A Jew­ish Prob­lem

Between 2007 and 2010, Ron served as a military cameraman in Israel. Watching his footage of violent arrests and shootings in Gaza, it is difficult to draw a connection between Palestine 16 years ago and today’s comparatively peaceful Berlin. Yet, through his personal family history, Ron seems to bridge these two worlds. His grandmother, Ruth, fled Nazi Germany as a child, only to later become a soldier in the army that conquered Palestine. Decades later, Ron, shaped by his own experiences in the Israeli military, chose to leave Israel and return to Berlin. This film explores the German-Palestinian-Jewish triangle in Berlin from an intimate perspective. Through a personal family story, it traces key events of the so-called "Middle East conflict": the mass persecution and displacement of Jews during the Holocaust, the founding of Israel, the subsequent Nakba (the displacement of Palestinians), decades of war and occupation, and finally, the migration of both Israelis and Palestinians to Berlin.