From Yulie Cohen, a sixth generation Israeli and director of the controversial 2002 release MY TERRORIST comes this courageous and provocative personal essay in which Cohen questions her own decision to return and raise her family in war-torn Israel, while challenging the myths of Zionism. As she wonders about the future that awaits her daughters in a country embroiled in continuous war, she stretches a connecting thread from the murder of Jews in the Holocaust to the War of Independence to the rise in settlements and the condition of Palestinian refugees in Israel today.

With rare candor and emotional complexity, Cohen goes straight to the heart of Israeli national identity, and her probing spares no one. She confronts her parents on the role they played in the pre-state Palmah militia and talks with a Holocaust survivor, whose house currently stands on displaced Arab land. Recreating collective history through the lens of contemporary thought, Cohen vacillates between forgiveness on the one hand and fear and hate on the other; and she grapples with the most explosive of questions – what is the price of freedom, and at whose expense? Compelling and confrontational, MY LAND ZION is an example of personal documentary at its best and demonstrates an unflinching commitment to life, morality, justice and love.