This essay, on the significance of the Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 9 March 2025, under the headline “Ignore the row: Oscar-winning No Other Land offers a vision of a shared Palestine forged in solidarity”. In 2009, Tony Blair visited Masafer Yatta, a collection of hamlets in the Palestinian West Bank. He had come to see a school that had gained attention for having been rebuilt in defiance of Israeli attempts to tear […]