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Hollywood is holding a pro Israel propaganda movie after people refused to buy Israel's repeatedly caught lies. (hexbear.net)

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[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 96 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

actual quote from the "filmmaker" (emphasis mine)

When they told us about the Holocaust, they said, they will never burn Jews again. Guess what? It happened again. And the world does not believe us. That is like going full circle to 1939-1945. It's insanity. So it's not just about a terror attack. This is a holocaust. And that's why for me, as a third generation Holocaust survivors, as a filmmaker who live in the States as an American, that's my duty to bring it to the world.

literally calling himself a holocaust survivor because of one attack on the opposite side of the world from where he lives. absolutely grotesque

[-] WalterBongjammin@hexbear.net 65 points 10 months ago

Ayyy, marone! As a 60th generation survivor of the sack of Rome, this is very disrespectful! joe-ligotti

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

unfortunately there aren't any vandal descendants left to dunk on modern romans about that

[-] echognomics@hexbear.net 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

“When I am writing an email to a filmmaker, I’m writing as a filmmaker, somebody who’s bringing the truth to the world,” he continued. “That is my goal here. To show what started everything. The atrocities, the mini-Holocaust that happened there, that we as a nation, we as the world cannot stand still and silent and just move on. Now, it doesn’t mean that I’m not pro-Palestinian. I am pro-two state solution. I have Palestinian friends. I am a left wing filmmaker, but this is not a left or right wing thing. This is just something that the whole world should see it. So that’s my mission.”

both-sides Israeli "left wing filmmaker", whose politically-enlightened "left wing" but still centrist analysis of the Palestinian situation is that "Hamas started all the violence when they attacked on October 7th".

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago

I have Palestinian friends.

jesus fucking christ

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

I believe they have friends who currently live in Palestine

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

Lol the idea that filmmakers inherently 'bring the truth to the world' is some absolute on-brand ideology. Sure buddy, Birth of a Nation brought 'truth to the world'.

Anybody with even an iota of communications knowledge (and even that is usually suspect in it's theoretical content) knows that, if the truth exists in the world, at best a film can mediate that truth (hence why it is call media), it cannot 'bring the truth' anywhere.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

To show what started everything

Holy shit they are just straight up saying that "History started on october 7th" unironically now.

[-] NPa@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

The big brain play would be to bait and switch and just show a bunch of Nakba-footage

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago

Guess what?

smuglord

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

It's become abundantly clear that the only reason many think the Holocaust was bad was that it was done on Jews.

[-] SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Imagine comparing the death of 1400 settlers (Israel's figures, there are reasons to believe they aren't accurate - even haaretz said it stfu) to 6 fucking million of an industrial and targeted elimination of people who just happened to be Jewish (and weren't eliminated because they were an occupying army)

Absolutely demented. This guy has absolutely lost it.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 65 points 10 months ago

1950's propaganda newsreels are playing in theaters again!

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Time is a cyclical hell

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 49 points 10 months ago

I know when it comes to viewing authentic footage of real world events happening, my go-to is to seek out private screenings curated by filmmakers in New York City and Hollywood.

kinda reminds me of the best documentary I've ever seen, Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

[-] envis10n@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

You know, it was originally titled Terminator 2: Judging Day. It was written as a quirky mockumentary about contest judges.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 46 points 10 months ago

this CGI blood isn't doing it for me

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago

Needs more squibs

[-] Tomboys_are_Cute@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago

Dear Eternal President Xi,

From afar I have greatly admired your stewardship of the Chinese Communist Party. It is clear by now that socialism with Chinese characteristics offer the only viable alternative to terminally declining US global hegemony. Comprehensive deepening of reform at home coupled with the visionary Belt and Road initiative abroad are offering a stable basis for the development of a worldwide alliance of progressive national elements towards the long-term goal of overthrowing the dominance of Anglo-American finance capital and establishing global communism.

However, there is one issue with your leadership that sadly prevents my official endorsement of Xi Jinping thought. A black mark on your record that has become increasingly difficult to ignore. The presence of CGI blood and muzzle flashes in Chinese action blockbusters such as Wolf Warrior 2.

If the 1980s style action films of your regime are going to insist on using the contemporary Washington consensus approach to action special effects, sacrificing verisimilitude and awesomeness on the altar of grim budgetary efficiency, perhaps party-led development really is functionally identical to neo-liberal capitalism.

As such, I am hereby calling for the US to renew it's commitment to defending the sovereignty of Taiwan, supporting the struggle of freedom fighters in Hong Kong, and calling on our State Department to increase diplomatic pressure to force regime change, to punish the continue to punish the persecution of the Weegers, the Whygurs? whatever they're called. Anyway...

[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

kelly triumph of the swill

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 10 months ago

Tinfoil hat time!

I'm starting to think there's this big anti-Semetic conspiracy at play here. Not in the usual sense, the usual conspiracies are the conspiracy. The US and Israel seem to be trying to make sure that nazis can tick off all their boxes of accusations against Jewish people, they seem to be trying to behave exactly how the anti-Semite claims they behave. And now, like all good conspiracy theories, I'm going to avoid giving them clear motivation for why they do this and just kind of gesture vaguely in the direction of "social control."

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago

wouldnt israel want jewish people living abroad to feel unsafe so more join their project?

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 10 months ago

Yeah, someone else mentioned the reason for their spreading of anti-semitism literally minutes after I posted this. The more anti-semitic the west gets, the more Jewish people will be forced to move to Israel.

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, probably

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

I'm going to avoid giving them clear motivation for why they do this

I won't pretend to understand the Zionist motivations at work here - except maybe that they think they can harness the Christian psychosis to achieve their own ends - but I can tell you exactly why a bunch of Christians support this shit. They, like Mike Flynn and this other guy subscribe to a wild, apocalyptic version of Christianity, and they literally believe that a world war based around events in Israel will herald the coming of Christ.

So it's actually good to support horrific war in that area, because it means that soon Jesus will come and fix everything.

This is the actual stuff I was taught as a child. This is what my parents believe. War in the middle east is good because it could bring Jesus.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah, I've heard of the weird evangelical desire to support Israel because they believe it will bring about the rapture or whatever. I guess a lot of these people have their own reasons for doing this heinous shit. The left could only dream of the unity right wing shitheads have.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

Islamophobic and anti-Semitic strategy of tension doomer

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

So that Nazis go more hog wild and Jewish people don't feel safe anywhere anymore, so they go to Israel, thus getting the diaspora back to Israel and furthering the settler-colonial project.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I dunno. I think the playbook for antisemitic conspiracy theories is a lot simpler than that. They're just looking at the ways that capital and power tend to operate and saying "capital and power are actually good. this is all being done by one specific race of people who look white but actually aren't."

In the US, capital and power are behind Israel, therefore their actions align with those described by antisemites. The antisemitic part is just ascribing these actions to the Jews.

[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

Going and cheering every time Hamas is on screen

[-] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

This is a fun way to enjoy The Battle of Algiers as well, just losing it every time a French cop or soldier gets merced

[-] Melina@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

I’m gonna make a movie of me cumming everywhere but I can’t stop and I get sent to jail for cumming until a filmmaker starts visiting me in jail and makes a movie / plea showing everyone that I didn’t mean to cum all the time it’s just something that I do without any control.