family, but the way this traces the rise of alt-right/ Kahanist ideologies within Israeli and American Jewish communities, and how the U.S. State Department colluded in mucking up…

Marya E. Gates

Felt myself wanting to vomit throughout this. As a Palestinian, I remember my father speaking to me about Alex Odeh when I was younger, but this truly helped me grasp the dehumanization and injustice of the systems upholding the settler-colonial, genocidal, immoral state of…

royfamilyeldest

Always dangerous for a documentary to include a clip from a Frontline about the thing your movie is about, and risk that the audience will wish they were watching Frontline instead. The Canadian-Israeli journalist is both a dogged investigator and what my grandma would call…

joereid

Riveting from start to finish. Takes the form of a conventional true-crime documentary to explore deeper issues of political extremism, including governmental collusion and the transnational nature of these movements. Incredibly timely and relevant, and features several…

Vivek 🇵🇸