Uploaded on Feb 11, 2009
What is anti-Semitism today, two
generations after the Holocaust? In his continuing exploration of modern
Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir (Checkpoints, Flipping Out) travels
the world in search of the most modern manifestations of the oldest
hatred", and comes up with some startling answers.
In this irreverent quest, he follows American Jewish leaders to the capitals of Europe, as they warn government officials of the growing threat of anti-Semitism, and he tacks on to a class of Israeli high school students on a pilgrimage to Auschwitz.
Opinions often differ and tempers sometimes flare, but in Defamation we find that one thing is certain - only by understanding their response to anti-Semitism can we really appreciate how Jews today, and especially modern Israelis, respond to the world around them, in New York and in Moscow, in Gaza and Tel Aviv.
SF Film Production Kopenhagen, Reveal Productions Inc. Los Angeles, Cinephil Tel Aviv, Knut.Ogris. Films Wien
Founded by: The Austrian Filminstitute, ORF FilmTV Convention, the Danish Filminstitute, Danish Radio TV, YLE-Finnish TV, Nordisk Film TV Fond, Ministry of Integration, Denmark, Hartley Film Foundation, Zukunftsfonds of the Austrian Republic, Nationalfonds of the Republic of Austria, the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, the Rabinovich Foundation for Arts, The Second Authority for TV & Radio
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