Important article on Gloria Greenfield's shocking movie about the current state of the anti-Semitism in the world. We all MUST see this movie in order to know what is going on. On January 17th Gloria Greenfield will discuss the movie as part of a special screening for the Russian Jewish community of Boston.
Jerusalem Post:
Behind ‘Unmasked,’ there is hope
By HANNAH BROWN
12/31/2011 22:12
Director Greenfield discusses with 'Post' latest documentary examining global political assault against Jews.
Gloria Z. Greenfield, the director of the film Unmasked: Judeophobia, a new documentary that was just shown in the recently concluded Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival at theJerusalem Cinematheque – and will be screened again at the Jerusalem Cinematheque on February 16 – has no trouble finding a table even at the most crowded café at Mamilla Mall during holiday week.
That’s no surprise: Documentary filmmakers have to be resourceful, especially ones who choose such controversial and difficult subjects as Greenfield. But as we sit down to talk, she uses her resourcefulness in another way, to try to illuminate a subject many Israelis find difficult to deal with for all kinds of reasons.
“I decided to examine the resurgence of anti-Semitism from a global perspective,” she says, and to that end, she interviewed over 70 experts. The result of the interviews, some of which had to be cut, is a serious and sometimes terrifying analysis of how anti-Semitism, often masked as anti-Zionism (hence the title) has permeated modern life and discourse worldwide.
The line-up of interviewees in the final film is impressive. They include author and lawyerAlan Dershowitz, MK Natan Sharansky, author Robert Wistrich, Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, Wall Street Journal writer and former Jerusalem Post editor Bret Stephens, British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Canadian MP Irwin Cotler, Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick and many others.
Wiesel sets the tone for the film and outlines its subject in a clip from a recent speech in which he says, “Since 1945, I was not so afraid as I am now. I am afraid because anti-Semitism, which I had thought belonged to the past, has somehow survived. I was convinced in ’45 that anti-Semitism had died with its Jewish victims at Auschwitz and Treblinka, but I see, no, the Jews perished, but anti-Semitism in some parts of the world is flourishing.”
Says Greenfield: “The United States is a piece of cake compared to what’s going on in Europe. ...In the US, it’s largely happening on campus, and it’s real... but in Europe it’s much more pervasive in all walks of life.... Being in Europe was transformational for my analysis.”
She notes several infamous and appalling incidents of violence against French Jews, or people who were perceived by their attackers as Jewish but turned out not to be. [Read the rest]
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