Jewish directors challenge Israel

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A series of controversial Israeli films are provoking outrage and plaudits in equal measure at the London Film Festival.

The best documentary award has gone to one of the year's most controversial films.

Defamation is a polemic by Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. In his expose of America's Anti-Defamation League (ADL), he claims anti-Semitism is being exaggerated for political purposes. He argues that American Jewish leaders travel around the world exploiting the memory of the Holocaust to silence criticism of Israel.

He gets inside the ADL, which claims to be the most powerful lobby group of its type anywhere in the world. With unprecedented access, he travels with them as they meet foreign leaders, and use the memory of the Holocaust to further their pro-Israeli agenda.

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/10/20091031142820116973.html

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1. Thanks for posting. Confronting this is heroic given the hostility it generates.

Kudos to him. This is like Hirsi Ali who so bravely denounces idiocy within Islam and carries on despite hostility coming from Muslims.

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2. I'm glad you posted this bemildred, as yesterday someone else

had done so but not within the forum guidelines. This is great to see, a shift towards an honest conversation on the subject.

From the OP, this made me laugh, "And he is furious at the suggestion that anti-Semitism is being used for political purposes."

Oh no, that could not have ever been the case!