A new documentary called “Israelism”, questions the relationship between American Jews and the State of Israel. Featuring interviews with prominent thinkers like Jeremy Ben Ami, Noam Chomsky, and Cornel West, this timely film investigates a generational divide impacting this community. Free screening at Carleton University, Thursday, September 21. See our interview with Prof. Mira Sucharov, one of the local organizers.
“Two young American Jews – Simone Zimmerman and Eitan – are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs: Eitan joins the Israeli military, while Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield’, America’s college campuses. But when they witness Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken.
As a result, their Jewish identity is called into question by other Jewish Americans because they do not support the Israeli government. As antisemitic violence escalates in the US, a major rift within the Jewish-American political landscape appears. “
– San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Israelism has been shown at Jewish Film Festivals all over the USA. It has received both applause and thundering denunciation. The Jewish Journal charged that the film “assaults the truth” about Israel-Palestine.
Now, Carleton University is offering a free screening of this award-winning documentary followed by talkback with the film’s Executive Producer Gili Getz and Carleton Professor Mira Sucharov.
CTIP caught up with Professor Sucharov to talk about the film and the event she is organizing.
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I wrote a review of the film after attending the screening on Sept 21 and participating in the talkback afterward. This is on my new Substack, Canadian Zionist Forum. https://open.substack.com/pub/canadianzionistforum/p/israelism?r=9mdxt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web