JEWISH PRESS
TV’s ‘Homeland’: Alternative Facts About Settlements
by Joseph Schick
February 12, 2017

In the latest episode of Showtime’s program “Homeland,” veteran senior CIA operative Saul Berenson [played by Mandy Patinkin] visits his religious sister in a West Bank settlement. The two clash over his opposition to her living there, with Saul fuming, “Haven’t you driven enough people from their homes already? Bulldoze their villages, seized their property under laws they had no part in making?”…The oft repeated charge Saul repeats – that settlements in Judea and Samaria are built on the ruins of bulldozed villages from which Arabs were driven from their homes – is completely false. Yet “Homeland” presented it to tens of millions of viewers as an uncontroverted fact. READ MORE