I love a documentary that makes me confused in an intellectual way. Yoav Shamir's Defamation is one such documentary. Mr. Shamir is an Israeli man who made a documentary about global anti-Semitism and it gets a lot more complicated than that. A lot more complicated. A lot more fucking complicated. Crown Heights complicated. American Jewish way vs Israeli Jewish way complicated. Varying opinions of Judaism, left and right Israeli views...complicated. "Self-hating" (?) Jewish academics who are pro-Palestine.
What I love(?) about this documentary is Shamir talks to people from Abe Foxman (head of the ADL) to Rabbi Hecht to talking about Anti-Zionism vs Anti-Semitism. Granted, Shamir might be an Israeli Michael Moore, but as an leftie-American I seem to trust foreign views of America more than I trust American views of America and I trust non-American views of history a little more than Ken Burns specials.
Defamation is a difficult documentary to process. I wholeheartedly recommend this docu.
Now I'm gonna watch Dan Akroyd's docu about UFOs.
What I love(?) about this documentary is Shamir talks to people from Abe Foxman (head of the ADL) to Rabbi Hecht to talking about Anti-Zionism vs Anti-Semitism. Granted, Shamir might be an Israeli Michael Moore, but as an leftie-American I seem to trust foreign views of America more than I trust American views of America and I trust non-American views of history a little more than Ken Burns specials.
Defamation is a difficult documentary to process. I wholeheartedly recommend this docu.
Now I'm gonna watch Dan Akroyd's docu about UFOs.
