Israel Matzav: Israel finances its own demonization

Israel finances its own demonization

Shavua tov and a good week to everyone.

This past week, I reported on an anti-Israel film being shown at a Jewish-federation sponsored film festival in San Francisco. Perhaps I spoke too soon when I said that showing the film illustrated "the unfortunate state of relations between Israel and the American Left today." Here in Israel, we also show anti-Israel films. In fact, the government even pays to have them made.

David Horovitz reports on his trip to the Israel film festival which is taking place in Jerusalem this week. He reports on one evening which was a series of seven sequenced short films called Jerusalem Moments. The films were made by Israeli, 'Palestinian,' and in one case, both an Israeli and a 'Palestinian' filmmaker. In each case, the films presented the 'Palestinian' view of life in Jerusalem.

It began with a eulogy to the late PLO representative Faisal Husseini - who happened to be cited by Likud Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor this week as being the one Palestinian leader to have acknowledged that there could be no "right of return" - and headed mainly downhill from there.

We got to meet a Shuafat refugee camp rap pack, one of whose members made a casual lyrical reference to Israel's unexplained purported killing of a mother and father. We saw footage of the complexities of travel into and across Jerusalem, with a soundtrack that included the voice of a pregnant Palestinian woman discussing how Israeli security forces allegedly threatened to kill her if she would not get undressed for a security check at a roadblock, and the voice of a man discussing how he had been unable to save a dying Palestinian woman blocked en route to the hospital by hard-hearted Israeli security personnel at another roadblock.

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Israel Matzav: Israel finances its own demonization