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It exposes the ethnic cleansing ideology of zionist settler colonialism in Palestine. It focuses on the fate of Palestinian residents of the title village in the summer of 1948. A mass murder by Israeli soldiers was part of a grim event that included beatings, rapes, and looting.
''Tantura'' shows how selectively the phrase ''Never Again'' applied when the subject is the founding of Israel, which killed and displaced Palestinians and had a negative multigenerational ripple effect till the present day.
When Israeli graduate student Teddy Katz documented a massacre of Palestinian civilians surrounding Israel's declartion he was stripped of his degrees and was publicly shamed as a fraudulent traitor. Decades later, incendiary new evidence emerges to corroborate Teddy's initial findings, not just vindicating him, but raising profound questions about how the history is manipulated.