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This movie was just too "talkie."
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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Documentary asks some important questions.
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02/27/23
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I found the narrative and presentation a fair and appropriate look at the politically divisive issue for Jews in the US and less so - in Israel. I am a Soviet-born Jew from Riga and Leningrad, a Jews that practiced Judaism in the US, an agnostic presently, but supporting the traditions in our household, and in the US since 1975.
The bottom line - I consider the movie presenting, tongue-in-cheek, the pretension that anti-semitism is alive and well in the US as a propaganda issue, independently of the desires of the author. Antisemitism in the US is a white herring used by a part of the Jewish elite for propaganda purposes. Anti-semitism in the US is used as a surrogate stimuli to scaffold waning Jewish identity, by grotesque exaggeration of mostly base-less claims. 1500 cases of antisemitism in the US, the vast majority consisting driven by inflamed expectations of borderline Jewish narcissist.
Israeli kids, as portrayed in the movie, learn from early on that all criticism of Israel is suspect, and the critic should disprove that he/she is an antisemite. That any mentioning of Jewish power in the US and the world, enumeration of Jewish Senators and Representatives, bankers and financiers, entrepreneurs and Hollywood / media personalities.. is antisemitic.
I consider antisemitism a part of the dialectic of Jewish existence, a response to Jewish unique, unassailable role in the history and mythology of the Western civilization. We are forever in the eye of the world for exactly those reasons -our unique role - and no wishes to be treated as any other ethnic group will result in such.
Of course, we should oppose antisemitism, but not by inflating threats and making ourselves into all important victims, courtesy of many in the US Jewish educational and Holocaust-related establishment (including the controversial and self-promoting Abraham Foxman). One wonders if the ADL media campaign, in the US and abroad does not result in the opposite.
I do not consider the exchange in Brooklyn with African- Americans indicative of antisemitism, neither in the examples of Jewish agility in accessing subsidized programs, assessment of Jewish power, nor in mentioning the notorious "Protocols" (all should be considered in the context of inquiry and curiosity, not malice and animosity).
The most poignant moments to me where not the visits to the concentration camp (my father and aunt survived them and the Riga ghetto; almost none of their relatives did... so I know about the Holocaust. shuddered and shed tears.. visiting Riga with our family in 2010... killing grounds and all), but the exchange wit the Polish peasants, in the Moscow synagogue, with the Rabbi Hirsh in the US, the LA activists couple - challenging the PC notion of antisemitism present, labeled, growing, ADL motivation and inner politics, and the bad theater-like episodes related to the ADL, in their Manhattan(!!) HQ and during stylish global travels of the entourage, lessons of how to harness Jewish support in the US, and glimpses into the personas of Mr. Foxman and his associates.
I was surprised not to hear complaints from Mr. Fozman in the movie about the anti-semitism of the Ukranian nationalists (UNA and Bandera), about equating the Soviet period with Nazi occupation - all blooming during Mr. Yuschenko's presidency
Sincerely,
Mikhail Drabkin
mikhail_drabkinQyahoo.com
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01/16/23
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Every extreme right wing neo-con should see this having their eyelids glued to their forehead, and nose smeared in the screen being told, "look what you did and are still doing!!"
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/13/23
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Great documentary about antisemitism. Does it really exists?
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02/20/23
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A fantastic documentary from an Israeli filmmaker about anti-Semitism in the world today that challenged a lot of beliefs that I take for granted. It takes a critical look at what anti-Semitism is now and whether, as a belief, if anti-Semitism is important at all. I don't agree with some arguments that are made in the film, and I certainly don't agree with certain interviewees, but I can understand their points now, even if I think they're wrong. If you're willing to sit through it (and I have to admit, a few times I turned it off because I couldn't stand to hear what was being said), it is incredibly thought provoking.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/28/23
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