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Defamation
Directed byYoav Shamir
Produced bySandra Itkoff
Karoline Leth
Philippa Kowarsky
Knut Ogris
Distributed byFirst Run Features
Release dateNovember 20, 2009(U.S.)
Running time91 minutes
LanguagesEnglish, Hebrew

Defamation (Hashmatsa) is a 2009 documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Shamir. The film examines anti-Semitism, and in particular the way perceptions of anti-Semitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics. The film won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Content

Filmmaker Yoav Shamir states in the beginning of the film that as an Israeli he has never experienced anti-Semitism himself and wants to learn more about it since references to anti-Semitism in all over the world are extremely common in the Israeli media. The film includes extensive interviews with Abraham Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League and Norman Finkelstein, a critic of Israeli policy as well as many others. The film also follows a group of Israeli high school students on a class trip to Europe where they tour Auschwitz, as well as a number of other notable Holocaust locations.

Controversy

After the film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement denouncing the film, stating that it "belittles the issue (of anti-Semitism) ... and cheapens the Holocaust. It is Shamir's perverse, personal, political perspective and a missed opportunity to document a serious and important issue."


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