Defamation (Hashmatsa) - documentary

[Iconoclast]

from wiki:

Defamation (Hashmatsa) is a 2009 documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Shamir. The film examines anti-Semitism, and in particular the way perceptions of anti-Semitism affect the Israeli and U.S. politics. The film won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Filmmaker Yoav Shamir states in the beginning of the film that as an Israeli he has never experienced anti-Semitism himself and wants to learn more about it since references to anti-Semitism in all over the world are extremely common in the Israeli media. The film includes extensive interviews with Abraham Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League and Norman Finkelstein, a critic of Israeli policy as well as many others. The film also follows a group of Israeli high school students on a class trip to Europe where they tour Auschwitz, as well as a number of other notable Holocaust locations.

here is the trailer

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5jsiLWXGYQ


i watched this recently and can really recommend it - a very even-handed affair which clearly illustrates the MO of the ADL and other anti-semitism junkies.

the youth trip to auschwitz was pretty disturbing... mossad indoctrinating the kids into why they should hate the rest of the world by creating an emotional 'event' for them.

anyone seen it?

 

[Rabelais]

Watching the hysteria develop among the traveling students, who imagine that the four old Polish men innocently sitting on the park bench, not able to speak or understand a word of Hebrew or English, are anti-semites... and then having the guide/counselors play on and build on that hysteria, was gobsmacking.

Within minutes the students, with the subtle play on the emotions of the counselors, were convinced that the old men were plotting throwing them all into the ovens on the spot. The old men, on the other hand, didn't have a clue what the hubbub was all about.

The counselors never missed a chance to reinforce the threat of the anti-semitic goyim devils. If there weren't any around, they created them. The film certainly demonstrates why Israelis are like they are. Fear is hammered into them from birth.

The young Israeli producer does a commendable job.

 

[Odysseus]

I've watched it. Really scary how the kids are indoctrinated, being afraid to go out in the evenings because "they are hated". Also all this in conjunction
with strong "emotions", making them (the kids) actually sort of expecting to break out and cry at some point during their excursion.

The most frightening part for me is, that all this indoctrinating/brainwashing seemed to be a well established routine by now, watching the teachers
not knowing it better and passing it down to the forth coming generations.

 

[Iconoclast]

i found a streaming link for this documentary:

_http://www.sprword.com/videos/defamation/

 

[Voyageur]

[quote author=Iconoclast]
i watched this recently and can really recommend it - a very even-handed affair which clearly illustrates the MO of the ADL and other anti-semitism junkies.

the youth trip to auschwitz was pretty disturbing... mossad indoctrinating the kids into why they should hate the rest of the world by creating an emotional 'event' for them.

anyone seen it?
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Thank you Iconoclast, the 9 part film was interesting to say the least and may offer the viewer an interesting view into the various sides of the 'A-S' perception.