Speaking of these issues, there's a new documentary out about "Judeophobia" (which, I've got to say is a better word than "antisemitism"). The good news is that the New York TIMES panned it for mixing Judeophobia with criticism of Israel's policies as the object of the film's critique.
>> October 18, 2012 Movie Review Viewing Anti-Semitism From a Global Angle By NICOLE HERRINGTON Gloria Z. Greenfield’s documentary “Unmasked Judeophobia” is only 81 minutes long, but it feels like a marathon. A barrage of images (many lacking context) and a parade of commentators (dozens of scholars, political leaders, journalists and analysts) deliver a dire message: the escalation of threats against Jews worldwide is cause for alarm. The film starts with a striking statement from Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor: “Since 1945 I was not as afraid as I am now.” Then with breakneck speed we get a history of the ways that anti-Semitism has manifested itself — the hostility of early Christians, the Holocaust, mounting attacks on Jews by Muslims in France, and the [misquoted -- JD] call by Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for Israel to be “wiped off the map.” But the film loses ground toward the middle, when it calls out individuals (often just by showing their images) and organizations for their passiveness or criticism of Israeli policies without giving a full account of the facts. The roster is long: the United Nations, feminists, the European news media, Alice Walker, human rights groups and American academics. In the end the issues of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are conflated, weakening the filmmaker’s argument. Ultimately the varying points are way too much to take on in one film. << --- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, at the very least you should know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
